How Fine Dining Waiters Learn to Move Across the Dining Room - How To Make It 

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The last thing I expect my waitress to do is River Dance my food to our table...

So many negative comments here! I used to be in the restaurant industry, fine dining used to be the love of my life, and I can say with absolute certainty that this type of training might seem silly but if you're looking to maintain a competitive edge in the fine dining circuit being able to have sleek, graceful staff is a huge plus. People say that you eat first with your eyes, and while that might be the case for food that is just as much the case for going into a restaurant and being served. Everything is important in fine dining. location, the decor,uniforms your staff wears, the lighting, the seating, the space between tables, the temperature of the room, the order in which one receives dishes, how long it will take to fire off each dish from the kitchen relative to how much a patron has eaten of their current dish already...I could be here all day If I were to list every single aspect the restaurant might focus on in order to achieve, say, Michelin stars. The point is, if this seems silly it's probably because you don't know all the parts of the pig that are going into your proverbial sausage. Food People who are saying that this is the "Appleization" of dining Should note thatthese underlying concepts have existed in dining and cuisine since before Steve Jobs was even born. Training your waiters how to walk. Yes. When you're aiming to be at the top of the culinary world this is the sort of thing that you do, Because it is all about the experience. This isn't fucking TGI Friday's, though for what it's worth I think everybody could learn to train up their sense of spatial awareness. All in all, a beautiful video and a bittersweet reminder of the industry that I used to love.

Wow she has complete control of her body

A bit overkill eh?

Whilst I appreciate that it works for Rachel given her background, for others to do as she teaches is so unauthentic and forced that it feels uncomfortable.

That was awesome! I wanna glide through the dining room like a ballerina! Edit: I read some comments... they aren't doing plies at the bar during service. She's just showing them which muscle groups they are using and why, ways to stand and hold your arms when you are at rest, you will use the motions during service. Not exactly the way you are taught here but imagine the difference you perceive in the service you are about to receive based on how your server approaches. A frantic, sweaty server with a stain on their apron vs A calm approaching server, shirt pressed, shoes clean, welcoming smile The best people doing it, don't look so obvious when in action. She's exaggerating her actions to show them what to do. To demonstrate the technique. It's very much performance art at that level. And she doesn't just work with restaurants. Sales of all variety is performance art on some level. You have to ask someone who's actually good at it. They'll tell you.

You know she’s awful to work with!

If the waitress was doing those moves,I’d genuinely think there was something wrong with her... clearly I don’t do fine dinning . 😆

Another excuse to increase prices

It's amazing all the negative votes/comments for showing off techniques that are clearly meant for fine dining institutes. The whole concept of fine dining is inherently ridiculous outside of the ingredient aspect. If things like presentation matter on a plate, then they matter in service as well, as there is no inherent benefit to presentation outside of how it's perceived. I honestly thought the initial audience of this channel, the people that see the video in its infancy, would understand that. Edit: That being said, obviously I liked the video and would like to see more content like it!

Now if you need anything just ring the little bell here and the sugar plum fairy will appear !

1:00 lol What is that!!

Couldn't stop thinking about the 6mph speed limit

:48 dear Rachel, I fell in love with that smile while you picked up the server tray.

A lot of what the coach is saying posture-wise is what we’re told during movement classes in marching band

i can understand people wanting that the waiters walk with their head and back straight, but all the other stuff, geese

I feel like she is teaching them how to be a ballet dancer.

Fascinating ! Thank you 👍

I didn't know Pearl was FOH

i think this is cool

Nice love Boston

Worth the 7.50 an hour plus shared tips but restaurant takes 30%

This must be the secret to reining in those tips 💰

Sad that we live in a world with the most incredible landscapes, nature, wildlife and this is what people think is important!

IMHO it's just applefication of the restaurant industry. "You are getting an experience for your money, not just food", something to convince you that the MARK-UP price is worth what you get.

Is the meat show over? Nick had started to grow on all of us

As a server I came to hopefully learn something about serving. Wtf is this

It would be fun they said.. a ballerina-gymnastics training regiment for servers..

but how's the $/hr?

all this for minimum wage

Ki swan? Is that you Ki Swan?

*This episode was HOT Princess* 😊

2:17 it;s tight!

Ridiculous and stupid. Waste my time

😊

wooowwww

This just seems ridiculous... Good luck getting the cooks to do anything like this.

Cute af

is that amy schumer Kappa

I've worked in, and dined at many Michelin star restaurants, this is bs, tacky as hell for fine dining, we get it lady, you had a lot of money spent on your ballet training...

Just bring me my goddamn steak, woman!

*cringes in dance because rachel didnt even correct katie's first position that was literally gaping in between her feet*

I hope. This is a joke?

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whut

wow all these negative comments but again, this is fine dining, price-tag-over-your-head type of fine dining. these people would not be earning min wage. I thought it was really interesting to see all the thought and practice that goes into every movement. Sure in the normal sense it's "ridiculous and unnecessary" but these customers are paying a golden price tag so the restaurants are delivering an experience more than just food.

No.

daft beyond belief !!

Complicated!

What the hell is this ballet horseshit? Just get my order right, bring my goddamn food to my table on time, and don't make me ask three times to refill my water glass that's been empty for 25 minutes. Few enough waiters can manage to even get the basics right, so nevermind training them to pirouette my steak to me.

Naw no no no... She is WAY too much...just serve the food nobody wants you pirouetting your way to their table

Hahahahaha bunch of Bozos

That is so unbearlably ridiculous it could constitues as a laughing challenge really! Ha ha ha!

Ugh NO

since no one said it. First!

Not sure why there's so much negativity towards this. I've been in ballet my entire life, and it helped me a lot when I was a server. I've had Rheumatoid Arthritis since I was 4 years old, so ballet kept me in shape and in control. Instead of being so god damn negative, maybe appreciate people who put work in. I've even bartended en pointe! :D

I can't tell if this woman is a genius or insane 🤔

Canadian National Gymnastics team, 10 years professional ballet dancer, now teachers servers how to tip toe quietly. 🤔

Food shall be on the spot light not the waitress

Man this could be the king of ridiculous videos

That girl looks like Olive Oyl from 'Popeye the sailor man"

Let us say she failed as a ballerina and reinvented herself into this ridiculous new business for fine dining restaurant owners wannabes, which clearly don't have an idea what it really takes to open up and keep up with such a restaurant because they are not even learned gastro workers.