Well I worked in a family owned white table cloth steak house for about 2 years. I started off bussing tables and such but got moved up very fast. I was an expo in 3 months working every night till 12, I was generally in at 5. So 7ish hours a night, times 7 nights a week... equals... 49 hours a week. Plus I was a full time student, and I worked in a metal fab shop on saturdays and sundays to make extra cash. Generally get there about 4-5 Am, work till 2. Take a nap, and go to the other job.

I took home from the restarunt weekly like 350, then tips was another 150 or so. I made cut off the waiters tips.

That was 7 nights a week staying late. Most of waiters/waitresses made same or better. One of my good friends I made there only worked nights (was in college) and walked out with 600 a week. He was a good waiter.

Anyways, restaruant work is fun. Youll learn to be very close to co workers and such. Very stressful. Go watch the movie "Waiting". Its exactly like that. Its quite funny that the director of that movie nailed that kind of job so well. The cooks are generally long haired with tatoos and piercings. There is that one god damn biotch of a waitress that everyone hates. Youll probably have a old man pervert of a boss or manager. And the servers were generally young and hot.

-Restaruant business in a nutshell.