Sheldon wrote:

> aem wrote:
>
>>Sheldon wrote:
>> [snip preceding]
>>
>>>Huh? Employers are not required to pay waitstaff minimum wage now.
>>>Many restaurants pay no wage at all yet highly experienced wait
>>>people line up at the door for those jobs...
>>
>>Yes, it would be nice if industry practices rewarded those highly
>>experienced people enough so they wouldn't have to line up for another
>>job.
>>
>>
>>>a good wait person in many four
>>>star restaurants can easily earn six figures just from tips...
>>
>>Yes, but there are only 1 or 2 four star restaurants in Los Angeles, a
>>county of more than 10 million people and thousands of eating places.
>>
>>>a good drink server in Vegas can easly do better than many CEOs,
>>>and I mean from legitimate tips, not on their knees.
>>
>>Yes, many small businesses fail and their CEOs make no money -- oh no,
>>that's not you meant -- well, in the casinos in Vegas and many of the
>>clubs, drink servers pool their tips so the good servers make no more
>>than the bad servers, and it certainly isn't as much as you seem to
>>think it is.
>>
>>The less than minimum wage + tips system results in good compensation
>>for a few very skillful servers at high-priced eating and drinking
>>places. The trouble with stingy federal legislation is that it applies
>>to the vast majority who do not do so well. 99% or so of new
>>restaurant ventures fail in less than a year, but it's not because
>>paying $2.13/hour tipped them into red ink.

It's not 99% or very near it, but, yes, the attrition rate in
foodservice is horrifying.

> Nothing you claim is true.

Bwah... LIke Sheldon would know sitting up there on his farm what goes
on in the real world...

> Wait people don't share their tips with
> other wait people, they often share a small percentage with the
> bussers... you must be posting from North Korea.

Sheldon, tip pooling is *common* in foodservice. How about if you make
an effort to post about what you know? Oh, wait... it's Sheldon.

You've never been in the restaurant business and it's stunningly
obvious. Yet you pontificate as though you had even the remotest clue.

> And wait staff definitely does make good bucks, unless they're
> incompetent, and then they're canned their first day on the job anyway.
> I don't know where you live but the waitstaff at an average (so-so)
> NYC restaurant often takes home more than the cooks, often a lot more.

Waitstaff money is predicated on what kind of place it is, how
prosperous it is, how good they are and a lot of other variables. As
for who makes the most money in restaurants, often the best of the
servers will make more than the average cook, but it's by no means the
standard.

Here comes the nice lady with pills for you...

Idiot.

Pastorio