Dukkah maybe? Ground nuts, seeds and spices, great with bread and olive oil. Sounds like something you could put on a carrot dish that would be tasty.

Minimum wage in Western Australia for a server back when I was one (15 years ago) was $22.50.

I worked my way up through restaurants to high end cocktail bars. My last casual job before I moved to salaried management paid $37 minimum to the bartenders. Salaries range from $65k for bar/floor manager to $90k for venue manager.

The one corporate owned bar I worked in liked to promote from within so if you were there long enough and worked your way through the management roles you would eventually work up to area manager then corporate roles earning $125k+. That wasn’t for me though so I left that before moving up.