Finally,after two weeks it's time to announce the winners of our Waiters Today Social Network Blogapalooza blog Contest !!!

The Winners !!!!!!…

  The hostess will seat you when you GET OFF YOUR PHONE!  I get extremely irritated by people who walk in while they're talking on their phones.  This usually has one of the following outcomes:

1) They give me the 'just a minute' finger until they can pull the phone away from their face to tell me how many are in their party.

2) They use their fingers to show me how many people are in their party; never taking their attention away from the phone.

3) They walk right past me and sit at bar tables (we're not a seat yourself…

 I work in a place that has some of the best customers you could ever ask for.  You know the ones; at any given time they can make your job easier, less stressful, or just plain fun.  While we’re happy to serve most of our customers, there are some who just deserve a little bit of recognition.

Mr. & Mrs. Easygoing

These are the couples that come in every Friday night.  They’ve been regulars for longer than I have worked here which is 6 years.  Mrs. Easygoing usually comes in around 7:00 when our wait is at its longest, smiles at me and says, “We’ll just be at the bar until our table is ready.  No rush.”…

Christmas parties are a drag.  In my experience, a Christmas party is two or three hours trapped at a table trying to make polite conversation with people I avoid at work .  I've attended parties where my fervent wish was to choke on a chicken bone so EMS could rescue me from the misery of forced cheer. 

I viewed the Cowboy Christmas Party with the same anxiety and dread.  I knew there was going to be a dinner, an open bar, a gift steal and some games.  Mind you, the only games I wanted to play with the majority of my coworkers were the kinds of games cats play with mice right before they eat them. 

It turned out, the atmosphere of the Cowboy Christmas Party was like a typical bar.  People mingled, ate and drank while the…

So many of us in the Food & Beverage industry have talked within and amongst ourselves for years if not decades about the reasons and excuses for the endless turnover rate in FOH positions, now to the tune of hundreds of thousands annually throughout all positions in the hospitality business.

A percentage of this is understandable, as many college students work in the business, while others just choose to move on out of the field and into some other occupation, where they prefer to get away from the crazy night hours of submitting to the vampire lifestyle.

There is one area, however, that has always been in neglect of address…

I work in fast food, and I have a story that is about the best thing I have EVER seen!

It was a statutory holiday so it was very slow in the restaurant. A group of us was huddled in the drive thru chatting, so we had a great view through the window as the events unfolded.

We had an SUV with 3 people in it come through the drive thru, get food, and park. While they were eating they tossed some garbage out the window into the parking lot.

One of the guys in the huddle, a long time employee named Rick saw this and got P!$$ed. Management wants to keep the parking lot clean, and looking good for any customers that come along all the…

  It was a day like any other day in sunny Florida, Only instead of floating in my pool with a beer in one hand, a ciggy in the other and an inch of lotion on my body, I was off to work to wait on the tourists. Now I have waited on people in New York, N.Y. City, and Connecticut, but never have I waited on such rude, grumpy, smelly, mean, nasty, simply ugly people than the vacationers near Disney!

  I arrived at work 5 minutes early, no thanks to the tourists who sit thru green lights, drive 10 miles an hour in a 45, and slam on there brakes, in the middle of a 3 lane highway to watch The Slingshot take off! Whew! I'm alive and all is well. Or so i thought!

  The first couple of tables were OK. Just the usual, "We're…

Hey everybody, Happy New Year!, Well it seems that I am starting this year with a bang and hopefully you will have the best year ever and all your dreams come true! If you follow my blog, by now you know that I wait tables for a living. According to my coworkers, I am what you call a "Career Waitress", which is code for " I didn't go to college, I like having cash on me at all times and now this is the only thing I know how to do".

Don't get me wrong; I am very grateful that I know how to wait tables. This job is secure and stable in an economy that is very unstable and insecure. I have a job in the worst of financial times because, well, people need to eat, they like to go out, and for the rich the word recession doesn't exist or change their spending habits.…

So much more than a pretty face.

I sometimes come across people who are under the impression that a restaurant hostess is basically nothing other than the pretty face that greets customers with a scripted, somewhat robotic recitation, adds nothing of value to the restaurant, and if so inclined can make any of the servers’ shifts a living hell.  I've definitely witnessed my share of adults treating hostesses as if they are all vapid, undereducated and unable to attain a 'higher position'. I will concede that the most recent blog I have read specifically mentions very young hostesses, but I’d like to share a different view.  With training and a great atmosphere some of the young girls just may find they like…

For those of you who are unfamiliar with me, I'm DriveThruGuy and I run a blog called Life In The Drive Thru where I share stories about my daily trials in the drive thru. There are a couple of things you should know about that last sentence...

1. run a blog = rant

and

2. trials in the drive thru = about customers

A link for Blogapalooza 2012 brought me to this site. Seems like a great site thus far, so on with the story...…