The Dirty Little “T” Word

To restaurant higher-ups, there is one word that makes people cringe. It’s not the f-word, the s-word, the n-word … it’s the T-Word. No, I am not talking about tip or teamwork or time, but turnover. Restaurants are known for their revolving door of employees. My particular establishment has not even been open for three months. However, already, only half of the staff were there on day one. I am the only server who was there on day one. (now shift-leader, which by the way, means a raise in hourly pay starting January 1!) . Technically, there is one other girl who has been there since day one, but she only works one day per week as a cocktail waitress (which was always her job). We have lost 4 cooks, a dishwasher and two bartenders, and thank god, the awful idiot stupid cunty bitch sous chef was fired!!!!! The bar tender I hate: quit. The server I hate: fired. The server who I hate who took his place: fired. Only one idiot ass-hole bartender to go and then I will officially, for the first time in my life, like everyone I work with (this has never happened to me before).

Because the grass looks greener on the other side, managers tend to be inexperienced, inhumane slave drivers with no respect for anything but the hostesses’ vagina, and because working in a restaurant can be difficult, stressful (x10), exhausting and draining, many people jump around from job to job. Moreover, the above factors cause many people to do stupid things and get themselves fired. Other times, the former, the managers, clash with good employees and they get fired.

Nevertheless, we have cycled from over-staffed to now short-staffed.

If you live, or plan to be, in my particular area and are looking for a job as a bartender, server or line cook, let me know.

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As I mentioned before, I am getting that raise I wanted so much. Although it’s just something small, like $2-$3 per hour, it will mean an extra $160- $240 per pay check for me. For tipped employees, who are used to making $2 per hour, this is huge. I do not know the exact figure yet. My boss did not mention it, however I trust it will happen as promised and we talked about 2 or 3 dollars a few weeks earlier.

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Over all, tonight was slow. Terrible thunderstorms and the looming holiday weekend tend to do that. However, the tips tonight for fabulous. $13.00 on $61.00; $30 on $138; $28.00 on $145.00 were very nice, the rest were more average. Not a terrible night, but only $120 after tip out for 7.5 hours. Usually I do double that on Saturday. That is what happens when it rains AND turkey day is right around the corner.

We closed an hour before last call (everyone had left) so I stopped by to meet some friends for a quick Heineken at our biggest competitor. It felt so weird to be in the den of the enemy

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