Balancing Stuff is Not a Side Show We Do to Entertain You

Some high-end restaurants have musicians and singers to serenade you as you dine. I worked at an Arabic bistro that featured belly dancers on the weekend. But your typical casual dining chain does not have a floor show.

To compensate for this it would seem that many Rcs like to turn their hard-working server into their own personal entertainment. What is the strategy these Rcs employ? They conclude to push the physical limits of their server.

Food And Dessert

I arrive at the table with some plates perched precariously up my arms. Base sense would indicate that citizen would move some stuff so I can place their food on the table. If you have a salad that you are still slowly inviting at a rate of about one lettuce leaf per two minutes, you need to push it to the side so I can put your plate in front of you.

What do citizen do instead? Well, some of them stare at me, confused, like, what are you doing? I'm trying to put this food down! What are you doing? What does the Super Slow Salad Eater do? He decides to gobble down the rest of the salad in three or four huge bites, and then hold out the empty salad bowl to me, like here, take it! I'm finished! So I'm supposed to grab that with what, my third hand? I can't get any help, so apparently this table decided that they would all like to see how long I could hold their evening meal plates without dropping them or succumbing to the second degree burns I am developing on my wrists, because of course the plates are piping hot.

So, some how I managed to replacement the hot plates to the table sans assistance, and the Rcs have complete their meal. Now its time for me to offer dessert, deposit the check, and clear your plates. I ordinarily grab as many large plates as I can, and then if I feel that I can manage, I determined arrange any small plates, and possibly some glasses. I'm an specialist at how much stuff I can carry. Bored Rcs get a kick out of playing How Much Stuff Can We Stack on the Waitress. There are six citizen at the table, with six large evening meal plates, two of them are unquestionably huge platters. I comprehend I may have overdone it grabbing all of the evening meal dishes, probably should have come back for the platters. Oh well, just gotta make it to the dish tank quickly. "Hold on," some wise guy says, and proceeds to hand me three bread saucers, a bread board with half a loaf of bread still on it, a handful of silverware and two glasses, which are far from empty. He wipes his mouth on his napkin and helpfully places that on top of my heavy load. "Oh, here." someone else hands me a wine glass, a saucer, and their silverware. My stack of stuff is unquestionably teetering, and yet another someone tries to hand me a coffee cup and some silverware. I stare at the cup, and them and then my fully full hands, and back at them and their cup. They stare expectantly at me and their cup, and me and their cup, and me again. "Here you go," says the considerate Rc, and he stands up (thats how high my stack of stuff is) and places his coffee cup on top. "And here's the..." He starts to hand me the check. "Never mind," he says, and helpfully tucks the check presenter in my apron.

I try, I unquestionably try to give Rcs the advantage of the doubt. I try to assume that they don't do inconsiderate things on purpose. But it's hard to believe that citizen can be that ignorant, folks. It unquestionably seems like some of you enjoy finding your server struggling and laboring under too much weight. And half the time you don't even tip accordingly.

Balancing Stuff is Not a Side Show We Do to Entertain You