Waiting for ¢hange

Waiting tables is an extremely involved job. It requires more than what meets the eye as the general public has very little idea of what it entails. It’s extremely demanding and people can be so rude, they act as if they are the only person in the restaurant. The idea that the customer is always right is a fallacy that allows this behavior. It should be within reason of course to receive the best service, however often times people take things out on the server that is out of their hands such as the kitchen’s mistakes. A bad tip takes away from a good tip and when you’re forced to pay 3% of your sales to hosts, bussers, and bartenders a 20% tip is already a 17% tip. To do a job where you are constantly moving for 8 hours, never sitting down, hot, sweaty , rude people and you still have to smile is a performance that is NOT easy. People will sit in your section and take their time to order an appetizer and water, spend 1 .5 hours in the seat playing on their phone on a Saturday night. Not realizing the window a server has to make their money is about 3 hours and we do this by flipping our tables, so tipping by percent then is really a slap in the face. Also the federal government taking away gratuity for large parties really cut our income by a 1/3 . Same thing a large party takes up your whole section so let’s say they stay 3 hours and don’t tip, you actually end up paying for their food, losing money. If the kitchen messes up, the food is comped but there’s no recourse or respect to servers time or compensation. In order to balance this out servers should at least make 6$ hour or minimum wage . I feel the time that corporate restaurants not paying their staff and using servers to pay with their hard earned money needs to end . I’m waiting on change !!!!!!