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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here with a decade plus of restaurant work. IME the people who make the most work at *extremely* expensive restaurants, or are bartenders in high-volume bars (like nightclubs or student bars). I never walked out with more than $350-400 for a shift, and even that happened less than a dozen times. That said, I started working full-time in DC right after the real estate crash (had been working part-time previously), then worked in lower-rent communities in the south, so I'm not quite sure what it's like for tipped restaurant workers now. [/quote]

So much of it is location. Of course you make the most in the extremely expensive restaurants. But when I lived in NYC, there was a bar across the street from my biglaw firm in midtown west -- in fact the 2 office buildings across the street housed 3 different biglaw firms. It was a fairly standard irish pub, nothing fancy though not a dive either. On many many occasions, I saw biglaw associates hand over $50+ tips to bar tenders who were working like a 3 pm shift on a Friday not necessarily expecting to make great money. In that case -- location helped and as the "regular" bar of so many young professionals with money, who'd go over there to drink away their sorrows about -- what has my life become; I have to work yet another weekend; another boy/girlfriend dumped me bc I'm not around -- the bartenders basically acted like therapists/friends to these associates and cashed in. From what I had heard those bartenders LOVED to get a Friday after Thanksgiving shift bc they'd surely get a dozen or more associates crying about how they couldn't go home to their families bc they have to work all weekend so eff it -- they'll drink it up before heading back to the office (and leave big tips).[/quote]

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