Anyone else here work in a restauraunt?

[KBExperience]

i'm a bartender at a Chili's.

I figured we could have an interesting thread here if we have a few restauraunt people here

 

[d98gt]

I imagine this would do a little better in the Short Bus forum. I can only imagine some of the things that you are able to see/hear when being around intoxicated subjects all the time. In my small town, the local Chilis is about the only place to have a drink without having to deal with all of the things you'd expect in a ran down bar.

 

[Deleted member 38176]

After watching "Waiting" more times than I can count, I've wanted to work in an Applebee's/Chili's

 

[Kilgore Trout]

In my 20s I delivered a LOT of pizza for Dominoes and Pizza Hut, this made for some interesting adventures...

 

[KBExperience]

man I mustve been tired last night, I really thought I posted this in the Short Bus forum

mods feel free to move it


Nightfire, the movie waiting is pretty accurate except for the f'ing with food and dropping it on te ground.. that doesnt happen.. at least at my Chili's. But the way all the employees interact with each other was right on the money

and kilgore.. I love your sig.. lol

 

[patman0911]

Heh, my grandfather used to tell us about they'd drop a steak and brush it off and throw it back on the grill for a second and then put it right back on the plate - no sense in wasting a perfectly good steak! He also said if someone complained about not getting swiss cheese, they'd just take it in the back and cut some holes in it

I waited tables & tended bar at a country club for a while and worked the grill in the 19th hole sometimes. The 19th hole was fun - easy job, watch TV all day, fry me up some double-cheeseburgers with ham, turkey, bacon and every kind of cheese back there on it whenever I got hungry. I don't remember any particularly crazy shenanigans though - just trying to sneak food from the cheapskate managers whenever we could.

 

[KBExperience]

Heh, my grandfather used to tell us about they'd drop a steak and brush it off and throw it back on the grill for a second and then put it right back on the plate - no sense in wasting a perfectly good steak! He also said if someone complained about not getting swiss cheese, they'd just take it in the back and cut some holes in it

I waited tables & tended bar at a country club for a while and worked the grill in the 19th hole sometimes. The 19th hole was fun - easy job, watch TV all day, fry me up some double-cheeseburgers with ham, turkey, bacon and every kind of cheese back there on it whenever I got hungry. I don't remember any particularly crazy shenanigans though - just trying to sneak food from the cheapskate managers whenever we could.

i feel you on that one.. lol

one thing i love about chili's is the discount..

I get 50% off up to four people at ANY Chili's, On the Border, Maggianos, and Maccaroni Grill. After 4 people it goes down 10% per person you add

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I used to love working the phones at the pizza places...

"Do you have Canadian Bacon?"
My reply knowing that Canadian Bacon is pretty much just ham esp what a pizza place uses; "No sir we have Canadian HAM!"
"Huh?"
"Its made from Canadian pigs..."

Seemed a lot funnier at the time.

I used to have a million candlepower spotlight hard wired into the dash. I used it to spot house numbers made delivering much easier. My friends would always shine it though when the rode in the car and after it had been on for a second it got hot enough that the lens would melt carpet Anyways, one time I am driving around Peoria Heights looking for my delivery. I shine the light on a porch its the wrong house but wow the shirtless guy on the porch sure looked upset when I lit up his whole ****ing world with my light The delivery is a few doors down as I am making the delivery HERE HE COMES!
"Who are you WHY are you spotlighting my house?"
"I am delivering pizza sir, I use the light to see numbers!" (I am wearing a complete Dominoes uniform hat and all...)
"WHO do you work for?"
"Pizza Hut sir "
"Well I am calling your manager!"
"Ok" (thinking he would call pizza hut but I guess the dominoes uniform tipped him off...)

Fun discussion with my manager when I returned but hey I was the lead driver and could deliver 10 times as many pizzas as any other driver so hey no harm no foul!

I have lots of pizza delivery stories

 

[98MACH1R]

i'm a bartender at a Chili's.

I figured we could have an interesting thread here if we have a few restauraunt people here

thats funny you say that, i too bartend for chilis lol small world, im with you man on the discount, gotta love it. the only thing i dont like about the job is when your really really weeded and you just cant keep up and some server sends 7 kid blast and 9 kid punch on a ticket lol

 

[KBExperience]

Haha, my personal favorite is the mojoto

at my Chili's the lounge has 9 tables and 6 bartop seats and I never have another person in there with me.. So when it fills up I get pretty weeded.. But I make about 200 bucks on those nights so I can't complain

 

[98MACH1R]

yea i hear ya , out lounge has 9 tables and the bartender has 5 four top tables and 19 bar seats. we get busy all the time. 200-300 dollars is common for a busy lunch.

 

[KBExperience]

Gotta love bartending.. The work to money ratio is amazing.

 

[patman0911]

Gotta love bartending.. The work to money ratio is amazing.

Not at the country club it wasn't. The members didn't tip for **** so if a party was a member function, you were making plain old minimum wage. If it was a non-member event like a company Christmas party or something, those were usually pretty good - normal people tipped pretty well and it was usually pretty easy 'cause all the wanted was beer, not the complicated, fancy-schmancy drink du jour that the younger members had to be seen ordering to be sophisticated. Older members weren't too bad - the guys just wanted scotch or bourbon & water and the ladies just wanted a bloody mary - they still didn't tip much though

 

[4tun8]

I slept with a girl who worked in a restaraunt....bonus points for me because she drove a mustang (a 4 eye even).