I owned I large restaurant and bar for a while in the mid 2000 to 2012...sat 72 at the bar and 101 at tables... I paid 6.00 an hour + tips...also had a large stage, camping (20 acres) and many national and local bands played indoor and outdoors...
I had a waiting list of good people wanting to work for me! On a big band night my people went home with 700.00- 800.00 bucks each....regular days 100.00-200.00. It was a different time but most would say keep the tips but I feel a decent base wage should be looked at as well.....
What I have a problem with is places that are now asking for tips when there is no sit down service like Panera. I am asked to order my food, pick it up, bring it to the table, clean up the dishes off the table and now you want a tip??? And why are they asking for tips for to go orders if we are coming inside, ordering and picking up the food? I think they need to get a fair rate per hour and we get rid of tips for all restaurants.
I used to wait tables in high school. I got paid something like $2-4 plus tips. I'd never trade that for $15/hr. On good nights, I easily made much more than 15/hr
My brother was a server for yrs back in the early '00s. He easily made $300-400 A NIGHT at Miller's Ale House in Sanford, FL. His avg was $250. Some nights, the kid made over $700, depending on if the WWE or some other event was in Orlando at the time.
I know people that are bartenders and servers that started as kids right out of high school, and have everything they need, most of what they want, and live good, comfortable lives doing what they do.
If you're personable, have an upbeat attitude most of the time, and actually WANT to work, the restaurant/bar industry is as good as, if not better than, most when it comes to income potential that will see you well through life.
Minimum wage jobs are minimum wage because no skills are required to do them thats why they dont pay. Everyone of us had to work minimum wage jobs at one time if you have ambition you move up to a better place with a better pay.
No one would wait tables if the potential pay weren't better than minimum wage. Having to put up with the public is why servers make better money than cooks.
It depends on the price of food and on the amount of traffic the restaurant gets but in all the restaurants I've worked at I would MUCH PREFER current pay with tips.
I owned I large restaurant and bar for a while in the mid 2000 to 2012...sat 72 at the bar and 101 at tables... I paid 6.00 an hour + tips...also had a large stage, camping (20 acres) and many national and local bands played indoor and outdoors... I had a waiting list of good people wanting to work for me! On a big band night my people went home with 700.00- 800.00 bucks each....regular days 100.00-200.00. It was a different time but most would say keep the tips but I feel a decent base wage should be looked at as well.....
What I have a problem with is places that are now asking for tips when there is no sit down service like Panera. I am asked to order my food, pick it up, bring it to the table, clean up the dishes off the table and now you want a tip??? And why are they asking for tips for to go orders if we are coming inside, ordering and picking up the food? I think they need to get a fair rate per hour and we get rid of tips for all restaurants.
Server is PC job title
I suppose you are right but to me server is more like SERVANT. If i'm PI I apologize.
Waiters and waitresses are servants. The good ones realize this and perform the role well.
I used to wait tables in high school. I got paid something like $2-4 plus tips. I'd never trade that for $15/hr. On good nights, I easily made much more than 15/hr
My brother was a server for yrs back in the early '00s. He easily made $300-400 A NIGHT at Miller's Ale House in Sanford, FL. His avg was $250. Some nights, the kid made over $700, depending on if the WWE or some other event was in Orlando at the time.
I know people that are bartenders and servers that started as kids right out of high school, and have everything they need, most of what they want, and live good, comfortable lives doing what they do.
If you're personable, have an upbeat attitude most of the time, and actually WANT to work, the restaurant/bar industry is as good as, if not better than, most when it comes to income potential that will see you well through life.
Get this reddit tier shit off of here.
It's a political issue. NOT a Q issue.
Thank you though for not also writting a poem about it though, eh?
Minimum wage jobs are minimum wage because no skills are required to do them thats why they dont pay. Everyone of us had to work minimum wage jobs at one time if you have ambition you move up to a better place with a better pay.
Todays waitresses dont even do the job.
No one would wait tables if the potential pay weren't better than minimum wage. Having to put up with the public is why servers make better money than cooks.
It depends on the price of food and on the amount of traffic the restaurant gets but in all the restaurants I've worked at I would MUCH PREFER current pay with tips.
Not a waitress but that is logical. That being said most people don't use logic. ?