re: Why do waiters/waitresses overwhelmingly smoke?

My buddy called tonight to say, while he was out with a client at a restaurant, he caught he waiter doing some coke in the restroom. He just gave him a nod and later rolled his tip into a nose cannon before he left it on the table.

A smoke break used to be a smoke break. Now whenever I see a waitress on a smoke break shes tapping away on the cell phone, which I'm sure makes the smoke break last longer. It's unfair enough that the non smokers don't get a break, but the smokers are basically getting a break to play on their phones.

Are businesses legally required to give smoke breaks? If not it would be the first thing I'd cut if I owned a restaurant. Or at the very least I'd have a 'no cell phone on smoke break' policy; at least try to make it somewhat fair to the non smokers who get no break.

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I think it should be a national law that everyone do it for at least 2 years before being able to move onto other industries

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Amen. I'll never talk shite about service industry. The good tippers paid for my school and the bad tippers taught me how to deal with adversity.

When I read that story about the fella with the 3" penis, I assumed that it was you.

Guaranteed breaks every hour or so. I didn't smoke before I waited tables.