#restaurant host

[bodybybane]

Chris Pine Says He 'Hated' Pre-Fame Job as Restaurant Host: 'I Was Not a People Person' https://people.com/chris-pine-hate-pre-fame-job-as-restaurant-host-not-a-people-person-8645253

Chris Pine Says He 'Hated' Pre-Fame Job as Restaurant Host: 'I Was Not a People Person'

Chris Pine spoke with 'Business Insider' about his early acting career and pre-fame days, including a job as a restaurant host that he 'hate

[phantomofthegallifreyanopera]

Customer Service Guilt

Can we take a minute and talk about how guilty people who have worked in customer service feel towards other customer service employees? I have worked in full service restaurants, fast food, and retail, and therefore can sympathize with these types of workers specifically.

For example, if I’m at a restaurant and I order something I know is a little more complicated, I feel bad. 9 times out of 10 I’ll look for the easiest thing to order as I possibly can. And if I do have a more complicated order, I apologize profusely. I know what it’s like to have someone add or sub a bunch of things off their order, and I don’t want to be that guy.

Similarly, if I’m at a store and I bring 5 or more items to the cash register, I apologize. I’ve had customers bring 20+ items and I know how exhausting it is, and the stress of trying to scan everything as quickly and efficiently as possible.

And it’s not only me. I’ve had customers apologize to me over the smallest things that I as an employee didn’t see as a big deal, but to them it is because they have been in the exact same place I’m in.

There was a couple that came in to the restaurant I work at about a month or so ago and were treated terribly by their server, but because the wife was a server at a restaurant a couple blocks over, she insisted on leaving a 20% tip even though this server deserved 0% after the way he treated them.

And, on another note, I’ve noticed people who have worked in customer service are much more likely to ask me how my day is going. The other day I was at a grocery store and the cashier asked how my day was going and I said “Good, how is yours?” and she thanked me for asking how her day was.

Bottom line, if you work or have worked in customer service you are awesome and I love and appreciate you.

[v-tired-queer]

That feeling when you suddenly remember that you're working a later shift and have a whole extra hour before you have to go to work >>>> everything else

[cathedralofaudra]

fuckkk I got home at 5:00 m, rested for an hour, and then cleaned the floors downstairs until they were clear as crystal its now 10pm. I'm exhausted

So now I'm listening to Milgram and drinking a Dr. Pepper.

Let's hope I'm paid decently tonight

[hiding-all-the-bodies]

Look, all I'm saying is that if you make a reservation for 15 people, you cannot show up with 40 people and expect us to be prepared

[hiding-all-the-bodies]

Sh*t customers say

By a restaurant host and salad maker

Customer: "Excuse me, I ordered this steak well done, but it's medium raw" *shows the inside of the steak, the tiniest ribbon of pink is in the middle*

Customer: *rummages through pen cup* "Can I eat this?"

Me: "The... raw black bean?"

Customer: "Ya"

Me: "Uh...no."

Customer: *eats it anyway*

*Puts down a beautiful plate of French toast in front of customer*

Customer:"I'm not eating that"

[gnarrwhals]

Working in a restaurant as a host was so weird. I got handed an envelope with money in it with like no way to verify that it was the correct or fair amount.

[iamthecutestofborg]

Guest: We want to sit outside, but we don't want to be in the sun.

Well maybe don't sit outside then??? Because, you know... That's where the sun is???