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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its probably not the money so much as the experience.[/quote]

Or appearance.[/quote]

He has no more elections.[/quote]

Exactly this. For what reason does the Obama family care about the appearance that their daughter has a summer job?

My guess is that they wanted their DD to have a taste of real life. She lives a very privileged existence and is also circumscribed by her security detail. This is probably the best they could do for a 15-year-old child of the president.

Before opening, there is plenty of work to do. This place has both a sit-down restaurant and a take-out counter. She could be restocking napkin dispensers, restocking the refrigerators with bottled/canned beverages, setting tables, cleaning bathrooms, mopping floors, washing windows, emptying dishwasher racks from previous night. Food prep work: washing and slicing lettuce and tomatoes for sandwiches, slicing veggies for salads, mixing up cole slaw if they do it from scratch, filling ketchup and mustard bottles. Etc. I'm sure neither the secret service nor the restaurant owners nor their customers want her sitting at the take-out cash register all day--security issues likely make it a PITA for everyone. So the restaurant owner probably agreed to have her for 30 minutes at opening each day as a favor to the president.

It strikes me as extraordinarily mean-spirited to begrudge the children of sitting presidents the opportunity to live as normal a life as can be carved out for them. It strikes me as extraordinarily cynical and unfair to accuse the First Family of doing this for appearances only. My family is very comfortable financially and our teens didn't "need" jobs, but we insisted they get them (or volunteer their time if they preferred a volunteer activity) because we believe strongly that kids should have real working experience and that jobs are important learning experiences. And we actually preferred food service. It's *real* work, it can be physically difficult and sometimes not that pleasant, and in doing it you frequently meet people from various walks of life. Plus, it's a transferable skill that they can easily take to college, where our teens also worked for their own spending money. I was a waitress in college and consider it an important life experience.[/quote]

No matter how well the "closers" think they clean the restuarant, there is always something to clean.  Wrapping napkins around silverware alone takes a HUGE amount of time.  Often because you have to track down - and wash, because somehow it didn't happen last night - one specific item.  Ketchup containers are often emptied the night before, washed, dry overnight, and are refilled in the morning.  If they use the little packages instead, the containers holding them need to be emptied regularly, washed, dried, and refilled - it's amazing how many people can't seem to figure out how to get packages out of those without making a sticky mess.  Salt and pepper shakers need refilling.  The menus need to be collected, straightened, ensured are clean, and either put back on the table or at the hostess stand (though maybe not at that resaurant.)  Basically, if you need to clean it at your house, it needs to be cleaned at the restaurant, but cleanER - because others will be eating there.[/quote]

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