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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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So with Christmas fast approaching and most of you will likely venture out for a meal with family and friends, spare a thought for us the people that run around constantly, clearing messy tables up where kids have created their own mini earthquake with the pencils, sausages and the cutlery!! If sometimes we don't smile or near the end of the day we don't always give you the best service, it might be because we haven't stopped for 6 hours straight, we might need a wee/fag/food or break in general, we might be worrying about the tables that just can't get cleared or the dirty plates that have managed to get cleared are piling up behind the scenes with no hope of every sending up to the kitchen because they are rushed off their feet to, they haven't had time to clear the other dirty stuff away.
And spare a thought for us when something is missing from your plate, it might not be the kitchens fault but the servers fault that when trying to get lots of food orders out dropped the sweet chilli sauce all over the floor, herself and nearly caused an accident!
Do you really need another butter on top of the two you already had for your toast? No you don't because you left it on the table, you don't realise that another butter to you, means walking back to the gantry, putting a message on the till and having to wait until they have time to send one down.
I try to keep a smile on my face but if you see a server without one, she looks a little bit disheveled, the above reasons might be why, that server will leave that day hating her job, try her hardest to walk to the bus stop and the short walk home, then crawl into bed and won't move until the morning.
So if you go to a restaurant this Christmas time, give your server a smile, a nod to say 'you are doing ok'.
G x
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