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How we treat our Waiters and Waitresses.

Waiting staff, wait staff, or waitstaff, waiters and waitresses are those who work at a restaurant or a bar attending customers —

supplying them with food and drink as requested.
Traditionally, a male waiting tables is called a "waiter" and

a female "waitress." Some people prefer to use gender-neutral language, using waiter indiscriminately for

males and females, waitperson, server, or waitron, an Americanism coined in the 1980s.

Waiting staff

can also be employed in (mainly large) private households, but there such specialization is rarer with the general domestic staff performing the function of waiting staff.

Waiting on tables is part of the most common occupations in the U.S., which is the service business (along with nursing, and teaching).

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that, as of May 2005, there are over 2.2 million persons employed as waiters and waitresses in the U.S.

A Waiter speaks his mind

Waiter and Waitresses worth there salt learns to figger oot who's sitting where and to delineate their meals , drinks and, therefore,

their bills from the moment any group up to six sits down. Even if they move around. So cry me a river and then learn

some basics.Anyhew; a word to the consumer - if there is something wrong with your meal -underdone, overcooked, you hate wasabi

mash fusions, whatever; PLEASE SAY SO DURING THE MEAL. We build these unfortunate events into our food costs so

you can enjoy your meal and go tell your friends to come check us out. Your satisfaction is our future success. If you tell

me, your server, at the end of the meal; then you've wasted both our time. If you take it out on me verbally or out of my

wallet through lack of gratuity; I am left feeling confused, lost, or filled with confused, lost hatred towards you. Why

not just say it so we can attempt to make it right for you? It won't take long and you'll look like a champ for holding out

for what you would like to pay for!Oh, and please stop showing up drunk for your meals - you may feel like champs, but when you get belligerent in the

middle of the meal because your butter isn't soft; you look like a chump and I and my abilities will bail on you in a

heartbeat so you can deal with a floor manager that hasn't served a table since the good ole days of '78.Cheers; six star waiters and waitresses in a five star restaurant in a seven star ski town.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 7/14/2005 5:34 PM

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