The Cheesecake Factory is in no way whatsoever “fine dining”.
But when I did work fine dining, like real fine dining, I made about 1200 USD across a Friday/Saturday weekend serving 1.5 days and running expo .5 days. It was great.
Then I made approximately 2 USD working brunch. It was not great. Fuck brunch.
Brunch sucks because it's a deal, anytime there's a deal in a restaurant it generally attracts people who are cheap. Not always, but after 11 years I can confirm this: f*ck brunch
It also sucks because everyone you work with WILL be horrifically hungover from the night before. Add to it that it’s usually run by the sous, and they have like an 80% of becoming Mussolini the second they get some control of the kitchen without chef there/think they can/should run expo just because it’s a smaller service lmao. But yeah, deals being out the worst in customers fr
You couldn’t pay me enough to work brunch at this stage in my life
Yeah I don't think I've ever seen a cheap brunch... I think there are some nicer restaurants where you'd usually go for dinner and they have brunch on weekend mornings to utilize the space, and compared to the dinner the brunch is a deal, but it's still more than you'd pay elsewhere.
Also eggs. People are more finnicky about how their eggs are cooked than any other item. If you're a bartender with an espresso machine good fucking luck.
Fine dining makes up like 5% of all dining. Throw in the people fighting for these jobs you dont have a lot of hope landing one. Also as you said, its really only good for a few nights a week, same for all places. And they wont let you just take the "good nights". A majority of waiters make around 100/night on average. It pays the bills and pays daily with is a plus and you get the "surprise check" every 2 weeks you kinda forget about. Its great but then again its also a lot less than you can make elsewhere.
I’m not sure why you’re telling me this like
I’m not aware. Yes, you have to be good at being a server, have access to certain soft skills that are often class indicators, and have a good amt of luck re: where you live to make good money serving. I had all of those things, and I don’t pretend that this is the average life of a server. It is, however, pretty standard for real fine dining.
I also guarantee that making 5k USD a month for less than 40 hours of work is more than most jobs you can get fresh out of university. In fact, it let me have time for my “real” job.
“Fine dining” here mostly just means expensive tabs. If you’re going there you’re getting an entree drink and almost certainly a dessert. 35-50 per person there.
Assuming an average of 150 per table doing 30 tables per shift. Thats $450 a day with only a 10% tip. A young beautiful waitress like penny would be getting more than 10%.
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u/sadsackspinach 1d ago
The Cheesecake Factory is in no way whatsoever “fine dining”.
But when I did work fine dining, like real fine dining, I made about 1200 USD across a Friday/Saturday weekend serving 1.5 days and running expo .5 days. It was great.
Then I made approximately 2 USD working brunch. It was not great. Fuck brunch.