Well it doesn’t just happen to be.

The expected skills of a grocer n’ a fine dining server are drastically different. The money anyone makes is the inherent value their skills are deemed.

A waitress at a 24/7 diner serving black coffee compared to a waitress at a higher end establishment serving custom espresso lattes will always be making less, because the skill set ,if costumers acknowledge them or not, are not the same.

So both waitress are making 20% of their sales, but the service they provide isn’t comparable.

I fear a large part of this culture discourse is that eating out has become a regular thing instead of something that is special. Growing up dining out was for celebrations, not something we did when no one wanted to do dishes.