Not that long ago I asked a question on How To Be A Good Server Blog’s facebook page and with all the responses to this question, there was one thing that a stood out among the rest. The question was: What is the biggest problem you run into at work? Now I thought … Read more
The picture attached to this post is a picture I took during a recent dinner I had with my girlfriend and her parents, I’ll explain it within this post. There are people out there that are too shy to say if something is wrong, there are people that don’t want to make … Read more
It seems over the last 10 years the increase in allergies is becoming more and more prominent. I remember 10 years ago serving in restaurants and rarely encountering someone with a food allergy of any kind. Now it’s a whole new ball game, guests with allergies are becoming more common than guests … Read more
From restaurant to restaurant there are small differences in the ways certain things are done, like where server stations are positioned, how the coffee station is organized, how the line out back is set up, etc. The restaurant should be set up and laid out so it runs at maximum efficiency, picture … Read more
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