Goomba38 wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> If you look around, many of those servers are right out of high
>> school or in college. They live with their parents or have a couple
>> of roommates (been there, done that, starting back in the day before
>> tips were taxed). Their priorities are different from those of
>> older folks. Jill
>
> Just this weekend during some wedding toasts, I was hearing this funny
> story the best man was sharing about he and the Groom being under-aged
> teens who cleaned out a vacationing parents beer-fridge hosting some
> parties. Then they had to come up with a way to restock it before the
> parents came home. They asked another waiter where they worked to buy
> all the beer for them since he was of legal drinking age. He bought
> the beer.... which they again drank up and they had to go to him yet
> *again* to refill the fridge. I asked them how they could afford
> this? They replied they always had cash as they were getting about
> $80/night in tips working at this rib shack type place.
>
Yep! Back in the day we had some pretty fun parties, very cheaply. (Legal
drinking age in TN back then was 18; it changed to 19 later, then 21.) The
tips were good (and at the time didn't count as taxable income). Any given
night I could count on having at least $60 cash in my pocket; much more
after a Friday or Saturday night shift. You could buy a lot of beer, chips
& dip with that!

Jill