End of month uniform check

Yep, it’s that time again. Time to inspect your uniform from top to bottom. Look at each item with a critical eye. If you have any unserviceable item, time to wastecan it. If you have any “marginal” items, put them in your emergency pile. You’re going to be busy for the next 30 days, but [...]

Review of The Deluxe Waiter Caddy

First of all, a disclaimer – I got this free. However: First of all, it wasn’t solicited. The powers-that-be at the Waiter’s Depot, of which I have no connection, nor any prior communication with, liked my mention of their site and of the Waiter Caddy a few months back, so they offered to send me [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here’s hoping that you and yours have a great Thanksgiving. For those of you working tonight through this weekend, don’t let your guard down. The night before Thanksgiving can be deceptively busy (at least busier than you might expect). If it doesn’t pan out, at least you’ll have been prepared. And you’d be surprised how [...]

Review of How To Be A Better Restaurant Customer

How to be a better restaurant customer -  stop sabotaging your own dining experiences.  A simple compound sentence that forms the title of a provocative eBook by Marta Daniels, who began this project as a blog. Daniels, who has been in the business for over 10 years, has seen it all and has a great [...]

What accessory is the stylish waiter wearing this season?

No, not multi-colored loincloths. Microfiber polishing cloths. Any waiter who has had to polish crystal wine glasses using cloth napkins can attest to the iffy nature of the method. If you were lucky, you got a napkin that didn’t shed any lint. but more often than not, wiping a glass meant getting it clean first [...]

Holiday season

Even though the holiday season doesn’t “officially” get started until Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, many of you are already starting to feel the rumblings. Every community and restaurant has a different “biorhythm”, but typically, Halloween and cooler weather triggers an uptick in business. The real fun of course is in December. This is [...]