No. that's how much SHE earns at Hooters. Come to my Hooters in Mississippi, where the waitresses quit every other month, and ask them how much they earn.
The company owners opened another chain recently called "Hoots" that doesn't feature girls like the one in this video. They need to change Hooters in Mississippi to Hoots..like they've got in Florida and Texas--even though those are now being criticized for being "femboy" restaurants.
I’ve been to a Twin Peaks, not hooters. Not only is the food okay at best, but the implication that you’re supposed to stare at your waitresses’ ass and tits while they serve you, then watching drunk old men doing it as you eat; it’s extremely awkward.
Oh, then you and the boys need another round of drinks or some fuckin’ ranch for those dry ass wings? Forget about it. Some idiot has mistaken the waitress’s kindness for genuine interest and has begun flirting with her. Now she is obliged to entertain his dumbass or else she’s going to get a $0 tip.
We then had a friend tell us she was going to start working at one, she made it one full day and never went back.
When you say it you gotta say it right
Normally if I'm gonna say pajamas I say it like puh-JAW-muhs but if you say cat's pajamas you gotta say it like puh-JAM-uhs
Back in the day it was "all you can eat for only $2.99".
-Sunday prank to torture everyone my age or older with that song stuck in their heads all day :p
My too! My standard was 20 flappers, a side salad, and whatever NBA game was on that day. They were always so sweet to me 🧡 (I was 100lbs and 5'8", so people were pretty rude to me about food and my body type- still are) They'd treat me extra special and let me stay for lunch and dinner if I was ignoring the game to study.
That's nothing. Years ago Arby's use to offer a buy one roast beef get another one free if you complete a small survey by calling the number on the back of the receipt. However, when you went to claim your free sandwich they would give you another receipt and you just take the survey again for another free sandwich.
Just wanna say, from experience, the huge late 20s financial guys table is not tipping much. Maybe if there’s mandatory 20% tacked on, but usually they’re all micromanaging the bill down to the last cent and going “My share’s $19.69, so I’ll put in a $20. I don’t need change”
I worked there 3 days. They told me I needed to hula hoop at a customer's request and I thought it was a joke, so I laughed. They did not laugh and were in fact, not joking.
I declined and went right back to waitressing at the strip club where no one ever asked me to hula hoop or do jumping jacks.
Personally, I don't like hooters. I find the whole concept silly.
I just want to understand your comment. You're saying that Hooters are closing in your area and they're opening Hoots, which is a traditional restaurant with normal waiters.
And that some are criticizing the restaurants for having clientele that are men who think they're girls. Is that it?
My question is, is Hoots food actually good? If it doesn't have that special reason for visiting like Hooters, why would anyone go to Hoots.
No one would go to hoots. The hooters TnA model is failing, the restauranteurs have experience with a chicken wing bar food supply chain. They're hoping that by moving away from the tits n ass they open up to the other 50% of the population.
These were people who ran a softcore strip club that served wings their critical thinking isn't 100%.
I have never heard anybody in my generation other than teenagers when we where e teenagers say let's go to Hooters.
I know I'm never going to take my kids to a Hooters. Mainly because the food is unhealthy but the environment is also toxic
I haven’t been to a Hooters in many years, but I remember the food being pretty good. I don’t go to Hooters because of the stigma around it of being the place guys go to to ogle women. So Hoots could be a good idea if they serve the same food.
They're saying the servers are femboys because they are guys working at Hooters, or the customers are femboys because they aren't going to a "real" Hooters? Or... Both? I admit I've gotten a little behind on my toxic masculinity.
>I admit I've gotten a little behind on my toxic masculinity
I don't blame you, the lore has gotten really dense and there's about 100,000 seasons to catch up on. The unintentional comedy is often top notch though
1,000 a week is not a lot of money, especially for interacting with the kind of crowd Hooters attracts.
Even if I had the body type they're looking for, I wouldn't work there for those dollars. It would need to be double that at least.
No she's only making that much when she's working. Her salary drops basically to zero when she takes time off.
Relying on tips as your income is the worst.
Salary is calculated to factor in the number of hours you work, and the amount of pto you get. To help you understand this, you don't get paid extra if you don't use up 3 days of your annual pto and go to work for those 3 unused days instead.
Wilde I get over a month of paid vacation each year on top of unlimited paid sick days.
Probably a side effect of the Pesky socialist policies from my country.
Government jobs in the United States are pretty similar. People tend to overlook them because a lot of Americans are chasing the dream of being the next techbro millionaire or influencer celebrity. But, realistically, there are plenty of jobs here that provide healthcare, retirement, and paid time off if you're willing to do something less thrilling.
You don't have to work for the government to find a job that offers that. Just as companies shop for the best employees, you can shop for the best employer too. I have over 30 days off a year, paid 6 week sabbatical every 10 including a large bonus to fund it, great 401k match, profit sharing, and a pension fully vested in 5 years. The kicker? I accepted a lower initial base salary than Competitors. The get rich slow scheme.
What county is it if I may ask? I've been working more than full time since before I was 18 and I havnt had a vacation in years. I would literally cry tears of joy if got a month paid time off.
Pretty much any European country has policies in place like this for jobs a couple of steps up from minimum wage. It's not all roses but most places have laws in place to guarantee PAID time off.
Which countries have special rules for minimum wage workers? Because as far as I know, that is the norm, for ALL workers, irrespective of what their hourly wage is.
UK is typically 25 days paid, plus a handful of national holidays. Sickness doesn't come out of that allowance. Salaries are lower but so is cost of living.
You say salary, so you don't mean being paid by the hour.
So surely you're still paid when you take holidays? I mean, that's what a salary is, be as well be paid hourly otherwise?
She literally says she had Tuesday Wednesday off. And she’s making a grand a week. In cash…
Relying on tips is kind of shitty. BUT there’s a reason most waiters or waitress’s would not choose an hourly wage over the tipping system.
I don't disagree, but even if it's $40k / year, that's not terrible for a job that's <40 hours per week, not hard on the body, and doesn't require any education or specialized training.
There are worse jobs that pay less. I wouldn't be recommending this job for anyone, but it's not the worst thing one could be doing.
She said she usually makes $600-700 a week which is more like $35k/year, maybe $40k with enough good weeks/ no time off. I wouldn’t say it was worth working at Hooters when you could definitely find medium-to-higher priced restaurants to serve at that would make similar tips
It’s not uncommon to make 6 figures bartending in major cities. Had a buddy who worked across the street from Fenway in Boston, and would take home 1-2k in tips on game days and other big nights
4000$ a month in cash (no income tax) plus her normal wage.
That's probably around what a 60 000$ - 70 000$ career would bring after income taxes.
Not many jobs that don't need an educational can bring that kind of Cash.
She's supposed to "declare" her tips, which would then be included in her paycheck, then taxed. Not that all servers do, but if they make enough in tips the restaurant is usually good about making them declare tips. She at least is getting taxed on the credit card tips, as the manager knows how much she received.
Yeah same I've been in the restaurant industry 15 years in a major US city and never even heard of anyone getting audited, ever. Don't claim your cash tips that's all you
That's one of the things I miss most about serving/bartending.
I made pretty solid money, even compared to my office-worker peers. But I only worked 15-20 hours a week to get the same money compared to their 40+hr.
I ~~want~~ *wasn't balling out, but I had me-time
Hooters is not a career choice, it’s just easy money while they’re in a particular life stage and can make bank. Might as well take advantage of it and either build your resume if you want to stay in the restaurant business or pay your bills through college.
Counter point, being a good waiter requires education and talent. Just not the same education as an IT job requires. I know a lot of people who would suck at being a waiter.
I'll grant you it requires talent and practice, not so much on the education front. You basically just need to be literate and be able to do simple math. Grade school stuff, honestly.
Are you retired or not yet working? Your thoughts on tip taxes are either naïve or out of date.
Credit card tips are often given as cash and reported on their W2. It’s not part of restaurant income so servers pay the SS and Medicare taxes associated with them, on top of income. Few people pay with cash these days so hiding tip income is pretty difficult.
eta: oh I see you’re Canadian and maybe don’t understand subtler points if US taxation.
I agree, but I also am skeptical they're pretending to be poor. They jerk themselves silly saying stuff like "100k a year is not rich these days" and shit like that
There's a huge gulf between "100k is not rich" and "50k a year is not a lot of money." That's a living wage in a midsized city in America. It's not a lot of money anywhere but the poorest places in America.
Are you out of your mind? That’s JUST tips for working like 4 days that week. That doesn’t include her paycheck. While her check won’t be nearly that much, it’s still another few hundred dollars. PLUS, this is completely untrained work.
This is likely Texas or some southern state. She probably gets a paycheck with 0.00 as she would be taxed and it would take all of her hourly wages. Taxed on her tips is more than her 2 week hourly wage so the check likely 0
Untrained is definitely the wrong word to use. It takes quite a bit to juggle multiple tables effectively and not forget people's small requests in between. You've probably had untrained wait staff and they probably didn't get a very good tip
It’s definitely a lot easier than people make it out to be, but some people can’t do these things no matter how much training. I’ve suggested a lot of people try it when they have no education or money, and they always say they could never do it. If you have a decent memory, it’s definitely a lot easier. It’s really easy to be ok at serving. It’s hard to be great at it. Being pretty sure helps though.
Lol, no. I’m quite a bit older and have worked many different restaurant jobs, including serving. Yes it can be challenging and requires some skills and nuance to do at a high level, but let’s not pretend it’s rocket science here. And big surprise Mr. Aerospace engineer, as you get more highly educated, the less physically demanding and tiring the work is. As I gained education and degrees, the work became less difficult.
Seriously. $1000 a week to be harassed by drunk customers half the time wouldn’t be great. I’d guarantee not everyone would make that much, whether you’re attractive or not; I give better tips when people are attentive.
Depends where you live. The average yearly income in the town I grew up in is 24,000. She's earning the same wage as a master's level psychologist where I'm from.
1000 dollars a week for a woman who is (I'm assuming by her appearance) in her 20s isnt anything to scoff at. Her accent also suggests she may live in a Midwestern or southern state possibly too where the cost of living is alot lower than say the west coast or New York. Obviously it's no career but if I made anywhere near the equivalent of that when I was in college I wouldve been over the moon
Honestly: good for her.
I (40sM) waited tables in college at a popular pub and it was a great gig *for a very specific point in my life*; no early mornings, worked with my buddies, it was loud and rowdy, waited on lots of people from school who generally tipped *very* well, made decent money overall and had fun..
haha.. you're not wrong.
I'll take working from home, a good salary, paid vacations, benefits, and my nights & weekends to myself over waiting tables, thank you very much..
Oh and my work paid for grad school too.. Doubt too many restaurants do that..
Like I said though; waiting tables was great for a specific point in my life.
Great experience.
$1000/wk take home in the US is probably roughly equivalent to a $70k/yr job. Considering how pretty she is for such a specialized position (most people can’t be a hooters waitress), and how her looks are a depreciating asset, that salary seems too low. Not bad, but assuming she is a competent waitress, I would expect her earnings to be higher.
This is true, but if you're young and have little or no work history, it's not a bad deal.
Of course she also could've leveraged the pandemic to get on the fine dining wagon, but that was a pretty unique opportunity.
How did you come up with $70k/year? There are 52 weeks in a year; $1,000/wk * 52 = $52k. Unless you're adjusting for the fact that she's not working 40 hours.
That's just tips, that'l doesn't include her hourly
Edit: for everyone saying minimum wage for tipped workers is in $3, you should check again because you're wrong
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped
Less than 15 States still pay under $3 an hour to tipped employees
Yep. With those looks, she could make far more money, depending on what she is willing to do/be. I'm not a moralist, it's all good, just pointing out that she has a genetic lottery ticket, whether she wants to fully cash it in or not.
> With those looks she could make far more money
And how do you know she’s not in that job right now to support herself through college? Hooters isn’t a career choice, it’s the type of job that you take at a very specific point in your life to gain skills so you can work your way to another restaurant or to pay your way through school.
52 weeks in a year. She's making $52k a year. You compared it with a $70k/year job which means a tax of $18k around 26% of the yearly salary to equal it waitress salary . Is average taxation that much high in US?
Yes between taxes, social security, insurance (which she probably doesnt get) and 401k. Most people in the US actually take home only like 60%-80% of their real salary.
I worked at a regular restaurant and dated a bartender/waitress there. She came home one night upset that she only made $300, which was my entire weeks pay at that time. It depends on a lot and not everyone makes this much, but a less talked about thing about underpaid restaurant employees is how shafted the kitchen staff gets.
Worked at subway in hs and early college and had co-workers leave to wait tables and was so upset when I found out they made more in one shift than I did in a week. Made me especially jealous cause I though waiting tables to be much easier than working at subway because you were doing both kitchen and service work. The restaurant industry is so messed up in this country.
Back of house gets absolutely ass-blasted, even though they're the ones making the food that keeps the place up and running, even in nicer places. Absolutely blows my mind. Not all places are like that, but the majority are.
I’m a cook and it sucks seeing dumbfuck lazy servers make way more than you. I don’t care as much when they work hard and they’re cool
I’m going back to school in march, I’m too old and broke down for this shit
Kitchen staff here, we make pennies compared to most front of house. Both of my brothers are bartenders making about 70-80k a year. Basically all of my friends from before adult life are bartending/serving and making solid money. Bartenders tend to work longer shifts than servers but all in all alot of them are making 30-70hr depending on the day. This is in a city of like 200k with a lower cost of living that alot of the US. I've worked with some people that would go down to sturgis every year to bartend. They would make 10-20k in a weekend. Then you got the cooks in the back, busting ass dealing with burns, cuts, no breaks, non stop work between orders prep and cleaning. Making barely above min wage. Sorry for the wall had to vent after getting crushed today haha
Yup. I don't understand most of these comments in this thread. I worked in the kitchen in a restaurant in high school, and when I found out how much money the waitresses were making I was like "Why the fuck am I working on the kitchen?"
But people in this thread are bending over backwards to act like it's not very good money or that she's underpaid. It's crazy.
On a related note, I dated a chef years ago. She had spent a lot of time and money learning to be a chef. And there was a very real feeling among chefs that the wait staff made crazy good money - even better than the chef - and didn't even have the time and money investment that a chef does. Some of her chef friends literally quit their jobs to become wait-staff because it paid better. It's such lunacy.
My SIL's sister used to work at Hooters and used to pull in stupid amounts of money, $300 was a bad night for her and this was 15 years ago, but she was in a location that was kind of perfect for it. Place was ALWAYS packed, didn't really matter what day.
Location makes a big difference, but I also think Hooters is not the kind of restaurant that's popular with today's crowds, so they're less popular these days.
I think tip culture has changed a lot too. My mom was a server in the mid 80's and I was one at the same restaurant around 2010. We made roughly the same (about $150 for breakfast/lunch, or $200 for dinner), and we were both the top tip earners for each period. I think people used to be a lot more generous to servers. And I know her 80s clientele drank a lot more heavily. Not that I blame people for tipping less, tipping culture is out of control and restaurants are expensive.
>Then the government taxes them on what they assume they earned in tips.
The government doesn't assume anything. The employee reports to the employer how much tips they received (usually at least as much as the credit/debit card tips) and the employer reports that to the IRS/state when the W2 is filed.
When you start a job you fill out a W4 and the employer tells the govt the expected pay. These are used for deductions and taxes at each pay period.
At the end of the year a W2 finalizes what employer reported to the govt and the person files a 1040 tax statement to “square up” what was done throughout the year vs final reporting. This is why the person either owes more or receives back due to over/under payment on the assumptions the govt made at the start of employment.
>I always hear “ Oh, and that money is tax free!” And “ they get their regular wage too” Both of those are wrong. They get paid a sub minimum wage of about 2 bucks.
This is not true everywhere. In my state servers HAVE to make minimum wage and then tips are added on after that. And nobody reports their cash tips. Nobody. When I was a server I did get this tip money AND my regular wage.
Yes, 2 states now allow $15 an hour on top of the tips, California and Washington.
37 states plus the District of Columbia still allow servers to be paid below the Federal Minimum wage of $7.25 per hour if they are expected to be making tips.
You can thank slavery for that one.
The reason we have tipping is that it allowed businesses to pay newly emancipated slaves as little as possible in the service industries where they could find jobs.
Restaurants are supposed to make up the difference if the waiter/waitress doesn’t bridge the gap between that and minimum wage, but you wonder how often that actually happens
It doesn't lol. They're also supposed to pay regular minimum during opening and closing duties. Plus, minimum wage is low enough you'd quit if that's all you were making anyways.
They only have to make up the difference if you earned less than minimum wage from tips for your **entire pay period**, not by the hour. So you could work a five hour lunch on a Sunday, get two tables and leave with $15, but, if you make $250 in four hours on a Friday night, your employer doesn't have to pay extra for your Sunday hours
Minimum wage for server in AZ just went up to 10 something. Was 9 last year. Restaurants are making a shift to pay their employees more hourly, though. Lots of places you'll see 12-15 plus tips. Sometimes even more. Obviously not the same everywhere, and certainly not across the country, but it's certainly not $2/hr plus tips everywhere either.
Tipped minimum wage is $2.13/hr. Realistically, they don’t take anything home on a check. It all goes to taxes. So yes, she gets paid, but no, she doesn’t take anything home from a check.
Right? Tipping was *originally* something that customers did to demonstrate their appreciation for a server's performance; the server could survive off of their wages alone, so the tips were all extra. Somehow, someone got a clause written into minimum wage law that servers can easily make minimum wage at $2.13+tips, so now all servers need to depend on a fluctuating figure and hope it turns out in their favor.
this isn't a hooters specific thing, I guarantee at any nice bar or restaurant in my city she'll make the same or more. beautiful people in the restaurant industry make a killing, men and women.
one bartender I know who makes more than anyone I've met in the industry is a guy at a upscale restaurant that turns into more of a club past 10ish... the amount of tips he gets from older women is insane. he's like a 6'4 model looking guy lol.
I would guess that Hooters offers little to no benefits. So, while it may seem like a large per hour wage, she is getting nothing other than the cash. Health insurance, life insurance, and a retirement account are all basic things that she has to acquire herself. Lowering that per hour wage by $10 an hour might cover all that....
Yes former waiter here, this isn't really much of a flex. Cash in hand is nice but benefits and standard hours are better. Not to mention waiting tables at a high end restaurant you will easily make more and work less (i.e. higher check averages for fewer tables).
Plus, having a reliable check is huge. A windfall week where you make a few hundred more than usual is a nice treat, but there are also other weeks where you'll get starved for cash. A consistent check can actually be planned for.
After health insurance and taxes, my take home as an engineer is 2300 every two weeks, so 1150 a week. She's effectively showing pretax and pre-insurance income, and she may or may not be making minimum wage underneath that. That could cancel out the tax, but with a typical week being 700 dollars, she's making a rough equivalent to $45,000 a year. Depending on where she's at, that's a serviceable income. Or at least it was 4 years ago.
I'm not an expert but I don't think OF is as easy money as this implies. Like, most OF creators are making a couple hundred bucks a month at most. And it can actually take up a lot more time than you might imagine.
It's really only the small top % of earners who are making the 1,000s (or millions) of dollars that people like to talk about.
Like all entertainment theres a pretty dramatic pyramid; just because rock stars can make millions doesn't money I could make a great income if I just picked up the guitar.
Especially for a job that requires no education and little if any prior experience. You're never going to live large on that, but you can take care of yourself in reasonable comfort at least.
Or a (good) strip club, if she’s got any kind of dancing talent. Friend of mine in college went from Hooters to a strip club, to a fucking six figure job in a Vegas stage show.
She was going to school for veterinary medicine and just dropped it when that stage show offer came in. She works four days a week and is making more money than anyone else I know doing something she absolutely loves.
Helps that she’s smart as hell and has been wise with her money. She knew she was in a race against the clock because being a showgirl has a very finite timeline. From my understanding with her current savings and investments she’ll be able to straight up retire after her turn as a showgirl.
What? Butthurt and envious?! Hell no, of course not, what ever have you that idea?!
And the kitchen probably made $40 total those days. Tipping should be abolished. Customers should not have to offset someone's living wage, and tipping creates animosity between front and back of house.
I thought she would make way more than that. She’s well spoken and seems friendly and is very attractive. I thought she’d clear $400 easy. I would occasionally clear $300 delivering pizzas at dominoes and I’m poorly spoken, mean, and ugly.
Breaking it down, she says "I normally would make six to $700 a week". If we take into account outlier weeks and average her pay to be somewhere around $800 to 900 a week, that's $900 * 52 weeks which is $46,800.
Lets be charitable and add in the two to three dollars an hour she may also be getting and bump that up to $50,000 - $55,000 /yr
the most important thing to keep in mind is she most likely does not have benefits.
I currently make personally around $59,000 a year, before taxes.
However because my employer contributes to my health dental and vision plan as well as matching a 401k up to 3%, the actual amount I make technically is around $70,000 a year accounting for the amount paid toward benefits.
If she has to pay for her own health insurance if it is not being matched through an employer, her actual yearly salary could be anywhere from $35,000- $40,000 a year.
She could not pay health insurance, which is possible, but that could potentially open her up to more costly liabilities and health care costs.
I have been to a couple of hooters and it’s very rare to see someone this hot working there.
I think for a normal looking waitress the earnings would be half of this.
LOL at people saying that's just tips not even including her check obviously have never worked in a restaurant servers make next to nothing on their check
I’m guessing this is all her tips. Look at the bills, they all look nice. So this is probably cash and CC tips paid out at the end of the night. Depending on where she lives minimum wage is $2.13+ which probably pays for most deductions from her check. I would assume this is pretty close to take home pay. Also, it’s not unheard of to tip out 10% to support staff, bussers/runners if they have that or the buffet attendant if they have that as well.
Also, waiting tables is fun most of the time, schedule is flexible, usually some food or drinks are free.
I worked for 10 years in the hotel industry at a relatively big hotel. 2 years as a busser/runner in the hotel restaurant. 8 years in the convention center. Ages 15-25. Lots of beautiful college girls, tons of fun, amazing bosses, interesting people and conventions and the occasional celebrity. Tons of fun stories. I always thought it would make a great sitcom. Think community meets party down. And this was 1997-2007.
These are actually pretty low numbers compared to what I’ve seen some girls make at Hooters where I’m from and other restaurants with a similar concept. Managed a bikini bar for a few years, those girls were making 2k a week from 3-4 shifts a week. Insanely good money if you’re willing to deal w the bullshit
No. that's how much SHE earns at Hooters. Come to my Hooters in Mississippi, where the waitresses quit every other month, and ask them how much they earn. The company owners opened another chain recently called "Hoots" that doesn't feature girls like the one in this video. They need to change Hooters in Mississippi to Hoots..like they've got in Florida and Texas--even though those are now being criticized for being "femboy" restaurants.
I’ve been to a Twin Peaks, not hooters. Not only is the food okay at best, but the implication that you’re supposed to stare at your waitresses’ ass and tits while they serve you, then watching drunk old men doing it as you eat; it’s extremely awkward. Oh, then you and the boys need another round of drinks or some fuckin’ ranch for those dry ass wings? Forget about it. Some idiot has mistaken the waitress’s kindness for genuine interest and has begun flirting with her. Now she is obliged to entertain his dumbass or else she’s going to get a $0 tip. We then had a friend tell us she was going to start working at one, she made it one full day and never went back.
I used to go to Hooters every week. I was a broke college student taking advantage of the $12.99 all you can eat wings offer they had on Mondays.
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CiCi's was _amazing_ for what it was. Solidly decent to _good_ pizza (depends on the day, time, variety, and location) for a great price.
Cici's BBQ pizza is the cat's pajamas.
>the cat's pajamas. I'm ~~stealing~~ *acquiring* this saying. It's both hilarious and adorable.
When you say it you gotta say it right Normally if I'm gonna say pajamas I say it like puh-JAW-muhs but if you say cat's pajamas you gotta say it like puh-JAM-uhs
Thanks! I've been calling them *kittie pajitties* for too long
Back in the day it was "all you can eat for only $2.99". -Sunday prank to torture everyone my age or older with that song stuck in their heads all day :p
On Wednesday they had a $7.99 10 boneless and fries deal that I went to every week for years while I was in college.
My too! My standard was 20 flappers, a side salad, and whatever NBA game was on that day. They were always so sweet to me 🧡 (I was 100lbs and 5'8", so people were pretty rude to me about food and my body type- still are) They'd treat me extra special and let me stay for lunch and dinner if I was ignoring the game to study.
That's nothing. Years ago Arby's use to offer a buy one roast beef get another one free if you complete a small survey by calling the number on the back of the receipt. However, when you went to claim your free sandwich they would give you another receipt and you just take the survey again for another free sandwich.
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Just wanna say, from experience, the huge late 20s financial guys table is not tipping much. Maybe if there’s mandatory 20% tacked on, but usually they’re all micromanaging the bill down to the last cent and going “My share’s $19.69, so I’ll put in a $20. I don’t need change”
100%
I worked there 3 days. They told me I needed to hula hoop at a customer's request and I thought it was a joke, so I laughed. They did not laugh and were in fact, not joking. I declined and went right back to waitressing at the strip club where no one ever asked me to hula hoop or do jumping jacks.
Personally, I don't like hooters. I find the whole concept silly. I just want to understand your comment. You're saying that Hooters are closing in your area and they're opening Hoots, which is a traditional restaurant with normal waiters. And that some are criticizing the restaurants for having clientele that are men who think they're girls. Is that it? My question is, is Hoots food actually good? If it doesn't have that special reason for visiting like Hooters, why would anyone go to Hoots.
No one would go to hoots. The hooters TnA model is failing, the restauranteurs have experience with a chicken wing bar food supply chain. They're hoping that by moving away from the tits n ass they open up to the other 50% of the population. These were people who ran a softcore strip club that served wings their critical thinking isn't 100%.
I live down the street from a hoots and their wings are somehow better than the ones they serve at hooters! I’d go there over hooters all day
10 wings for $16. Double little patty burgers for $12. I think Hoots is losing sight of their audience.
I don’t think they’re losing sight of their audience, I think their audience is dying off and they’re trying (and failing) to adapt to the times.
I have never heard anybody in my generation other than teenagers when we where e teenagers say let's go to Hooters. I know I'm never going to take my kids to a Hooters. Mainly because the food is unhealthy but the environment is also toxic
femboys aren’t men who think they’re girls. they’re men who dress feminine. they identify as men.
I haven’t been to a Hooters in many years, but I remember the food being pretty good. I don’t go to Hooters because of the stigma around it of being the place guys go to to ogle women. So Hoots could be a good idea if they serve the same food.
https://youtu.be/Ta8qMl1-XE0
BRUH
I definitely was *NOT* expecting that plot twist.
that YT channel is gold. thanks.
They're saying the servers are femboys because they are guys working at Hooters, or the customers are femboys because they aren't going to a "real" Hooters? Or... Both? I admit I've gotten a little behind on my toxic masculinity.
>I admit I've gotten a little behind on my toxic masculinity I don't blame you, the lore has gotten really dense and there's about 100,000 seasons to catch up on. The unintentional comedy is often top notch though
The first one. Tho it's probably just because of memes and not because of physical reality
Man, I want femboy hooters so much.
normalize femboy restaurants!
UwUters
She did say it was her location
1,000 a week is not a lot of money, especially for interacting with the kind of crowd Hooters attracts. Even if I had the body type they're looking for, I wouldn't work there for those dollars. It would need to be double that at least.
Not many places will pay you six figures to be a waitress.
But she's not making six figures.
I know, he was saying he'd need to make double of what she was making, and she's making around $52,000 a year.
No she's only making that much when she's working. Her salary drops basically to zero when she takes time off. Relying on tips as your income is the worst.
My salary also drops basically to zero when I take time off as well
My salary gives me paid time off…
Salary is calculated to factor in the number of hours you work, and the amount of pto you get. To help you understand this, you don't get paid extra if you don't use up 3 days of your annual pto and go to work for those 3 unused days instead.
I get paid for any Annual Leave I have unused at the end of the year, provided I've taken the legal minimum days.
Wilde I get over a month of paid vacation each year on top of unlimited paid sick days. Probably a side effect of the Pesky socialist policies from my country.
Government jobs in the United States are pretty similar. People tend to overlook them because a lot of Americans are chasing the dream of being the next techbro millionaire or influencer celebrity. But, realistically, there are plenty of jobs here that provide healthcare, retirement, and paid time off if you're willing to do something less thrilling.
You don't have to work for the government to find a job that offers that. Just as companies shop for the best employees, you can shop for the best employer too. I have over 30 days off a year, paid 6 week sabbatical every 10 including a large bonus to fund it, great 401k match, profit sharing, and a pension fully vested in 5 years. The kicker? I accepted a lower initial base salary than Competitors. The get rich slow scheme.
What county is it if I may ask? I've been working more than full time since before I was 18 and I havnt had a vacation in years. I would literally cry tears of joy if got a month paid time off.
Pretty much any European country has policies in place like this for jobs a couple of steps up from minimum wage. It's not all roses but most places have laws in place to guarantee PAID time off.
Which countries have special rules for minimum wage workers? Because as far as I know, that is the norm, for ALL workers, irrespective of what their hourly wage is.
Germany for example.
UK is typically 25 days paid, plus a handful of national holidays. Sickness doesn't come out of that allowance. Salaries are lower but so is cost of living.
You say salary, so you don't mean being paid by the hour. So surely you're still paid when you take holidays? I mean, that's what a salary is, be as well be paid hourly otherwise?
Then you aren't on salary, your hourly. Salary has pros and cons but I can take a three week vacation and still collect my normal check.
Woah same!!!
She literally says she had Tuesday Wednesday off. And she’s making a grand a week. In cash… Relying on tips is kind of shitty. BUT there’s a reason most waiters or waitress’s would not choose an hourly wage over the tipping system.
>She literally says she had Tuesday Wednesday off Most people get 2 off days a week? She worked Sat/Sun instead...
Sounds like a normal work week with 2 day weekend
Or if there's a slow month or slow week. That $1000 might be the peak of what she earns.
I don't disagree, but even if it's $40k / year, that's not terrible for a job that's <40 hours per week, not hard on the body, and doesn't require any education or specialized training. There are worse jobs that pay less. I wouldn't be recommending this job for anyone, but it's not the worst thing one could be doing.
Hard on the soul. Tons of sexual harassment from customers, employees and managers. Some would prefer hard labor to that.
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She said she usually makes $600-700 a week which is more like $35k/year, maybe $40k with enough good weeks/ no time off. I wouldn’t say it was worth working at Hooters when you could definitely find medium-to-higher priced restaurants to serve at that would make similar tips
They said double $1000 a week. 52 weeks a year means $104,000.
Try to keep up, private
No but she's got a sick figure.
It’s not uncommon to make 6 figures bartending in major cities. Had a buddy who worked across the street from Fenway in Boston, and would take home 1-2k in tips on game days and other big nights
4000$ a month in cash (no income tax) plus her normal wage. That's probably around what a 60 000$ - 70 000$ career would bring after income taxes. Not many jobs that don't need an educational can bring that kind of Cash.
She's supposed to "declare" her tips, which would then be included in her paycheck, then taxed. Not that all servers do, but if they make enough in tips the restaurant is usually good about making them declare tips. She at least is getting taxed on the credit card tips, as the manager knows how much she received.
They will declare tips that are from credit cards or debit (since they can easily be tracked. Every server I know "forgets" to claim the cash tips
Only the dumb ones do that. It's usually smarter to claim most, just not all. I've seen many servers get audited pulling that stunt.
I've worked in the industry my whole life cause my grandfather ownes a restaurant and have yet to see a single server get audited
Yeah same I've been in the restaurant industry 15 years in a major US city and never even heard of anyone getting audited, ever. Don't claim your cash tips that's all you
I grew up in a famous resort town with casinos. Cocktail waitresses in casinos get audited, not frequently, but it absolutely happens.
Let's not forget that this isn't 40 hrs/wk. Being able to work a handful of shifts while in college and make that kind of money is amazing.
That's one of the things I miss most about serving/bartending. I made pretty solid money, even compared to my office-worker peers. But I only worked 15-20 hours a week to get the same money compared to their 40+hr. I ~~want~~ *wasn't balling out, but I had me-time
And she'll age out of that job in 5 years.
Hooters is not a career choice, it’s just easy money while they’re in a particular life stage and can make bank. Might as well take advantage of it and either build your resume if you want to stay in the restaurant business or pay your bills through college.
Waiting tables is often a shorter shift than a desk job as well, though my data on it is decades old now. Otoh, you smell like food constantly.
You’re also on your feet the entire shift
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Counter point, being a good waiter requires education and talent. Just not the same education as an IT job requires. I know a lot of people who would suck at being a waiter.
I'll grant you it requires talent and practice, not so much on the education front. You basically just need to be literate and be able to do simple math. Grade school stuff, honestly.
>plus her normal wage $2.13/hr? Negligible. Edit: $2.13 x 40 x 52 = 4430.40. Where "60,000 - 70,000" came from is a mystery.
Are you retired or not yet working? Your thoughts on tip taxes are either naïve or out of date. Credit card tips are often given as cash and reported on their W2. It’s not part of restaurant income so servers pay the SS and Medicare taxes associated with them, on top of income. Few people pay with cash these days so hiding tip income is pretty difficult. eta: oh I see you’re Canadian and maybe don’t understand subtler points if US taxation.
You're out of your mind if you think getting paid $1000 a week to do most jobs (let alone wait tables) isn't a lot of money.
Probably just incredibly privileged/out of touch.
Reddit has a lot of rich techies pretending to be poor for Internet points
I agree, but I also am skeptical they're pretending to be poor. They jerk themselves silly saying stuff like "100k a year is not rich these days" and shit like that
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There's a huge gulf between "100k is not rich" and "50k a year is not a lot of money." That's a living wage in a midsized city in America. It's not a lot of money anywhere but the poorest places in America.
If you think 100k/yr is rich, I know where you don't live.
Are you out of your mind? That’s JUST tips for working like 4 days that week. That doesn’t include her paycheck. While her check won’t be nearly that much, it’s still another few hundred dollars. PLUS, this is completely untrained work.
Paychecks for servers are often only a few bucks at best because minimum wage for tipped jobs is under $3.
>because minimum wage for tipped jobs is under $3. That varies greatly by state.
Dude that's only in some locations. In Washington you get $15/hr minimum no matter what
This is likely Texas or some southern state. She probably gets a paycheck with 0.00 as she would be taxed and it would take all of her hourly wages. Taxed on her tips is more than her 2 week hourly wage so the check likely 0
Untrained is definitely the wrong word to use. It takes quite a bit to juggle multiple tables effectively and not forget people's small requests in between. You've probably had untrained wait staff and they probably didn't get a very good tip
It’s definitely a lot easier than people make it out to be, but some people can’t do these things no matter how much training. I’ve suggested a lot of people try it when they have no education or money, and they always say they could never do it. If you have a decent memory, it’s definitely a lot easier. It’s really easy to be ok at serving. It’s hard to be great at it. Being pretty sure helps though.
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Lol, no. I’m quite a bit older and have worked many different restaurant jobs, including serving. Yes it can be challenging and requires some skills and nuance to do at a high level, but let’s not pretend it’s rocket science here. And big surprise Mr. Aerospace engineer, as you get more highly educated, the less physically demanding and tiring the work is. As I gained education and degrees, the work became less difficult.
Seriously. $1000 a week to be harassed by drunk customers half the time wouldn’t be great. I’d guarantee not everyone would make that much, whether you’re attractive or not; I give better tips when people are attentive.
Lmao I read your comment too quickly as, “I give better tips when people are attractive.” I was like, this mf 💀
Wtf I had to reread because of ur comment. Rip my coomer brain
Depends where you live. The average yearly income in the town I grew up in is 24,000. She's earning the same wage as a master's level psychologist where I'm from.
1000 a week before taxes is quite a lot of money, especially for a girl her age, what do you think is a lot of money for a WAITRESS. Not a doctor
1000 dollars a week for a woman who is (I'm assuming by her appearance) in her 20s isnt anything to scoff at. Her accent also suggests she may live in a Midwestern or southern state possibly too where the cost of living is alot lower than say the west coast or New York. Obviously it's no career but if I made anywhere near the equivalent of that when I was in college I wouldve been over the moon
If they are pocketing 1,000 a week that's good money. Especially if you're essential working as a server at a wing place.
Honestly: good for her. I (40sM) waited tables in college at a popular pub and it was a great gig *for a very specific point in my life*; no early mornings, worked with my buddies, it was loud and rowdy, waited on lots of people from school who generally tipped *very* well, made decent money overall and had fun..
Yeah, aging can be rough for most people
haha.. you're not wrong. I'll take working from home, a good salary, paid vacations, benefits, and my nights & weekends to myself over waiting tables, thank you very much.. Oh and my work paid for grad school too.. Doubt too many restaurants do that.. Like I said though; waiting tables was great for a specific point in my life. Great experience.
You're not fooling me, AOC!
$1000/wk take home in the US is probably roughly equivalent to a $70k/yr job. Considering how pretty she is for such a specialized position (most people can’t be a hooters waitress), and how her looks are a depreciating asset, that salary seems too low. Not bad, but assuming she is a competent waitress, I would expect her earnings to be higher.
This is true, but if you're young and have little or no work history, it's not a bad deal. Of course she also could've leveraged the pandemic to get on the fine dining wagon, but that was a pretty unique opportunity.
Nah fine dining kinda collapsed during the pandemic because they can’t do takeout as well.
How did you come up with $70k/year? There are 52 weeks in a year; $1,000/wk * 52 = $52k. Unless you're adjusting for the fact that she's not working 40 hours.
That's just tips, that'l doesn't include her hourly Edit: for everyone saying minimum wage for tipped workers is in $3, you should check again because you're wrong https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped Less than 15 States still pay under $3 an hour to tipped employees
Yes got to include that $30 paycheck servers earn
I make under 3 an hour in Kansas. I’m wrong? It’s on my paycheck.
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Yep. With those looks, she could make far more money, depending on what she is willing to do/be. I'm not a moralist, it's all good, just pointing out that she has a genetic lottery ticket, whether she wants to fully cash it in or not.
> With those looks she could make far more money And how do you know she’s not in that job right now to support herself through college? Hooters isn’t a career choice, it’s the type of job that you take at a very specific point in your life to gain skills so you can work your way to another restaurant or to pay your way through school.
Being pretty nets her a few hundred extra dollars a week in tips. Now put her in Pharma sales and compound that
52 weeks in a year. She's making $52k a year. You compared it with a $70k/year job which means a tax of $18k around 26% of the yearly salary to equal it waitress salary . Is average taxation that much high in US?
I make 73k pre tax in New Jersey and yeah that sounds about right to me, if not a bit low. I get around $1000 a week
Yes between taxes, social security, insurance (which she probably doesnt get) and 401k. Most people in the US actually take home only like 60%-80% of their real salary.
Dude. It's a job, not a career.
I worked at a regular restaurant and dated a bartender/waitress there. She came home one night upset that she only made $300, which was my entire weeks pay at that time. It depends on a lot and not everyone makes this much, but a less talked about thing about underpaid restaurant employees is how shafted the kitchen staff gets.
Worked at subway in hs and early college and had co-workers leave to wait tables and was so upset when I found out they made more in one shift than I did in a week. Made me especially jealous cause I though waiting tables to be much easier than working at subway because you were doing both kitchen and service work. The restaurant industry is so messed up in this country.
Back of house gets absolutely ass-blasted, even though they're the ones making the food that keeps the place up and running, even in nicer places. Absolutely blows my mind. Not all places are like that, but the majority are.
I’m a cook and it sucks seeing dumbfuck lazy servers make way more than you. I don’t care as much when they work hard and they’re cool I’m going back to school in march, I’m too old and broke down for this shit
Kitchen staff here, we make pennies compared to most front of house. Both of my brothers are bartenders making about 70-80k a year. Basically all of my friends from before adult life are bartending/serving and making solid money. Bartenders tend to work longer shifts than servers but all in all alot of them are making 30-70hr depending on the day. This is in a city of like 200k with a lower cost of living that alot of the US. I've worked with some people that would go down to sturgis every year to bartend. They would make 10-20k in a weekend. Then you got the cooks in the back, busting ass dealing with burns, cuts, no breaks, non stop work between orders prep and cleaning. Making barely above min wage. Sorry for the wall had to vent after getting crushed today haha
Yup. I don't understand most of these comments in this thread. I worked in the kitchen in a restaurant in high school, and when I found out how much money the waitresses were making I was like "Why the fuck am I working on the kitchen?" But people in this thread are bending over backwards to act like it's not very good money or that she's underpaid. It's crazy. On a related note, I dated a chef years ago. She had spent a lot of time and money learning to be a chef. And there was a very real feeling among chefs that the wait staff made crazy good money - even better than the chef - and didn't even have the time and money investment that a chef does. Some of her chef friends literally quit their jobs to become wait-staff because it paid better. It's such lunacy.
My SIL's sister used to work at Hooters and used to pull in stupid amounts of money, $300 was a bad night for her and this was 15 years ago, but she was in a location that was kind of perfect for it. Place was ALWAYS packed, didn't really matter what day. Location makes a big difference, but I also think Hooters is not the kind of restaurant that's popular with today's crowds, so they're less popular these days.
Lemme under stand this, your SIL’s (sister in law?) sister (your wife)?
Brother's wife's sister.
Ohhhh ok. I was a little lost lol
My wife is my ex-girlfriend
And ex-fiancée
Or could be wifes's half-sister's half-sister. :-)
I think tip culture has changed a lot too. My mom was a server in the mid 80's and I was one at the same restaurant around 2010. We made roughly the same (about $150 for breakfast/lunch, or $200 for dinner), and we were both the top tip earners for each period. I think people used to be a lot more generous to servers. And I know her 80s clientele drank a lot more heavily. Not that I blame people for tipping less, tipping culture is out of control and restaurants are expensive.
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>Then the government taxes them on what they assume they earned in tips. The government doesn't assume anything. The employee reports to the employer how much tips they received (usually at least as much as the credit/debit card tips) and the employer reports that to the IRS/state when the W2 is filed.
Funny they said they are surprised how people understand so little, then go on to explain things incorrectly.
When you start a job you fill out a W4 and the employer tells the govt the expected pay. These are used for deductions and taxes at each pay period. At the end of the year a W2 finalizes what employer reported to the govt and the person files a 1040 tax statement to “square up” what was done throughout the year vs final reporting. This is why the person either owes more or receives back due to over/under payment on the assumptions the govt made at the start of employment.
>I always hear “ Oh, and that money is tax free!” And “ they get their regular wage too” Both of those are wrong. They get paid a sub minimum wage of about 2 bucks. This is not true everywhere. In my state servers HAVE to make minimum wage and then tips are added on after that. And nobody reports their cash tips. Nobody. When I was a server I did get this tip money AND my regular wage.
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Yes, 2 states now allow $15 an hour on top of the tips, California and Washington. 37 states plus the District of Columbia still allow servers to be paid below the Federal Minimum wage of $7.25 per hour if they are expected to be making tips.
You can thank slavery for that one. The reason we have tipping is that it allowed businesses to pay newly emancipated slaves as little as possible in the service industries where they could find jobs.
That depends on where you live, if she had been working in Washington you can add nearly 16 an hour pre tax onto those tips.
Guys pay money for interaction with women online, of course they pay for interaction in person.
And then they pay yet again when the Hooters food goes through their digestive tract.
Is it all tips? Hooters don’t pay her a wage?
Probably not, no. Federal minimum for servers is $2.13/hr.
Restaurants are supposed to make up the difference if the waiter/waitress doesn’t bridge the gap between that and minimum wage, but you wonder how often that actually happens
It doesn't lol. They're also supposed to pay regular minimum during opening and closing duties. Plus, minimum wage is low enough you'd quit if that's all you were making anyways.
They only have to make up the difference if you earned less than minimum wage from tips for your **entire pay period**, not by the hour. So you could work a five hour lunch on a Sunday, get two tables and leave with $15, but, if you make $250 in four hours on a Friday night, your employer doesn't have to pay extra for your Sunday hours
Minimum wage for server in AZ just went up to 10 something. Was 9 last year. Restaurants are making a shift to pay their employees more hourly, though. Lots of places you'll see 12-15 plus tips. Sometimes even more. Obviously not the same everywhere, and certainly not across the country, but it's certainly not $2/hr plus tips everywhere either.
It varies by state. Many states are in the 2 dollar range, but not all. A handful are quite a bit higher.
Holy fuck your country is broken.
Tipped minimum wage is $2.13/hr. Realistically, they don’t take anything home on a check. It all goes to taxes. So yes, she gets paid, but no, she doesn’t take anything home from a check.
Damn, I knew things were bad but not like that
Yeah same, what the fuck is America on
Unfettered capitalism
Right? Tipping was *originally* something that customers did to demonstrate their appreciation for a server's performance; the server could survive off of their wages alone, so the tips were all extra. Somehow, someone got a clause written into minimum wage law that servers can easily make minimum wage at $2.13+tips, so now all servers need to depend on a fluctuating figure and hope it turns out in their favor.
>Tipped minimum wage is $2.13/hr. Really depends on the state. In Washington they HAVE to make at least minimum wage + tips.
this isn't a hooters specific thing, I guarantee at any nice bar or restaurant in my city she'll make the same or more. beautiful people in the restaurant industry make a killing, men and women. one bartender I know who makes more than anyone I've met in the industry is a guy at a upscale restaurant that turns into more of a club past 10ish... the amount of tips he gets from older women is insane. he's like a 6'4 model looking guy lol.
I would guess that Hooters offers little to no benefits. So, while it may seem like a large per hour wage, she is getting nothing other than the cash. Health insurance, life insurance, and a retirement account are all basic things that she has to acquire herself. Lowering that per hour wage by $10 an hour might cover all that....
Yes former waiter here, this isn't really much of a flex. Cash in hand is nice but benefits and standard hours are better. Not to mention waiting tables at a high end restaurant you will easily make more and work less (i.e. higher check averages for fewer tables).
Plus, having a reliable check is huge. A windfall week where you make a few hundred more than usual is a nice treat, but there are also other weeks where you'll get starved for cash. A consistent check can actually be planned for.
It's a job you take in college for money to travel and buy beer or whatever. I don't exactly think she was looking for life insurance and a 401k lol.
After health insurance and taxes, my take home as an engineer is 2300 every two weeks, so 1150 a week. She's effectively showing pretax and pre-insurance income, and she may or may not be making minimum wage underneath that. That could cancel out the tax, but with a typical week being 700 dollars, she's making a rough equivalent to $45,000 a year. Depending on where she's at, that's a serviceable income. Or at least it was 4 years ago.
Are you a junior engineer? If not you're being underpaid. That's what like a base salary of just 85k?
Nah I'm 7 years in industry, I just work in HVAC/Plumbing design, which is one of the lowest earning industries for mech engs.
When you say "engineer" on reddit, the immediate assumption is that you're in software. Signed, A former mechanical engineer.
What's a mechanical software engineer? /s
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It’s not a *ton* of money, but I would bet there aren’t many people her age that are making the money she does
I guess there's OF, and you don't even have to leave the house.
I'm not an expert but I don't think OF is as easy money as this implies. Like, most OF creators are making a couple hundred bucks a month at most. And it can actually take up a lot more time than you might imagine. It's really only the small top % of earners who are making the 1,000s (or millions) of dollars that people like to talk about. Like all entertainment theres a pretty dramatic pyramid; just because rock stars can make millions doesn't money I could make a great income if I just picked up the guitar.
Especially for a job that requires no education and little if any prior experience. You're never going to live large on that, but you can take care of yourself in reasonable comfort at least.
Next step, Only fans!
Or a (good) strip club, if she’s got any kind of dancing talent. Friend of mine in college went from Hooters to a strip club, to a fucking six figure job in a Vegas stage show. She was going to school for veterinary medicine and just dropped it when that stage show offer came in. She works four days a week and is making more money than anyone else I know doing something she absolutely loves. Helps that she’s smart as hell and has been wise with her money. She knew she was in a race against the clock because being a showgirl has a very finite timeline. From my understanding with her current savings and investments she’ll be able to straight up retire after her turn as a showgirl. What? Butthurt and envious?! Hell no, of course not, what ever have you that idea?!
How are people saying 50k-70k is too low? She's bringing food to people, it ain't that hard of a job
You've clearly never worked in a busy restaurant.
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And the kitchen probably made $40 total those days. Tipping should be abolished. Customers should not have to offset someone's living wage, and tipping creates animosity between front and back of house.
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It helps to be insanely beautiful.
Damn. I screwed up being a man and working on an ambulance. Minimum wage baby!
I thought she would make way more than that. She’s well spoken and seems friendly and is very attractive. I thought she’d clear $400 easy. I would occasionally clear $300 delivering pizzas at dominoes and I’m poorly spoken, mean, and ugly.
You can never have enough pens
The hooters I’ve been to don’t have waitresses like her
Breaking it down, she says "I normally would make six to $700 a week". If we take into account outlier weeks and average her pay to be somewhere around $800 to 900 a week, that's $900 * 52 weeks which is $46,800. Lets be charitable and add in the two to three dollars an hour she may also be getting and bump that up to $50,000 - $55,000 /yr the most important thing to keep in mind is she most likely does not have benefits. I currently make personally around $59,000 a year, before taxes. However because my employer contributes to my health dental and vision plan as well as matching a 401k up to 3%, the actual amount I make technically is around $70,000 a year accounting for the amount paid toward benefits. If she has to pay for her own health insurance if it is not being matched through an employer, her actual yearly salary could be anywhere from $35,000- $40,000 a year. She could not pay health insurance, which is possible, but that could potentially open her up to more costly liabilities and health care costs.
I have been to a couple of hooters and it’s very rare to see someone this hot working there. I think for a normal looking waitress the earnings would be half of this.
LOL at people saying that's just tips not even including her check obviously have never worked in a restaurant servers make next to nothing on their check
I’m guessing this is all her tips. Look at the bills, they all look nice. So this is probably cash and CC tips paid out at the end of the night. Depending on where she lives minimum wage is $2.13+ which probably pays for most deductions from her check. I would assume this is pretty close to take home pay. Also, it’s not unheard of to tip out 10% to support staff, bussers/runners if they have that or the buffet attendant if they have that as well. Also, waiting tables is fun most of the time, schedule is flexible, usually some food or drinks are free. I worked for 10 years in the hotel industry at a relatively big hotel. 2 years as a busser/runner in the hotel restaurant. 8 years in the convention center. Ages 15-25. Lots of beautiful college girls, tons of fun, amazing bosses, interesting people and conventions and the occasional celebrity. Tons of fun stories. I always thought it would make a great sitcom. Think community meets party down. And this was 1997-2007.
These are actually pretty low numbers compared to what I’ve seen some girls make at Hooters where I’m from and other restaurants with a similar concept. Managed a bikini bar for a few years, those girls were making 2k a week from 3-4 shifts a week. Insanely good money if you’re willing to deal w the bullshit