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- gsmaster, on 10/13/2007, -0/+29everything teaches us something
- Gogara, on 10/13/2007, -1/+17Spelling was not one of them?
- Spikito, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19You know you've been a restaurant server when:
1. You know that in the weeds is not a camping term.
2. You cant decide who you hate more: kids, old people, teenagers, or foreigners.
3. Youre pissed if you got a $10 tip on a $60 check.
4. You can figure out 20% like nobodys business.
5. You heavily debate putting on a gratuity for a big party. And may call in a second opinion to evaluate the table.
6. Youre familiar with the signature cocktail: water with lemon.
7. You don't have any idea what the special is and could care less.
8. When you go out to eat, you over analyze everything your server does. And even if they screw up you still tip at least 20%.
9. You hang out at the server table.
10. You know about all your co-workers sex lives and drug habits. And you participate in one or the other; or both!
11. You know what the most dreaded side work is and how to avoid getting stuck with it.
12. Same goes for the death section.
13. You understand the importance of booths.
14. You know that an over cooked steak is the worst re-cook ever.
15. You want to kill the kitchen when they have 30 minute ticket times.
16. You will take the long way around just to avoid your table.
17. You hate making desserts.
18. You get weeded waiting forever for the bar to pour you a freakin beer.
19. You live out of your car.
20. You always have cash on you, yet youre always broke.
21. Your cash is usually still in your book days after you worked.
22. You know who sells the good drugs.
23. You never know what happened to the wine key.
24. You become a nocturnal creature.
25. Everybody on a Sunday AM shift has a hangover.
26. The busser is never around when you need him.
27. Getting cut does not equal getting out.
28. You need a manager card to wipe your ass!
29. A screw up is always appreciated by the starving servers.
30. And youre all like a bunch of vultures when it happens!
31. When in doubt-you go with medium.
32. You use the term 86 in regular conversation. Yet you have no idea where it came from - chrisbarr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Yep, my first job I worked at a drive-thru only fast food place in NC called Cook Out. Good food, but I really hated working there. Plus I'm bad at math, and the register didn't calculate change for you, so I was pretty slow on that part. I eventually got "let go" because I apparently couldn't make shakes fast enough.
- inactive, on 10/13/2007, -0/+6Can waiting tables teach you how to become an entrepreneur? NO.
Can a university degree teach you how to become an entrepreneur and a business success? NO.
You can take a donkey to water, but you cannot make the donkey drink. Very few people know how to handle money. That is why after 40 years on the job they still have a mortgage and work for wages.
I worked in the electrical servicing industry in Australia. I worked in office refurbishment and privately for business people. As I was not a threat to their operation I had the freedom to wander the offices when I was installing electrical equipment. Entrepreneur’s have a natural ability to do a particular job. Entrepreneurs are born. There is something it their intellectual makeup which gives them the drive to success when others give up.
To be an entrepreneur, you have to be able to manipulate people into thinking that purchasing the product is their idea and you are only the vehicle. Waiting tables does not teach you anything about human behaviour. You just do not have enough time to analyse the person to find out how they tick. In Australia waiting tables is a job between jobs or for university students to earn a living to pay the bills.
If you cannot manage personal debt and save money, you have failed as an entrepreneur and no amount of motivational psychology seminars will help you. To be a successful entrepreneur starts with personal discipline. The hardest thing to do in life is to save your first $10,000. The second hardest thing is not to spend it. The third hardest thing is finding an investment which will give you a positive return when inflation is factored into the equation. Learn to live on 25% less than what you earn. Don’t use a credit card as easy money. Use a credit card as a monthly bill payment system. Pay off your credit card debt before the due day.
Talk and web blogging is cheap; so is ripping off other peoples ideas. If you do not have product knowledge and experience selling your product, you will end up a bankrupt. Even successful entrepreneurs have failed in a new enterprise when they have become involved in a product and business they have no expertise in.
If you really want the evangelical gospel on being an entrepreneur, go to a multi-level marketing seminar. You will walk out a true believer. The reality is that 99% of multi-level marketers will loose time and money because the mathematical formula used to build the “pyramid business model” does not work in the real world of corporate commerce.
There are two fundamental business truths in the world: 1: “dream, but keep your day job”. 2: ”beware of Greeks bearing gifts”.
Simply put; don’t believe everything your read on the net. ***** is cheap; losing money is a painful experience. - jalexhall1989, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Anyone that isn't digging this guy obviously hasn't worked as a waiter. I appreciate Numbers 2 (it happens from horrible tips, trust me), 3,4,7,8,10,17 and definitely 31. Ahh the days of Johnny rockets.
- sgtpppr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Did Corey Feldman work there and was there some sort of race at the end of the season to save the local rec center?
- icegoddess13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5this is so true!! you may not necessarily be starting your own business, but if you work in a place where customer service is truly the top priority, people skills are essential. i've moved up faster than some of my peers at work because i go out of my way to do what i can to help someone. that's not something you learn in school. i hope to have my own business someday, so i'm learning all i can until i get there :)
- ccanni1028, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Ah, so you're familiar with #33 - You are asked "When are you guys going to dance??" at least three times per shift.
I've been working at JR since June and have almost quit 3 times.
#20 is especially true for us, since we don't use the register for cash transactions. We keep cash on us. --- People wonder why I carry a pocketknife on me at all times, even though at the end of a Friday or Saturday night I could have $300 in small bills in my pocket. - Goobernutz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I waited tables for 4 years and all it did was reinforce every politically incorrect racial, religious, and social stereotype out there! Life is much easier now.
- XxFinalexX, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8The best way to be an entrepreneur as a waiter would be to steal other peoples tips, but I guess your ideas are neat too.
- shoemoney, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4right on wendy!
- webcure, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Learning to serve others happily is a great lesson!
Tip your waiter! - GetShorty, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Everything *should* teach us something... Unfortunately, most people don't play by those rules.
- solid12345, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Wow a pro capitalist article on digg and not some socialist garbage about how all CEO's screw the little man.
- cdrew, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I think we all have this experience somewhere in our past. For me, it was working as a clerk in a liquor store during college.
- underdog138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I waited tables for five years through college. In Texas, we made $2.13 an hour. Most people know this unless they're complete idiots. What an even smaller percentage of those people know is that after all is said and done and if you claim a fair pecentage of your tips, the income tax is deducted from the check and the paycheck you get every week nets a whopping zero (that's $0.00) dollars. What I make off the tables is what paid my bills and tutition. It's people like you that I gave bad service to if I ever saw them again in my restauraunt.
Unfortunately, digg only lets you digg someone down one time. I wish I could do more. - MuffinPatrol, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3these are right on, i thought you worked at the same restaurant i did for a second.
- ccanni1028, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Because jobs that rely on tips are barely paid. The standard waiter's pay is between 3 and 4 dollars per hour. I get paid $3.67 per hour plus tips. On some nights, my total pay is at or below minimum wage. I've walked out with $20 in tips for a 7 hour shift. After tipping out the cooks, dishwashers, and bussers, that left me with $15. That comes out to $6.67 per hour before taxes.
- DocHoliday22, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4All work experience is not equal. That being said any exposure that requires you to deal directly with customers whilst also working on commission builds that hunger, desire and also I should say - the fear. Sometimes I wish I had worked in the retail industry when I was younger as all my mates who did, developed this intuition and tact thing. They also learnt to be more aggressive, ruthless and became better at negotiating. I took an office job working in a Law firm solving problems, so in essence the only skills I developed was being able to ***** around with legal terms (problem solving). That's why not all work experience is equal.
- smacksaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I read that and thought about people who are ***** tippers and should only eat at McDonalds since they are too ***** stupid to understand gratuities and instantly equated them with the same ***** who never pay their invoices on time, or even worse send you a lesser amount than what you invoice them for and make your argument with them cost more than what you'd lose. Fry's "low low prices" come to mind on that one.
But yeah, I think waiting tables can teach you how to be an entrepreneur just as the customers you wait on probably fit the mold of people who are both good and those with bizarre, selfish ethics that ruin both table service and private entrepreneurship. - houndeyex, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4"Hear" are 6 lessons I learned waiting tables.
Wow, you win. - fantastcandy10, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2no, _you_ pay them to do their job.
- benroy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3short answer?
no, no it can't. move along please. - stackered, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1hooters?
- cactus476, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2No, everything does teach us something, just that some don't want to learn.
- wwnexc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What's her website?
- houndeyex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2No *****. Way to be unprofessional.
- cultist667, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3More crap that managed to reach the front page.
- underdog138, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's like this at just about every restauraunt. I had a huge wave of nostailgia come over me when I could relate to every single one of these points and remember an example of each in vivid memory.
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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1lol
- LifeSaverS, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1great little article, thanks
- sacherjj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The law states that if tips don't make your wage up to minimum wage, you are required to be "made whole" by your employer. The catch is that if you do that, you will find yourself without a job. Many wait staff go home with less than minimum wage. Although, I find it strange to be sharing tips with cooks and dishwashers. Bussers I understand. But cooks and dishwashers should be on a straight pay scale.
- hyveup, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I'm a marcom exec today, and still I kept a sunday shift. It's not for the money, it's to keep in touch with real selling and CRM skills. + what a great atmosphere.
- maliath, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I was a ranch hand for two Southeast Texas summers in a row during highschool. It was a bitch, but I learned a lot. I definitely believe the experience greatly helped me to get where I am today.
- AD7GD, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2This woman redefines success! ...as having "one of the top 5000 websites in the US"!
- ST0N3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1well, i "here" you don't know much about the english language, Mr. entrepreneur
- boxybrzown, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1"But today, my website is now one of the top 5000 US web sites on the internet."
Uhhh...yeah. Those seem like excellent business credentials, making you worthy of imitation.
Entrepreneur != Entrepreneur Making Large Amounts of Money - OCSunwear, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1I'm just starting out in business but my greatest experience came while working as ski school instructor while taking a break from college.
- Faern, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1She does it again!
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1They get paid for their job...why should I pay them more to do it? I always tip my waiter, but you can't go anywhere without looking at a tip jar anymore.
- printhound, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1What a great set of tools for those who aspire for getting ahead in life, no matter what part of the world they came from or were born into. Great post!
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