Profit and Loss by Kelly Wood

Author:Kelly Wood [Wood, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781495173301
Publisher: 210 Publishing LLC
Published: 2019-01-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

"It’s Taco Tuesday!" I yelled as I came through the front door.

Every Tuesday night my mom made . . . tacos, you guessed it, for family night. When Gray and I were traveling, we attended family night through Skype, but it was nice to be here in person sometimes, too. I was the last to arrive since I had to fight Chicago traffic to get out of the city.

"Stay out of the kitchen," Mom said to me before giving me a hug. "The food's already done."

"A little overdressed for Taco Tuesday, aren't you?" Peyton asked as she pointed to my feet.

"Oh, just breaking them in. They're new." I looked down at my white tank top and cuffed jeans. I thought the shoes made a nice statement. The turquoise added a little bling to the boring clothes. I didn’t quite escape the shoe department without a purchase.

The attendance for tonight's event was down from normal. My sister, Peyton, was here with her two girls, but then again, her kids would never let her miss a night. Her husband was working. My stepdad and dad ditched out to go have a beer somewhere. Somewhere, preferably without screaming kids, I guessed. I had two more brothers and two more sisters who were all absent for one reason or another. I was okay with that. Sometimes, when we were all together, we turned into children again, screaming and throwing toys for the slightest perceived insult.

Some families were just like that. Fight hard, play hard, love hard. We did everything to extremes. With only the five of us, the house was relatively quiet since everyone had settled after eating. Chris and Lizzie were playing in the family room, my mom was in the kitchen, and Peyton and I were sitting at the dining room table.

"I brought copies of the taxes I did for some of the girls at the pub," Peyton said.

Laid out on the table were five folders, labeled one through five, containing receipts, W-2's and other various pieces of information. Peyton had made copies of everything.

I ate a taco while Peyton laid out the contents of folder one. As she explained each piece of information, she picked up the correlating piece of paper and handed it to me.

"The time they work in the restaurant is the same as when you worked there. They make the Illinois minimum tip wage, plus tips. Their payroll check stubs show the hours worked, the wage and the claimed tips. From this total, taxes are then estimated and withheld; the remaining balance going to the server." Peyton handed me a W2 form from earlier this year and continued. I held the paper in one hand and my taco in the other. I eyed the paper. Most states had a lower minimum wage for tipped employees with the idea that the server’s tips added to the lower wage would actually bring them above the federal standard. The lower wage helped restaurants stay in business.

"Any servers or bartenders that work the outside events are paid as individual contractors.

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