Good Impression
If yer lookin’ for the comic for Sept. 1… see the post below this comic! It shall be explained there.
Sweaty waiters are such a turn off… I want a waiter who’s whistling while he/she works and has a powder dry forehead… but yet gives great service!
Another “tip” would be to have the hand under the plate and the thumb at the edge of the plate, not on it. Also, glasses should not be served with your hand over the glass. My mother actually corrected a waitress on that one.
Wow, all of these points I never would have known; this is why I should not have a future in waitressing… although my L.A. degree says that this is why I will… ;-;
I prefer a minimum (read:lack) of facial hardware and neck tattoos. Refraining from lobe plugs the same size as the steamed clams is also a plus.
EofO…. yah… I find it difficult to stomach food offerings when I’m lookin’ at a guy who could wrap his earlobe around to touch his nose!
Chase… there’s always Barista-ing. And it’s hip.
Joe… Yah… keep this fingers off our glass rims!
Brig: And I just bet you’re one of those tricky customers who wants their food made properly too, right? 😉
Astragali… there is THAT! Hee hee.
I always like the ones who can get it right between lack of service and hovering. It seems to me the best (female) ones are moms, Men tend to go over board on either extreme. Although the service may be better with men at the really fancy places, I’m a diner girl myself.
Ever here of side-tips? Those are tips you give your busboy/girl to keep for themselves above and beyond the main tip to the waiter/waitress. And how does one get big side tips? I found DROWING customers to have been very effective.
Long ago I bussed at a fancy dinner restaurant at what was then the DoubleTree Inn in Monterey. We used long stemmed water glasses with large oval tops. In the waiter station we’d line up a good sized squadron of them, run over the tops of them with an ice scoop, and then top off the ice with a slice of lemon on each. When diners would arrive, the appropriate busser would pour ice water from a pitcher into the correct number of glasses, transfer them to a small round serving tray, walk them over to the table…and in my case dump a glass into the lap of an unsuspecting customer. I did it on two different occasions.
I felt bad each time I did it, and gave my victims really good service and in both cases not only got thanked but also got big side tips. The other bussers wanted to give me grief for drowning dinner customers but could not get around my large side tips. My waiter and waitress likewise where happy with their resulting tips and thank you’s and so let it slide.
So there it is Feather, hit the occasional lap with a glass, ice water, ice and a lemon slice.
erk…typos…Ever “hear”…I found “DROWNING” customers…thanks…yeh, no spell check.
@stick; that might work once per customer, but if you started “drowning” me or other members of my party every time I came in, I’d place a complaint faster than you could blink your eyes, and cease patronizing the establishment until you were gone!
DCS… hey, I stopped at two…and no, never got fired from there.
A little extra sodium never hurt no one.