"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> 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.

They do because they can't find another job.