How to be a good server | Multitasking: the essential waiter skill 

ButonP thanks! way to go!!

***** With a little knowledge and time and the right attitude towards helping people, we can all become manager one day :)

Is it better to be a manager at a restaurant then a server? I have no idea how much money managers make. So idk. I’ll love to work up to that if I knew it was worth it

ChefkidCity: would you tell us what managers make?

@@hbhtcr5707 more stable income as you're no longer work for tips. But in a lot of cases, you will not make more money than the waiters. I've heard of many waiters passing up a managers job because they would actually end up making less.

Thanks homey

Great points, focus on one thing until it's done and soon the to-do list will disappear

Grey goose might help your ticket price go up higher, but well drinks helps your restaurant in the profit margin. The margin on grey goose is like 10-20% where as the margin on a bottle of well vodka is often 400-600%. Way better.

You are most welcome friend :) Now for the advanced course: servetips.com .... many people leave comments saying my FREE videos on RU-vid either got them a serving job or even promoted to manager... so why not drop an easy 20 bucks and learn the mindset of the advanced server, as well as get the concepts and a free gift/training course on how to start your own business... I promise you as a waiter you can choose to become an entrepreneur naturally.... I did and just moved to Asia on Monday... relaxing right now in my new rented 2-story house, riding around on my scooter, kicking it with my dog... and also, opening my own bar/restaurant soon in Asia... I am not just talking out of my ar$e on these videos or comments folks!

Thanks, I'm' glad you enjoy them. Good servers are always in demand

Congratulations are in order Nick :) How are you going to celebrate?

Thanks Daniel! Any questions or ideas for future videos please let me know! Or if you have some good insights too please share them with us :)

You're too kind ty

I hope you're doing well. And always remember that the personal growth and self-education outside of work comes through on the job in your persona as well. Accuracy is key. Language is your medium, so make sure it's gramattically correct to avoid and reduce unnecessary miscommunications with guests. Good luck!

How about "hey fuckers what we eatin' tonight"

TrueGritProductions Lmao

all geniuses do

Vincent Colas I'd just look for jobs that pay better and offer a few new challenges, that way you can always grow in your skills and experience

Cheers Joey it's normal to be nervous especially waiting tables but that goes away. Just be in the moment and try, and if/when you make a mistake, own up to it and apologize and managers will never fault you, and if they do fault you, then they are just the 3% of idiot managers out there.

***** Yeah what you have said is true and also before I accepted this job I told to myself that I would be open minded cause I believe that you cannot please everybody just try my best and also I do all these for the glory and honor of God and most of all the important part is that I enjoy my job.

+Ron Swanson I love it when you call me Big Pappas

Lol

What kind of under achiever are you

Fasho!

+eliel gogetsu - OMG that is the first thing I saw too! It must not be such a huge coincidence that creative types are often also in the hospitality industry! ;)

+Alysia Stark I guess not, serving is hard work. the learning curve for me hasn't been a easy one that's for sure.

I refuse to eat at Olive Garden. Soon, if you're smart, you'll refuse to work at a place like that too. Set your sights higher and look for restaurant that serve wealthy people with college degrees and/or own businesses.

Any particular reason why? I'm interested. I've only been working there for 2 months and it's my first restaurant experience. Can I set my sights higher when I've only serving for 2 months?

Go from busser to runner. While running the food learn the menu and ingredients. Ask for a study sheet if they have one. At the same time, get a job as a server in a small cafe where you can practice serving and apply your fine dining observations and experience to the cafe setting risk free. After some time, apply for a better server position in a better restaurant than a cafe or just ask for 1 or 2 tables to wait on at the fine dining place where you are a runner.

The truth is if you are trying to do good, who cares if it's phony. We watch movies and TV and they're phonies.

agreed,the illusion of sincerity is whats important

still at the same serving job in france?

@@wmfbmp5743 hey. First of all, wow. I totally forgot I ever vented here. Yikes 😅 Second of all, no. Since then I actually worked 3 more seasons in different places across the South and one extra challenging at Corse. And then 3 seasons in Iceland in most relaxing waitressing job ever. 😅 Funny enough, I can remember all these feelings that I wrote here, but as bad it was and I was, it was experience that shaped me the most and since then I became hard worker and many places appreciated me for that. Eventually, I had a good supporting colleague that basically took me under her wing. This was in Le Grau Du Roi. I wonder how different person I would have been without this experience. 😅 Now I work in England, hoping to soon leave hospitality industry.

@@JaneRuss 😆 hahah I was joking and did not expect you to even see this comment, but I'm glad you did! it seems like it brought back some memories and was a good reflection moment. It sounds like you've had an interesting life since you made this comment 8 years ago. also I just looked up Le Grau Du Roi and it looks beautiful I am in the u.s.. I have been self-employed for the past 3 years and just got a serving job last week. I haven't served since I was in college about 8 years ago.. I'm hoping I will get used to it again, but it might be a bit too fast paced for me.. idk..

Why do you say it's brutal? Brutal honesty, please.

😂

I bet

+Daisy Johnson I think most people prefer women waitresses. Just like how all the in-car navigation systems and cell phones always use a female voice for giving directions.

Thanks lol . I'm just nervous. I dont want to mess up ! Your videos really help . I got the job :) and they asked questions about expierence and I replied with some of the things you said and it worked. Now just have to follow through with them. Thanks bunches !

everything you need to make something that gets on MTV scumbag

And you were looking how to be a better waiter, something I quit doing over 2 years ago to become self employed and make my own schedule.

***** Great that you speak for a complete stranger, completely. Must be cool being 2 people.

***** All your phony comments just drive up engagement on my video = more $ for me

Zing X every 32 minutes

you must be kidding right

haha

only if you have a good sense of humor, sometimes it's just best to laugh and stroke their ego

TrueGritProductions fastest reply ever thanks!

ask the ladies, they'll tell you I"m even faster

TrueGritProductions lol 😂 btw just pushed my avg from 19% to 25%

Walter Robertson That's a game-changer. What's your secret(s)? Btw I will be launching a members-only Server/Entrepreneur program in the near future with a private support group on facebook to weed out the serious moneymakers from the freebie seekers, ya know, just like how servers qualify and spend their time on tables according the quality of their guests :0

+Olanna Says I think it involves turning off your conscious mind and absorbing the details of your situation completely without trying to remember every one, and letting the info come back to you when needed. Also, at first it can be good to constantly be running your next 5 tasks through your mind so that your actions eventually naturally follow the priorities and adapt on the fly without stressing.

+Olanna Says The challenges of multitasking is going to be diffrent in every place you work because the dutys that you are asked to preform will differ. Once you work in a place long enough it will become second nature how to ebb and flow. So just know that going into a new place or if your waiting tables for the first time. But yes the things that will start to become natural is time management. When you have 20 things to do in ten mins. You wont have to think about how many trips you have to walk from the back to the front and grab what items to do what project or get something for a table. You will naturally grow into doing the job. Its so true you need to avoid negativity so I take it a step further. Remeber your there to make money so avoid negative people all together and just concetrate on that cash. GL

+Mark Betancourt great advice thanks so much

I can only carry 20 plates, 7 wine glasses, and 3 other servers that decided to go to the Justin Timberlake concert instead of showing up to work.

Peter Shaman takes way too long to serve that way and is a hassle for the guest

Peter Shaman no，now a lot of chinese restraunt is becoming more and more western like .it is funny ,that to be international is the most imprortant thing which our boss thinks.and infect as i see(i am a employer as a waiter in the hotel now),chinese hotel espcially these gay who want to get a "fivestar hotel" is really poor about it .Only do it well,and don't care about how to do it well unless some thing hinder me to earn money ……fancy ,hehe. We don‘t know and hadn't learn the culture of the West,and most of us don't want to know.....we get pay for month and just do wt the executives said...well. i think it is just like a joke when you see the director tell me “The handle of a cup of coffee is on the right side when you take the coffee to the guest with sugar and milk.don't ask anything else this is rule”...... well,don't eat western food in chinese hotel. i think wt we had done leave me feeling sick! maybe it is ok in big city,the place where i lived is only a town (although it is a established city). hope you can get a good travel in china with troditional chinese things……but……i am not sure about it

+DJ Moonboots Hang on George Zimmerman, I shot these in my studio apartment in North Hollywood, some of them while on food stamps and unemployed, and they are some of the highest ranking in the world on Google and RU-vid, and I am self employed now with no residence to speak of. Or...... I could just film myself waiting tables

Your statement proves my point. I can't say anything to that.

DJ Moonboots I don't wait tables any more, I made it, and that's the goal and point of every waiter. If you need a demonstration of good service then take you $200 and go to the prime steakhouse in the nearest city with half a million or more people and figure it out for yourself. Other than that, thank you for your comments as they increase engagement, which increases views and ad commissions from RU-vid.

That's a myth about marijuana affecting short term memory. I used to smoke weed and by the time my tables were all there I was multi-tasking like a motherfucker

***** Multi-tasking and memory are not necessarily related or dependent on one another. Besides, it was a joke.

gukgl uyguig You were still partly right :) Most waiters are potheads, cokeheads, meth heads haha. But what really made multitasking difficult for me was prescription meds.

How about tip me 18% or I destroy your favorite Lego set?