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Default Kitchen Nightmares Finale 2013

On 5/17/2013 10:29 AM, George Leppla wrote:

> On 5/17/2013 9:06 AM, jmcquown wrote:


>> In fact, wait staff is paid $8-$14 per hour, two and half to nearly five
>> times the standard hourly wage for servers.

>
> While that is true, when servers are paid the server rate, they keep
> their tips. In a good restaurant, that can easily come to more than
> $200 a night.
>
> Fact is that these people are creeps.
>
> George L


Exactly. I don't know of anyone who waits tables just to meet minimum
wage with salary + tips. It is usually much more than that in a decent
place. I waited tables for a few years back in my younger days when
salary was only about $2 or less per hour. Tips were the only way to
make any money at all. Tips could equal even more than $200 per day on
good days. Weekends even better.

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