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Sending out good money vibes to all my service industry peeps. Made almost $400 on a Monday with a tornado warning and no tables for my first hour.
Didn’t even realize how much I made till now cuz I thought ‘alright it was steady maybe I made like $250’. Never felt overwhelmed just busy.
What's the best line cook job you've ever worked? And the worst?
The best job I had was a bar connected to a night club with a weird eccentric owner who wanted a fine dining restaurant in his bar. The chef was a freshly out of rehab heroin addict who would say the funniest shit I've heard in my life.
The worst is where I'm working now so I can't say much but it's to easy
Under what conditions would you recommend line cooking as a career to a trans person?
If you are a stress addict who loves drugs or is sober and finds joy nowhere else
Chefs with European accents will look at you straight in the eye and say we don't have a dishwasher we pay 1 dollar over minimum wage for the first 6 months and we expect you to work 7 days a week and say it's a great opportunity to learn from them
“well jump into a barrel of nipples and come up sucking my thumb.”
- something a real customer said to me upon receiving the information that we had turned the coffee machine off for the day
Last night the bar I work at had a rush so traumatizing I had to meditate in my car afterwards and came in this morning to find that everyone is mad at each other and our kitchen manager (the backbone of this place) keeps joking about quitting or offing himself. I do not remember asking to be in a spinoff of The Bear.
Some friendly reminders from your pals in the service industry
we gain literally nothing from lying to you.
It is literally our job to assist you. We are not your enemy.
If you have a service animal, we are not allowed to ask what your disability is. We ARE, however, allowed to ask what service the animal is trained to perform.
Unless you're talking about rent, ESAs ARE NOT SERVICE ANIMALS. Same with therapy dogs
In several states, restaurants need completely different health standards or procedures if they're hosting animals indoors. If the restaurant says 'pets only outside' it is often for health reasons. Especially considering allergens in enclosed spaces.
Most restaurants have websites. Often with menus on them. With descriptions of all the dishes. Also often with explanations of what menus are at what times. Sometimes, they even include policies on reservations and events. Please do a thorough check of the website before going unless you literally wander up. It saves everyone time.
If the restaurant has a long-ass voice message before letting you talk to a person MAYBE LISTEN TO IT.
Waitlists are not there to make you suffer. If you see open tables and are on a waitlist, that means the servers are too busy to give you good service. And we want you to have good service.
Please don't move tables without asking. And if the answer is no. It's probably no for a reason.
WE'RE STILL HUMANS.
