[greenbean]

Oh boy, tyger, good luck!
All I can say is that if you make a mistake (and you will!) just apologize and make it up to your patron. People really get pissed if something goes wrong and they feel like you dont care. Also, always check on each table even if they look like everything is fine. When I started serving I felt like if my patrons looked content, I didnt want to bother them,...but I was wrong because I would get complaints that once I brought the order I never checked back to make sure they were satisified. I assumed they would just wave to me if they needed something but for the most part, people dont want to have to do that.
People will be jerks to you but you just have to grin and bear it, and save your anger for ranting on this board!

Speaking of rants....! Do you ever get those snobby patrons that like to test you? Last night a patron asked me what "maduros" meant, as he pointed to "platanos maduros" on the menu. I said it meant "sweet", and he said, "no it means ripe, but that was close!" !!! Can you believe that jerk! He was friggin testing me! grrrr.

[tyger]

doxy, just because i don't agree with tipping doesn't mean i don't. also, just because i don't agree with tipping doesn't mean i don't appreciate the serving staff at a restaurant; in fact, i do, and even moreso now that i work in a restaurant myself. none of that will change my opinion of tipping.

the parts of the big long post there were actually addressed to me i assumed were aimed at me. and in your first post, doxy, you did say 'I will not insult you in any way', which really wouldn't be necessary if you *didn't* plan on insulting me in any way.

last post i wasn't mad, i was merely irritated because i felt like i had been talked down to, and i really do apologize if it wasn't meant that way. this time? kinda mad, doxy. take your couple of puffs of pot and blow it up your asshole next time you think of suggesting to me that drugs will help (yes, you struck a nerve with that comment. i don't really think you deserve to know any details beyond the fact that half of my close group of friends aren't the same anymore, and it's because of all the weed they smoked in school; they're not really present even when they are. so, i have a very personal problem with weed being reccomended to me, i don't care if it was a serious or joking suggestion.)
there, i'm done. i'm sorry i was totally a bitch in *this* post, but i respect doxy's point of view (and everyone else's for that matter, so long as they don't advocate eating babies) but just because doxy doesn't agree with me doesn't mean i need another adult giving me a 'you'll change your mind given time' talk because i'm going against the grain yet again