Last time I was a waiter (more than a decade ago now) at a mid-range restaurant, on dinner shifts we were all making $15/hr on a slow night and sometimes over $

Last time I was a waiter (more than a decade ago now) at a mid-range restaurant, on dinner shifts we were all making $15/hr on a slow night and sometimes over $50/hr. There's no world in which we'd have been making more without tips, and we wouldn't welcome it.