Comments on: Restaurant Arrangements

By: Grandpa Chet

Grandpa Chet — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:03:47 +0000

Despite the quirky math, this is a good article with good advice. Finding a restaurant manager who will go along with this might be another matter. The managers I’ve worked with in the past, did not want a substitute magician — they felt they had hired me, and wanted me. Partly, I suppose, because there were customers who came to see *me* and were disappointed if I wasn’t there.

By: Jeff Stone

Jeff Stone — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:40:38 +0000

Sorry about the confusion guys. Here’s the skinny:

$1000 bucks from the gig
$250 from the restaurant

$1250 total

Pay the restaurant $300 (leaving you $950)

From the $950, you pay your buddy a fee. Thus as many have pointed out, my math was wrong.

I was not clear how much you pay your friend either. I never pay my friends the full amount. In this case, I would have given my magi buddy $200 leaving me $750.

Sorry about that guys. Thanks for reading and keeping me on my toes.

By: salmononius2

salmononius2 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:34:12 +0000

Carsten: Jeff wrote in the article that the friend gets paid the $250 dollars through you.

By: Carsten

Carsten — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:21:35 +0000

I think I am not wrong: The 250 go to the friend and the restaurant owner gets 300. So you have 1000 from the gig and 250 from the restaurant owner. In the end, my result is 700, no matter what.

Regards
Carsten

By: Carsten

Carsten — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:19:25 +0000

Am I wrong or is the math in the article wrong….

Regards
Carsten

By: salmononius2

salmononius2 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:14:05 +0000

No his math was right: You didn’t take into account the $250 that is paid to you for the friend working in the restaurant.

By: swerdnase

swerdnase — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:36:52 +0000

I think your math is wrong here, assuming you don’t short your friend on the normal fee for the restaurant, you’d be up $700 for the night. In your example, you paid the manager his kickback with your original $250 restaurant gig fee plus $50 out of your own pocket. You haven’t paid your buddy yet for working for you.