Your Waiter Is Probably Going to Give You a Disease 5.21K Richard Lawson 11/08/10 02:24PM Filed to: Health Health Waiters waitresses Restaurants Studies Sickness Disease A new study shows that two-thirds of restaurant workers go to work when sick, meaning customers are exposed to disgusting working class germs. The outrage! It's almost as if restaurant workers don't get paid if they don't go to work.