"2018-02-08T00:00:00"^^ . "(OWNER KEEPS TIPS FROM HELPER(ACTUALLY WAITERS)!!) Hi fellow yelpers and any potential customers of Pho Nhat. I used to work as a server for three hours a night Monday through Friday. The food is good but the cooks are unsanitary and the owners keep all the tips. They reuse the basil, cilantro, sliced limes, and sliced jalapenos that were served to other customers that they did not finish. I don't mean just the plates that were never touched but anything left over after the customer is done. I found this very unsettling and now after working a few weeks and getting let go for accepting tips from customers I feel like I need to say this. They hired me as a helper and told me that I cannot take tips from tables. But, the manager known as \"Happy\" had me waiting tables, serving, cleaning, and prepping. The only thing I did not do was handle cash. She only would help me with one or two tables a night. If their was a cash tip then I would have to leave it on the counter for the owner. I was not allowed to keep the tips that people would physically give me while I was clearing off the table. The one that keeps the tips are the \"house\" basically the restaurant keeps all tips. When they hired me they told me that I will just be assisting his wife with clearing the tables and cleaning and that people just order and leaver quickly and don't tip so it would not make sense for me to get paid in tips, but I was soon doing everything and she was just cooking with three helpers in the back. \n\nI remember one incident where I had to serve 9 people on a table including prepping the food, take their order, and serve them food and drink for about an hour all by myself along with other customers coming and going. The owner's wife's sister came out to help only when it was time to clean up because they left tips on the table. She took the tips and along with some empty cups and that is all she helped with. So after a few days of thinking about that incident and people telling that I should take the tips left on tables and the tips that were handed to me. Then after adopting what people told me to do and what I felt was the right thing to do I did. \n\nI was then let go by the owner because his wife \"Happy\" called him and told him that I was taking the tips. Then he fired over the phone after I told him that I am the one serving and seeing the customers at the tables and therefore it is legal for me keep the tips that were given to me even though I was getting paid min wage. He also told me that he could fire me for whatever reason he wanted to and that I can leave for any reason after telling him that are you firing me for accepting tips that were given to me by customers. \n\nI am making this post two days after. I just want the people to know that Happy and her sister have the flu and are continuing to cook for customers along with many horrific sanitary conditions in the back and that the the people you think you are tipping are not getting the tips, it is all going to the owner who if you look it up on the internet is making an estimated $165 thousand plus in revenue and they still need tips.\n\nThank you if you got this far and hope that you let others know about what this restaurant is doing to their employees and customers."^^ . . "1"^^ . "1"^^ . . "0"^^ . "0"^^ . .