Comments on: Top 10 Things I Wish People Knew About Waiters

By: bridgette

bridgette — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:49:07 +0000

I have been a server for over 6 years… and a bartender in those establishments for 3… I understand that the bartender makes more than you do, but dont bitch about tipping them out! They take time away from THEIR customers, from their TIPS, just to make you that tray of drinks for table 32. Your tipout is to make up for what they could have been making while they were shakin your martini!

By: Snowflake

Snowflake — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:48:23 +0000

I have nothing negative to say about the actual facts in this article. But, it’s not my problem that you chose to have a Master’s degree in a highly populated field of work. If you wanted a guaranteed job after college you should have been creative and found a major that was specific, not broad, and maybe did a little interning or military for experience. It’s a competitive world, and you have to know how to beat the competition, or moreover, avoid it.

By: Sky

Sky — Thu, 20 May 2010 11:41:24 +0000

I am a server who graduated from college 5 years ago, but with the hard times in my field, am continuing to work in the food service industry! I wish I could print this out, silk-screen it on the back of my work shirts, and wear it every day. Check this out… Ever go to one of the hibachi-style restaurants? Want to know how much their servers tip out?? 8.5 %. Of their sales. To the chefs. Who make a crazy salary!!!!! Yeah. How often do you think their servers pay for guests to have eaten there… If people would read that little section in the menu, taking up as much space as a book of matches… they might get it. Just a reminder…

By: Kati Kennan

Kati Kennan — Tue, 18 May 2010 02:13:53 +0000

OMG. BEST EVAR.

I’ve been a server for a year. Worked all over my Applebee’s for almost 4. I try my hardest. My best. And I’m good at what I do. However, I’m allergic to Ranch. So when your kid spills it on me, and I have to quickly run away, to wash it before I start to choke, don’t punish me. Please. I’ll take your empty plates soon, I promise.

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:53:02 +0000

Thank you for explaining the tip out!!! I am a server in a bar setting, and I give 5% of my liquor sales to the bartenders out of my tips. (even though they make 3 times what I Do… arggggg) What that means is if I sell $100 worth of booze that I didn’t get tipped on… guess what? I just PAID $5 to wait on you!!!

Also, Thank you for the mention of college education and severs. I hate that people assume because I wait tables and they work at an office that they are somehow above me. At the bar I work at every single employee has at least some form of higher education, and many of us have bachelor’s degrees.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:36:05 +0000

I think that that was what Jerry was saying too, that stiffing is stealing. I think you are actually in agreement.

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:53:45 +0000

I can’t tll you how wrong you are, Jerry. If you stiff someone on a $50 bill, a server has to pay 3% ($1.50) to the restaurant for miscellaneous expenses. If you paid cash, a server has to claim they made 10% ($5) from your visit. So, now a servers wages are inflated in the federal governments eyes, which could possible result in more taxes owed AND the server had to pay $1.50 for you to sit there.

Is that not theft? Seems so to me.

By: jerry

jerry — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:06:34 +0000

I cant tell you how much I agree with the assertion that stiffing = stealing.