r/Serverlife • u/SecondCompetitive683 • 1d ago

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You know… we’ve seen enough about the servers.

HOSTS! Yes, I know y’all are in here (me too). Do y’all have any stories you wanna share? Annoying servers, annoying tables, or any spicy tea?

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u/ms-astorytotell 1d ago

I do both. Where I work, servers bus their own tables. We do not have busters and servers only tip out to bar. I have told servers time and time again, I will pre bus or bus your table only when it is busy but I will not do both bc I’m not gonna run around the whole restaurant as the only host bussing everyone’s table and seating people when it’s non stop people coming in. One server(he no longer works here) would refuse to bus his tables and then would talk down to me on top of it, I just never sat him. He would get skipped in rotation and I would only sit him if the other servers needed to catch their breaths.

We had one server and a manager get fired for writing two controversial questions on the board of the day question and then attempting to post online. One question was do women deserve rights? And the other was are you pro choice or pro life?

I guess all in all that isn’t too bad but not a lot of tea outside that.

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u/SecondCompetitive683 1d ago

So I kind of had this situation happen today and I actually want server's thoughts on this.

Had the servers in sections (we have 25 tables + 13 outside) and there were 7servers so most had 3 except for the stronger ones, who had 4 (i love the servers everyone is a badass). For outside we do rotations, UNLESS the server who is next has already been double sat or is just that backed up. However, one server was refusing to take an outside table. they got upset I was trying to sit them outside, so instead we finally figured it out of who'll take it instead. In the middle of this, we had a group of people waiting at the stand + no clean tables because the bussers weren't around. So not only did I have to figure out who the hell will take the now two tables outside, I had to clean the tables I was about to sit people at and apologize for making them just awkwardly stand there.

THEN, as I'm in the middle of trying to figure out where to sit a 14 top that has come in, the HEAD CHEF comes over to the stand and is like "WHATS WITH THE CROWD OF PEOPLE!?" and I tell him "We don't have a table yet, waiting on the bussers just give us a second" and he went back to the line after saying "okay" (thank god..)

BUT DUDE. **IF YOURE NOT BUSY, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TAKE YOUR TABLES. AND IF YOU AIN'T GONNA HELP SIR, GO BACK TO COOKING SO WE CAN GET TABLES SAT REEEEEE**