When you walk into a restaurant dripping with ice, designer labels from head to toe, loudly exclaiming that you hope noone scratches up your Benz, everyone can tell that you have big money, right? They know you’re someone who deserves the best table that the casual dining chain restaurant has to offer! The finest service [...]
I’m not impressed with anyone who knows the name of the owner of my restaurant. I’m not impressed with anyone who actually knows him, although that is a significantly smaller number of people. Namedropping may impress your dinner companions, but you can add that to the list of stuff that your server does not find [...]
So in these days of the Great Recession, I understand that folks aren’t eating out as much. I also get that, when they do eat out, the RCs just can’t be as lavish about the whole thing as we all once were in say, ’06 or ’07. I accept that, I truly do. As I’ve stated [...]
For a female server getting hit on regularly is part of the job. Especially when waiting on a large group of guys. They tend to egg each other on. I get all of the classics. “Did you get a traffic ticket today? Cuz you got FINE written all over you!” or “Is your mother a [...]
So I don’t live in LA or New York or any of those glamorous meccas of excitement, but I do live near a relatively big city. Every now and then we get a Person of Some Sort of Note in to the restaurant. Jackee (Sister, Sister, 227) came in once, legendary boxer Tommy Hearns, that [...]
Ok. This has got to be said. You would think that past and/or current restaurant employees would make the best, the coolest, the easiest tables to wait on! Sometimes that is very true. But most of the time, that is tragically false. Honestly? I’ve got to the point where I cringe inwardly [...]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMatZLF9zag Marta Daniels ( http://www.howrc.com ) explains that your server is neither impressed nor amused by the fact that you say that you know the owner.
