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Originally posted by AOPIHottie
The servers just wait their tables, roll silverware, usually 70-ish on weekends, turn in a cashout and go home. This is the first concept I have worked for where the servers didnt have running/closing duties and FOH cleaning to do. We pay people to do all that for the servers.
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Oh my God, I wanna work for you!
Each server where I work has her duration, which she keeps an eye on during the entire shift, then each person has specific closing duties depending on seniority. I usually end up with the sucky ones that take the longest because I'm pretty new, so I'll be happy when the girls who are training now start working so I won't have the crappy jobs anymore. Closing duties could be as simple as restocking the cracker baskets (for those "old" people) or switching out all the salad dressings, restocking them, restocking salad plates, monkey bowls, and ramekins, emptying salad into containers to put in the fridge, wiping out the entire salad station, AND wiping it down and sweeping underneath it. Oh, yeah, and restocking and putting away all the lemons, tomatoes, etc. It just depends.
As far as tables go, servers will usually have 3-4 to a section early in the night. As the floor is cut, the sections get bigger so that at some points, if you're one of the last ones out, you could have about 8-10, but no more than one or two is usually ever being used, if that.
The place where I work is pretty old-fashioned in that we don't have a computer system, so when we ring in an order we have to write out the ticket by hand and turn it in at the kitchen window. Servers are also responsible for making the salads, dishing out the soup, coleslaw, and potato salad, and getting other side dishes/dressings. No wonder I'm so tired by the end of the night.
I talked to some of the other girls I work with and many of them had the same problem with the day hostess as I do until they called her out on it. Apparently, she treated them the same way until they let her know it wouldn't fly, so maybe I should've let loose on her the other day when she practically threw me across the room. Today I overheard Miss Thang The Hostess talking about how she's retiring soon and I got all excited...until I heard her say that she's only retiring from her other job.
Looks like we're stuck with her.