November 2, 2007, Newsletter Issue #100: A Waiters Work

Tip of the Week

It is a demanding field, the working as a waiter. It´s hard to pretend to be a waiter when you want to be someone else. Very few people can last in the profession unless they are "real waiters." To be a waiter demands to show up. It demands to get organized. It demands the contact with the public. It demands quick thinking. It demands to be diplomatic. It demands to be able to stand on ones feet for many hours at a time. It demands fast reactions. It demands surefootedness. It demands math skills and it demands to be organized.
To be organized starts with knowing ones own limitations, the knowing how many tables one can handle, how many people, how many orders. This lesson is a hard one. It cannot be taught by reading or telling. One has to be there, swamped with customers and up to the chin in tickets. It took a few of this being down under and swimming, wishing it would end soon before I started to say "No" to more than I can handle. However for some waiters three tables are too much, for others the limits are ten tables. Whatever the limit might be, to stay well below the maximum ability takes stress of ones feet, shoulders and head. So does the taking of orders at only one table at any given time. It also makes sense to find a pace, a steady pace comfortable for the waiter.

helmut schonwalder 12-14-2002

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