Coordination Costs, or How Did People Ever Survive Without the Internet!

I've been doing a lazy second job search for the past two weeks, secure in the knowledge that a) I work 16 hours a week, minimum already and b) I have a bank account with money in it, so I can still buy food and housing.

Still, I have more time than money and I would like to exchange the two at least temporarily.

Getting a serving job in DC seems to consist of three areas - wandering aimlessly around restaurants, pumping friends of friends for job openings, and applying online to the bigger chains.  None of these seem to be very efficient way of finding either workers or jobs.  It also doesn't indicate anything about their actual level of talent in the field.  There has to be a better way of doing this than waiting for someone qualified enough to wander in based on a piece of paper that was put up on the door.