A conveyor belt???
Usually one only finds such high quality service at a hospital cafeteria or an airport....
Popular thing in Japanese sushi bars. You can find them at some sushi bars in California as well.
A conveyor belt???
Usually one only finds such high quality service at a hospital cafeteria or an airport....
A conveyor belt???
Usually one only finds such high quality service at a hospital cafeteria or an airport....
Popular thing in Japanese sushi bars. You can find them at some sushi bars in California as well.
I have never seen a conveyor belt at any sushi restaurant I've been to.
I have seen the boats, which are essentially the same thing, but classier.
I have never seen a conveyor belt at any sushi restaurant I've been to.
I have seen the boats, which are essentially the same thing, but classier.
I've seen the boats in Cali as well, I expect the conveyor belts make it easier to pass health & safety regs here.
And eating out here is if anything more expensive than Italy - depending on if you're going to a "proper" restaurant, a chippy or a greasy spoon. I expect lunch to cost me £5-10 and dinner £10-15. When I take my daughter out the bill is generally from £20-35, but with another adult I wouldn't be surprised to be spending £40-50 for two for a good Chinese or curry.
Well, the goofy thing is that while they might be making $30/hour one day, the very next day they might only make $6/hour, and then the next day they're making $12/hr...and then the next day they make $2/hour. It can be so hit-and-miss sometimes. There are some lunch shifts where a server will be sent home after two hours without having a single table. There are other unexpectedly busy shifts where all the other servers have already been sent home and a single person is responsible for the whole restaurant. It's a pretty unpredictable business.If people are making $30-40 an hour sometimes doing this, it's a little obscene that they are actually making MORE than most rocket scientists![]()
The pay scale (including the tips) is just so screwed up for a low skill profession. Take the order, relay that to the kitchen without screwing it up. Bring it back out, refill the drinks as needed, and show up with the bill when it looks like we're just about finished. It's not rocket science.
If people are making $30-40 an hour sometimes doing this, it's a little obscene that they are actually making MORE than most rocket scientists
I pretty much always leave around 20% unless the service was outstanding or shitty, but just sits wrong with me that when you add up what they're getting per hour, the scale is so out of whack compared to other jobs. The guy carrying the food from the kitchen to the table, and then carrying empty plates back, shouldn't be the highest paid person in the equation. For a large percent of Americans, they probably are, though...
Well, threads like this make hate ignorant non-tippers so it balances out. People who intend to only tip a dollar should tell their server before they get their meal. That way they can get a dollar's worth of service.
Of course, you've never been a server, have never been trained as a server, so we should take your word as that of THE LORD when it comes to what a low-skill profession it is?
Being a (good) server requires memory, balance, physical and mental stamina, salsepersonship, customer service, and a critical faculty regarding food and taste.
Most are. I'll trade you the bitchy woman who sent her burger back twice (and then left to never be seen again) for the US Navy Captain who was chewing me out this morning (and will be sticking around for a couple years) if you likeNo, it's by no means rocket science, of course but it is a relatively demanding job.
Also no one makes a sustained $30-40/hr doing it, outside of perhaps very high-end restaurants. In about the middle of the road for my establishment, I made on average about $12-14/hr.* The decadence, right?
*Although, a fun fact: I'm literally the only server I ever knew who accurately reported their wages. That's not a very attractive trait of the industry, I concede.
That had more to do with the specific restaurant than the job itself. I love bartending, and I am actually looking into opening my own place so I can do it forever.Rojohen was doing it while looking for another job, and then quit, etc)
Well, threads like this make hate ignorant non-tippers so it balances out. People who intend to only tip a dollar should tell their server before they get their meal. That way they can get a dollar's worth of service.
Sounds like you need an actual career instead of a college job then.
Deal with real problems and then I'll have sympathy for you.
Well, threads like this make hate ignorant non-tippers so it balances out. People who intend to only tip a dollar should tell their server before they get their meal. That way they can get a dollar's worth of service.
Sounds like you need an actual career instead of a college job then.
Deal with real problems and then I'll have sympathy for you.
Isn't that the point of college? To get training for a career?
And college is filled with 'real problems'. Just his biggest problems don't include if he should choose White Cheddar or American Cheddar Cheeze-Balls, doesn't mean his problems are any less real than yours.
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Isn't that the point of college? To get training for a career?
TheBrew said:And college is filled with 'real problems'. Just his biggest problems don't include if he should choose White Cheddar or American Cheddar Cheeze-Balls, doesn't mean his problems are any less real than yours.
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Yep, he is.Sounds like you need an actual career instead of a college job then.
Deal with real problems and then I'll have sympathy for you.
Isn't that the point of college? To get training for a career?
And college is filled with 'real problems'. Just his biggest problems don't include if he should choose White Cheddar or American Cheddar Cheeze-Balls, doesn't mean his problems are any less real than yours.
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He's in law school anyway, I think.
Alex1939 said:if you are on here whining about tips, get a REAL JOB. Start a career.
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