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Best Tipping Job?
Rhino
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I need to get a second part time job to help bump up my income a bit.
Out of curiosity, what does everyone think the best tipping job is?
Waiter? Barista? Door Man? Other?
Out of curiosity, what does everyone think the best tipping job is?
Waiter? Barista? Door Man? Other?
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I hear bartenders make very good tips.
water spirals the wrong way out the sink
Waiting in a mid range restaurants will get you $100-200 per night as well. High end (as in high volume... Think Earls, Moxies, ect.) can earn a lot more as far as I know.
Some of our bad servers were usually pulling between $20-30/hour including their tips. It's somewhat sickening considering how little skill the job takes.
Bartending is a good part time job, especially if you're social, enjoy night life or just like hanging out in bars for extended periods of time not drinking.
However, IMHE/O, unless you're a moderately good looking girl (or above) with ample...assets, your tips are going to suffer. Especially if you have to work with said girl. Especially if the estabishment you work at dose not require tip sharing (ie, everything gose into the pot at the end of the shift, and all bartenders/staff get a fair share). I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade, but I don't want the OP thinking he can make $200 a night bartending, only to find he gets $20 on a good night, while the chick working with him makes $300.
Another option if you're looking for good tipping jobs is to find work as a delivery person.
EDIT: I took a bartending class and then the student run bartending agency didn't hire me, and looking at their staff, the majority of them were damn good looking women with a couple of good looking guys :P no wonder I didn't get hired.
Any hotels around? I used to make tons of money as a bellhop. Valets also made lots of money but I am not a real man and can not drive stick and didn't care to learn.
Depends on your location. In DC, for instance, there are WAY more high-end restaurants than experienced servers. Hence, the general lack of good service in DC restaurants, but that's another story.
Ding.
Especially if there's legal poker where you live - poker's way easier to deal then most table games.
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I've been waiting tables for five years, and it isn't always the easiest job to do WELL, and doing it badly is not really worth it for the hourly.
Is it a high skill job? Physically? No. Mentally? Not if you write things down. It does take some social skills though.
If you work at a touristy place, you can make BANK for the summer. Almost 100/night for four or so hours of work. THese places are usually wastelands in the off peak months.
Cows.
Seriously, waiter is good if you can land it. A good waiter at a decent restaurant can make bank.
That said, waiting tables is not a difficult skill to pick up (with the caveat that some people simply cannot get the hang of it - which is true of all skills). But if you can pick it up, waiting tables is a good part time job and you will make money on tips. It can be a rough job, and there are bad nights, and you won't want to make a career of it, but you will make cash.
If a waitress (or even a waiter, for that matter) seems like a happy, pleasant person, I'll tip them more than someone who seems to be upset at the fact that they're doing the waitering job. I still tip them, don't get me wrong... but there is a significant markup for someone being a nice person. I guess it's closely related though, as pleasant-minded people (even if not attractive in a raw physical feature sense) are more attractive than upset/angry/angsty people. If that helps.
There's not much that can be done immediately about physical appearance, or the judgement of such by others: for example, the last person mentioning this topic above wasn't attracted to "fat" women... while I find larger women physically attractive. That kind of stuff is pretty transitory. But I think the pleasant demeanor is the common ground that a vast majority of people share, AND that you can more easily control. While one person or another might tip you/not tip you based on your given appearance, you can bet 99 times out of 100 they'll tip you based on if you had a bad attitude. So I'd go with putting on a happy face.
I know not all bars pool their tips and deal them out, though.
water spirals the wrong way out the sink
I'm not sexually attracted to women, period. Physically attractive people have been proven to make more money than their less gifted but equally skilled peers, it probably operates at a subconscious level for most people, but it is a fact; we are pre-disposed to think better of an attractive person (based on first impression). The first impression bias based on appearance rapidly erodes however, once interaction passes beyond superficial - studies have determined this.
That's not how it works though. You can't just decide you want to be a bartender and start making 100's a night. :x
Sexually or not, the idea still applies I think. We're pretty much saying the same thing, though I think attitude plays a lot more into it than physical appearance: and attitude is something that you can will yourself to quickly change and make a big immediate difference in the amount of tip. But I agree with your statements, and what you say is indeed true.
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Except that the OP is looking for a part time job to supplement his income.
There's some truth to what you've said, but it's not enough to merely be pleasant. You have to be pleasant and interesting, which is what equates to the "charming" everyone talks about.
Otherwise people just fall back on their first impression, because despite the fact that you're generally pleasant, nothing stands out about you. And that first impression? Yeah, it's of your looks. If you look good, this can work out well for you, especially if you're a woman. If you're anything short of "above average", though, you just won't be memorable and people will leave their default tip. 15% of the check.
It all depends on where you work. Where I was a bartender, it was an every man/woman for themselves mentality, which meant that you were (and I often was) in the position of chasing down other bartenders for your hard-earned money or losing out on cash if you served a patron all night only to has Hooty McBoob step in to take your tip at the end of the night. I found this to be highly obnoxious, and ultimately not worth the effort.
However, that was my experience, YMMV and all.
I didn't mean that I meant that its less stressful than waiting tables.
For Bartender, you ussually need a license or schooling or know how to make drinks, yea? I think that is out for me.
I've worked at four different Tim Hortons, on every possible shift (days, evenings, midnights), and people just do not tip. Oh, occasionally some of the old guys would leave a quarter on the counter, and every once in a blue moon somebody who had placed a huge order would toss over a toonie or something, but I considered it a pretty good day when I made enough in tips to pay the $2.50 employee price for a sandwich or a bowl of chili. Also, a shift at Tim Hortons is 8 hours of on-your-feet hell (complete with 50 year old harpies shrieking "If you have time to lean against that counter, you have time to clean!" whenever there's a thirty-second lull and you try to catch your breath), for which you get paid just over minimum wage.
Maybe somewhere in Canada there is a magical Tim Hortons that serves Timbits glazed with moonbeams and bagels baked on a unicorn's horn, where shifts are short, wages are good, and customers leave $1 tips on a $2 coffee... but it sure ain't around here.
To the OP: yes, for bartending, you usually need certification. Sometimes training and an actual license, as well, depending on where you live. It really sounds like waiting tables is your best option, from what other people have said. It's not a one-way ticket to Richville, but the shifts tend to be reasonably short, and the tips can be pretty good.
Go to Tim Horton's in Fort McMurray and make $25 an hour :P
Bolded salmon for extra filthy lies, and limed for the truth! I used to work at a Tim Hortons too, and I can second how shitty the job, wage, and tips were.
Also: That second last paragraph was excellent. I haven't laughed that hard in a good week. Thank you.