The shorts people are the scariest afaic.
https://twitter.com/NonWhiteHat/status/1357100642691596288
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Any group of all men or all women is terrible to wait in. Humans need to be around the opposite sex to keep their worst nature in check imo.
Promise keepers - absolute WOAT. Iâll take 20 DMV women any day over all-male Bible study groups.
The key to large groups like that is tell them youâre really not supposed to split their checks 20-ways, but just for them, youâll do it. a) They tip better because you did a favor. And b) you always get a much better overall tip than if they pooled it. All separate checks is easy. Itâs the mixed groups that want separate checks that gets hard.
Not a bad read. I thought it was a little much when she was whining about 18% tips. Maybe thatâs a bit on the low side these days, but I donât think itâs worthy of lamentation.
the businessperson groups probably swap based on the serverâs gender. Like, I, as a female server, had the worst time with businesswomen (like, banker types, etc) because they were very condescending. I can imagine a male server would have less trouble with them, and vice versa.
I never wanted to wait on either. Mixed groups always a million times better.
For businesswomen I would pre-emptively bring them all water with lemon, but have a couple without ready just in case. That settles them down.
For DMV women - bread on the table, immediately - before even taking their order. And keep it flowing as fast as they can eat it. DMV women get very grumpy when theyâre hungry. But turn super nice if you shower them with bread.
Groups of all businesswomen were never a thing where and when I worked. Businessmen were great, mixed groups of businessmen and businesswomen were great, but all women tended to be civilian women, and that was generally a lot of running for a mediocre tip.
One table that the waitresses would trade with me was single moms. Iâd get absurd tips from single moms but the waitresses would get horrendous tips. Iâm a friendly guy.
Maybe weâre all about to get a lecture on the harms of stereotyping but shit man, thereâs not a person whoâs ever waited tables who doesnât evaluate a prospective table at a glance.
This isnât true. An all-male businessman party (if one group is wining and dining the other) leaves great tips
Although Iâll admit, generally, itâs better to be the opposite gender of whom youâre waiting on.
Also, gay men are excellent tippers
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I never worked near a financial center. Most of my all male groups were promise keepers and Bible study idiots. Obviously a different animal.
Yes gay men are the best.
second this.
When I waited tables in a downtown Atlanta restaurant, 90% of my male coworkers were gay, and even though we were a mainstream chain restaurant, we had a lot of gay regulars just because they knew it was a friendly/safe place. This was mid-90âs.
This is one of the reasons I think everyone should wait tables for 6 months of their life.
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You learn the customer is always right ethos which so many of my techie coworkers sorely lack.
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If you never grew up around gay people, well nowâs your chance to get to know a bunch of them.
Downside - you will do a lot of drugs and develop a drinking problem.
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Yeah but fuck the customer is always right ethos:
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Yeah of course there are limits. But for the most part you should try to give them what they want. Too many techies think itâs the other way around - the customer should take what I give them and shut the hell up about it, because I know best.
I drive my bosses nuts. But our internal business customers always love me because I got the extra mile for them. It would kill me to let them down. I credit waiting tables, but maybe I was always like that I dunno.
Pissing off my boss doesnât bother me at all. Bosses exist to be tormented.
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Yeah I just deleted a post saying I thought that gay guys were probably good tippers because more gays have been waiters. But then I got paranoid due to the stereotyping, but shit man, like half the dudes I worked with were gays. Idk, seems like gay dudes wait tables? Whatever. Former servers leave good tips, gay or straight. But maybe gay dudes wait tables more.
Anyone whoâs young and attentive and knows how to order, gay or straight, is always going to be a good tip.
Iâve never drank so much before or since. It didnât help that there was a âserversâ barâ right across the street where all the servers from all the downtown restaurants went after late shift. It stayed open till 4 am and everyone knew everyone.
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The server economy in SF was insane. Bars would stay open and just shut the blinds.
Youâd go eat somewhere, drink like fish for hours, then get a $60 bill for 4 people - tip $150. Then return the favor when they come to your place.
I miss that rush.
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Restaurant workers doing favors for each other is cool. Nanodaughter worked at a gelato store until covid. Theyâd always have lots at the end of the day that would have to be thrown out. Sheâd bring some over to the guys at the pizza place a few stores over that was open later. She still gets free pizza.
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Itâs a beautiful thing.
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It was sad when a hardcore lesbian would fall head over heels for some bi-curious waitress who was just experimenting and having fun, then get her heart ripped out. I saw that happen at every restaurant I worked it.
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Am I being overly sensitive or is the GANGS GANGS GANGS in LA, Chicago, and New York kind of racist?
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