[Yourfags]

I really like this article, he raises points I hadn't thought about. As someone who is American and works in a restaurant, I still think it's a terrible system. Waiters do not do more or better work than the rest of the staff, they are just like everyone else and the fact that they get paid double or triple their coworkers is insane. It's certainly not about their attitude, because people who get paid $8/hr behave just as well (or often do because it's their job and they don't want to lose it), and waiters are just as often rude and inattentive. It mystifies me really that restaurants in 2013 havn't been relegated to the same model every other business follows, just tell me the price and be done with it; tipping is a terrible system.

[mml]

Hear hear. When I was cooking (at a fancy place) years ago, the waitstaff used to walk home with $500 in (unlikely to be declared) cash after a 4 hour shift on a good night. I walked home with $90, for my 11 hours of humping shit, and paid taxes on every penny. cooking sucks. hard. still miss it though.