Here are a few things Steve Jaeger took away from the food industry.
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1) Never put spaghetti on the children’s menu.
2) Bussing tables is one of the worst jobs in the world.
3) If there is any justice in the universe, all those who take out their shitty day on their server will end up as a bus boy at a Chuck E Cheese in Alabama.
4) Without fail, there will always be some guy who asks for tartar sauce with his $45 grilled seafood entrée.
5) 98.9% of restaurant owners have absolutely no business being there.
6) A person with a PhD in Quantum Physics can put on a server’s apron and not be able to tell the difference between Vinaigrette and Ketchup.
7) Most TV Chefs would not last five minutes in a real restaurant kitchen on a Saturday night.
8) Just because a pretty bartender asks what kind of vodka you want does not mean she wants to sleep with you.
9) The term “Hospitality Industry” does not apply to the people who work in it.
10) Vegans are terrible to work with unless you don’t mind constantly being told that the smell of the meat they are serving is making them queasy.
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The busing staff has it bad, but (speaking from personal experience), I’d rather bus the tables than have to clean the dishes. The busboys at least get a cut of the wait staff’s tips, and while they have to handle all of the dirty cutlery, glassware, and dishware, at the very least, they are not the ones who have to take that plate with its half-eaten steak-and-potatoes covered in au jus that someone decided to mix with ketchup and creamer and make it clean again. And then do it a thousand more times in a night. And then do it… Read more »
Mark – I was both a busboy and a dishwasher. When a kid puked on the floor or dumped his dinner on the floor the busboy cleaned it up. Plus you had to hump those heavy assed bus trays and the tips were usually scant. One time a waitress gave me a couple of bucks in nickels and dimes, she didn’t even have the decency to give me a few quarters. Then she asked me for a ride home. Dishwashers have a dirty, shitty job but in my experience the busboys got the short straw.
LMAO… 9 years doing every job in the Restaurant industry and working to the point of being able to walk into an kitchen or bar, without training and cut down the weeds better than the best on staff… I can agree to ALL of these.
Thank you for sharing this with the world.
Theorems – most celebrities that open restaurants hire people to run the place. After the opening they probably never set foot in it again which is smart and children do make a mess on the table with spaghetti as well as the walls the floor and surrounding tables
1) Never put spaghetti on the children’s menu. Care to explain, why exactly? Because all children then order it and make a mess of it on the table? I cannot imagine other reasons … 5) 98.9% of restaurant owners have absolutely no business being there. Ha! I’ve occasionally been thinking about opening a restaurant some day, but then I remembered that I have no education or training at all in that respect and shelved the plan again. And then I saw all those celebrities on TV opening restaurants left and right, and wondered how they can do it if they… Read more »