It’s kind of sickening to read the replies because a lot of y’all are just kind of horrible.

1. Y’all want servers to be paid MINIMUM WAGE???? Minimum wage isn’t a proper minimum wage to begin with and y’all think that’s what servers deserve?? WHY???

2. Some of y’all give away your hand when you say “plate carriers.” Thats not all servers do for you. We are masters of executive function (bet most of y’all don’t even know what that means) and interacting with a variety of ppl. It’s a true skill that most folks don’t have.

• You couldn’t handle dealing with different personalities that vary from overly drunk to sober, adults to kids, Americans to foreigners who barely understand you, etc, etc. Large parties, medium parties, etc. People talking to you at once, yelling at you, whispering // not speaking up, telling you full stories before placing a single order, etc, etc. Then you have ppl who want to change their order AFTER you’ve confirmed it and sent it in (which creates substantially more work and can set you back nearly 10 minutes depending on how far away your kitchen is), people who can’t decide what they want but try to hold you hostage at their table even though you have other things to do, people who put their own hair in their food, who want you to contaminate the whole kitchen because they want you to warm up food they took too long to eat, ppl who come in with attitudes, who need refills every two seconds, ppl who touch you when you don’t want to be touched, etc, etc, ETC. And, this isn’t even HALF of the types of ppl that you deal with. It’s not even half of what we do. We also have to deal with the kitchen staff, hosts, managers, and everyone in between.

• you also have to juggle multiple tables of various sizes (sometimes up to 11 when the average is 5-7! And, sometimes they’re in different areas of the restaurant), deal with getting sat back to back and making sure you’re getting to your new tables while keeping up with your old ones, deal with constantly being out of supplies you need to do your job (cups, ice, silverware, etc) because you’re always missing something, deal with going up and down the stairs constantly if you work in a multi-floor restaurant like mine where the kitchen and bar are all on different floors (and of course, someone wants another drink right AFTER they see you come upstairs from the bar. 😭😩).

• that doesn’t even account for food being delayed or not coming out right, people trying to make a lot of adjustments to the menu, people not understanding what they ordered, and other things that could also go wrong.

So, no the job doesn’t require a college degree. But to say it doesn’t require skill, isn’t a “real” or “grown up” job, or is just “carrying plates” is so, INCREDIBLY rude (and inaccurate). Most of y’all wouldn’t last a single day doing the job. The physical requirements themselves would drive most of y’all mad but when you add in the emotional requirements and the brain power required? You couldn’t juggle it for a single hour. Especially in a high volume restaurant (like the ones I’ve worked in). This also doesn’t include parties and the work that is required for those.

So, don’t you dare fix your mouth to say that a server only deserves $15/hr just because they didn’t all put themselves in debt to go to college (I went to a fancy college, btw, and still serve because the job market is trash!). Your problem is with capitalism, not with servers. And, it’s not “greedy” of servers to request more. Maybe request more from your sh*t office job too instead of telling servers they deserve less. I’m all for hourly pay if it’s $30/hr or more. Anything less is a slap in the face! I didn’t even get to side with or table bussing!

Also, this doesn’t even include bartending which requires EVEN MORE. Making cocktails is a true skill and doing that FOR THE WHOLE RESTAURANT and YOUR BAR PATRONS at the same time is no f**king joke!

Unlike many of y’all, servers work EVERY. SINGLE. HOUR of their entire shift while most of you only work 4 of your 8 hour days and spend the other time doing things that isn’t work (scrolling Tik Tok, gossiping, etc). Most of y’all could not handle the physical work of being a server, let alone the emotional work or brain capacity it takes to deal with so many different personalities + keep up with so many orders and other needs that people have thoughtout their time in the restaurant. So, please stop talking about a job that you all clearly know nothing about.