> The owner wants the maximum ratio of servers to customers possible.

Why? It sounds very weird. In every kind of business the owner has strong incentive to cut labor.

Not if they are (hardly) paid anything. Then pile on staff!

	▲	sgerenser 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Turnover in the restaurant industry is brutal. An always overstaffed restaurant where the waitstaff ends up not earning much in tips will quickly lose staff to competitors (at least the good ones).