Looking to get out of your small town and find adventure? Can you carry a tray? Perfect.

We explore two traditions of women leaving it all behind for opportunity out west by way of waiting tables: The Harvey Girls and the Vanderpump Rules SURvers.

In these stories, the restaurant industry serves as a gateway to a new, exciting, independent life for a generation of young women. And as a bonus? Many found love.

Plus: the postal worker to police officer pipeline, the missing persons case of TikToker Becca Moore, and the banana sangria debacle.