Waiter Demands 5%
I haven't gone soft but yes I do demand 5%. I demand that the government cut VAT for the Hospitality sector to 5%. Restaurants, bars and hotels are struggling at the moment and many aren't going to survive, many have gone already. The government could help the industry and the waiters, chums of waiters, bar [...]
Captcha on admittance.
I am so done with serving dumb people. Tuesday night (last week) and the place was busy - a good crowd of locals, tourists, local mouth breathers and crotch sniffing tourists. But on the whole good times were being had by all and sundry. Even me. And then a very earnest looking man arrived with his [...]
Count to ten and think of your happy place…
Sunday and the restaurant was filing up. It was filing up a little quicker than I had hoped or planned for. There they all where, forming a bloody orderly queue, outside fifteen minutes before we were due to be open. I was aghast at this. And if the sight of them had me aghast then [...]
Caravaggio – Genius and Waiter Hater
So Caravaggio eh. Not a lot of mention of Caravaggio round these parts. But suffice to say he was a bit of a genius and like a lot of geniuses he was also as bonkers as a dog in a bag. That's why you don't read a lot of stories about Adam Sandler stabbing people, [...]
Jesus was a carpenter, I am a waiter….there are some differences.
Saturday was a day all about over coming adversity and reaction to adversity. It was a day for being presented with problems, assessing those problems, rectifying the issues and moving on and in some cases drying up the spilt issue. Like I mentioned yesterday I managed to knock a pint of beer all over a [...]
The day it all went a bit Marks and Spencers
So, there I was Friday night in the most central part of the restaurant lying on the floor with my ass in the air, my face in a very bloody warm bowl of seafood risotto listening to the gasps and stifled laughter of the quite inebriated guests. I had been in this position for, oh [...]
Behold, the dawn of the Waiter!
My heart skipped on Saturday morning when I came across a particular snippet of news. Normally when my heart skips a beat it is as a result of something adult having being whispered into my ear by the delightful Little Miss Manuel or as the result of a large dinner. But this was different, it [...]
“You take all this very seriously don’t you?”
It was Tuesday night and I had just seated two men on the less than perfect table which offers a view of the scrape and bin area and the bar. So that's either a view of waiters picking food off plates or waiters scratching their asses at the bar. Nice, but then again if we [...]
Never go to a second location with a guest….never!
As a jobbing waiter one doesn't spend a lot of time considering ones personal safety. We aren't considered targets, legitimate or otherwise. Sure, the chefs get a little angsty from time to time and if you don't have your wits about you when you're in the kitchen complaining about this, that and the six portions [...]
He had the chutzpah of a holiday monkey
Teachers eh, they really are a contemptible collection of ne'er-do-wells and shiftless rogues masquerading as normal people. I mean that with the greatest of respect, but you really are. I damned myself for forgetting that this weekend would be a teacher-fest, or infestation even, what with schools finishing. I should have realised the pastel sweater [...]
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