Update.

The police investigated my friends house and found a good deal of evidence. They found the guy and arrested him. He is in jail on a $50,000 bond. It is so weird at work. Of course everyone is asking me about it because it happened to my best friend. I've been pretty much telling them to mind their own buisness and don't worry about it. I said it a lot meaner, though. Its still almost like it is not real to me because I am so shocked.

Sexual Assault

This, unfortunately is my most serious post yet. This weekend, my best friend's roomate invited a guy that we work with over to their apartment. My friend went to bed and locked her door and the guy busted open her door and sexually assaulted her. It was such a shock because it is just not something you expect from someone you work with. When I found out I was so mad I was seeing red. I also had tunnel vision. I was hoping and praying that he would walk into work so I could beat the hell out of him. Of course he didn't. I have a lot of respect for my friend, though. She went to the police and rape respones and she is pressing charges. It takes someone strong to actually go through with that.

Embarrassing

Ok, so our kitchen is really slippery. Our manager has tried to buy these mats to make it better but the mats are worse then the floor. Our shoes always end up going underneath them and we trip. It's horrible. Well, I was coming out of the kitchen on Friday night and I had a tray of food I was carrying. Well, of course my foot gets caught and I go face first into the floor. The food spills everywhere. And of course, this happens in front of all the people that are waiting to get a table. Everyone just went silent. Finally, an older lady comes up to me and says, "Honey, are you ok." I tell her yes and she says, "Well, I bet your pride was hurt worse than anything, huh." Thank you lady. I wasn't embarrassed enough as it was.

A little buttery revenge

Oh  I am evil. My general manager's wife is a very rude person. She tried to run the restaurant and she has no idea what she is doing. She also does not know how to talk to the employees. So, today I was scooping out some cinamon butter and my friend said to me that it would be funny if someone took the butter, put it in their hands, put it on her shirt. So, I was already mad at her this morning. After my friend said this, I got an evil look in my eyes and I had an evil smile come up. I put a huge glob in my hand and took off to find her. My friend is freaking out because she didn't think I would have done it. Well, I found her, went up to her and put my hand on her back and started talking to her about one of my table. She had a huge buttery handprint on her back. Everyone thought it was awesome. She found out it was there later and started asking people if they did it. She never once asked me though.

Restaurant Etiquette

I really need to vent about customers. First off, if your steak is not cooked right please do not cuss me, because the only thing I had to do with that was when I took your order and put it in. And I put the order in right so I am not to blame. And seriously, is it that serious that you have to cuss me out for it? Second, if you do not have enough money to leave a 15 percent tip, then don't come to eat. Or, if you do, don't order the most expensive items on the menu and add all the extras you can to it. I make $2.13 and hour and I have to pay tip share to the hostesses, bus boys, and bartenders. Third, when I come to your table to greet you and I ask you how your doing, please do not sit there in silence and stare at me. Speak. For the love of God please answer me. It will take you all of five seconds. Same thing goes when I'm asking you for your freaking order. I cannot read minds, you are going to have to talk to me. Fourth, please be courteous of your servers. Do not sit at their table for two hours after you are already done eating and then leave them a crappy tip. I understand you haven't seen these people in years, but you need to understand that once again I make $2.13 an hour and I am usually only running two to three tables at a time. So if you are at my table for four hours that means I am only making money off of the other one or two and if you take the time to do that math you are making me lose out on money.

Whew!!! I feel so much better. I have been holding that in for a long time.

Horrible Managers

Have you ever had to work for that one manager that you just knew had to be the worst manager ever. Well, I really believe that I had to work for the worst one ever. This guy was so mean to everyone. He was always cussing his employees and saying really mean remarks. The real problem with it was that he could definitely dish it out but he could never take it. He actually used to tell some of the female employees that they were too fat and that noone would ever want to date them. Or on a scale he would rate them a negative ten. Well, it started to come back and bite him in the butt. He was having alot of complaints on him. Then he actually had the nerve to be mad. He said that we were all "throwing him under the bus." So, he finally put in his notice because he said that we didn't treat him right. Yeah, what a load of crap. Well, on his last day I went to ask him if he would cut the section that I was in because we were dead. His reply was, "Why don't you just shut your f****** mouth, forever. I was deadly calm when I looked back at him and replied, "you know what, you better hope that when you clock out for the last time and go to your car that I am not in the parking lot. Because if I see you, I swear to you right now that I will punch you in your freaking mouth." See, if you worked with me you would know that this isn't normal for me because I am always the nice person that gets along with everyone When I say things like this, I am dead serious and I mean every word of it. After I said this to him, he just looked at me and turned around and walked away. Everyone around us were just froze with shock because I said that to him. It felt so freaking good.

Crazy men

My favorite kind of people to get would have to be the table full of crazy, middle-age men. They absolutely crack me up. Last night, I had a table of four middle-aged men. From the start, they are flirting and joking around with me. I just kind of roll with the flow and laugh at the jokes even though they weren't really funny. At one point, one of the guys told me that if I would sit in his friends lap he would give me twenty dollars. No, I didn't do it but it was tempting because I was broke. Not much usually surprises me. But, when they are ordering, one of them actually said something that made me almost lose it. One of the guys ordered a chicken sandwich. He said that he didn't want any onions on it. Then he goes on to say that if his plate comes out with any onions on it, then his pants were coming off and he was going to burn all of his money. Wait, what??? Yes, he actually said this and he said it as seriously as he could. I told my manager what he said, and she made sure that his plate DID have onions on it when it went out, because she wanted to see what he would actually do. Sadly, he just laughed it off and kept his pants on. I mean, how funny would it have been to actually see a middle-aged man take off his pants in a restaurant because he had onions on his plate?

Short People

OK, so I get my first table of the day. I walk up to greet them and before I can even get out a hello, this old lady looks at me and says," well, aren't you just a short little thing." Really? I'm twenty-four years old. I have been short my whole life. I think that I know that I am short, you don't have to rub it in. The bad part about it was that when she said it, she scrunched her nose up like it was a horrible thing. I just wanted to say back to her "my, aren't you an old thing." But of course, I would have gotten in trouble for that. She also didn't leave my a very good tip. I guess she just didn't like short people.

Roach

This past Saturday, I got sat with a party of six. It was everybody's first time to eat with us. I'm starting to explain the first time guest story when all of a sudden a hughe roach starts crawling across the table. Three of the ladies jumped out of their seats and screamed "bug!" My manager starts to walk by and I tell him that there was a bug at the table. He then pulls me to the kitchen and starts to yell at me because he said that I said the word bug to loud. He said it wasn't that big of a deal. Im thinking, "ok, one, it is their first time to eat with us and they had a bug crawl across their table, and two, three of the ladies jumped out of their seats screaming bug. I'm pretty sure that everyone around them already knew about it." Then, he tells them that he will give them an appetizer for free. So they get the most expensive one. He then, gets mad because they got the most expensive one. What an asshole.

Employees Should Have Their Own!



I was working on a Saturday night. It was really busy and I had to go to the bathroom. Now, let me first explain about being a server. When your a server and you are working on a busy night, you are constantly running with no break. So, if you need to go to the bathroom and you are busy, well you are pretty much screwed. So, I was working and it had been about three hours since I first realized I needed a bathroom break. By the time I was finally able to go, I was at the point where I almost couldn't hold it any longer. So, I get to the bathroom and there is a line. Finally, I am next in line. A stall opens up and  this lady cuts in front of me, stops, and then turns around and looks at me. Then she says," Sorry, employees should have their own bathrooms. You have a problem with it, tell your manager to build ya'll your own." Let me tell you, I have a very short temper and it took all I had in me to not knock that lady out. I wish everybody would watch the movie Waiting before they go to a restaurant. Because then, they might think twice about being an asshole to servers. Just saying.

Chopped Steak?

So, this group of guys came in and sat at my table. I asked what they wanted to drink and one guy said he wanted a bud light. He looked pretty young so I asked for his ID. He handed me his idea and it said he was born in 1994. I was like "dude, this says you were born in 1994." He says, "yeah, so what?" I reply "well, that would make you 18." He says, "damn, it was worth a try." I'm thinking damn, this dude is either really stupid or has some balls. Well, later on I found out he was just really stupid. We sell an item called Roadkill. It is a hamburger steak that has other things on it. In the description it says that it is a chopped, hamburger steak. So, the guy orders and says, " I want the roadkill. It's chopped steak right? Well, I don't want it chopped up, can I get it whole? I don't like my steak already chopped up." It took all I had not to laugh in his face.

Older Ladies

So, I get a table of older ladies and they ask me, "Honey, how much is your coffee?" I tell them that it is $2.19. One of them says to me, "Lord! That's expensive. That would've been your tip! So, I'm like great. Well, now I get to wait on a table that I know I am not going to get a tip from. Not only do I not get a tip from them, they sit at my table for almost three hours!

Angry Old Man

This blog is going to be about stories I have from working at a steakhouse. People have no idea what it is like to work at a restaurant unless they have actaully worked at one. I deal with rude people, funny people, stupid people, perverted people, and so on. I could write a book about all the things that happen there.

The first story I am going to tell is about an angry customer. The place that I work makes all of the servers line dance. When we dance, they turn the music up louder than it was. Well, one day they turned the music up to dance, and as I was walking by a table, an older man reached out and grabbed me by the arm and starting yelling at me. He told me to go and "turn that damn music down!" He grabbed my arm so hard it left marks. I was so mad. It took all I had not to punch him in the face. I told the managers about it and they went to talk to him about it. He then threw his coffee at my manager because he got so mad and told that mananger that he was a pompous ass. The manager then kicked him out. This is one of those times where it really sucks to have to hold your emotions in. I was fuming about it for hours.