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Having spent the past 40 years in the food biz, up and down the state of California, I must take issue with Mr Pike's assesment that servers are overpaid here (although I do agree about their general ineptness). In most cases, the company doesn't properly train their staff as it costs money... When it comes to a server's wages, if anything, they are underpaid across the board, especially compared to Silicon Valley and San Francisco (I can't tell you anything about LA as I have avoided that place like the plague). More than anything else, tip sharing (especially when management dips their hands into the tip jar) accounts for much of the difference as do tip pooling among servers (why should anyone work hard if they all get the same money?) and now, with the likes of Darden Restaurants, Papa John's and a string of Denny's franchses back east who now only pay their servers a couple of bucks an hour and share the server's tips, it's going to get a loss worse... Supposedly Darden enacted this policy recently (and converted their staffs to part timers only) as they couldn't afford to pay their employees' health coverage but when you do the math, they're putting $3 Billion in their pockets while Wal-Marting the staff and letting the tax payers pick up the slack (medical bills, unemployment or welfare, etc) This is thoroughly gutting the once proud profession of waitressing while the fat cats get even fatter and maiking it virtually impossible for a hard working single mother to support her family.— November 24, 2012 2:26 p.m.