"Morgans" wrote in message
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True, but with the risk on the employer, he will pay wages in line with
little or no education.

Define "education". Those who make a "high income" from waiting have
extensive experience in the business. They have every bit as much
"education", in their field of work, as a college graduate. And there are
very few people in the table waiting industry who actually make anything
anyone would call a "high income".

Where else do you know of that a high school
graduate (or not) with good people skills, and a good memory (or not) can
bring home over 200 bucks in 6 or 7 hours?

All sorts of industries, including the computer industry. No, wait...I take
that back. You don't need good people skills in the computer industry.

Waiting in a good establishment, is the answer.

Without experience, no one is going to get a job at a "good establishment".
With or without a college degree. Starting wages for a waiter suck.

Some nights, 200 bucks will
not be brought home, but some nights a lot more. Makes taking the risk
more
worthwhile, don't you think?\

Plenty of people make that much money (and lots lots more) without nearly
the risk. More to the point, the quantity of money that comes in isn't a
direct result of the risk (as it might be in gambling large sums of money),
so it makes no sense to justify the risk simply based on the chance of large
sums of money.

After seeing the kind of service you get in some European restaurants, I
think tipping makes a big difference in the quality of the service.

After seeing the kind of service I get in some American restaurants, I think
tipping is a useless custom that makes no difference in the quality of the
service.

If tipping is such a great idea, why is it that I constantly run into lousy
service in restaurants, right here in America? The answer is that quality
of service has WAY more to do with how the restaurant is managed than it
does with the custom of tipping.

Pete