Since I don’t want to hijack the restaurant pet peeve thread, I’ll start a new one. How much would you have to be paid to be a waiter or waitress at the local family sit-down restaurant? Include tips.
I will not work any job for less than $33 an hour. Can’t. Got too many bills to pay.
I recall doing it for $2.01 an hour, later $2.13 an hour, and I averaged around 18% tips for my career.
Why do you ask?
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No amount of money could make me be a waitress or bartender again. Well, maybe I’d do it for a week at $10,000 - all tax-free, of course. Longer than a week - no thanks.
I was a waiter for seven dollars an hour - no tips. Try that one on for size. 
I worked in a bagel shop where the manager would charge orders to our check (i.e. what I made) without informing us. We also didn’t get tips, nor was there a tip jar.
The place has since gone bankrupt. Go figure . . . serving bagels and you went bankrupt. And this place was no Manhattan’s. I got paid min. wage without tips, and that didn’t include the meals that were billed to me for whatever inane reason.
So unless your idea of waitering is something other than food service, thanks but NO.
I tended bar for about 4 years both full and part time. Damn near starved. Good thing they served food.$5.00 iirc no tips
Then later I managed the local Country club,club house.That wasn’t so bad.But only if a person is not raising kids IMNSHO
I’m sorry I couldn’t go into the details earlier, but I appreciate your desire to become a team member at Biotop’s Barn. As you know, the Barn serves popular American cuisine, but with a twist! We like to think of this as a restaurant where people can be adventurous and yet never feel too far away from home.
As a team member you’ll find customer satisfaction to be the number one goal of all of us. Whether they’re a family with 5 kids or students celebrating the big win, we want our guests to have fun as well as dinner! And I guess it’s working, we’ve opened up over a two dozen Biotop Barns in the tri-state area over the last three years!
Each of our dining enhancer team members will receive two identical uniforms. Please keep them clean at all times.
Each of our customer dining enhancers will be required to learn the menu and all items on the menu. You will be required to also memorize each night’s specials and drinks. For fun, we’ll all be practicing our special birthday song “Have a Hippin’ Hoppin’ Birthday” in just a few minutes. Kids and adults alike love our song. So whether our guest’s just turning 6 and holding that special party, or turning 21 and heading for Biotop’s Foodrinkery Barn Bar, it will be a special memory the guest will remember for all of his or her life.
But first we’d better memorize that first mostest important requirement of all at the Barn. That’s the Barn Smile! So let’s go to it–remember all we hire at Biotop’s Barn are smiling faces.
At The Barn we do not require you to work all holidays. We have a rotation system that’s fair for all. You are expected to be at work promptly every day you are scheduled, though your schedule may change as needed. Please allow 1 month for all schedule change requests, or find a co-team member with whom to switch shifts. And please, no overtime unless asked.
Oh, we didn’t really talk much about wages, did we. What do you think would be fair?