23 Things All Servers Will Understand

[The Straight Story]

23 Things All Servers Will Understand

“Hi, my name is ______ and I’ll be taking care of you this evening whether I want to or not.”


1. Your weekends start on Sundays.

Monday through Friday, 9 to 5? Try Tuesday through Saturday, 5 to 11. TGIS forever.

2. Wanting it to be busy but also wanting it to be soooo sloooow.

Get busy and make money that you desperately need, or stay slow and get cut in time to have a social life? DECISIONS ARE HARD.

3. People who switch tables a hundred times.

‘This one is too dark. That one is too bright. This one is too secluded. That one is too loud.’ This table will take up maybe 45-90 minutes of your life. You are not Goldilocks. Please suck it up.

4. Being ignored after saying hello to a table.

Gotta love those people who think that drinks, food, and requests for lemon slices and extra ketchup are magically appearing at their table at the hands of the Invisible Restaurant God. Oh no wait, that’s me.

5. The agony that is the question “What is your favorite thing on the menu?”

“My favorite thing on the menu is whatever you want my favorite thing on the menu to be. Or the most expensive thing we have. Take your pick.”


6. Or even worse, “What kind of food do you have here?”

Oh, but you can. And funny story - that’s what menus are for! That way I don’t have to recite everything that is literally in your hand, in front of your face right now.


Rest at link:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/reneeallday/23-things-all-servers-will-understand-jggc?bffb

[Fumesucker]

1. 24. Getting a Bible tract as a tip rather than actual cash money

http://www.stuffchristianculturelikes.com/2009/06/86-leaving-gospel-tract-with-tip.html

Christian culture is historically known for leaving a gospel tract when they tip in restaurants. Oftentimes they leave a tract along with actual money, but in severe cases they'll leave only the tract.

Every Sunday around noon, waiters and waitresses throughout the Bible belt and other densely churched areas of North America brace themselves for the church crowd* to roll in. In a flurry of khaki and hairspray, they become visibly nervous if presented with a wine list and they loudly discuss which of them will pray over the food. Once they leave, heartily clapping each other on the back and taking an awful long time to exit, their server often finds with the tip a pamphlet that outlines the presumptuously-titled four spiritual laws.

[Bonx]

3. Almost as bad as the expired Movie theater passes i received -nt

[laundry_queen]

2. I HATED #5 when I waitressed

I wanted to say, "I don't have a favorite on the menu, unless you want to ask me what my favorite soup of the day is or what my favorite fries are or what my favorite kitchen mess up is, because that's all I can afford on this menu and I haven't tried anything else."

The rest of these I can also relate with. At least I got paid minimum wage though - that's the law here in Canada (even if it was a crappy 'student' minimum wage back in the 80's!)