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Re: waitressing Posted by: Nicky on June 19, 19100 at 10:42:10: In Response to: Re: waitressing posted by camilla wilson on June 03, 1999 at 08:22:00: : : Marian, : : All of us have known how hard waitressing is, has been, and will be. Due to the nature of the work, the abuse, long hours, sometimes thankless efforts, it is considered to be a low end job and treated that way. I have met many people who wanted to pickup part time work, performed the waitressing jobs. We, as a country eat out at restaurants more than anyone else in the world, but the servers are treated ugly. I wonder if all the waitresses went on strike, what the people would do...cater the food? ha! dont think so for very long! Thanks for your help Marian. : : : am writing an aarticle on how to survuve being a student supporting yourself on waitressing. would appreciate any tips, tales and any other info. Any job dealing with the public can be difficult. A personal favorites of mine : I picked up the phone answering with our business name followed by our location, the voice on the other end of the phone replies " is this Tonies on Rt 307"? I wanted to snide and say "no idiot this is Mc Donalds I just answer the phone like that to confuse people", but my reply was simple " yes it is, may I take your order"? At the end of the conversation I should of asked her to pull up to window number 2. On the seriouse side I do have a peeve I feel needs to be addresses. All to often customers walk right past our hostess will seat you sign and seat themselves. The hostess job is to seat the customer in sections, this assures the fastest service as well as to not over seat a waitress with more customers than she can handle. All to often these "self seaters" don't understand that the customers are taken in the order that they sat. They then become irate because they ha... (truncated) Follow Ups Back to Kickin Brass WWWBoard created by Matt Wright and can be found at Matt's Script Archive WWWBoard 2.0a2b updated by James Kent 05/08/98. |