The waitress made her rent today.......

I made more money my first day of being a waitress then I would have spending two 8 hour days at work in the kitchen. ( Mind you I had to split it with the girl who was training me but still). For her that amount was "average". I worked less than six hours and spent most of my time making coffee, being horribly confused about the specials and forgetting to ask people if they wanted white or brown toast with their omelettes.
It's a lot harder than I thought it would be, but then again I've never been in a situation where I'm forced to talk to people. It's not as hard as cooking though.
If there is one thing I hate about restaurants it's that the front of house makes more money than back of house. ( usually). Back of house gets paid hourly it doesn't matter if its slow or fast cooks get paid for the hours they work. Wait staff on the other hand get paid minimum wage so it doesn't matter to them if they stay  for an hour or all day what matters is the number of tables coming in and how much those tables are willing to spend. Obviously bigger tables means more tips.
It drives me crazy. Kitchen will maybe get 20 percent of the total tips coming from the front and that 20 percent has to be split between the people who where working that shift. ( some restaurants its more, some less...... some don't even tip their kitchen) That means if one waiter makes $200 in tips that night the kitchen gets 40 dollars.... split that 40 dollars with five people and they each go home with a whopping 8 dollars. While the person who ran the food makes $160 plus their hourly wages. What a joke.

Water beds ( the things they say)

"They're awesome you only need to pump once and then ride the waves"
"Same with fat girls"