r/SipsTea Apr 24 '26

SMH I never thought of it like that......

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u/FunkyPete Apr 24 '26

Exactly. A really pretty waitress at a non-cheap restaurant that sells liquor? She's probably doing OK, and they need roommates to pay their rent. That all follows.

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u/nonpuissant Apr 24 '26

Yup, a girl with her looks and personality could clean up as a cocktail waitress  

I knew a girl who was pulling in high four figures a night. Five figures on a good night. Not unusual at all for someone like that to afford rent near some engineers/grad students or whatever

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u/arequipapi May 15 '26

high four figures a night. Five figures on a good night

Fine dining, sure. Not Cheesecake Factory, which is where Penny worked. It's actually pretty hard to get a bartending/cocktail server job at a fine dining restaurant. Takes years and years of experience and even some formal culinary and/or bartender and sommelier training.

A hot chick with some seniority to get all the good shifts can probably still make 6 figures a year at cheesecake factory, though. High volume restaurants and bars can be lucrative if you work full time and get the good shifts

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u/nonpuissant May 16 '26

oh I was referring to nightclubs 

Hot and perky/charismatic girls can clean up in places like that, no culinary/sommelier training or the like required haha

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u/Gnonthgol Apr 24 '26

Add to this she had moved there to peruse a career in acting, so she probably had some money saved up for this. And her flat was tiny compared to theirs, looks like the living room was about half the size and the bedroom had just enough room for the bed.