As a banquet manager, I never work less than 12 hours a day. Most of the time I'm too busy to even eat. I usually just pick a little morsel of food here and there. At the end of the day I wonder why I have a splitting headache and can't wait to get home.But one thing I can't stand is when a waiter of mine thinks it's ok to eat a full meal in the kitchen during lunch or dinner service. Sometimes it's chicken marsala, pasta primavera or even a 6oz filet mignon. Good country we live in, huh?
I'm breaking my butt all day and some ex-housewife just leaves her customers in the ballroom, then strolls into the kitchen, so she can eat a free meal on my time. And you want to get paid your "grats" too?
"I'm hungry", she says. "We never got a break", she moans. Or, "that's my favorite dish" she blabbers on. Who cares !!! "Get back into the room and tend to your tables" I bellow.
"The guest doesn't care if you're hungry, they don't care if you never had breakfast, they don't care if your foot fungus is acting up again or if your ass itches - they don't care about anything except that they want to be taken care of" is one of my standard lines. But it's the truth!
Ah, sometimes these waiters just drive me crazy...
I need a REAL job!
By the way...I'm getting a little hungry! :)
3 comments:
I used to wonder why I had such a sour stomach when I got home. then I would think of the strange combinations of foods I had eaten that day and all the idiots I had had to deal with, being a Chef and all.
Hi Banqman!
In all fairness, servers rarely seem to get thier legal right to a lunch/dinner break, thats why we eat on the fly.
Maybe if management met their legal responsibilities more often and realized that the restaurant business isn't some magic exception to the rules this wouldn't be a problem.
Really, a good banquet manager has to take care of each and every client so that they like the service and come back again.
But it doesn't mean that you should forget about your health.
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