I Work(ed) in a Restaurant, and Now I Understand...

[LucyKKG]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Current = Currant? That sounds tasty. I've had a guy ask for a glass of Pine-nut Grig-E-O (Pinot Grigio) once.

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Yes, sorry, spelling fail by me.

Ohhhh!!! I'm such a grammar/spelling nerd! I literally thought he wanted a "current scone," as opposed to an old one. Awkward!

[Chicago88]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Current = Currant? That sounds tasty. I've had a guy ask for a glass of Pine-nut Grig-E-O (Pinot Grigio) once.

hahah. I work in a fine dining restaurant and you get all kinds. Can I get a CaberNET? Can I get a pinot.. sure white or red? What do you mean?

Oh man.

[Chicago88]

Dear lord forgive me, but when I was 18 I worked in a bbq place that was like the hooters of bbq. I bartended and made good money. I was never the flirty, touchy feely, type like most of the girls there. Guys would always be like you know what can I do to get your number? I would say thats an extra 20 dollars on top of my tip and you have to do it in front of my face. Sure enough guys are stupid enough, and I gave them this girls phone number who keyed my car ,slashed my tires, and broke my windows in high school because she didnt make cheerleader and I did. I'd say, call me around 2am when I get off work, if I dont answer keep calling I've grown up since then but Id make an extra 200 dollars a week

[Alumiyum]

Originally Posted by Chicago88

Dear lord forgive me, but when I was 18 I worked in a bbq place that was like the hooters of bbq. I bartended and made good money. I was never the flirty, touchy feely, type like most of the girls there. Guys would always be like you know what can I do to get your number? I would say thats an extra 20 dollars on top of my tip and you have to do it in front of my face. Sure enough guys are stupid enough, and I gave them this girls phone number who keyed my car ,slashed my tires, and broke my windows in high school because she didnt make cheerleader and I did. I'd say, call me around 2am when I get off work, if I dont answer keep calling I've grown up since then but Id make an extra 200 dollars a week

I gotta admit...that's funny.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by Chicago88

Dear lord forgive me, but when I was 18 I worked in a bbq place that was like the hooters of bbq. I bartended and made good money. I was never the flirty, touchy feely, type like most of the girls there. Guys would always be like you know what can I do to get your number? I would say thats an extra 20 dollars on top of my tip and you have to do it in front of my face. Sure enough guys are stupid enough, and I gave them this girls phone number who keyed my car ,slashed my tires, and broke my windows in high school because she didnt make cheerleader and I did. I'd say, call me around 2am when I get off work, if I dont answer keep calling I've grown up since then but Id make an extra 200 dollars a week

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[xomanadaxo]

Can we please get a "like" button on GC? This is about the 1324395982 time I've wanted to hit "like" on someone's post!!

[nittanygirl]

Ahhh KSUviolet I <3 that you worked as a server at Pizza Hut too.
I feel like Pizza Hut sucked because no one tips you there but you still do real serving work. I loved Pizza Hut at the same time though b/c I liked my asst. manager (then turned general manager) and he would make us pizzas & stuff for in the back every now and then and was sarcastic and fun haha.
And he took an interest in talking to me about my classes at school which I thought was nice.
It was always dead though except at lunch buffet.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by nittanygirl

Ahhh KSUviolet I <3 that you worked as a server at Pizza Hut too.
I feel like Pizza Hut sucked because no one tips you there but you still do real serving work. I loved Pizza Hut at the same time though b/c I liked my asst. manager (then turned general manager) and he would make us pizzas & stuff for in the back every now and then and was sarcastic and fun haha.
And he took an interest in talking to me about my classes at school which I thought was nice.
It was always dead though except at lunch buffet.

What are the odds? Ha.

We weren't a full-on dine in store, but we had a small eat-in area. I served whenever there were people in there. Most of the time, I was the phone, drive thru, and pick up hand out/cashier girl.

I always said that hell hath no fury like the WEEKEND customers. It's like the ENTIRE world orders pizza on the weekend and is SUPER IMPATIENT about it.

I would take a delivery order and TEN MINUTES LATER, that person is on the phone SCREAMING "OMGWTFWHEREISMYPIZZAI'MGONNADIELETMESPEAKTOYOURMA NAGER!!!!!"

Best thing ever: eating/taking home "mistake pizza" so it didn't get thrown out (yes I know, technically it's verboten but my assistant mgr. hated wasting food).

I also got tips all the time even though technically I wasn't supposed to. I NEVER expected one, but if someone wanted to GIVE me $5 just for handing them their pizza and cashing them out, great. lol.

[nittanygirl]

I did everything too. We'd have a manager, a kitchen person and a "server"/stocker/salad bar/phone + a few delivery drivers on at minimum. Usually I was serving by myself.

I hated impatient people. Or people who lie when they get to pick up their order and say they ordered different toppings. I'd be like uh no I remember talking to you and I repeat the ENTIRE order before I hang up. Sooo annoying.

Tips for carryout were my favorite!! Like thanks for giving me money for doing nothing!!

I miss my free personal pans. I seriously took advantage of that every single chance I got. When I left for school, I ordered my "last" personal pan & the asst manager had them make me a large instead He was very nice to me.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by nittanygirl

I miss my free personal pans. I seriously took advantage of that every single chance I got. When I left for school, I ordered my "last" personal pan & the asst manager had them make me a large instead He was very nice to me.

Mmmmmmm.

It's so funny, I stopped working there when I came to college and I LOST weight.

Also, tons of people say you stop eating a restaurant's food when you work there because you're around it all day.

That is FALSE for me. I loved nothing more than clocking out to my 4 slices of personal deliciousness, even after 2 years there. lol.

[nittanygirl]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Mmmmmmm.

It's so funny, I stopped working there when I came to college and I LOST weight.

Also, tons of people say you stop eating a restaurant's food when you work there because you're around it all day.

That is FALSE for me. I loved nothing more than clocking out to my 4 slices of personal deliciousness, even after 2 years there. lol.

Second this again. I worked there a summer and a winter break. My personal pans were my favorite and they were such a good chance to experiment with pizza toppings. I miss it. I'd go back this break. The only thing I REALLY hated was closing (since it was by myself I had to clean the ENTIRE dining area, all of the mopping, vacuuming, salad bar break down, bathrooms, silverware, table tents, fill all of the shakers & EVERYTHING. If I could work there this break and only open or work mid-day I'd do it in a heartbeat.

[Tulip86]

So not true... I still love sushi and could eat it all day every day

[Psi U MC Vito]

Bump

[LaneSig]

I worked at California Pizza Kitchen as a server for a long time. (Part-time job to supplement my massive teacher salary.) One of my favorite things was whenever someone would try to order something that we had taken off the menu. The conversation usually went along these lines:

"Yes, I want to get the Peking Duck Pizza."
"I'm sorry, we don't have that any longer."
"What? When did that happen? It's my favorite pizza, I order it all the time."
"Yes. We took it off the menu about SEVEN years ago."

True conversation. And it happened all the time.

[XAntoftheSkyX]

Before and in between semesters of college, I worked in the cafe of the local Barnes and Noble. I loved my co-workers for the most part (there was one person in the store I couldn't stand for some reason), but the customers were generally awful. The Cafes serve Starbucks products, but are only a vendor, so they can't take gift cards/have every drink. Take that, plus the average Starbucks customer with their inflated sense of self-worth, and the fact that it's one of the nations busiest vacation spots in the summer, and I died a little each time I clocked in.