Often the restaurants close late, and after closing one must clean up and tally up. There is just no way such amounts of work will not interfere with school work, especially homework. The Charner-Fraser study sees merit in learning teamwork and working under supervision. The authors have a point here. However, it must be noted that such learning is not automatically educational or wholesome.
Supervision is often both tight and woefully inappropriate.
There is no father or mother figure with which to identify, to emulate, to provide a role model and guidance. However, only rarely is there a master to learn from, or much worth learning. Indeed, far from being places where solid adult work values are being transmitted, these are places where all too often delinquent teen values dominate. Typically, when my son Oren was dishing out ice cream for Baskin Robbins in upper Manhattan, his fellow teen-workers considered him a sucker for not helping himself to the till. The pay, oddly, is the part of the teen work-world which is most difficult to evaluate.