Back in the day, I made a lot more than double the minimum wage working for tips.
Especially if I had to shell out dues to some damn union, so they could have sent all my money to the Dukakis for President Campaign.
Oh, BTW... I’m old...
Ah yes, back in the day. In the late 1950’s I put myself through two years of college and paid all of my bills by working my dupa off in a bar/restaurant for tips only. If you were willing to work hard in that type of a job back then, you could make some relatively good money and it was all cash. When I left, I sold my job to another gal for two or three hundred dollars. She ended up owning the restaurant and it’s still doing well. None of the waitresses or bartenders were on a salary and many of them who left wished they could have returned.
One of the problems now that I see is that few of the younger crew are really willing to work as hard as we did.