Why You Have To Be Tough (or a Little Nuts) to Work In A Restaurant.

My Restaurant Experiences:

You know you are doing your job well when others have no idea how bad things are going. 

Below is a list of some of the more interesting true stories that happened while I worked in the restaurant industry. Admittedly, some are expected, like a "dine and dash", others, however, are in a league of their own (**).

• ·  Cook cutting the end of his finger completely off.**
• ·  Customer with steak knife chasing a server through    restaurant.**
• ·   Bus person assaulting a server after closing.**
• ·   Dishwasher assaulting a server in the kitchen.**
• ·   Sexual assault victim at restaurant door seeking assistance.**
• ·   Shrink – food loss, fraudulent refunds/deletions/comps, shorted cash-outs, broken dinnerware…
• ·   Attendance – servers clocking in missing or late servers.
• ·   Rodent and insect control.
• ·   Slips and falls.
• ·   Customers having drinks and food spilled on them accidentally by me and other servers.**
• ·   Dine and Dash customers.
• ·   Intoxicated customers being allowed into restaurant, disrupting guests, then getting sick everywhere.**
• ·   Woman punching out her date at the table.**
•      Being invited to a guest's hotel room for an additional tip.**
• ·   Young woman’s panties discovered under a table.**
• ·    Stolen tips from tables.
• ·    Rear exit doors being propped open, or left unlocked.
• ·    Dishwasher mixing chemicals to clear clogged drain, ammonia cloud cleared a full restaurant.**
• ·    Bomb threat that cleared busy Saturday night crowd from restaurant.**
• ·   Out of control after-hours staff parties.**
• ·   Creating a video to demonstrate our environmental initiatives.
•      Hostess proudly offers braille menus to a table of deaf customers.**
• ·    Designing and installing a plaque for regular customers’ table.  
• ·    Endless practical jokes. (dead body in washroom, switching out full roll-ups for empty ones, etc)

If you ever want to hear the details of some of these true stories just ask me.

Email: donaldoconnorspeaks@gmail.com