New milestone

Yesterday, we topped the 2,000 post/day mark for the first time. It’s a bit of a hollow milestone, and hopefully it won’t end up being a Pyrrhic victory. That’s because most of the increase has been due to a single post – “Apparently some people just aren’t being raised right”. From watching my stats over [...]

First 10% tip in a while

Today at lunch, I got the first 10% tip all month. In fact, I can’t remember the last one that I’ve gotten. In fact, it was my only table. $10 on $107. So I walked with $7. That means I made about $6/hr for lunch. Including my $2.13/hr wage. But before you accuse me of whining, [...]

A few more waiter’s terms

Comp – an item taken off of the bill because of some service issue. This item has been served to the guest; therefore it counts against food costs. Void – this is an item taken off of the bill that was never prepared or served (for instance, a mis-ring that’s caught before the kitchen prepares [...]

Restaurants sued over music copyrights

From Nation’s Restaurant News: Restaurants sued over music copyrights June 23, 2010 | By Elissa Elan The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, or ASCAP, filed 21 separate copyright infringement lawsuits against restaurants, bars and nightclubs in 13 states, officials for the music society said this week. ASCAP alleged that each of the businesses [...]

Small is beautiful

I had to drop into the local WalMart Supercenter to pick something up the other day. I don’t shop at WalMart very often, mainly because of ideological reasons, so I was surprised to see that the store was changing drastically. They were still renovating but much of the work seemed to have been done. I [...]

Clarification on Robert Pattinson

Well, my view count has gone through the roof. And the main reason is the renewed interest in one Robert Pattinson, whom I assume is some sort of BP official or something. Nah, only kidding…I know who young Rob is. A few months back, it was reported by Perez Hilton that R. Pattinson didn’t really tip very good. [...]

Change of seasons

As we head into summer, one of two things will happen to most waiters. First, if you wait tables in a place that doesn’t have a lot of tourism, it’s likely that business will slow down dramatically. People go on vacation, they tend to BBQ, go to the lake for the weekend…you know, that sort [...]

Using Facebook

If your restaurant has a Facebook account, you might want to become a fan because sometimes you can find out what’s going on in your restaurant  quicker than you can find out through the grapevine or preshifts. This is possible especially with larger chains that might do regional promotions or test promotions that haven’t hit [...]

Sage advice

If you happen to find that your bottle of “Da Bomb – Ground Zero”, a chile pepper extract with over 600,000 Scoville units, has fallen over and you pick it up to sit it back upright,  make sure that you wash your hands carefully before you rub your eye because you just woke up. I’m [...]

Uniform check

Well kids, it’s been a month or two since I reminded you to check your uniforms. For newcomers, I suggest that you do a complete uniform check once a month. You can either do it at the end of the month or at the beginning, since it’s pretty much the same thing. Whichever way is [...]