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• New link added – Server Not Slave

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  Formerly called “You’re My Shadow Today”, this is a blog that I’ve been meaning to add for a while. Witty, stylish and practical, this blog also allows guest commentators as well. This is another blogger exploring book possibilities.  Waiter Rant has certainly opened the door to possibilities, hasn’t ...
  9 hours ago

• Service horror story

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  From the blog On the Edge  The Albany (NY) Times Union website: Things your waiter whould never say/do December 21, 2009 at 11:28 am by Kristi Gustafson R and I went to dinner Friday night and had what may have been the, um, quirkiest (and annoying) waiter either of us have ever experienced. In fact, at one ...
  2 days ago

• Meet Mike Dillard: A Short Review

  
  Cyber Flopping! — Authority: 153
  Mike Dillard has been raised up as an Online Marketing guru and slapped down as a top notch scam artist, but when you read this review you will be one step closer to choosing for yourself. At twenty-nine, Dillard was waiting tables, barely making ends meet, and searching for the American Dream. During those ...
  3 days ago

• New guest scam – servers beware!

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  In the old days, it didn’t matter very much whether you signed your credit card slip or not. Well, technically it did, but if a guest forgot to sign the slip, there was usually no consequence because they weren’t trying to scam anyone. They knew they ate there; they knew they used their credit card there. But ...
  4 days ago

• Ways that you know that you’ve “got it” as a waiter

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  It takes a little while to become a great waiter (and for some it takes more than a little while, and, let’s face it, some people never get it).Here are some signs that you’ve finally “got it” and you’ve passed from being a beginner and an amateur to a professional. Keep in mind that the job is such that ...
  1 week ago

• Oldie but goodie

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  I thought that one of my earliest posts was worthy of reprinting. Not because I have no ideas about waiting tables (I’m in this hopefully for the long  haul so I don’t want to shoot all of my ammo at once), but because newer readers to this blog might not have taken the time to explore the archives. I know that ...
  1 week ago

• A few more waiter’s terms

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  Early in this blog’s history, I started a series of waiter’s terms. It’s been a while since I’ve added to it. I’ll continue to try to update periodically. At the bottom of this post, you’ll find links to the original articles. No-show – can either be a reservation that doesn’t show up or a fellow ...
  1 week ago

• A nice holiday gesture

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  I work Sunday nights and there’s a very nice couple that comes in on Sunday nights about twice a month. I wait on them occasionally but usually they sit in a different section than the one that I’m waiting on simply because of the rotation. I always make a point to go by and say hi to them if I’m not waiting on ...
  1 week ago

• Another perspective on tipping – this time from a snotty Canadian columnist

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=2120109 He trots out every anti-tipping cliché. I won’t comment too specifically on the article because the economics of restaurants in Canada are different. Canadian waiters get paid more of a living wage than we do in the States, but ...
  2 weeks ago

• The other side of the tipping equation – some tips from a former waiter

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  From “The Mountain Murmur” This is an article that wisely outlines some dos and don’ts for waiters. I love this part: It’s not that I’m stiffing good waiters. I always tip good waiters, at the going rate plus. (If you can’t afford to tip, you can’t afford to eat out.) But the grouchy, the indifferent ...
  2 weeks ago

• From Veronica at HubPages – Do You Have To Tip The Waiter? How much?

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  This is a great HubPages article from someone named Veronica from a couple of years ago. I think that it’s a “must read”. http://hubpages.com/hub/Tipping_Do_You_Have_To_Tip_the_Waiter_How_much The key phrase on the article is “social contract”. This is what some tipping naysayers conveniently forget ...
  2 weeks ago

• The First Rule Of Chuck E. Cheese Is ‘You Do Not Talk About Chuck E. Cheese…’

  
  A Bowl of Stupid — Authority: 114
  From the 8 December edition of the Chicago Tribune comes this gloriously ironic story, talking about how Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatres have become the new Fight Club. From the story:in the past few years Chuck E. Cheeses has developed a reputation as a sort of impromptu fight club, a place where fisticuffs break ...
  2 weeks ago

• New link posted – Waitersfriend – A friend in waiting

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  I highly recommend this fairly new blog from three waiters in Australia. This blog appears to have a lot of potential, focusing on practical information for waiters of all stripes. In that regard, the goal seems similar to my own blog – lots of culinary information and advice for the working waiter. The tab, “a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rant about “no problem”

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  In an example of aggregation squared, I offer this great rant, as passed along by “The Awl”, a site that has this lofty mission statement: “Hey, what is all this? Oh, hello there! We wanted to take a second to tell you, valued first-time visitor, about this place where you’ve landed. It was birthed from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• From The Wall Street Journal – Financial trader moves to waiter

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  A Finance Executive Walks Away to Work His Way Up From Waiter By Dawn Falik “Scott Gould went from trader to waiter—by choice. Growing up in Florida, Mr. Gould enjoyed working in restaurants as a waiter and bartender. But he also liked working with numbers, and after graduating from the University of Florida, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Out of the box idea for waiters with extensive wine lists

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  If you work in a restaurant that has an extensive wine list, you might consider starting an in-house “wine club”. Waiters can chip in X-amount each “meeting” to purchase several wines off of the list for comparison tasting. You might be able to buy the bottles directly from your own stock at cost, but this ...
  3 weeks ago

• End of the month post

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  Well cats and kittens, it’s time to remind you that at the end of the month, the smart waiter takes a really close look at the uniform. Are the shoes on their last legs and are your pants cuffs starting to fray? How about those shirt collars – piling and stained from the sweat of your labors? Now’s the time to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Gifts for Waiters, Pt. 3

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  These fall under the “nice to have” category. These days, few waiters are called upon to light cigarettes and cigars. In the old days, a lighter was an indispensible tool that every waiter carried. Even today, it’s considered a mandatory tool if only to light a candle on a birthday or anniversary ...
  4 weeks ago

• Gifts for waiters – pt. 2

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  Books. Yes, I said books. But not just any books. You have to calibrate the type of book with your favorite waiter. If your waiter friend works at Applebees, they might not need a huge wine book. If you are only a casual friend who’s giving a small gift, you might not want to spend $30 for a really nice book, but ...
  4 weeks ago

• The story about Lehigh students arrested for refusal to pay service charge

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 131
  My fellow WordPress blogger, Jonathan Turley has posted the story, a story that places like Waiter’s Rant have already covered: http://waiterrant.net/?p=1564 http://jonathanturley.org/2009/11/19/lehigh-students-arrested-for-failing-to-leave-tip/#comment-92031 There are some interesting comments on both sites. ...
  5 weeks ago

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