2024年4月25日 · Early 90s waiter...15% was a good tip. Probably half the people left that, sometimes a little more. Older people usually left 10%, so I figured that was the norm at some point.

2020年8月20日 · Waiting staff first appeared in the 1620s in taverns serving drinks. Our modern concept of eating out originated with the first restaurant opening in New York in the 1820s. Prior to that, in most cultures, women were expected to prepare and serve food preparation.

2024年6月23日 · In the late 19th and early 20th centuries a white backlash against Black Americans generally reduced work opportunities even further, threatening Black predominance as waiters. Immigrant men arriving in this country proved willing to accept jobs as waiters.

2023年10月29日 · In the early 1990s restaurant chain operations emphasized efficiency and speed with microwave ovens, automatic dishwashers, and computerized systems that integrated taking orders with food preparation, as well as managing accounts and inventory.

2011年6月26日 · There, in the 1950s, the waiters routinely did their daily grocery shopping from the kitchen provisions, taking home whatever was on their list. The practice was referred to as “valising” and was so strongly identified with the waiting occupation that the staff referred to each other as valises, as in “Who’s that new valise the chef just hired?”

2015年1月30日 · In the 1890s, some restaurants employed bloomer-clad women as "waiter-girls": Bloomers stopped above the ankle, where shoes had to be laced up, so men would often gather in crowds to stare at the...

2024年1月22日 · Though UberEats, DoorDash, GrubHub and others have taken over the food delivery game, I recently learned that a company I first learned about in the early 90s is still making deliveries. Waiter on The Way was founded in 1989 and is still based locally in Gaithersburg, MD.

2020年10月3日 · Notable characters: you play as a female waiter of some sort, and I feel like she had red hair. Notable gameplay mechanics: a simple 2D point-and-click game. You could think ahead and stack a number of tasks up while your character runs around doing them.

2019年3月14日 · There were so many niche telecom companies advertising in the late '90s-early aughts that probably only existed under that name for a couple years before they were bought. Remember that ad that had a guy in an office talking about "all the broadband" company X "had", imagining "fields of broadband swaying in the breeze"?

2015年5月8日 · I was a busboy at a hotel restaurant in Upstate New York in the early ‘90s working the breakfast shift. It’s a few minutes after 11 a.m. and the dining room just closed, but they decided to ...