Now more than ever, it’s not easy to make a living waiting tables. Covid restrictions have made sure that most restaurants aren’t even close to capacity and plenty of the customers who do go out to eat in restaurants are using the “times are hard” excuse to leave less than

Tens of thousands of servers across the country haven’t had the joy of waiting tables for many months as restaurants continue to struggle during the pandemic. Once upon a time, the list of things that annoyed servers was longer than Santa’s naughty list, but things have changed. Waiters and waitresses,

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Servers are accustomed to finding all kinds of things in the restaurants they work in, from left behind umbrellas and cell phones to forgotten retainers and disregarded dirty diapers. The one thing no server ever expects to find at work is true love, but it does happen every once in

Here we are heading into a full year of living during a pandemic and there are still so many situations we don’t quite know how to navigate. Things are ever-evolving when it comes to dealing with Covid and each day presents a new challenge. Just when we finally get used

Restaurants across the country are struggling because of the pandemic, but the amount of struggle depends on the city or state that the restaurant is in. New York City doesn’t have indoor dining as an option at all, so restaurants there are totally empty depending completely on takeout and those

In mid-March when Covid forced New York City to shut down restaurants completely and I found myself without a job, I was more relieved than anything else. While I worried about getting by for a few weeks without working, knowing that I could safely ensconce myself in my apartment more

It’s going to be a long time before restaurants are back to normal, even after the vaccine rollout and Covid is in the rearview mirror. There are some things that will probably never go back to the way they were before. Personally, what I will miss most is greeting my

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to decimate our country, small businesses and restaurants are taking the brunt of the devastation. Well, other than the 300,000 lives lost to the virus. Over 110,000 restaurants have closed either permanently or long-term since the health crisis began and with indoor dining shutting down