Just For You: In The Next CulinaryWoman Newsletter

How much - and how - should restaurant servers be paid?

I talk to restaurant servers as much as possible, especially when I’m eating alone. I love hearing about their lives and how their work is going. I never worked in a food service job, but I did work in several retail jobs, so I know what it’s like to wait on people.

I’ve never liked the widespread practice of tipped wages, in which employees are paid a f…