Imagine this … You wake up every morning, you put on your uniform stained with food and drink, you get on the bus and go to work, by work I mean a place where you have to clean up the children who spill trash all over the table and floor, a place where almost everyone who walks in thinks they are better than you, a place where everyone wants something for you, a place where 80-year-olds still think 25 cents is a good tip. You stop for 6 to 12 hours, you rarely have breaks, and when you finish, you smell like French fries. This my friend is the life of a server.
So now that you know how bad their job is, let’s take a look at 5 things you can do to make things worse. Here are the top ten things that will really irritate your already overloaded server.
1: Sit at a dirty table, I don’t know why, but it seems that all customers are attracted to the dirtiest table in the room, it doesn’t matter if all the restaurant tables are clean and one dirty, the customer always seems to sit in the dirty, and most of the time they ask the server to clean their table. This is not only irritating, it is very inconsiderate.
2: Say you are ready to order and then keep reading the menu – If you are not ready to order, say so, it is most likely not the only table your server has, he / she does not have time to stand at your table while you decide what you want, that is why he / she asks “are you ready to order?”
3: Mark your server down while he / she is serving another table; again, they are not the only clients that your server will reach out to you.
4: Complain about the prices: There is a good chance that your server did not make the menu or the prices, it is not his fault that the burger costs 12 dollars
5: Don’t tip, no matter how much the food costs, how long it took for the food to come out, or how clean the bathrooms are, if you ever plan on going back to the restaurant it’s in. your best interest to tip your server
So the next time you go out to eat remember that the person serving you has probably already dealt with a couple hundred people and you can bet that 80% of them treated him like shit.