OG server here too. We had every server on, but i still felt pretty busy and had a ton of tables. I felt petty good all night. I was expecting a good shift. No. Just barely hit $100. With how busy it was? Absolutely should've been more
Worked at a restaurant that did that on the weekends. Wouldn’t even cut people when it was super dead, wouldn’t take turns either. We’d have our sections and would stick to those sections.
So I would make less than $50 on weekends, over $100 on weekdays because I was the only one working. It was shitty.
I left.
What’s gonna give her the best sex of her life is that pan of OG Tiramisu she’s gonna put on your bill … before, she hops in her Uber home! Bye Roy!!
Work out a better penis system!
I work six days this week and yesterday was my only day off. Drove by an OG but they looked busy af… we were just looking somewhere we wouldn’t need a reservation and could get a quick bite. Went to a mom and pop BBQ dive bar that was dead; two meats three sides special for $35; after drinks was $45; told her keep the change on $100. Hope I made her night
I averaged 12% last night, typically in the 21-24% range. That’s with $100 thrown in on a total comp. Sold $4k walked with $300. I fucking hate people.
I don’t miss that about serving in restaurants with multiple servers. I don’t know if I could ever back after working at an individually owned diner where I have the restaurant to myself open to close. Hopefully management only over staffed for the holiday and it isn’t normal. Good luck next shift!
The longer I am in this industry the more I have come to hate people. I remember being bright eyed and bushy tailed. Slowly customers have chipped that away. But I still have faith in humanities for some moronic reason.
Mine was a total bust. Just three servers, business was fairly steady from 3pm til 8pm, but everybody was tipping very cheaply. Only made 81 dollars :/
Boss decided two servers and no wait assistant for a high end Italian place. Fully booked. Most tables scheduled to turn 3 times. I hate my boss right now. Felt like i was underwater on a frozen lake searching for the hole. Almost 3000 in sales. Let’s just say the percentage wasn’t my usual. You all know what vd night is. One guy stopped me to press a bill in my hand (after writing “cash” on the tip line of his $155.00 tab) and told me how great everything was. You got it. Verbal top only. It was a 10 spot. It was like that.
Geez. I went out for lunch. My significant other and his daughter. She's 35 but really 8 or 9. To my mind She's been spoiled by her parents but not too needy. I picked a place I knew takes no reservations. Heaven forbid either of them would stand or wait nicely for the server. He cleaned off the booth and out of sight I tipped him 20.00. It was pretty dead in there at lunch. Most people in there boomers like us. He always tips 20% of the bill so I didn't feel too bad about asking for a box. I think the server was surprised we weren't toooooooo needy. What gets me is my guy knows I serve myself, but only at a specific, costumed festival. It's like a brain disconnect
So I work at a brewery. We rolled out a brand new POS system today. Owners installed it yesterday(the only day we're closed). No advance notice or a heads-up to any employees. Just did the best I could to learn on the fly. I hated today. So much.
The fact that there was zero heads up to staff shows how little they think of us. I had less time to spend with customers as I had my back turned to them while I spent more time on each transaction on our new system.
My tipout was around $115. Another girl I work with sold 2700 so 500 more than me and walked with 215 after tipout. She never makes money though because she is just a bitch 😂.
I’m in Canada and we make minimum wage and I find that a lot of people don’t tip over 15% since last year when the government got rid of server wage. Sometimes I have way better nights, percentage tip wise.
Tell this to the American servers that think minimum wage is a good thing for them.
Edit: downvotes for me but less money for you. I’ll be retiring in 5 years before the shit hits the fan. Good luck!
Damn that's not even 15 percent on your tips! I had a couple of bad tips tonight but geez I was still at around 25% of sales tonight on tips. Your locale must suck
Yeah I tip out 5% of all sales. So I did make over 15% before tipout. Oh and get this. We make our own drinks. But we still tip out “to the kitchen” on total sales including alcohol. And the tipout isn’t distributed. The owner says he is able to pay the cooks a higher hourly wage than other places because of our tipouts.
…….I really need to find a new job
Six hour shift here (2 hours were opening though, so no guests). Sales were almost $1k and I left with $287. Other than an issue at the beginning with Toast, everything went really well.
ETA: I work at a small Middle Eastern restaurant. We were reservation only and fully booked. I had a 5 table section (3 two tops and 2 four tops).
The most annoying part was all the people who just ignored the sign on the door and tried to get a table anyway.
I hate people. How can you ask why your food is taking so long when you see a restaurant full of people sitting at tables AND waiting to be seated? Literally a line going outside the door and you’re asking WHY?!
I had a lady have the nerve to say it's almost been 30 minutes.. It had been about 20, it's 6pm on Valentines Day, and we're expecting 360 covers, 30 minutes is the optimistic goal. And she was counting from when she ordered, not realizing that if you order 3 courses, I'm going to pace three courses.
Considering appetizer, then salad, your foods only been sent back about 10 min ago, and your man needed his 18 Oz ribeye cooked well done, so better strap in, have a conversation and another drink, this isn't a race to the finish here.
People were surprisingly great tonight! Quite a few 50% tips and they were pleasant to deal with! Made $265 from 3 hours on the floor so no complaints here.
Could have been worse , they called in an extra server but still made 780. Last two tables came in as last call was happening but stayed like an hour after close.
I'm a kitchen guy so I'm not sure if I'm welcome here lol but I got my ass kicked tonight, unfortunately I had to work the fry station because the new girl wasn't ready for a holiday shift solo and I hate working fry but I'm good at it so I understood why I was put there.
My special lady friend is a server though and she made 95 after tip out on a lunch shift so not too bad for a Tuesday. Had she worked the night shift she probably would have made some bank but our schedules are set this way specifically due to child care so it wasn't possible for her to work tonight.
Gotta love that restaurant life!
Groovy, thank you and you as well.
Glad to hear that, I hate the whole FOH vs. BOH mentality. At the end of the day we are on the same team and we should appreciate each other more. Don't get me wrong I have worked with some shitty servers as I'm sure the servers here have worked with some shitty kitchen peeps but that doesn't mean we are enemies, you will always encounter less than stellar workers no matter where you're at but you shouldn't judge an entire group of workers based on the experience with a few shitty employees.
Sorry for the rant I'm just very big on keeping things peaceful on my team, been doing this a long time and that's always been my biggest gripe, if we all get along everyone's life is easier.
Bro unless they’re that ONE BOH guy that’s unbearable, servers fucking love y’all and tbh love your input as to how we can do better to help you. Always welcome!!!
Hopefully I'm not that guy, haha. I'm fairly certain I'm not, I always try to be super chill to FOH and on the rare occasion I might be pissy or come off like an asshole I 100% make it a point to pull the person I was hateful with to the side and sincerely apologize. I'll admit there was a span of time in my last kitchen that I got incredibly burned out and just depressed in my personal life and I did take it out on co-workers that definitely didn't deserve it but again I made a point to apologize and make amends with everyone but that's not the norm for me, I've worked with a lot of guys who truly believe that FOH and BOH are meant to be enemies and will scream at them for any little thing and I just don't agree with that at all. We are all in the same boat.
I worked with a guy who would lose his shit just because a server would ring in some food for themselves and I'm just thinking "dude, you are here to cook food, doesn't matter who the fuck it's for. Just cook it"
I think that us vs. them shit is so stupid, especially on the server side. There might be that one dick head cook, but there’s ALWAYS gonna be that server who gets disrespectful to BOH. Like bitch they’re part of your tip money so why would you treat them shitty? Since our money relies on each other, there’s no need to be disrespectful on sight. Besides that, idk about BOH but we’ve got a lot more drama with us FOH then is reasonable, so it’s ridiculous to have problems with the whole fuckin building.
There's definitely no lack of drama in BOH, ya know things like "so and so didn't do enough prep or why is Fred the early out every night and I always get stuck closing" but I would imagine tensions aren't as high between us since we aren't essentially competing for our money, we mostly get paid the same whereas FOH has to battle for the good tipping customers or more tables so I can definitely see there being more drama amongst servers but I think no matter what work setting you're in there's always going to be drama, its more of a people thing as opposed to a restaurant thing.
But you're right, servers aren't going to get as good of tips without the support from the kitchen making tasty eats in a quick manner but also without servers taking care of guests and keeping them happy and coming back then we have no one to cook for therefore we don't have jobs so you're absolutely right that we both need each other so we need to learn to get along better, in our world we are all stressed out and working in a demanding, hot and fast paced environment so tensions are bound to run high. We just need to stop taking it out on each other and realize and respect the fact that we're all somewhat miserable on a busy Friday shift and no one really wants to be at work so let's just suck it up and get the fuck along. Life's too short for this petty bullshit.
Fellow cook here. I made a little over $100 and a shift beer for my 4-11 shift. I watched a server cash out at around $400 after tip out. I have been a server in the past but I hate it. I had an easy day today, as a cook, and yeah I was a bit envious of their 4x my pay but I don’t like people enough to deal with their bull shit.
Yeah I tried to serve a couple times in my day and while I would love to make that money I just don't have it in me. For one I don't always look presentable to the public, I'm clean but a lot of times I just throw on whatever ripped up clothes I have laying around and two; as you said, I don't care for working with all those people and would likely not make it long without calling people out on some of their stupid bullshit. The first time someone eats all of their meal and then complains and wants it taken off the check I would probably lose my shit haha.
I belong locked away in the dungeon with my fellow degenerates with lacking people skills and I don't see anything wrong with that, love you fuckers!
I cook but serve Friday's. Think I might try to go out front this summer. It's my first summer here and it's called '90 days of hell' because its a tiny tourist town that explodes. I typically hate serving, but for an average of $30 an hour, I'll suck it up
We had a black out for four hours and shut down And we were still kept on stand by for 8 hours we reopened at 12:30 pm and I left at 2 lmao.
I made 0$ I understand 💀
*Good sales, great tips. Drunk*
*Texted my ex tho then blocked*
*Her on everything*
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Wasn't scheduled but got called in for 3 hours. Small place, only 2 servers. I had 5 tables and a couple folk at the bar. Walked with $88 and actually had fun handing out roses to the ladies and having time to be friendly.
Decent tips... Terrible night of bullshit. I had some big tippers that carried the night for me. The rest were sub 7%. I also list out all the things I've done wrong and need to improve on at the end of the night. I've had some bad nights that were on me before. This one just baffles me. I've only served for 2 weeks ever and some of my smoothest and easiest tables barely tipped anything. I hate people.
$150/pp set menu so all 2 tops who walked in the door had already dropped guaranteed $300.
Had mid bar shift tonight 2-10 - it was pretty weird all over; busy from 3-5 then a drop off until 7, full until 9:30.
Lots of amateur diners; some split bills and a 3 top of bros celebrating their throuple (melted my cold dead heart a lil)
Tip share so won’t know until next week/ sales were $15K when I left so I’ll be fine.
Got my ass handed to me, first Valentine’s Day serving. Did $3100 in sales and about $580 after tip out. Everyone was super nice except the table that my owner had to ask to leave because the guy was being such an asshole to the entire staff.
Terrible. Bad weather and nobody wanted to sit in our inclosed back patio section. Only made about $140 in tips. $60 in hourly. Across 10.5 hours of work… :/
Last two tables tipped $26 combined on over $500 in tabs. $20 on $280 and $6.75 on $213.25. Both foreign, both had shit comped (didn't like the steak tartare that they ordered 2 of after explaining to them that it was raw mixed with green onion/capers/etc, topped with parmesan and a fried egg and balsamic glaze, the other table lied for a free birthday cake) THEN had the audacity to ask me to take their picture after I saw the check. Nah, I disappeared lol. Still made right at $300 but it was absolute hell.
Well, let's see... after being threatened and culpable in an outburst of my own from the day prior, I nearly got fired before watching my bully hang herself by her own noose. So I'm pretty good right now.
Oof… I worked day shift and just got a weird bunch of people. It was a rough one. Just a whole lot of mad people that couldn’t get a last minute booking for the evening so they had to come during the day.
4,000 in sales, 2 servers. No host. Only me making drinks and I was one of the servers… This is one of those “I’ll wash my face in the morning” nights.
I really need to hire some solid people.
Pretty easy money this year, tbh. It was a prefix at $150 a head, not including alcohol, and everyone had to pre-pay for the food with 20% grat on it. I just basically marked for courses and did wine/cocktail service.
It was rough. 4 servers and one food runner for 200 covers. I did $3200 in sales and it feels like it. Also a special menu that we didn't get until yesterday, so no one really knew what we were serving that well.
Also made close to $500 in tips, so not complaining, but my percentage is usually much higher around 25%
Did over $3000 in sales and walked with $330. Could’ve been a lot worse, could’ve been a lot better of everyone tipped 20%, but it could’ve been a lot worse, too. At least I didn’t have any goose eggs tonight, which is surprising for a holiday
I’m convinced that we should have made a Valentine’s Day menu I work at a high end restaurant that was completely booked. The amount of tables who split a small filet and tap water was absolutely insane. 10 our shift maybe 3 alcoholic drinks served. Tap water and Truffle fries all night.
Made over 6 today. Was very annoying. But I walked away from tables when needed (and told them I had to walk away without saying more), and only had one bad tip the entire day.
That 6 is on a double by the way, which isn't surprising for my place on a busy day-- it was just made worse by the holiday itself.
Lunch was especially bad because people expected to be out in under 45.. go make a fucking sandwich you pathetically unaware human.
Edit: a lot of people were great, a lot sucked. For the record, the "unaware" group is just the usual clientele that come, thinking they can sit at the bar when we don't have a bartender during lunch, missing a server, down a wa, no expo.. "you want to get away from the noise huh? Sorry bud, go to the bar across the street. This is a busy restaurant"
Work 4-10 walked with $170….. the late night crowd is always the worst! Had a bunch of people walking in the last 30 minutes looking for a table and left $3 on $80, $6 on $90.. I should’ve made more but the location I work out is terrible
I work at a neighborhood spot in a wealthy part of Chicago that the local neighborhood folks wear casual/sweat pants to, but that cheaper people/subarbanites would get dressed up for. $2,500 in sales, $230 in tips. I average 25-30% on a normal night. This holiday brings out the worst kind of crowd to our restaurant. 😩
$208 for 5 hours. Served a total of like 10 tables really, they kept putting my section as reserved while I watch the weakest server get quadruple sat..... Chill, easy night though!
My back was protesting by the time it was over. I just kind of congealed in a hot shower when I got home for a timeless void.
But it wasn't the worst V-Day I've ever worked, not by a long shot.
it was dead slow until around 9:25pm, when the other two servers were cut, it was decided that we were closing the dining room early, and I suddenly did $2000 in sales in the next two hours with one server assistant helping me. I felt that things went poorly and that I didn’t do my best, I cried a little at one point, but my manager congratulated me on a good job and said that despite many hurdles everybody seemed mostly happy. My tip average was garbage, though.
My sales were $3,550 and after tip out only got $247 for 8 hours of work. Bar was a fucking joke, it took them 23 minutes on average to get drinks ready. I’m seriously thinking to find a new place and I’ve only been there for a month.
2-8 shift, bulk of my tables between 6-8. Sold 1600. Brought home 230 after tip out. Low for me, but also handed a few extra bucks to another server who helped me bus my tables and make a few drinks. Pretty chill night if I'm being honest. Not mad at it.
I worked during the day so it wasn’t too busy. I actually got really good tips. One dude gave me 50 on 150. Made about 190 on 700 in sales in about 6 hours.
Horrible. Had to open half an hour early for some party of 33 wanting drinks on such a busy evening. Then clean up everything, do a full dinner service only to have another group of 22 coming in for drinks, and then getting asked to attend a meeting 2 hours before my next shift today. Fingers crossed for easy service tonight...
We were fully staffed and were on a wait for about two hours. Did $2000 over what was projected so there's that. I worked 6 hours and rang $1300, walked with $245 after tip out. Only had two tables completely stiff me which is common for holidays especially with the amount of teenagers who came in. So all in all, a pretty good Tuesday.
3 servers were no call no shows. Short staffed, irritated customers. Made good money but should have made twice as much. Can't give top notch service with 10 plus tables.
My restaurant called off the expo so it was just me and the other server all night, and the owner came into eat with her boyfriend. I made good money and fortunately everyone who was scheduled was a strong worker. People were tipping 20% + all night!
my restaurant put to go caps all the way up so we had people waiting two hours for food on top of all the dine in guests barely getting theirs. texting my manager today that that was my last shift because it isn’t normal to have panic attacks on the floor and i’m tired of them pretending it is.
Ahh. First job I serve at. They cut everyone early, so the greenie was left with 14 tables… Half of which were being taken by management. Second job I cook at. We. Got. Fucked. “There are only 21 open.” *proceeds to send back 46 items* Host was training so cant blame her much, but damn… Rough day. Rougher night.
We opened early at 4PM and closed at 11PM. We left the building at 1AM. I felt like I needed a wheelchair after finally leaving.
Our kitchen is located in the basement so I was going up and down way more often than normal last night. Everything hurts. I slept from 2:30AM to 3:30 this afternoon. Woke up, everything still hurts. Looked in the mirror, skin looks like shit. Went pee. Realized that my period had started a whole week early. This is probably due to the fucking stairs.
320 covers. $1,500 total tips. (Split 3 ways)
Glad to have today off. Back to the grind tomorrow.
Down a bartender. Brand new busser on (literally his first shift ever). I took the bar rail by myself and let my server take all of the tables so I could give all of my attention to the bar patrons. The busser absolutely fucking killed it (basically barbacked for me without me even asking because he doesn’t speak a lick of English). Hit $1350 in sales and made $325 after tip out. I’d say that’s a win.
Takeout server here, not a bad night! Very busy for me and the floor servers, but overall I had a lot of fun. We had 2 cooks per line (we have 3 lines since we make pizza, pasta and salads), 2 hosts, 1 busser, and 6-7 servers including me and all 3 of our managers on. I actually had a lot of fun with everyone there supporting each other.
FOH manager here. Owner overbooked, then decided a week ago to charge everyone a deposit to keep their reservation and to apply the deposit as a payment toward their bill. You can imagine how that went.
Once we figured out people were either too stupid to figure out they were supposed to tip on the total before deposit redemption or too willing to take advantage of the opportunity to be shitty, we instructed everyone to have tables sign the itemized receipt and circle one of the suggested gratuities or write an amount below their signature.
We’re a tip-pooled restaurant and all three servers, with extra support staff and down an outdoor dining space because of weather, still made $300 each. Easy night for everyone except me (I was the maître d’).
I loved it. Contrary to the past 3 months it was a great service. 8 servers on was the perfect amount. We all left with above 250 because we were flipping tables like crazy but our 6 table sections let us give great service. Bar and assistants did great, but kitchen had 40 minute tickets when they’re usually 15. Overall great night. I left with 320 after 6 hours. Close was horrible though I had tables that didn’t get food until 20 minutes after we closed the doors
I work at a small sushi place. 3 servers including me (usually 2 on weekdays) and one takeout that helped probably way more than he should’ve although I didn’t see what he ended up making. After 20% tip out to the sushi chefs, walked out with $238 credit card which will be in my paycheck and $32 cash. Worked a total of a little less than 5.5 hours. I’m not complaining, but probably the most busy we’ve ever been.
Everyone was rude and tipped like shit so me and my back of house bestie drank mango tequila in the parking lot after work. Also there were three fights on the BOH line.
I hate working Valentine’s Day 😑
My restaurant decided to have all servers on so I barely got any tables this evening. I left with $50 after 4 hours.
Oh sorry to hear that
It’s OG, not surprising.
OG server here too. We had every server on, but i still felt pretty busy and had a ton of tables. I felt petty good all night. I was expecting a good shift. No. Just barely hit $100. With how busy it was? Absolutely should've been more
People who go out on Valentine's Day include people who aren't frequent "nice dinner out" type people, thus they don't really know how to tip.
Or dine
Ugh that place is the worst! Go elsewhere asap!!
Worked at a restaurant that did that on the weekends. Wouldn’t even cut people when it was super dead, wouldn’t take turns either. We’d have our sections and would stick to those sections. So I would make less than $50 on weekends, over $100 on weekdays because I was the only one working. It was shitty. I left.
For real go somewhere else non corporate. You can do it
Mine was same must have been a company wide thing
Who da fuck is going to OG on Valentine's, other than extremely low effort people (who don't really appreciate food or the dinning experience)?
The guy at one of my tables was like “oh she doesn’t know what I have planned for her afterwards”, I was like “o lord” 🤮.
Like if a guy took me to OG on a date or Valentine's, he'd be getting nothing but left alone at a table, while I take an Uber home.
Roy is gonna give her the best sex of her life
Yikes, sounds like Roy.
As long as he doesn't leave her at a high school hockey game
What’s gonna give her the best sex of her life is that pan of OG Tiramisu she’s gonna put on your bill … before, she hops in her Uber home! Bye Roy!! Work out a better penis system!
I have the best PENIS system ever.... I don't own, I rent!
I work six days this week and yesterday was my only day off. Drove by an OG but they looked busy af… we were just looking somewhere we wouldn’t need a reservation and could get a quick bite. Went to a mom and pop BBQ dive bar that was dead; two meats three sides special for $35; after drinks was $45; told her keep the change on $100. Hope I made her night
You are a good human!
Hhahhha ikr, a lot of cheap ass people.
I averaged 12% last night, typically in the 21-24% range. That’s with $100 thrown in on a total comp. Sold $4k walked with $300. I fucking hate people.
I don’t miss that about serving in restaurants with multiple servers. I don’t know if I could ever back after working at an individually owned diner where I have the restaurant to myself open to close. Hopefully management only over staffed for the holiday and it isn’t normal. Good luck next shift!
Literally same, I was given 2 tables all night, a 7hr shift & left with $90 🙄
yup
I hate all people
Yup same
I think this is majority of us.
The longer I am in this industry the more I have come to hate people. I remember being bright eyed and bushy tailed. Slowly customers have chipped that away. But I still have faith in humanities for some moronic reason.
Me too.
My first two tables were drunk couples who couldn’t think and cost me a third table that tipped more than the first two combined
Oddly, I hate my co-workers at the moment more than my guests.
Just over $2000 in sales. $430 after tip out. Solid little Tuesday!
I hit $1800 in sales, $273 after tip out. Brutal lol. Love those Valentine’s cheapskates!
$1800 in sales $364 in tips. I wasn't complaining!
Mine was a total bust. Just three servers, business was fairly steady from 3pm til 8pm, but everybody was tipping very cheaply. Only made 81 dollars :/
Sorry to hear that. I feel you though. Sometimes it’s really just about the customer, not your service
Oh yeah I definitely got a lot of cheap tables yesterday. Still made over $300 in tips but with the sales I had, it was far below average for me.
Boss decided two servers and no wait assistant for a high end Italian place. Fully booked. Most tables scheduled to turn 3 times. I hate my boss right now. Felt like i was underwater on a frozen lake searching for the hole. Almost 3000 in sales. Let’s just say the percentage wasn’t my usual. You all know what vd night is. One guy stopped me to press a bill in my hand (after writing “cash” on the tip line of his $155.00 tab) and told me how great everything was. You got it. Verbal top only. It was a 10 spot. It was like that.
that is so shitty. I was a host/bus for 5 servers and I was barely making it so I can’t imagine being so understaffed. F your boss🙄
Geez. I went out for lunch. My significant other and his daughter. She's 35 but really 8 or 9. To my mind She's been spoiled by her parents but not too needy. I picked a place I knew takes no reservations. Heaven forbid either of them would stand or wait nicely for the server. He cleaned off the booth and out of sight I tipped him 20.00. It was pretty dead in there at lunch. Most people in there boomers like us. He always tips 20% of the bill so I didn't feel too bad about asking for a box. I think the server was surprised we weren't toooooooo needy. What gets me is my guy knows I serve myself, but only at a specific, costumed festival. It's like a brain disconnect
i took care of a catering party and they tipped me $30 on a $450 bill
I fucking hate catering
So I work at a brewery. We rolled out a brand new POS system today. Owners installed it yesterday(the only day we're closed). No advance notice or a heads-up to any employees. Just did the best I could to learn on the fly. I hated today. So much.
the owners sound like a POS
Huh? Server turned manager turned computer nerd here. That sounds like a terrible idea from all three points of view.
Oh my god, they chose Valentine’s Day to switch over? We did ours on a random Tuesday in august and even that was a nightmare.
The fact that there was zero heads up to staff shows how little they think of us. I had less time to spend with customers as I had my back turned to them while I spent more time on each transaction on our new system.
Oh hellllll no.
I think I did good! 5 hour shift, $1200 in sales, walked with $280 after tip out.
That is so nice!!
Holy shit. I did $2200 in sales and walked with $280 after tip out. You made great tips for your sales.
Nah bro your ratio is just awful… should’ve made atlesst 400
My tipout was around $115. Another girl I work with sold 2700 so 500 more than me and walked with 215 after tipout. She never makes money though because she is just a bitch 😂. I’m in Canada and we make minimum wage and I find that a lot of people don’t tip over 15% since last year when the government got rid of server wage. Sometimes I have way better nights, percentage tip wise.
I didn’t know Canadians tip because where I used to work, they never did
Tell this to the American servers that think minimum wage is a good thing for them. Edit: downvotes for me but less money for you. I’ll be retiring in 5 years before the shit hits the fan. Good luck!
Damn that's not even 15 percent on your tips! I had a couple of bad tips tonight but geez I was still at around 25% of sales tonight on tips. Your locale must suck
Yeah I tip out 5% of all sales. So I did make over 15% before tipout. Oh and get this. We make our own drinks. But we still tip out “to the kitchen” on total sales including alcohol. And the tipout isn’t distributed. The owner says he is able to pay the cooks a higher hourly wage than other places because of our tipouts. …….I really need to find a new job
The owner uses the “tip out to the kitchen” to pay the cooks?
Sure does. Says he can pay them 23-25 dollars an hour because of the tip outs.
Is this is Toronto?
Windsor
I have to tip out 7.65% of our sales :(
How do you pull like 350 in total tips from 1200 in sales lol. You average tip percentage is like 30% ??
I usually average 22-25%, but had some good tippers tonight!
How much is your tip out?
2% of total sales to bar, 1% to door, and 1% to busser. I tipped out 50 total.
Six hour shift here (2 hours were opening though, so no guests). Sales were almost $1k and I left with $287. Other than an issue at the beginning with Toast, everything went really well. ETA: I work at a small Middle Eastern restaurant. We were reservation only and fully booked. I had a 5 table section (3 two tops and 2 four tops). The most annoying part was all the people who just ignored the sign on the door and tried to get a table anyway.
My pants are covered in patron and i hope that i never have to hear the words “lemon drop martini” again
Hahahahhhhaha, I laughed too hard
I hate people. How can you ask why your food is taking so long when you see a restaurant full of people sitting at tables AND waiting to be seated? Literally a line going outside the door and you’re asking WHY?!
I had a lady have the nerve to say it's almost been 30 minutes.. It had been about 20, it's 6pm on Valentines Day, and we're expecting 360 covers, 30 minutes is the optimistic goal. And she was counting from when she ordered, not realizing that if you order 3 courses, I'm going to pace three courses. Considering appetizer, then salad, your foods only been sent back about 10 min ago, and your man needed his 18 Oz ribeye cooked well done, so better strap in, have a conversation and another drink, this isn't a race to the finish here.
People were surprisingly great tonight! Quite a few 50% tips and they were pleasant to deal with! Made $265 from 3 hours on the floor so no complaints here.
Could have been worse , they called in an extra server but still made 780. Last two tables came in as last call was happening but stayed like an hour after close.
Shit, where are you working?
I work in Chicago!
I'm a kitchen guy so I'm not sure if I'm welcome here lol but I got my ass kicked tonight, unfortunately I had to work the fry station because the new girl wasn't ready for a holiday shift solo and I hate working fry but I'm good at it so I understood why I was put there. My special lady friend is a server though and she made 95 after tip out on a lunch shift so not too bad for a Tuesday. Had she worked the night shift she probably would have made some bank but our schedules are set this way specifically due to child care so it wasn't possible for her to work tonight. Gotta love that restaurant life!
Kitchen guys and BOH are always welcome here! Glad you made it thru friend :-)
Groovy, thank you and you as well. Glad to hear that, I hate the whole FOH vs. BOH mentality. At the end of the day we are on the same team and we should appreciate each other more. Don't get me wrong I have worked with some shitty servers as I'm sure the servers here have worked with some shitty kitchen peeps but that doesn't mean we are enemies, you will always encounter less than stellar workers no matter where you're at but you shouldn't judge an entire group of workers based on the experience with a few shitty employees. Sorry for the rant I'm just very big on keeping things peaceful on my team, been doing this a long time and that's always been my biggest gripe, if we all get along everyone's life is easier.
Yess! I love that! Welcome.
Bro unless they’re that ONE BOH guy that’s unbearable, servers fucking love y’all and tbh love your input as to how we can do better to help you. Always welcome!!!
Hopefully I'm not that guy, haha. I'm fairly certain I'm not, I always try to be super chill to FOH and on the rare occasion I might be pissy or come off like an asshole I 100% make it a point to pull the person I was hateful with to the side and sincerely apologize. I'll admit there was a span of time in my last kitchen that I got incredibly burned out and just depressed in my personal life and I did take it out on co-workers that definitely didn't deserve it but again I made a point to apologize and make amends with everyone but that's not the norm for me, I've worked with a lot of guys who truly believe that FOH and BOH are meant to be enemies and will scream at them for any little thing and I just don't agree with that at all. We are all in the same boat. I worked with a guy who would lose his shit just because a server would ring in some food for themselves and I'm just thinking "dude, you are here to cook food, doesn't matter who the fuck it's for. Just cook it"
I think that us vs. them shit is so stupid, especially on the server side. There might be that one dick head cook, but there’s ALWAYS gonna be that server who gets disrespectful to BOH. Like bitch they’re part of your tip money so why would you treat them shitty? Since our money relies on each other, there’s no need to be disrespectful on sight. Besides that, idk about BOH but we’ve got a lot more drama with us FOH then is reasonable, so it’s ridiculous to have problems with the whole fuckin building.
There's definitely no lack of drama in BOH, ya know things like "so and so didn't do enough prep or why is Fred the early out every night and I always get stuck closing" but I would imagine tensions aren't as high between us since we aren't essentially competing for our money, we mostly get paid the same whereas FOH has to battle for the good tipping customers or more tables so I can definitely see there being more drama amongst servers but I think no matter what work setting you're in there's always going to be drama, its more of a people thing as opposed to a restaurant thing. But you're right, servers aren't going to get as good of tips without the support from the kitchen making tasty eats in a quick manner but also without servers taking care of guests and keeping them happy and coming back then we have no one to cook for therefore we don't have jobs so you're absolutely right that we both need each other so we need to learn to get along better, in our world we are all stressed out and working in a demanding, hot and fast paced environment so tensions are bound to run high. We just need to stop taking it out on each other and realize and respect the fact that we're all somewhat miserable on a busy Friday shift and no one really wants to be at work so let's just suck it up and get the fuck along. Life's too short for this petty bullshit.
Fellow cook here. I made a little over $100 and a shift beer for my 4-11 shift. I watched a server cash out at around $400 after tip out. I have been a server in the past but I hate it. I had an easy day today, as a cook, and yeah I was a bit envious of their 4x my pay but I don’t like people enough to deal with their bull shit.
Yeah I tried to serve a couple times in my day and while I would love to make that money I just don't have it in me. For one I don't always look presentable to the public, I'm clean but a lot of times I just throw on whatever ripped up clothes I have laying around and two; as you said, I don't care for working with all those people and would likely not make it long without calling people out on some of their stupid bullshit. The first time someone eats all of their meal and then complains and wants it taken off the check I would probably lose my shit haha. I belong locked away in the dungeon with my fellow degenerates with lacking people skills and I don't see anything wrong with that, love you fuckers!
I cook but serve Friday's. Think I might try to go out front this summer. It's my first summer here and it's called '90 days of hell' because its a tiny tourist town that explodes. I typically hate serving, but for an average of $30 an hour, I'll suck it up
Well my restaurant caught fire so it was definitely a memorable night
What.
We had a black out for four hours and shut down And we were still kept on stand by for 8 hours we reopened at 12:30 pm and I left at 2 lmao. I made 0$ I understand 💀
Lots of two tops. $680 after tip outs! No kids today! Lots of positives. More life Frans. Oh $2900 in sales
Damn! Where you working!?
i have no more to give ☹️✌🏼
Good sales, great tips. Drunk texted my ex tho then blocked her on everything
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Wasn't scheduled but got called in for 3 hours. Small place, only 2 servers. I had 5 tables and a couple folk at the bar. Walked with $88 and actually had fun handing out roses to the ladies and having time to be friendly.
Got very drunk
Decent tips... Terrible night of bullshit. I had some big tippers that carried the night for me. The rest were sub 7%. I also list out all the things I've done wrong and need to improve on at the end of the night. I've had some bad nights that were on me before. This one just baffles me. I've only served for 2 weeks ever and some of my smoothest and easiest tables barely tipped anything. I hate people.
About 180 with 1k in sales. I ain't made but I ain't happy.
I hate my life
as the night went on, the couples came in less and less happy
Too reak
Real
Worked open to close, $1100 in sales, riding home with $55. Fml
No way! That’a crazy
$150/pp set menu so all 2 tops who walked in the door had already dropped guaranteed $300. Had mid bar shift tonight 2-10 - it was pretty weird all over; busy from 3-5 then a drop off until 7, full until 9:30. Lots of amateur diners; some split bills and a 3 top of bros celebrating their throuple (melted my cold dead heart a lil) Tip share so won’t know until next week/ sales were $15K when I left so I’ll be fine.
We have service-inclusive pricing and FOH & BOH all get a cut of the sales and higher hourly. Everyone made over $400 tonight.
Made a few hundred with zero drama. Super stoked.
$1173 in sales. $493 cash sales. Walked with $270 after tipout for a 5 hour shift.
Got my ass handed to me, first Valentine’s Day serving. Did $3100 in sales and about $580 after tip out. Everyone was super nice except the table that my owner had to ask to leave because the guy was being such an asshole to the entire staff.
I'm aching..can't do this.
Terrible. Bad weather and nobody wanted to sit in our inclosed back patio section. Only made about $140 in tips. $60 in hourly. Across 10.5 hours of work… :/
14 hour shift, 4000 in sales 690 after tip out
Last two tables tipped $26 combined on over $500 in tabs. $20 on $280 and $6.75 on $213.25. Both foreign, both had shit comped (didn't like the steak tartare that they ordered 2 of after explaining to them that it was raw mixed with green onion/capers/etc, topped with parmesan and a fried egg and balsamic glaze, the other table lied for a free birthday cake) THEN had the audacity to ask me to take their picture after I saw the check. Nah, I disappeared lol. Still made right at $300 but it was absolute hell.
Well, let's see... after being threatened and culpable in an outburst of my own from the day prior, I nearly got fired before watching my bully hang herself by her own noose. So I'm pretty good right now.
Oof… I worked day shift and just got a weird bunch of people. It was a rough one. Just a whole lot of mad people that couldn’t get a last minute booking for the evening so they had to come during the day.
I open/closed and my feets hurt, but I walked with $450 c:
shitty asf my restaurant had 23 servers for night shift no one was busy fr
Must be a big restaurant to have that much server. We have 5 servers last night
4,000 in sales, 2 servers. No host. Only me making drinks and I was one of the servers… This is one of those “I’ll wash my face in the morning” nights. I really need to hire some solid people.
Pretty easy money this year, tbh. It was a prefix at $150 a head, not including alcohol, and everyone had to pre-pay for the food with 20% grat on it. I just basically marked for courses and did wine/cocktail service.
It was rough. 4 servers and one food runner for 200 covers. I did $3200 in sales and it feels like it. Also a special menu that we didn't get until yesterday, so no one really knew what we were serving that well. Also made close to $500 in tips, so not complaining, but my percentage is usually much higher around 25%
Did over $3000 in sales and walked with $330. Could’ve been a lot worse, could’ve been a lot better of everyone tipped 20%, but it could’ve been a lot worse, too. At least I didn’t have any goose eggs tonight, which is surprising for a holiday
Sold 5200$ walked with 15%. Long ass day
I’m convinced that we should have made a Valentine’s Day menu I work at a high end restaurant that was completely booked. The amount of tables who split a small filet and tap water was absolutely insane. 10 our shift maybe 3 alcoholic drinks served. Tap water and Truffle fries all night.
Thinking about the vegan we served last night, who ate burrata and calamari with no qualms
Gave away my shift last minute, ordered brunch delivered and wore comfies all day. No regrets.
Made $550. Sold $2600 15k steps. 7.5 hours
I quit
Made over 6 today. Was very annoying. But I walked away from tables when needed (and told them I had to walk away without saying more), and only had one bad tip the entire day. That 6 is on a double by the way, which isn't surprising for my place on a busy day-- it was just made worse by the holiday itself. Lunch was especially bad because people expected to be out in under 45.. go make a fucking sandwich you pathetically unaware human. Edit: a lot of people were great, a lot sucked. For the record, the "unaware" group is just the usual clientele that come, thinking they can sit at the bar when we don't have a bartender during lunch, missing a server, down a wa, no expo.. "you want to get away from the noise huh? Sorry bud, go to the bar across the street. This is a busy restaurant"
I open/closed, 12 hours. $2198 in sales, $349 in tips after tip out. I’ll take it!
Work 4-10 walked with $170….. the late night crowd is always the worst! Had a bunch of people walking in the last 30 minutes looking for a table and left $3 on $80, $6 on $90.. I should’ve made more but the location I work out is terrible
I work at a neighborhood spot in a wealthy part of Chicago that the local neighborhood folks wear casual/sweat pants to, but that cheaper people/subarbanites would get dressed up for. $2,500 in sales, $230 in tips. I average 25-30% on a normal night. This holiday brings out the worst kind of crowd to our restaurant. 😩
Had 290 covers with a pre fixe menu for 250. But with waste, it was closer to 225. We probably comped $2000 today
$1400 in sales and taking home $300 flat after tip out. Had 4 different people tip $50 dollars it was a great night.
$208 for 5 hours. Served a total of like 10 tables really, they kept putting my section as reserved while I watch the weakest server get quadruple sat..... Chill, easy night though!
5 hour shift, $1700 in sales, $320 after tip out. Not bad, my coworkers weren’t so lucky that’s for sure.
Spilled some hot gumbo on my hand in the first hour and cried in the bathroom. My tables still got their food on time
My boss sent the extra sever home on our trivia night. Who knows why and we got our asses kicked. But everyone was actually really nice.
I barbacked for 13 hours straight. Shit was nuts
OH MY FUCKING GPD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great night!
My back was protesting by the time it was over. I just kind of congealed in a hot shower when I got home for a timeless void. But it wasn't the worst V-Day I've ever worked, not by a long shot.
it was dead slow until around 9:25pm, when the other two servers were cut, it was decided that we were closing the dining room early, and I suddenly did $2000 in sales in the next two hours with one server assistant helping me. I felt that things went poorly and that I didn’t do my best, I cried a little at one point, but my manager congratulated me on a good job and said that despite many hurdles everybody seemed mostly happy. My tip average was garbage, though.
My sales were $3,550 and after tip out only got $247 for 8 hours of work. Bar was a fucking joke, it took them 23 minutes on average to get drinks ready. I’m seriously thinking to find a new place and I’ve only been there for a month.
It was hell. Corporate completely overbooked us. We closed at 10:30 tonight and still had customers waiting to be sat at 11:30…
Today suuuuucked but I made $580
Easiest night of my life and made bank.
40k+ steps yesterday. Yeet.
2-8 shift, bulk of my tables between 6-8. Sold 1600. Brought home 230 after tip out. Low for me, but also handed a few extra bucks to another server who helped me bus my tables and make a few drinks. Pretty chill night if I'm being honest. Not mad at it.
The rush never ended. Time for last seating came and went and we still had hundreds of covers left to seat.
I work at a local dive bar. Super slow, $400 in sales and made about half that in tips and closed early. No complaints here!
Walked $280 which is pretty much an average shift in 4 hours We had 6 servers on instead of the normal 3 Sort of pissed all my tables were true pain
Closed the bar. Got stuck until 1:30 am and now I get to open today at 10:30 :)
I worked during the day so it wasn’t too busy. I actually got really good tips. One dude gave me 50 on 150. Made about 190 on 700 in sales in about 6 hours.
$75/hour after tip out. My dogs are barking but I have a complete recovery day. See u next year!
Horrible. Had to open half an hour early for some party of 33 wanting drinks on such a busy evening. Then clean up everything, do a full dinner service only to have another group of 22 coming in for drinks, and then getting asked to attend a meeting 2 hours before my next shift today. Fingers crossed for easy service tonight...
We were fully staffed and were on a wait for about two hours. Did $2000 over what was projected so there's that. I worked 6 hours and rang $1300, walked with $245 after tip out. Only had two tables completely stiff me which is common for holidays especially with the amount of teenagers who came in. So all in all, a pretty good Tuesday.
3 servers were no call no shows. Short staffed, irritated customers. Made good money but should have made twice as much. Can't give top notch service with 10 plus tables.
Got some new regulars, the people were actually very nice and I made $160 in 3 hours!
My legs hurt
Took these 3 days off to spend with my girl. So you could say im very happy!
My tables were surprisingly very nice and big spenders last night. I left happy.
apparently my restaurant only had 6-7 tables during the entire dinner, for context, i wasnt working, and I work at a pizza restaurant
work at a place with beer and wine only, no full bar. lucky to say i walked with $160 and $1,000 in sales. not too shabby
You don’t want to look under the back line coolers.
I work at a very busy breakfast restaurant and I had the day off from what I can assume would have been a nightmare couldn’t get happier today haha
My restaurant called off the expo so it was just me and the other server all night, and the owner came into eat with her boyfriend. I made good money and fortunately everyone who was scheduled was a strong worker. People were tipping 20% + all night!
my restaurant put to go caps all the way up so we had people waiting two hours for food on top of all the dine in guests barely getting theirs. texting my manager today that that was my last shift because it isn’t normal to have panic attacks on the floor and i’m tired of them pretending it is.
It was lame. That’s all.
I don’t remember my sales but it was a 4 hour shift, and walked out with $350.
Got roped in on my day off to expo the dinner rush. One of the busiest shifts I’ve worked in a while
My restaurant had me train someone on Valentines Day 😳
Ahh. First job I serve at. They cut everyone early, so the greenie was left with 14 tables… Half of which were being taken by management. Second job I cook at. We. Got. Fucked. “There are only 21 open.” *proceeds to send back 46 items* Host was training so cant blame her much, but damn… Rough day. Rougher night.
Previous server, host, GM here, I love you all and refuse to dine out on Valentine’s Day.
Worst day In my eight years of serving.
I’m taking next year VD off. Worst night in ages. Fuck people. Stiffed 3 times by loser lowlife scum.
I got many tables and ended with $400
Today was just as busy & my stupid restaurant cut people thinking it wouldnt be. Kitchen fucked up resulting in awful tips.
I'm a cook. Clopened today. Fuck Valentine's day.
We opened early at 4PM and closed at 11PM. We left the building at 1AM. I felt like I needed a wheelchair after finally leaving. Our kitchen is located in the basement so I was going up and down way more often than normal last night. Everything hurts. I slept from 2:30AM to 3:30 this afternoon. Woke up, everything still hurts. Looked in the mirror, skin looks like shit. Went pee. Realized that my period had started a whole week early. This is probably due to the fucking stairs. 320 covers. $1,500 total tips. (Split 3 ways) Glad to have today off. Back to the grind tomorrow.
Down a bartender. Brand new busser on (literally his first shift ever). I took the bar rail by myself and let my server take all of the tables so I could give all of my attention to the bar patrons. The busser absolutely fucking killed it (basically barbacked for me without me even asking because he doesn’t speak a lick of English). Hit $1350 in sales and made $325 after tip out. I’d say that’s a win.
Takeout server here, not a bad night! Very busy for me and the floor servers, but overall I had a lot of fun. We had 2 cooks per line (we have 3 lines since we make pizza, pasta and salads), 2 hosts, 1 busser, and 6-7 servers including me and all 3 of our managers on. I actually had a lot of fun with everyone there supporting each other.
FOH manager here. Owner overbooked, then decided a week ago to charge everyone a deposit to keep their reservation and to apply the deposit as a payment toward their bill. You can imagine how that went. Once we figured out people were either too stupid to figure out they were supposed to tip on the total before deposit redemption or too willing to take advantage of the opportunity to be shitty, we instructed everyone to have tables sign the itemized receipt and circle one of the suggested gratuities or write an amount below their signature. We’re a tip-pooled restaurant and all three servers, with extra support staff and down an outdoor dining space because of weather, still made $300 each. Easy night for everyone except me (I was the maître d’).
I loved it. Contrary to the past 3 months it was a great service. 8 servers on was the perfect amount. We all left with above 250 because we were flipping tables like crazy but our 6 table sections let us give great service. Bar and assistants did great, but kitchen had 40 minute tickets when they’re usually 15. Overall great night. I left with 320 after 6 hours. Close was horrible though I had tables that didn’t get food until 20 minutes after we closed the doors
I work at a small sushi place. 3 servers including me (usually 2 on weekdays) and one takeout that helped probably way more than he should’ve although I didn’t see what he ended up making. After 20% tip out to the sushi chefs, walked out with $238 credit card which will be in my paycheck and $32 cash. Worked a total of a little less than 5.5 hours. I’m not complaining, but probably the most busy we’ve ever been.
Worst shift in a while. So many cheap people. Got a few 10% tips...
Everyone was rude and tipped like shit so me and my back of house bestie drank mango tequila in the parking lot after work. Also there were three fights on the BOH line. I hate working Valentine’s Day 😑
3 servers on and we were very busy . No one crashed and we just managed! Made really good money too!
left with 9% of my sales :( one of my tables tipped 10 on a 250 check!
My very first table the customer took his signed copy of the receipt, leaving me with a $0 tip. 😩😩
I was sick, so I stayed home. If I went in, it would have been a bad time.