Worst restaurants to work at. (Hint: All of them.)

[MurrayDelph]

34. We opened a small mom-and-pop restaurant six months ago

and two of our servers have already been promoted to higher positions.

The minimum wage up here in Oregon is higher than the national one.

Servers get (at least) minimum.

Tips are pooled among servers, so that everyone works and gets a share (if they don't work, then adjustments are made, but the pooling is to encourage cooperation).

As far as asking if the customer "wants change": it is our policy to never ask the question that way. Servers are required to use a variation of "I'll be right back with your change" (This dates back to when I used to go to restaurants in LA, where a meal for two was $42, but all I had on me was $20's, and when I put down $60 the server would ask "Do you need change?" Hell yes I did!).

On the plus side, even when I order takeout, I am now a much better tipper than I was before I owned a restaurant.