Like all the performers at Sushi Roxx on East 39th Street, Katie Lee waited tables at many other restaurants before coming to "Sushi Roxx."

But at Sushi Roxx, you don't just interview. You audition. The servers here sing, dance and put on a show whole serving food and drinks.

"The difference is is that when you come to work, you’re not doing those things you're passionate about," Lee says. "They don’t get to see who you are and what you do. And here, you can serve people and 20 minutes later they’re like, 'Oh my God, I feel like I know you.'" 

Lee says the tips are much better too because the customers feel like they know you and want to support you.

Dancer and server Zaccary Belliveau agrees. He also feels he's more primed to go to dance auditions because he's dancing all the time in front of an audience and getting positive feedback.

Founder Jason Apfelbaum got the idea for a performing wait staff back in 2003, when he and his workers arrived early for at a big catering event. He remembers it well.

"I had an opera singer who started singing opera, and I had these incredible dancers that all of a sudden started dancing, and I realized that if could tap into that, what an amazing thing that I could bring to the guests, really, and also allow them to showcase their skillset," Apfelbaum says.