Anyone Work in a Restaurant?

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  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    Music For Rhinos wrote:
    **Update**

    Just had my first shift as a host.

    It was easy! Trained by watching somebody else do it for a while then I was seating people myself. Feel like I got the hang of it pretty quick. Just gotta get used to seating by the rotation, seems a little tough to get it just right.

    As far as I know I will be a host, dishwasher and expo...so all 3. But so far just host...will be training as a host all week for the first week.

    Been a dishwasher before so that should be fine. Expo I don't really know but I'm down to do anything.

    So yeah, good stuff all around!

    What's expo? :?
  • Music For Rhinos
    Music For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    scb wrote:
    Music For Rhinos wrote:
    **Update**

    Just had my first shift as a host.

    It was easy! Trained by watching somebody else do it for a while then I was seating people myself. Feel like I got the hang of it pretty quick. Just gotta get used to seating by the rotation, seems a little tough to get it just right.

    As far as I know I will be a host, dishwasher and expo...so all 3. But so far just host...will be training as a host all week for the first week.

    Been a dishwasher before so that should be fine. Expo I don't really know but I'm down to do anything.

    So yeah, good stuff all around!

    What's expo? :?


    Haha, it's coordinating the dishes that are going out between the cooks and servers. Taking dish from cook when it's done, making sure it's presentable, food items are properly placed, any special requests taken care of (i.e. no tomato or bbq sauce on the side)...then given to server to be served to guest. Apparently it's a stressful position although I can't really see that too much now...but I haven't done it yet.
  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    Music For Rhinos wrote:
    Haha, it's coordinating the dishes that are going out between the cooks and servers. Taking dish from cook when it's done, making sure it's presentable, food items are properly placed, any special requests taken care of (i.e. no tomato or bbq sauce on the side)...then given to server to be served to guest. Apparently it's a stressful position although I can't really see that too much now...but I haven't done it yet.

    Gotcha! Keep us posted on how that goes. :)
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    At least I'm not the only one who didn't know what expo meant. :oops:
    I've learned a lot from this thread! I've always had a lot of respect for people who worked in restaurants and I have even more now. :)

    Glad the job is off to a good start! :)
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    i used to work for tgi fridays as a server for like 1 week. i couldnt pull off the fake pep
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    davidtrios wrote:
    i used to work for tgi fridays as a server for like 1 week. i couldnt pull off the fake pep

    I worked in restaurants for years, mostly kitchen though.. towards the end, I became a waiter (worked for Pete Rose) when I got to south florida, and that lasted only a few months. Worst job I've ever had. I liked washing dishes better than being a waiter.
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    davidtrios wrote:
    i used to work for tgi fridays as a server for like 1 week. i couldnt pull off the fake pep

    I worked in restaurants for years, mostly kitchen though.. towards the end, I became a waiter (worked for Pete Rose) when I got to south florida, and that lasted only a few months. Worst job I've ever had. I liked washing dishes better than being a waiter.

    pete rose eh?
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    davidtrios wrote:
    i used to work for tgi fridays as a server for like 1 week. i couldnt pull off the fake pep

    Did you have enough flair?
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    davidtrios wrote:
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    davidtrios wrote:
    i used to work for tgi fridays as a server for like 1 week. i couldnt pull off the fake pep

    I worked in restaurants for years, mostly kitchen though.. towards the end, I became a waiter (worked for Pete Rose) when I got to south florida, and that lasted only a few months. Worst job I've ever had. I liked washing dishes better than being a waiter.

    pete rose eh?

    Yeah, total toolbag. I met him twice. He was not very nice. The day I walked into his restaurant for in interview, he mistook me for an interviewer who was running late. I walked into the office with a briefcase and wearing a tie... he actually started to yell at me before even asking who I was. Then the actual interviewer walked in behind me seconds later, with a briefcase and a tie, and Pete Rose just started yelling at him that he was late and other bullshit. I'm left standing there by myself, wondering why he was so rude. his restaurant sucked too. Closed down a year later..
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,381
    No. Sounds dumb. Pfft.
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    RKCNDY wrote:
    davidtrios wrote:
    i used to work for tgi fridays as a server for like 1 week. i couldnt pull off the fake pep

    Did you have enough flair?

    :lol:

    when i worked back in 02, we didnt have flair..i dont think
  • wpg pearl
    wpg pearl Posts: 1,258
    Bartender here.........worked in the hospitality industry for the last 15 years.
    ajb
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Dissidentman wrote:
    No. Sounds dumb. Pfft.

    :corn:
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,381
    RKCNDY wrote:
    Dissidentman wrote:
    No. Sounds dumb. Pfft.

    :corn:

    What?

    Have you forgotten to like us on Facebook? :D
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Dissidentman wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    Dissidentman wrote:
    No. Sounds dumb. Pfft.

    :corn:

    What?

    Have you forgotten to like us on Facebook? :D

    i thought I already did...and are you my friend on FB?
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,381
    RKCNDY wrote:
    Dissidentman wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:

    :corn:

    What?

    Have you forgotten to like us on Facebook? :D

    i thought I already did...and are you my friend on FB?

    Im not personally on the FB
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Dissidentman wrote:

    Im not personally on the FB

    ok, good. :D
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,381
    RKCNDY wrote:
    Dissidentman wrote:

    Im not personally on the FB

    ok, good. :D

    :think:

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