waiters & waitresses?
953933
haha, this is one of the great gambles.  I have been a waitress at the lowest class restaurants to the highest class.  \nWhen waitressing is good, your working at a high class, busy restaurant were you are allowed to dress *ahem* slightly innappropriatly.  \nWhen waitressing is bad, your working at Joes Scummy Crab Shack or something lol, wearing no makeup and a chunky uniform, serving an average of 3 tables in 8 hours.  \nBoth restaurants will probly pay the same base sallery.  So if you wanna make it as a waitress, doll up and apply at the classiest restaurant in town.
302207
Uh what about the jobs givin to the people who serve drinks and food at the party, and the food had to be picked by someone, and the valet dude gets a $5 tip!\n\nThe rich are helping all those people!\n\nDuh!
704328
Because they have money to spend and finance.  A waiter will treat an upper class person better because he or she will probably spend more and leave a bigger tip.  A store clerk knows that someone with money will spend more and they in turn will get a larger commission.  Politicians know that the wealthy will contribute to their campaigns and have the clout to help them.
676223
who cares why?  do they tip you better or does their man tip you better if you pay attention to the other woman?  work it girl!
1076550
ooohhhh!!!  I have one .... BAD TIPPER!  When I waitered at IHOP years ago, JOAN RIVERS, left the worst tip.  We comp'd all her food for her and both her bodyguards. She left a LOUSY $5 tip.
887233
Everyone will most likely say photographer.  I will agree to a point, but I am actually being more particular on the food and beverages.  I want the food that I am going to be serving my guests to be wonderful.  If i had to rate them in importance to me it would have to be:\n\n1.  food\n2.  photographer\n3.  decorations/location\n\nEverything else I am flexible with...
300777
I have never worked in a restaurant, but I once saw this woman being totally rude to the waitress from the moment she sat down.  She did things like snapping her fingers and pointing, blew smoke in her face on purpose, made all kinds of demands, and I saw the waitress "accidentally" trip and spill a tray full of water glasses on her.  I cracked up!
811107
It's not a problem for me.  Would've been bad if it was, as my first job was as a greeter in a restaurant, and then a waitress.  Can't really function in that sort of job unless you can talk to people.
545030
OK....someone went there.  This topic always seems to create a LOT of anger on both sides, so I will try to answer this diplomatically.\n\nHaving been a busser, host, bartender, trainer, and manager over the years, I have seen the phenomena at work.  I seems to me that while there are, indeed, people who are simply too selfish to part with tip money, most of the people who tip poorly are either woefully misinformed about the custom or really weren't happy about their experience.\n\nMany is the well-intentioned tipped employee who decides somewhere along the line to try extra-hard with groups that fall into the stereotypic demographic for poor tippers.  What the tipped employee is unknowingly doing, though, is to come off as overly officious and condecending, which African-Americans are sharp enough to recognize.  In short, these folks are savvy enough to know when they're being had.  It has served me well to avoid dripping with servitude at these tables, and to just provide simple, solid service.\n\nInterestingly, Cornell University did a study several years ago on this very topic, and concluded that, indeed, African Americans reported a tipping level at about 5% below that of all other groups polled.  Despite the bevvy of "personal experience" stories available both in support of and contradictory to your assertion, the facts in the study are very telling.  Remember that, while stereotyping is very limiting to the individuals in a group, the stereotypes usually come from somewhere.\n\nAny group, regardless of what demographic they fall into, who routinely orders the most expensive things on the menu and acts as though the sky's the limit for spending, and then turns around and cries poverty at tip time, is a pain in the ass.  Fear not....Karma will get them for it.  Relax and move on to your next table.  If you go to the next one flustered and upset from the previous table's outright abuse of both you and the tipping system, you're not going to give your best, and it'll ruin your whole night.
642108
I waited tables for 7 years, and yes. But if only the customer was very rude. I licked a lot of soup spoons, and poured a lot of visine into drinks. Don't ever be rude to your waiter. I saw a lot worse, but I could not be that crude.
296312
People serving ????????????//
388957
waitress or waiter make good money if you can speak their language they are always looking for bi-language personal for when tourist come in
513171
depends on the restaurant.  from what i've seen, they go by business.  they schedule heavier leading up to and during mealtimes to have enough people taking care of the customers.  some might start before others, so they might have some come in at 2 oclock and others at 4.  also, many restaurants have part time people that may only work for 4-5 hours a day.
2322
my girlfriend was a hostess at a chain restaurant... places like chili's and red lobster pay 8-10 an hour for hostesses where i am from... usually no experience needed.
374205
Minimum wage, likely, which changes per state.  However, waiters and waitresses get MUCH less and are dependent on tips.
221844
A glass of water!\nNo seriously, like $5 - $10...\nThat seems fair.\nYou could do 15% of total delivery charge like a restaurant, cause they are doing more work than a waiter.
1145024
Hosteller. You could also use  hotelier, hotelkeeper, hotel manager, hotelman(although I've never heard that last one before). Hope that helps!