Life as a Waiter

Some of you have probably asked yourselves, "what's the life as a Waiter like?" Ha just kidding I really hope you'd never ask yourself that.  But today I'm gonna tell you a little bit of how It's like being a Waiter. I'll also list the do's and don't's of being a customer and what really annoys us.

Firstly I wanna say that I really enjoy my job, I love meeting new people all day "erday", ha.  I've held basically every job in the restaurant biz, from lowly dishwasher to cook to where I am now...and being a Waiter is by far the best and easiest job out of all of them.  People have asked me to sum up being a server, It's easy, I tell them; "my job basically consists of me being nice to people." That's really the whole jest of my job.  Yeah you have to learn the menu, learn the computer system, and have a decent memory and prioritization skills, but honestly being nice and reading people is key. Also one of the secret secrets of being a badass waiter is having the kitchen staff like you, if they hate you, you're gonna have a bad time! Being a waiter is a easy job, if your good, you can make easily 100-200 in a couple hours, I can't name another entry level job aside from a hooker or stripper that can make that! Ha

Tips Tips Tips- This is one is a obvious one.  In the state of Idaho, where I work, the minimum wage for a waiter is $2.15...yes that's right two dollars and fifteen cents an hour!  So by default, we need to make a little bit more than 2/3 of our wages with tips to barely earn minimum wage!!  But you can't live off minimum wage these days  to make a decent living we have to make a little more.

• Learn to tip! its simple math! Even if its just 8 or 10 percent!  If you haven't worked in the serving industry you don't understand how frustrating it is when someone doesn't tip!  Ideally in a perfect world everyone would tip a minimum of 15%.
• If you didn't like the food and don't tip because of that reason....I hate you!  If I provided you with great service and the kitchen or your taste buds weren't up to par, how is that my fault I can't control that!
• When you go to a bar you usually tip every time you get a drink, so why not at the restaurant? Especially at my restaurant were the servers are also your bartenders.
• People that bring 25 little kids and make a huge mess, and don't even tip well at all!  You suck for doing that! Would it kill you to throw us an extra fiver for cleaning up the huge mess your kids created?  
• If your gonna tip us in change...don't even bother, you need it more than us.  And I know some people really just can't tip because of financial reason, its understandable I get it!

One thing that really annoys waiters, is shaking your cup in the air full of ice, from across the room to get a refill! We're not your fucking butler, it annoys us and I usually ignore it!

You walk in, you see its kinda packed today...you ask for a booth because your a lazy piece of garbage, I tell you, we don't have any booths available...and you get pissed off and don't leave a tip! Wow really? How the fuck is that my fault, Its mainly yours because of your laziness!

One stupid American tradition that needs to be banned is the birthday song celebration! Its fucking stupid! the only thing it does is embarrass the employees singing it and the customer receiving it, because honestly the customer never wants it, its always the people they are with wanting it!  Also it disrupts the flow of the restaurant, especially on a busy day, we all have to stop what we are doing to sing a stupid fucking song to you!

-luz