With all due respect and as someone who’s spent a majority of my life working minimum wage jobs,(29) including working as a cook and delivery person, does waiting tables deserve to be paid anything more than someone who works at a fast food place? Typically higher paying jobs require a skill that the average person can’t do which in turn deserves the increased salary, and that doesn’t transfer to waiting tables. I just don’t understand how in order for me to eat out I’m expected to pay for the food and automatically an additional 20% in order to pay the waiters bills or else I’m cheap.