Dunno why you wasted all that money on a sushi buffet - I ate 6 hot dogs from Costco today for $9.50 and have enough Pepsi leftover to last the weekend.
I hate tipping more than anyone in the world.
This is great news.
Listening to this guy saying that the dude is going to raise prices by 30% which exceeds your 20% tip. Great, so let them do it. Tips are such BS. I'd rather go to the place that is more expensive that doesn't require tips.
Who loses money when the cook messes up an order...
Servers need to be the ones making $120 a night and the cook deserves the $250 a night.
A line cook will never make $250 a night. The job is literally take this pre designed thing and cook it right and plate it and then pass it to the chef for final inspection then to the expediter and then to the food runners.
The servers job is to
1. have complete knowledge of every ingredient in every dish.
2. wear a smile always and interact with the guests in a meaningful way.
a. Meaningful - Understanding how much service that table desires and given them exactly what they want
3. Using jewelry cues, watches and clothing to know how to upsell the guest.
a. Always upsell because you enjoy it. However I have found if you offer small, medium, large or Least expensive, moderate expensive, most expensive people for some reason will 80% of the time go down the middle. Its crazy and you can get some significant check average bumps by applying that to everything on the menu/bar menu.
4. Having perfect auditory memory. My auditory memory is unreal. I even just say something outloud to myself now to remember it for short durations of like 5 minutes. I listen back to the words as they were spoken.
5. Knowing when there is a problem before anyone else (including the guest)
6. Knowing how to prioritize your time in the most efficient way possible.
7. Knowing all of the proper serving etiquette i.e. never set things on the table so the back of your hand is towards the guest. Never walk drinks over to a table without a tray (even 1 drink) and others.
8. Knowing how to open a bottle of wine? Yeah easy. Now open a bottle of wine thats 30 years old and the cork is disintegrating on you. Learn how to decant a bottle of wine with a candle and a decanter.
9. Know why you may want to offer a syrah for a filet and a cabernet for a ribeye. Know when to offer a syrah for a ribeye and a cabernet for a ribeye.
10. Know the difference between semillon and sauvignon blanc.
11. What food would be best for each of those wines? Sea scallops? Hog nose snapper? Which wine? why?
12. Know the differance between a sea scallop and a bay scallop. Know what the u scale is.
13. Knowledge of all primal cuts. Knowledge about what temperature different cuts shine at.
I could go on and on and on and on.
For those of you who think the job requires no skill - you dont know what you are talking about.
i just want them to take my order and bring me my food, the less they talk unless spoken too the better normally
a decent waiter at a decent restaurant will wait on at least 3 tables an hour. those 3 tables an hour. Those 3 tables will (just spitballing here..) pay approximately $24-30 in tips.
that's a hell of a lot more than the $12-15 that they can expect from the min wage increase. Even after they tip out the bar staff, they're still ahead.
at higher end places, or in resort areas, wait staff can expect anywhere from $100-400 a night or more.
yeah, this fucks servers over. it doesn't help them.
When I go to a restaurant, I line up $20 in ones on the edge of the table. I tell the waiter/waitress that every time they fuck up I take away a dollar.
When I go to a restaurant, I line up $20 in ones on the edge of the table. I tell the waiter/waitress that every time they fuck up I take away a dollar.
It's best to do this and stiff the server anyway; the look on their face is priceless.
Sometimes I like to wrap my sense of superiority with a touch of racism.
You would rather give the owner 30% more then tip staff 20%?
Then people need to stop whining about how servers don't get minimum wage. Either they need minimum wage or they don't. Which is it?
A line cook will never make $250 a night. The job is literally take this pre designed thing and cook it right and plate it and then pass it to the chef for final inspection then to the expediter and then to the food runners.
The servers job is to ...
For those of you who think the job requires no skill - you dont know what you are talking about.
Hate to break this to you but unless you count sheep for a living, anyone doing ANY job has nuances, considerations, and gotchas to deal with. How many hats does a server have to wear compared with say, a white collar job? You could even compare it to a contractor who needs to be somewhat educated on many levels. That's the difference. A server is a server.
Hate to break this to you but unless you count sheep for a living, anyone doing ANY job has nuances, considerations, and gotchas to deal with. How many hats does a server have to wear compared with say, a white collar job? You could even contrast with blue collar building contractors who need to be educated on many levels. That's the difference. A food server is so far below any of this in terms of responsibility and know-how.
Being personable and having IT skill are not mutually exclusive are they? And here we are arguing that a food server with personality is worth more to their company than a tech guy to his. Alright then.
If any of that were true then the restaurant owners wouldn't be looking to screw you guys over and over. That's how much you are worth to them. Did you not read about server turnover? Dime a dozen. College kids, so ambitious. They are there because they realize that tipping could be a net gain, plain and simple.
Being personable and having IT skill are not mutually exclusive are they? And here we are arguing that a food server with personality is worth more to their company than a tech guy to his. Alright then.
If any of that were true then the restaurant owners wouldn't be looking to screw you guys over and over. That's how much you are worth to them. Did you not read about server turnover? Dime a dozen. College kids, so ambitious. They are there because they realize that tipping could be a net gain, plain and simple.