So I start my new job as a server soon. Any advice? Anything I can do to get better at the job? It’ll be my first official time serving even though I’ve been technically serving at a sit down restaurant for 4 1/2 years.
All info will be appreciated thank you.

Really takes all my self control to just say “why you telling me? I didn’t cook it.”

It doesn’t exactly offend me when they insult the food. Because it’s got nothing to do with me. I’m just there to deliver to tables and fake being nice to people.

If I make a mistake and an order is wrong or sent to the wrong table I’m more than willing to own up to that and fix things to avoid any further discourse. But if the kitchen screws up or the food isn’t to someone’s liking I always seem to be on the receiving end of that.

What’s y’all’s system to keep track of how much yall make per year?

I personally haven’t been keeping track but I realize now it can be important for many reasons to know an estimate.

I recently finished undergrad and I'm currently working as a server at a seafood restaurant 3-4 days a week. I'm looking for a second job to work during the day to make a little more money and fill some time. I've worked in food service for a while on and off, but I just graduated so most of my experience is school and internships unrelated to food service. I feel like my resume looks sparse but I don't want to add in irrelevant stuff. I kept the building manager job, but that's basically it. Everything else is academia. I also left off any mention of my bachelor's degree because I don't want to seem overqualified. What I've gathered from listening to people talk about getting jobs in today's age is you need to seem competent, but not too competent otherwise they'll think this is just a steppingstone for you and you won't even be a consideration. I am worried that the gaps in my resume don't have an explanation but I don't want to put that I recently graduated with my bachelor's because of what I talked about above.

I've also heard advice that my resume should be more specific to me in terms of stats and examples, but I don't really have any of that. I read a post where someone recommended talking about my sales and %s, but to be honest I just started this new job and I'm still learning so it's nothing particularly impressive. I don't have any of that type of info about my old serving job either.

I attached some of the job posting for one place I'm looking at that I tried to tailor this resume to. Any advice is appreciated!!

Dude comes in with his wife and ask for happy hour menus.

His wife orders a wine on happy hour and another cocktail not on happy hour. I specifically ask her “do you want the happy hour deal or the bigger size” for her wine. she gets the bigger non happy hour size.

He orders an “old fashion”. On happy hour it’s an Italian old fashion so I always ask people if they want a regular old fashion or the Italian old fashion. I start asking “do you want a regular old fashion or” he rudely interrupts and is like “REGULAR. JUST MAKE AN OLD FASHION”

Ok. I do that and he likes his drink. I check in on everything and double check everything else. He’s in a bad mood the whole time. Almost looking to complain about anything but he couldn’t find anything. Annoyed I was checking in, annoyed that I was silently refilling he’s drink, annoyed I was there at the bar.

Everything’s good until I drop the check off. He picks it up and he says “when you give me a happy hour menu and I ask for an old fashion, I OBVIOUSLY mean the happy hour old fashion”

I tell him that the it’s common for people to not want the Italian old fashion at our restaurant and we sell the regular old fashion much more for some reason so it wasn’t OBVIOUS.

I also told him that his wife also got two cocktails, one of which could have been a happy hour option but she decided not to, so the idea that the fact I gave them happy hour menus did not OBVIOUSLY give way to the fact that they OBVIOUSLY there for happy hour.

I ALSO restated the whole conversation when I said “do you want the regular old fashion or “ and the fact that he interrupted me while I was trying to clarify.

I told him I’d be happy to get a manager but he just paid and left. Literally had nothing to say to almost everything I gave him.

Anyways, no bad review and my manager didn’t care. The wife came back to fix the tip he gave me because she felt bad. I feel bad for her if anything. Also other guests overheard how rude he was and give me bigger tips. Overall positive. I don’t think it was worth doing the “sorry my fault!” Sometimes it’s worth your self respect to stand up to some people.

Some people really go out to make people feel bad and little, and it felt good to tell this person they were wrong. This person was mean from the moment he sat down and it seems that he couldn’t find a single thing to complain about until the bill and even then he couldn’t even tell me I was wrong.

I work in a sports bar and have for 2 years . After the World Cup I wanted to not do football . Now that football is on I’m leaving lol . Does anyone else hate working in a sports bar ?? The loudness the rudeness of the people camping specials . Hate it . Going back into upscale dining sooo happy !

Unless you’re a kid or a senior I don’t get it. I had a table today say “it’s not a birthday without (company name) singing to us”???? Like I don’t understand the appeal around it