Waiter!

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Charles Kuffner

I read with some amusement this story about how waiters and customers can understand each other better. I have a simpler and more effective solution: Everybody should spend at least a summer doing a food service job, preferably actually as a waiter. You’ll have a much more thorough appreciation for what it’s like on the other end of the serving tray that way. If the waiters of America are really lucky, your experience will be a crappy one (as mine most definitely was), because that will make you a patient diner and good tipper for life. Trust me on this one, there’s no substitute for the experience.

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3 Responses to Waiter!

  1. TexasLiberal says:
    January 5, 2007 at 12:20 pm

    This is so right. And waiters should be tipped at least time-and-a-half if you eat out on a holiday. This includes M.L. King Day coming up.

    All people in service work who do a good job should be respected. People should be respected for the skills that they have and should be respected because all work has merit.

  2. boadicea says:
    January 5, 2007 at 11:07 pm

    Amen.

    I’ll never forget when a friend of mine who had waited on tables asked if I had ever done the same.

    I worked in food service in college, but not for tips. I asked how she knew.

    “You tip like one of us,” she said.

    I was so proud.

  3. Support Science to Reverse Global Warming, which Al Gore says is still possible says:
    January 8, 2007 at 11:50 am

    So True.

    Since wages (tips?) are now at a 50 year low, these jobs do not provide the way they used to.

    I have last year started tipping fast food workers and suggesting that tip jars be available. You cannot live on their wages. They need help.

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