Noah Adams, NPR / / Noah Adams, NPR / / Noah Adams, NPR / / NPR's Noah Adams visits TJ's restaurant in Auburn, Maine, for a conversation with two waitresses, Tammy Ogden and Deborah Simpson, and a dishwasher, Rebecca Brown. None of them work a 40-hour week, and the server's pay is $3.18 an hour -- half Maine's minimum wage -- plus tips. They like to work both the lunch and dinner shifts, because it gives them time with their children in the late afternoon.