So three ladies sat at the bar the other night, for some after dinner drinks. They were having a good time…chatting away…I talked with them for a few minutes…one of them told she was also a bartender.
Okay, so if you tell me you’re a bartender, then a $3.00 tip on a $26.00 tab, that doesn’t cut it. I’m not so sure I believe the bartender story, we just don’t do that to each other. Annnnd, if you really area a bartender, then I need to know where you work, because I don’t want to go in there.
Just about every restaurant nowadays has a host or hostess to seat people…..from fine dining to my favorite local Coney Island. For those who have never worked in a restaurant, there are many reasons for this. The most important being, to avoid total chaos. The method used for seating guests is not totally random. Each server has a section of tables, and we try to seat each section in rotation, that way no one gets overwhelmed with 3 or 4 tables at once, and we try and keep the number of tables each server gets as even as possible.
I have worked several places were there was more than one entrance and logic dictates that the host stand be at the main entrance. So if you come in the back or side entrance, or whatever, see some empty tables, please don’t look at me like a deer in the headlights and ask if you can sit anywhere you want. The answer is no. Do not look surprised at that. I’d be willing to bet this isn’t your first trip out. I’m nowhere near the host stand, I’m behind the bar and do not know which tables are reserved.
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