Make More Money by Entering the Restaurant Industry

Whether you need a full time job, or just a part time job to supplement your income a little bit, getting a food service job can provide you with decent pay for relatively pleasant work - -provided you get the right sort of food service job. I know that a lot of people try to avoid this sector as much as possible, tending to equate restaurant jobs with the mall food courts and teenagers getting paid minimum wages. But workers in the restaurant industry can do quite well for themselves. Here are a few facts and pointers to help you decide if this is something you’d consider doing in your own life.

Just like any other career, there are places where you’ll get paid well, and places where you won’t. In order to get paid well through the restaurant industry, you need to work some place where you can get tips. For a lot of people, working on a tip basis seems like too risky a venture. Thus, many people will tend to gravitate towards hourly jobs, which will typically pay less than $12/hour, if they don’t require any special skills to qualify. People are shocked when I told them that my average hourly when I waited tables was $25-$30/hour. There was almost never a shift when I didn’t at least make $18. Certainly, there isn’t the contractual guarantee of a given wage - -but unless the restaurant instantaneously goes under, you’ll probably make about the same amount every shift, and more on weekends.