Mine does the same , it ' s pretty annoying . I always thought it was my phone though . <| sep |> Donated a kidney . My wife ' s pie was missing kidneys , just steak ! <| sep |> You ' re right about gross per hour but wrong about straight hourly . Some chefs at my little place make $ 25 an hour , but they ' re running two stations single handed in a galley kitchen . But I have a 4 table section , average check of $ 75 at a 2 top and nearly $ 200 at a 4 , and can turn my section 56 times during a dinner . So yeah , you ' re both right and wrong . We do make more but we make less per hour . And you ' re also right , 50 % employee discount means that a Ribeye , two sides , and a dessert cost me $ 15 at the end of a shift I made $ 250 during . People just can ' t take the kitchen giving them shit , since most servers are used to blaming the kitchen for their own fuck ups