Waiting In Vegas

Tonight started off slowly. One person called out and wasn’t replaced. Another person left pretty early. We didn’t get busy until 10 p.m. or so. 30 minutes later all of the computers went down. The problem was with the network itself. We could technically ring new tickets in and recall them on the same computer. [...]

Tonight I was removing dishes from a table when the following brief and somewhat embarrassing conversation occurred. Me: May I take your plate? Man: If you want me to lick it I will. Men: (realizing how dirty he sounded the man begins laughing like a lunatic) Me: That won’t be necessary. Men: Wait… I wasn’t [...]

Our last assistant manager was escorted out by security for drinking on the job. When I say drinking on the job I do not mean having a refreshing glass of beer to de-stress. What I mean is he was shit-faced (near falling down) drunk. You could also smell the alcohol oozing from his pores from [...]

An old man comes in and orders his meal. After his food arrives the server checks on him. The old man says “Why is that chinese girl so angry? She keeps slamming things around.” (referring to an Asian busser) Later the same man flagged the server down to tell him “I’m pretty sure there was [...]

Last night I invented an awesome new way to annoy my manager. At 12:28 I walked up to him with a notepad in my hand and asked him the time. I jotted it down along with “Paul standing by the bar.” I showed him the pad of paper and told him I was going to [...]

Few people love passive aggressive notes left by restaurant diners more than me. Most of the time I don’t even mind the fact that the note is left in lieu of a tip because I am so utterly amused by it. Sure, it’s nice to hear things like “you’re pretty” or “the service was awesome” [...]

Sometimes I think that people only dine out for the sake of having something to complain about. I’m not saying that where I work screws up so much they have no choice but to complain. What I am saying is that some people are just constantly on the lookout for an opportunity to be rude [...]

Tonight when I arrived at work most of my station was full of tables that were about to leave.  The server who was in the station previously was doing side work in the back so I took it upon myself to prebus his tables, offer them dessert, and give them their checks.  One table had [...]

Two drunk men stumble to the hostess stand.  They are using each other for support.  The hostess seats them in my station (of course).  I give them a couple of minutes to get situated before greeting them and filling their water glasses. They both have one of those giant douche souvenir cups from some place [...]

Tonight was one of those nights where if anything could go wrong it did in fact go wrong.  The night started out simple enough. Sure, there was a line but tables were being sat at a manageable pace and the kitchen was sending food out pretty quickly. Then, five of my tables leave at once, [...]