{"id":10367,"date":"2014-01-02T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10367"},"modified":"2014-01-01T23:15:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T04:15:56","slug":"ivy-league-waiters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/ivy-league-waiters\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy League Waiters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/010214_0412_IvyLeagueWa1.jpg\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ivy League students are increasingly working as waiters. But this isn&#8217;t a tale of the desperation of students looking to avoid youth unemployment. Alina Dizik&#8217;s article was about top students choosing to wait tables as a career:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With the price of entrees at top tier restaurants rising about $100 restaurants are committed to providing a top class dining experience.<\/li>\n<li>This includes hiring the best waiters possible. Head waiters can make as much as $150,000 a year with tips.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not a job for the faint hearted. Each of the plates in a 16 course tasting dinner menu can have up to 15 ingredients and various preparation styles. Waiters are expected to be able to answer questions about each of.<\/li>\n<li>Some dishes require other skills such as the ability to perform a card trick that goes with a seasonal chocolate cheesecake.<\/li>\n<li>Only 10% of those who apply for jobs as waiters at top restaurants get accepted \u2013 rivalling admission rates at top universities.<\/li>\n<li>Restaurants for their part offer &#8216;courses&#8217; such as a rundown on various cocktails or the art of wine tasting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about what it takes to be a top waiter, the input that they get to have on new dishes, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304137304579292350943682222\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304137304579292350943682222\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivy League students are increasingly working as waiters. But this isn&#8217;t a tale of the desperation of students looking to avoid youth unemployment. Alina Dizik&#8217;s article was about top students choosing to wait tables as a career: With the price of entrees at top tier restaurants rising about $100 restaurants are committed to providing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-10367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-foodonomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/010214_0412_IvyLeagueWa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10370,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions\/10370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}