Absolutely not.
Ask HN: Would you swap your desk for a restaurant shift?
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#22I always thought about picking up some physically demanding job on weekends (like carrying boxes or something like that). It would serve me as exercise and I would get paid. Problem is i’m picky about the timing (e.g., not early in the morning, not when it’s hot, etc.)
I was a fitness instructor for well over a decade teaching in the mornings before work and evenings
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#23How would that work? Am I taking a vacation day from my corporate job so I can make $12/hr bussing tables? I’m not sure why I’d ever want to do that. What would happen is this app would just turn into another form of gig work for unemployed people, and it would be a nightmare. Imagine going to a restaurant and no one knows what they’re doing, because they’re only there for a day. The restaurant would probably lose mo…
You make a lot more than $12 an hour if you include tips.
Here in Seattle, at a regular sit down restaurant, servers can average almost $40 an hour, even more if they worked the dinner shift.
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#24How would that work? Am I taking a vacation day from my corporate job so I can make $12/hr bussing tables? I’m not sure why I’d ever want to do that. What would happen is this app would just turn into another form of gig work for unemployed people, and it would be a nightmare. Imagine going to a restaurant and no one knows what they’re doing, because they’re only there for a day. The restaurant would probably lose mo…
You make a lot more than $12 an hour if you include tips. Here in Seattle, at a regular sit down restaurant, servers can average almost $40 an hour, even more if they worked the dinner shift.
How good do you think the tips will be for someone waiting table who has 0 experience and doesn’t know the menu? This also sounds like a big risk if they wait on a table with any food allergies.
That’s why I figured bussing tables, or some other back of house job would make more sense. Maybe the waitstaff shares tips with everyone; I think it depends on the place… but are full time waitstaff going to want to share tips with someone making $200k who is cosplaying as a service worker for a day?
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#25What makes you think that the average HN reader is qualified for restaurant work?
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#26Absolutely not. I've done food service work. It sucks. Back of house is disgusting and dangerous. Front of house is demoralizing and infuriating. And the pay sucks unless you're getting tipped out a high end place and the only way to get there is with years of experience.
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#27> Would you swap your desk for a restaurant shift?
lol no.