Comment by al_borland
2 days ago
How would that work? Am I taking a vacation day from my corporate job so I can make $12/hr bussing tables? I’m not sure why I’d ever want to do that.
What would happen is this app would just turn into another form of gig work for unemployed people, and it would be a nightmare. Imagine going to a restaurant and no one knows what they’re doing, because they’re only there for a day. The restaurant would probably lose money due to waste and the bad reputation.
You make a lot more than $12 an hour if you include tips.
Here in Seattle, at a regular sit down restaurant, servers can average almost $40 an hour, even more if they worked the dinner shift.
How good do you think the tips will be for someone waiting table who has 0 experience and doesn’t know the menu? This also sounds like a big risk if they wait on a table with any food allergies.
That’s why I figured bussing tables, or some other back of house job would make more sense. Maybe the waitstaff shares tips with everyone; I think it depends on the place… but are full time waitstaff going to want to share tips with someone making $200k who is cosplaying as a service worker for a day?
This exists for bartenders.
https://www.shiftnow.com/blog/bartender-gig-apps
That's for experienced bartenders to find new gigs. A lot service industry jobs have similar networks to help match a supply/demand mismatch.
The parent comment was asking why someone with a 'desk job', often making >$100/hr, would knock off work to go make a fraction of the hourly pay for significantly harder work.