Tipping

[Shannon Apple]

I've worked as a waitress while I was paying my way through uni, and it wasn't expected to get tips, but some people would give something. Waiting staff are paid at least the standard national minimum wage here in Ireland, so you have to assume that it's all included in the price of the food. Chefs are paid a hell of a lot more than the people serving the food, so they can't complain .

Duk said that the serving people get to sit around outside in an air conditioned room. That couldn't be further from the truth. I know where I worked, your feet were moving 100% of the time as there was no time for sitting. Into the kitchen, call out orders, bring out someone else's food, clear over tables, reset them, back in the kitchen again, get called names by the chef, get screamed at by the chef just cuz he's not having a good day, lol etc. Sometimes at the end of a 10-12 hour shift, my feet would be blistered really badly. Ew. The chefs at our place worked in shifts, carvery and a la carte. 9-3 and 4-10. Those guys may have worked in the heat, but we worked just as hard, if not harder on some days. They never worked a full 8 hour day either. Just two different kinds of jobs.

One of the places I worked in, server staff had to go into the kitchen to get stuff because the fridge was on the other end. A new chef grabs me by the arm... "GET TA f*ck OUTTA MY KITCHEN!" and I was like "but... I have to go through there." and he's like "WHY WTF? We're changing that from tomorrow." After work, he went and bought me a drink to say "sorry for being an ass" to me. Haha, getting verbally abused by chefs is quite common, at least from my experience.

That said, any tips gathered would be divided out at the end of the week to include kitchen staff. But we sure earned those tips.

[notyou2]

I've worked as a waitress while I was paying my way through uni, and it wasn't expected to get tips, but some people would give something. Waiting staff are paid at least the standard national minimum wage here in Ireland, so you have to assume that it's all included in the price of the food. Chefs are paid a hell of a lot more than the people serving the food, so they can't complain .

Duk said that the serving people get to sit around outside in an air conditioned room. That couldn't be further from the truth. I know where I worked, your feet were moving 100% of the time as there was no time for sitting. Into the kitchen, call out orders, bring out someone else's food, clear over tables, reset them, back in the kitchen again, get called names by the chef, get screamed at by the chef just cuz he's not having a good day, lol etc. Sometimes at the end of a 10-12 hour shift, my feet would be blistered really badly. Ew. The chefs at our place worked in shifts, carvery and a la carte. 9-3 and 4-10. Those guys may have worked in the heat, but we worked just as hard, if not harder on some days. They never worked a full 8 hour day either. Just two different kinds of jobs.

One of the places I worked in, server staff had to go into the kitchen to get stuff because the fridge was on the other end. A new chef grabs me by the arm... "GET TA f*ck OUTTA MY KITCHEN!" and I was like "but... I have to go through there." and he's like "WHY WTF? We're changing that from tomorrow." After work, he went and bought me a drink to say "sorry for being an ass" to me. Haha, getting verbally abused by chefs is quite common, at least from my experience.

That said, any tips gathered would be divided out at the end of the week to include kitchen staff. But we sure earned those tips.

Did you ever spit in rude customer's food?

[nietzsche]

I've worked as a waitress while I was paying my way through uni, and it wasn't expected to get tips, but some people would give something. Waiting staff are paid at least the standard national minimum wage here in Ireland, so you have to assume that it's all included in the price of the food. Chefs are paid a hell of a lot more than the people serving the food, so they can't complain .

Duk said that the serving people get to sit around outside in an air conditioned room. That couldn't be further from the truth. I know where I worked, your feet were moving 100% of the time as there was no time for sitting. Into the kitchen, call out orders, bring out someone else's food, clear over tables, reset them, back in the kitchen again, get called names by the chef, get screamed at by the chef just cuz he's not having a good day, lol etc. Sometimes at the end of a 10-12 hour shift, my feet would be blistered really badly. Ew. The chefs at our place worked in shifts, carvery and a la carte. 9-3 and 4-10. Those guys may have worked in the heat, but we worked just as hard, if not harder on some days. They never worked a full 8 hour day either. Just two different kinds of jobs.

One of the places I worked in, server staff had to go into the kitchen to get stuff because the fridge was on the other end. A new chef grabs me by the arm... "GET TA f*ck OUTTA MY KITCHEN!" and I was like "but... I have to go through there." and he's like "WHY WTF? We're changing that from tomorrow." After work, he went and bought me a drink to say "sorry for being an ass" to me. Haha, getting verbally abused by chefs is quite common, at least from my experience.

That said, any tips gathered would be divided out at the end of the week to include kitchen staff. But we sure earned those tips.

Did you ever spit in rude customer's food?

Did you buy that? Shannon is a redhead that lives in a small village in Ireland, she runs on the praires and works making drawings for the local pamphlet.

[Dukasaur]

f the food. Chefs are paid a hell of a lot more than the people serving the food, so they can't complain .

Duk said that the serving people get to sit around outside in an air conditioned room. That couldn't be further from the truth.

Ummm... I don't necessarily disagree, but that quote came from TAILGUNN3R:
Subject: Tipping

What always got me when I used to work in the food business was the pressure to tip the server but not the cooks. We're slaving away in fucking 90+ degree heat with hot oil and pans and shit, and the guy who who carries your food to the table and sits around in the air conditioned front of the house gets the tip. Like oh my god, grabbing a salt shaker is so damn worthy of a 15% tip. What an ass-backwards system.

Not that I think tipping should be compulsory, but I definitely don't think servers are the ones who should be getting them.

-TG

My story was about my cab driving days...

Not a big deal, but people mis-attributing quotes to me lately has become an epidemic...

[AndyDufresne]

Not a big deal, but people mis-attributing quotes to me lately has become an epidemic...

I barber my tip.

I figured as much.


--Andy

[DiM]

WAIT!@!! Hold on a sec..........

They have hotels in Romania?

nah, just caves and huts surrounded by commies, gypsies and vampires.

[danfrank666]

If i have to ask for napkins , the only tip you get is the tip of my cock

[AndyDufresne]

If i have to ask for napkins , the only tip you get is the tip of my cock

Do you leave it on the table, or put it in that little book they give for your cash?


--Andy

[notyou2]

I've worked as a waitress while I was paying my way through uni, and it wasn't expected to get tips, but some people would give something. Waiting staff are paid at least the standard national minimum wage here in Ireland, so you have to assume that it's all included in the price of the food. Chefs are paid a hell of a lot more than the people serving the food, so they can't complain .

Duk said that the serving people get to sit around outside in an air conditioned room. That couldn't be further from the truth. I know where I worked, your feet were moving 100% of the time as there was no time for sitting. Into the kitchen, call out orders, bring out someone else's food, clear over tables, reset them, back in the kitchen again, get called names by the chef, get screamed at by the chef just cuz he's not having a good day, lol etc. Sometimes at the end of a 10-12 hour shift, my feet would be blistered really badly. Ew. The chefs at our place worked in shifts, carvery and a la carte. 9-3 and 4-10. Those guys may have worked in the heat, but we worked just as hard, if not harder on some days. They never worked a full 8 hour day either. Just two different kinds of jobs.

One of the places I worked in, server staff had to go into the kitchen to get stuff because the fridge was on the other end. A new chef grabs me by the arm... "GET TA f*ck OUTTA MY KITCHEN!" and I was like "but... I have to go through there." and he's like "WHY WTF? We're changing that from tomorrow." After work, he went and bought me a drink to say "sorry for being an ass" to me. Haha, getting verbally abused by chefs is quite common, at least from my experience.

That said, any tips gathered would be divided out at the end of the week to include kitchen staff. But we sure earned those tips.

Did you ever spit in rude customer's food?

Did you buy that? Shannon is a redhead that lives in a small village in Ireland, she runs on the praires and works making drawings for the local pamphlet.

Prairies in Ireland? Perhaps you mean peat bogs?