Hope you get up to at least a few shenanigans during Halloween. It’s so funny seeing how excited kids get in the streets when they walk past each other in their costumes, so entertaining. Hopefully, I have enough candy, because some of it has already gone “missing” mysteriously. For those of you … Read more
This should be a question that you can answer. I don’t mean what time are your kitchen’s hours of operation, I’m talking about how long everything takes to be prepared and put up for it to be taken to a table. A well-done rib-eye will obviously take longer than a club sandwich … Read more
A couple of weeks back I had brunch with a friend whom I have only known for a short time, and in that short time have had a couple of great conversations with her. She works in the public health field and on occasion is responsible for doing restaurant inspections. While we … Read more
Hi there, I recently have had a few people emailing me with questions on how to handle being double and even triple sat. Firstly I want to make new servers aware that being double sat can be a normal occurrence and it’s not such a big deal if you know what to … Read more
From time to time you’re going to come across guests or tables who are not satisfied with a particular aspect of their experience in your restaurant, it happens. Despite that in many situations it will eventually be dealt with by a manager, you as a server must know how to handle the … Read more
As servers, we spend a lot of our time speaking with the guests, and I’m not just talking about taking orders and answering questions, but also small talk and conversations. If it’s busy we can get into a routine of getting straight to the point of taking orders and moving on as … Read more
I’ll be the first to say that as a server we make good money in comparison to other jobs that require more hours worked, more stressful deadlines, further education, and other crazy nonsense for these people to make the same we do. The problem is that when we make our money it … Read more
These days I’m finding that more people I serve are being more adventurous, and by that, I mean that when they come to a restaurant for breakfast, lunch or dinner they don’t always go with something specific in mind. The question I’m hearing more now is “What would you recommend?”. I personally … Read more
I have a great story about today’s topic. While in high school a mate of mine (Chris) who was a car fanatic, repeatedly harassed a local Ford dealership to give him a job. Over and over again he was rejected until one day the manager of the lot told him that he … Read more
Hey there! I thought I would make today’s topic a topic which I was chatting about with a friend of mine I used to work with. While having lunch we got talking about how we could do a little better with our time management when working, so today’s post is going to … Read more