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i work at a chain restaurant, and how many tables we have depends on the night. on a saturday night, we have 11 servers on and each have about a 4 or 5 table section. on a monday or tuesday night there are 5 servers on and we have way bigger sections. our hostesses are supposed to rotate sections so noone gets triple sat, but on a busy night when you only have 4 tables in your section, if they all get up at the same time and theres a wait then we sometimes get triple sat.
as for sidework...we have front of house (foh) and back of house(boh) sidework that we have to do. front of house sidework isnt bad though. we have to make sure our section is clean at the beginning of our shift and the end of our shift and that its ready for the next shift. it gets checked out by the foh closer at the end of the shift and we get signed before we can leave. boh is harder though. we have a boh sidework chart and u have to make sure that every dressing by your name is done at the beginning of your shift with a backup in case we need it. and then theres running sidework which is like stocking glasses, or getting ice, or something else like that. then at the end of the shift we have closing sidework for boh. that would be like cleaning a side station, restocking the coffee station, closing the salad bin. of course its a lot of work if there arent a lot of servers on the floor, but the less sidework you have to do, the more servers are on and the less money you make.
we have to tipout the hostesses because our chain is cheap and wont pay the hostesses minimum wage so we have to tip them out.
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