Entry#6 Server Life 2.0

Let me tell you I could go on and on about life of being a server. I know I raged on tipping last week, but this week it is all about how the guests act. There are so many different people seen everyday while serving and there is times when there are mess ups from the server like everyone in life we all make mistakes but to sit there and yell or mistreat the server for that is beyond my understanding. For example, this last week I was bartending and this guy who comes in a lot and drinks the same wine(yeah a biker guy who drinks wine, so masculine, I know) and we happen to sell a lot that wine that weekend and we were out of it still. So he walks up and asks if we had any of the wine he drinks and the answer was no, so he proceeded to say some rude comments and then he said " this wine has been out since Friday night, it is starting to feel personal, I should just go to Zipps." Like I hope you know that threating to go to another restaurant wont hurt me at all. Actually I am glad you are leaving, and I hope you permanently choose to go to Zipps. Another favorite for servers is when someone or a table act like they are the only table in the restaurant , so they take their sweet time to order and they are constantly waving to get the servers attention. People have slowly lost their manners since thank you is barely said or people snap their fingers to get the servers attention. Like no one likes to be snapped at or have someone point in their face, so what makes that different for someone serving you? Or when the server is talking to another table, that does not give the guest the right to interrupt them or come up and talk to them while they are serving or talking to another table, like that is so insanely rude. Another thing is the menu is there to guide guests, and the servers is there to help if there are any additional questions, not to read the whole menu to you. And when asked certain questions such as " would you like your baked potato loaded, with butter or sours cream, plain?" The answer is not "yes." Like yes what? If given three options, yes is not one of them. Working in the food industry the realization of how awful and selfish people can be comes up a lot, trust me you meet a lot of good people during the journey, but it can also suck a lot too.

P. S Always remember to tip properly!