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What Kind Of Job Is A Busboy?

By George Dodson


Dining out can be an enjoyable experience. You get to select from an array of eateries where you want to go according to what you feel like eating. The wait staff warmly receives you and caters to your every need. Whether it?s a refreshment or a tissue, the waiters eagerly await your request to. Once you have relished your food and you are ready to leave, you get your belongings, tip the server and leave. Your journey is about to conclude. Someone else?s voyage however, is just starting. The person responsible for clearing the mess you?ve made to prepare the table for the next customer is the busboy.

In both large and small restaurants, there is usually staff required to clean up after each customer and help the restaurant staff if and when they need it.

Busboys are not usual in America. Some offer to serve customers snacks and beverages even before the customer takes the initiative to do so. They will serve food if duty calls for it.

?Bussers? in general receive insufficient pay. They rely on the tips they receive a day to supplement their meager fixed weekly or hourly income.

Those in average restaurants carry boxes stacked with dishes in tower-like fashion. In upscale restaurants, dishes are carried one by one. This takes a lot of time but helps uphold the image of fancy restaurants.

A number of celebrities have worked as busboys when they were young to make money.

In his youth, Al Pacino worked as one.

Alec Baldwin worked at Studio 54 in New York.

Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh was also a busboy in Parker House Hotel in Boston.

Jon Stewart worked as one in a restaurant serving Mexican food.

Johnny Depp, well known for his role as ?Captain Jack Sparrow? in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise, was a busboy prior to his acting career.

The next time you are out at your favorite restaurant, perhaps you ought to keep in mind that if the place looks scintillating, it is for the reason that the busboys that toil to maintain it. They deserve a little extra in tips; something you ought to consider as it is how they make their living. After all, you never know; maybe, just maybe, one of them will become famous and remember you for your token of gratitude.




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