[Thumper1960]

To think....the person who may have taken 30 minutes of so to box and bag all that only cost $1.50 in wages. Maybe a few cents more for employee taxes and other employee costs. There would be no need to include much else, since servers usually do not receive health insurances. The server’s time was nickles, not dimes.

[themidnightskulker]

Unless she was actively building the salads, her participation time was much less.

Line cooks prepared and packaged the order, and set it in the window(probably taking 30- 45 minutes)as well as working in all other orders of the restaurant.(seated customers are the priority)
Somebody expedited, checked, and boxed the order.(in my experience taking 10 minutes +or- )
During slow times this is hard,not difficult. During a rush, I can tell you stories.

A three man line may have cost 30.00 in wages, the server may have added four or five dollars at most to the cost.

The industry is designed to exploit low skilled and low payed workers.
Employees have two long term choices, get out or suck it up. either way, the system is rigged against them.

[Svartalfiar]

To think....the person who may have taken 30 minutes of so to box and bag all that only cost $1.50 in wages.

Huh? You do realize that minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13, not $1.50? And most restaurants pay slightly more than that? (Not much but enough to justify 'competitive wages'.) Some buddies worked at another steak chain, and their starting was around $4 an hour. Way more than your dollar-fifty and change.