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Who has been a busboy before?

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wazawski
Posts: 756 - Karma: 159
For anyone who has been a busboy before, how is it? First off, are the wages like the waiters getting like $2 and hour plus tips or is it like $7 an hour with 10% tip out? Also, when you were a busboy, did you feel like the restaurants bitch or is it pretty chill? Like do they make the busboy clean bathrooms and shit?
May 23 2010 6:28PM
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HenniferLopez
Posts: 1319 - Karma: 136
I worked at a decent restaurant back in my home town bussing tables for about two months...it sucked. The servers are always dicks, you always have to do the bitch work, you never know when you're going to get off, and the servers always kiped our tips. One time during these two months of employment, someone projectile vomited ALL over the bathroom and guess who got to clean it up...me.
May 23 2010 6:33PM
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geteducated
Posts: 6410 - Karma: 86
depends,

sometimes if you work with a good crowd of servers you can get some nice kick backs from the servers or bartenders for helping out. a customer sees an employee and they will ask for whatever, not knowing if you're the server or not. you get what they need and if the server isn't a dick they will throw you some money for helping to keep their table happy.

as for me i was a dishwasher at a 5 star so when the buffet line came back in i could put some food on the plate and put aside for eating it when i finished. i had a lot of shrimp, lamb chops, and oysters the size of your palm.
May 23 2010 6:37PM
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wazawski
Posts: 756 - Karma: 159
how are the servers dicks?
May 23 2010 6:38PM
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geteducated
Posts: 6410 - Karma: 86
you'd have to ask hennifer. she probably saw a lot. its okay dude, i'm not judging.
May 23 2010 6:41PM
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JahJahBinks
Posts: 3567 - Karma: 461
They are mean
May 23 2010 6:42PM
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Charlie_Kelly
Posts: 11954 - Karma: 12,298
depends on where you worked. I work at basin harbor in vt and it was mad chill. sometimes the waiters would give me $50 tips. Pay was good too ($8.50-$12.50 and hour)
May 23 2010 6:42PM
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NWPA
Posts: 2309 - Karma: 165
i got treated like shit as a bus boy and got payed shit
May 23 2010 6:45PM
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Ian.Ham
Posts: 1687 - Karma: 1,153
I just started as a busboy at a restuarant in my town.  It is a nice restaurant and the servers are pretty nice.  I worked for like 5 hours the other day and got like 13 bucks in tips.  Not bad, I don't do any bitch work at all, just clean tables and set them, take drink orders, etc. 
May 23 2010 6:46PM
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theabortionator
Posts: 51652 - Karma: 162,346
I make 50 an hour
May 23 2010 6:49PM
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HenniferLopez
Posts: 1319 - Karma: 136
I'm not saying that servers in general are dicks, just the ones that I worked with. They were always angry..and they'd take it out on the bussers.
May 23 2010 6:50PM
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mark.p
Posts: 1422 - Karma: 10
If you work at a shitty chain restaurant, it will suck and the servers will treat you like shit.  If you work at a nicer place, the servers will treat you better as long as you aren't lazy.  I was a server assistant (basically a bus boy) for 4 years in high school and college and the servers always treated me well because I worked my ass of for them.
May 23 2010 7:17PM
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purps
Posts: 468 - Karma: 30

i was a busser last summer, and i didn't think it was bad. i did feel a little bit like everyone's bitch, but it wasn't too big of a deal and was still pretty chill. the fact that i worked at a nice restaurant was kinda good, kinda bad too. it was bad cause i had to refill water all the time which sucked, but at least it took up time. standing around not doing anything is the worst, keep busy. the fact that it was a nice place was also good cause since it was so expensive i got pretty good money for tips. on a good night it could be up to about $60. i got $8/hr so that wasn't bad either.

all in all i'd say it's a good job and is worth it. oh yeah and not knowing when you get out also is a bitch, sometimes it'd be as late as 2 in the morning for me, which can be really bad since the restaurant was in hartford and on the same street as a club where 2 people had gotten shot just before i started working there.

May 23 2010 7:32PM
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Zump.
Posts: 3338 - Karma: 305
just work your ass off and you'll get somewhere. you'll make more tips from your wait staff and eventually you will be moved up to one and make some real money
May 23 2010 9:16PM
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Armanzoid
Posts: 2453 - Karma: 26
I worked as a barback and busboy. Barback is much worse to start off, like much fucking worse. A busboy is nice cause you run some plates, bus some tables, and do some shit work but nothing too taxing. Barbacks have to do all sorts of awful work, I used to get all sorts of rashes up my arm from cleaning the glass washing machine. I also made shit money on top of everything, but I busted my ass like crazy and got to be a bartender eventually and made 800 a day bartending. So it paid off.

Basically don't get in it if you don't like busting your ass, I honestly like a challenge, than some easy paying job.
May 23 2010 9:24PM
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ECB
Posts: 6991 - Karma: 622
I was a dishwasher/busboy at the same time, because it was a small restaurant. The waitresses were cheap and would give me each 1 dollar (two waitresses) it was sorta like an insult. The owners always felt bad for me, so they gave me a raise to 9 dollars an hour, and a free meal (this was a 4-5 star Thai restaurant, the PadThai was 5 star, the American food like Prime Rib was 4 star).
I worked my ass off, and got rewarded with PadThai every time I worked, so my advice, work your ass off. Karma (real life Karma) will reward you.
May 23 2010 9:25PM
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FreeskierRocco.
Posts: 3740 - Karma: 91
Just got my first job. Busboying all next weekend.... $7.25 (minimum wage) an hour, plus tips, but I don't know what percent.
May 23 2010 9:26PM
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dreadyboy
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haha. my friend gets $10/hour plus pooled tips as dishwasher
May 23 2010 9:29PM
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roaklee
Posts: 1288 - Karma: 90
I had the best busboy job ever. It was at a 4 star restaurant and the manager was wicked chill and all the waiters were good guys and super nice.  I would get minimum 80 bucks a night plus 40 from the manager
May 23 2010 9:39PM
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Zump.
Posts: 3338 - Karma: 305
wow, my boss is an asshole. i'm getting $7.50 an hour. thats NYS minimum wage, and i've been there about 10 months
May 23 2010 10:03PM
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SCOO-WOOP
Posts: 1264 - Karma: 244
I'm a Busboy at a restaurant in SF and I make $10 an hour plus %15 tips. Which comes out to about $100 for 5 hours of work, after taxes. Pretty good if you ask me.
May 23 2010 10:16PM
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FreeskierRocco.
Posts: 3740 - Karma: 91
Where did you work Chris?
May 24 2010 12:41PM
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ECB
Posts: 6991 - Karma: 622
thats 20 dollars an hour after taxes.....thats not good, thats great! When I work construction it takes me a full day of building a home to get 100 dollars (10 hours) haha
May 24 2010 1:39PM
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.Ben
Posts: 454 - Karma: 14
I was making $10 an hour plus 18% tips. I hated my supervisor but the servers gave me some money sometimes for helping out and they were all chill
May 24 2010 2:40PM
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Otter.
Posts: 1161 - Karma: 84
I am a busser and I think it's decent. I get 4.50/hr plus tips from all the waiters. It's not too bad most of the time u can make more than minimum wage from the tips. So make friends with the waiterssss
May 24 2010 3:44PM
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hoodSlayer
Posts: 900 - Karma: 7
I worked last summer at a really nice country club where I was a bus boy by the pool. It was really chill because I got to the uniform was just khaki shorts and a club dri-fit polo and I got paid 8.50 an hour and they hired me back this summer hopefully as a waiter with a raise.  It all depends really where you are working. I can imagine being a bus boy at Denny's or something would be a very different experience.
May 24 2010 4:15PM
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Clevinger
Posts: 394 - Karma: 8
The restaurant will pay you good money for working, the servers will tip you out for helping. It's really not a bad deal.
May 24 2010 4:51PM
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STwoops
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im a busboy now, it's pretty chill
im a rookie so I don't get many hours, but the tips are bomb 15% for me
May 24 2010 5:03PM
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