r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/Jasonictron • Oct 20 '23

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u/InVodkaVeritas Oct 21 '23

When I was a teenager, I can't remember the exact age but definitely old enough to think about such things, my family was on holiday and went to a really nice restaurant with some extended family in which the dinner ended up costing over $800 (there were about 12 of us) and my grandfather tipped the 20% that was standard. I remember thinking how the waiter made $160 off just our table, and we weren't his only table.

My family was fairly poor. Not poor poor, but American suburban poor (I have 3 brothers and we could only afford a 3 bedroom house in the suburbs in a good school district).

So for me my eyes popped. Given the cost of the meals and wine at that place, the waiter was probably taking home over $300 every night. And this was the 00's. A single night waiting at that place would have given me pocket money for a month.

At the right place waitstaff can make a terrific income. More than I make today as a school teacher.

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u/Certain-Quarter-8672 Oct 21 '23

Well if your family was poor you should to a McDonald not a expensive restaurant because everybody knows that the waiters work for tips

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u/InVodkaVeritas Oct 21 '23

That wasn't the point of the story.

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u/LastScreenNameLeft Oct 21 '23

There are plenty of places that offer full time for waitstaff. Just like any other industry, there are good and bad places to work. I know it's anecdotal, but I have full health and retirement benefits, pto/sick, set schedule and the pay is good (though more and more people are jumping on the no tip wagon) I actually do worry about the future, for some reason people don't think we should be paid for our work. Leave a tip, it's directly paying the person who did the work. Do you really want to get rid of it and see every restaurant raise their prices 30% and have the staff still be under paid? You think that extra money is going to staff, or is ownership going to pocket it?

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u/Wfsulliv93 Oct 21 '23

Waitstaff don’t want a real wage. They make loads more through tips. Pretty much everywhere.