If you are going to be a server at least have some type of nice personality.....More and more, rude, lazy and slow servers out there. I find the older aged servers do a better job.
2006-08-28 04:22:57 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dining Out ➔ United States ➔ Other - US Dining Out
i agree with you....here are the reasons why this is happening...
1. mtv generation thinks the whole world owes them something, but really the whole world thinks the whole world owes them something
2. the economy is, and has been booming for the last 5 years, since the middle of 2001, a good economy pulls more workers from lower positions to higher positions (a busboy becomes a waiter)
3. everyone leaves a 15% tip no matter what. if the service is bad, leave a 2% tip, tipping is optional. if the service is great, leave a 25% tip, try to make the tip average 15%, or whatever % you think the average should be, but make sure the good and bad servers get VERY different tips, dont be ashamed to give a low tip for bad service, be ashamed of contributing to bad service by leaving a 15% tip for a bad server.
4. general incompetence of management
5. "political correctness" that makes management and customers afraid to address problems with bad servers
2006-08-28 08:48:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's not that the waiters or waitresses are so "crappy," but that they are not trained. Many do not come from homes where they are taught good manners or good work ethics. Others have little or no education. If you don't have a role model to look up to, how can you know what you should be? They often wait tables because there is no other job for them. These people should be pitied and not blamed. They need someone to help them learn how to relate well to the public and teach them manners and graces.
Waiting tables is hard work. Often these rude, lazy and slow servers don't last. They can't do the work.
Older servers have experience in both their work and in life. They have learned some of the manners and graces that the young people have yet to learn.
Then you have the bright, personable individuals who wait tables because they are working their way through college.
2006-08-28 05:20:33 · answer #2 · answered by Loyless H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to be a waiter... it is a really crappy job. No one wants to do it. You will have customers complaining when nine times out of ten it is not your fault at all if the food is slow, or cold, or whatever. If you are at a nice restaurant, okay, you can expect some good service. If you are at a "Chili's", the waiter is not making that much money and probably is not going to be an expert. I think a lot of customers just want their egos stoked by a server that is subservient to them. But, again, I was never directly rude to customers, that is over the line.
And what the guy below me is saying about the cute waitresses is also very true.
2006-08-28 04:34:34 · answer #3 · answered by s_e_e 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not all servers are "crappy". It is just the few that make it look bad for those that do work hard. I know quite a few younger servers who get out there and bust there butts doing a wonderful job.
Communication is not a one way street. The quality of service also depends upon the customer, too. If you make it really hard on the server, i.e. if you are rude, you might expect bad service.
2006-08-30 17:31:09 · answer #4 · answered by sescja 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a retired waitress, I've seen damn near everything, including the stone-cold sober d*ckhead who called me an f---ing b-tch because the kitchen ran out of FRENCH FRIES.
Leaving the business was one of the best things I ever did. I made good money and the majority of people are decent and tip fairly, and for the most part I really enjoyed the work. I was fun and for the most part, a low-responsibility kind of job.
However, the diners who bring their issues to the restaurant with them, I never had any use for. Chances are, if you're getting crappy service, your server is 1) just having a bad day, it happens to the best of us, or, 2) ignorant and careless, or, 3) is not getting support from the kitchen staff (i.e food being ready) or 4) you're one of those crappy customers with an overblown sense of entitlement.
2006-08-28 08:46:45 · answer #5 · answered by meanjanine 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a former server in a college town with over 15 years in the business, I can say that the majority of you PICK, thats right, you choose, the servers that work in restaurants because of how you tip. It's an extremely sexists world out there. I was the head trainer at a steakhouse, and I would have customers flat out tell me they wanted the cute blonde to wait on them, or they'd flirt with the cute burnette in the section next to me, and stiff me and give her the tip just for talking to them. The hot girls/guys couldn't serve food out of a paper bag, but nobody cared that their food was wrong, cold, or missing, as they forgot what tables they were even waiting on by the time they walked to the back of the restaurant, but they'd make twice in tips, while I waited on half of their tables because the manager would ask me to help out, run their food, bus their tables. So they stay and I got a different job.
Thats how you get lousy servers, you piss off all of the good ones by rewarding the cute college girls/guys who can't wait tables. If people tipped based on the service they got, and not how attracted they were to the server, then you would eventually weed out the poor servers and it would be worth it to the strong servers to stick around.
2006-08-28 04:40:37 · answer #6 · answered by Bigwag Dog Bakery 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Servers work on tips mainly. The restaurant wants good servers that make a lot of money in tips but society is disfunctional and there are too many losers in the labor pool
2006-08-28 04:26:36 · answer #7 · answered by Hymn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They dont hire crappy servers, what happens is Restaurants are desperate for help and they will hire people without any experience, or people who will lie just to get the job. They become crappy servers because they cant handle the busy environment etc... Its up to management to decide when to fire them..
2006-08-28 05:40:23 · answer #8 · answered by Doc Hollywood 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am a server and I absolutely love it, I make amazing money and it's all in what you make it. You get people coming back asking for you and no it's not the most glamorous job in the world..but it's what you make it and I'm great at what I do if I must say so.
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2016-09-30 02:16:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋