#CHEESECAKE FACTORY HOURS PLUS#

Servers in that case complain that they would have been better off working their other job or driving for a ridesharing company for those 5 hours rather than having to work the Cheesecake schedule. For these servers a slow day of about $100 isn't bad if they consider it 3 hours of actual effort ($33 per hour) or 4 hours of time clocked in ($25 per hour), but is less rewarding if calculated as 5 hours of time lost ($20 per hour). Prime examples are people who make more than $20 per hour at another job or doing gig work. The difference is important depending on whether you are considering how many tip-earning hours you might have (3 in this example), how many overall hours you had to actually work (4 in this example), or how many hours you had to commit to open up on your schedule for Cheesecake Factory instead of being scheduled another opportunity at a different job (5 in this example).

#CHEESECAKE FACTORY HOURS PLUS#

So that's about 3 hours of opportunity to earn tips plus another hour of sidework, prep and lull times, plus the extra hour that you were scheduled but were cut. It is common for a server to have an 11AM-4PM lunch schedule, but expected to clock in 15 minutes early at tip wage rate, seat their first table around 11:15AM, work until about 2:15PM, get cut, and spend another 30 minutes cashing out their tables, doing sidework and getting your paperwork ready for clock out. So as far as money making, figure on 3 hours per shift of income, even if you end up working extra hours before your shift to prep your tables and the sidestand, or after core traffic hours to finish your sidework while you still attend to those guests that camp out. Beyond that, yes, some days the crowd persists between 2 and 5 PM, but other days it is dead and even if you are scheduled you will be cut loose early. Again it varies by day of the week, but your heavier guest traffic hours are 11AM-2PM for lunch (3 hours) and 5-8PM for dinner (another 3 hours). But figure on daily core hours of 11AM open and 9PM close, with the shift change between lunch and dinner being 4 or 5 PM, to allow for some overlap among servers. Asked OctoEach restaurant's local open and close times has been fluid in response to COVID and can vary by day, with locations doing brunch open earlier on Sunday for example.

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