Done this many times, usually an adult can walk into a pizza shop, and get a job no problem.
Jake is spot on. They pay $7/hour or so, depending where you are located. Usually make $50-$100 a night work 5 or 6 hours. So, say you make $60 in 5 hours, that is another $12/hour.. Now you are making $19/hour for driving your car, and only getting taxed at the $7/hour range... I guess you should claim everything you make, but I doubt any driver has ever done that. You will always have cash, and the paychecks are a bonus.
I have done that in addition to a full time job to get ahead or caught up. Never had to touch my paychecks for cash, they all went to bills and it is mindless work.
Good Luck
If you want to work behind the bar do not go in and say you want to bartend unless you are off the charts hot chick which i assume you aren't but you never know. Go in and tell them you'd like to barback. Basically, you keep the bar stocked, iced, glasses washed, and doing whatever the bartenders need in order to pour drinks and make the cash. If it is a busy bar, it is hard work but you get paid well by the bartenders. There are normally 4 bartenders on at my place and 1 barback. The tips are cut 5 ways and the barback gets a full cut since he is taking care of 4 tenders. (150-200) At the same time, it should be a quasi-apprentice situation, where the tenders will SLOWLY bring you along to bartend. Thats the way i treat new barbacks anyway. Then when a bartender gets fired (which we all do eventually), you move up to a bartender position. As a bartender here is Tahoe, we average around $20 an hour in tips and $10 an hour in wages. You aren't getting rich because you don't work 40 hrs year-round but its a great job for time with my family. Yahoo just had an article about the most secure jobs for the next few years...restaurant industry was tops...wow
Good luck buddy:drink:
Good luck buddy:drink:
I was a bartender for about a year in Vegas, I knew somebody, thus the job.
It wasn't a high volume place, usually just one bartender, maybe two on Friday night swing shift.
Real dive bar near Fremont & Eastern, I worked graveyard 95% of the time, started at 2 nights a week, then the main graveyard guy, went to jail, so I went 7 nights a week, quit my other graveyard job.
It was interesting.I'd like to bartend again, but this old experience is not too relevant ( and very old), not verifiable either, place has changed owners/names. It was mainly beers/shots/slots, rarely anything exotic to make. A lot of quarters to buy/sell/roll for the slots while trying to keep up with the bar....no longer relevant experience, to a bar in the East.
You need an in, to bartend.
I'd sure hire the hot chick over some middle-aged dude, as the bar owner, graveyard was more suited to a guy.
It wasn't a high volume place, usually just one bartender, maybe two on Friday night swing shift.
Real dive bar near Fremont & Eastern, I worked graveyard 95% of the time, started at 2 nights a week, then the main graveyard guy, went to jail, so I went 7 nights a week, quit my other graveyard job.
It was interesting.I'd like to bartend again, but this old experience is not too relevant ( and very old), not verifiable either, place has changed owners/names. It was mainly beers/shots/slots, rarely anything exotic to make. A lot of quarters to buy/sell/roll for the slots while trying to keep up with the bar....no longer relevant experience, to a bar in the East.
You need an in, to bartend.
I'd sure hire the hot chick over some middle-aged dude, as the bar owner, graveyard was more suited to a guy.
