Should i be room service server, a restaurant server, or a cocktail server (Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino)?
Asked by Courtney ♥'s Bill K.
those 3 jobs are open right now and are the only ones that i'm interested in. which one makes more money and which one is better in general? my friends keep telling me they make good tips cuz they work there. do all these jobs make good tips? how much tip? i was planning on getting a job in the spring so i could buy a little used car at one of those car auction places.

Best Answer:
Tipping is going to be the main source of your income for those jobs. Room service server will probably pay the least in tips although if they have a lot of volume that could make up for it. It's really between the cocktail server and the restaurant server. A lot of casino resorts operate buffet restaurants so you might want to conduct a little personal survey of the restaurants at the place to see how many operate a la carte and how many are buffet since tipping percentage is customarily lower for buffet than it is for a la carte. Also pay attention to the menu prices. The higher the prices, the higher your tips will be since they are traditionally calculated off of the value of the meals. Also when you check the menus, look for any mandatory tipping policies such as automatic add on for parties over a certain size. If most of the restaurants are a la carte, and the prices are expensive I would definitely lean towards restaurant server. Working the casino floor as a cocktail server can be kind of hit or miss. Gamblers, especially low stakes gamblers, tend to be tight with their money when their luck is down, which is the vast majority of the time for most of the games since the odds always favor the house, but every now and then you could hit it big with a high roller in the high stakes area that makes up for the rest of the crowd, but I'd imagine more senior staff get preferential assignment to cover the high stakes tables.
bartender, former waitress
Answered by Deunan K