My first job: food service

I was only 14 and my mom came home from work one night and asked me if I was interested in working as a dishwasher at the restaurant she was working in. I took the job and that was the start of my +-20 year career in the restaurant industry. It was a very small, upscale Italian restaurant and I had been there with my father & brother to pick up my mom, and I was fascinated with the place. It had a 'mafia' theme, complete with a 'Godfather Table' , fake machine gun in a violin case as a wall decoration, and a giant charcoal sketch of Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather. My mother had to wear a black silk shirt, black short skirt, black beret, white tie and white gun holster (with a cap gun in it!) as her uniform. The male waiter had to wear the same, minus the skirt, of course. I have many fond memories of my time there (14-17)