"Coffee, black, no cream!- I have had a lady say this phrase. She was a very rude lady because when I arrived at her table she yelled it at me. Serving can be a stressful job and it can be a rewarding job as well. It can be a boring job sometimes. I think it is a great job for when you are going through school, the hours are meager yet the money is plentiful. The best part about serving in my opinion is all the people I get to meet. It opens ones mind to so many different aspects of life. One would never think that some people could do the things that they do. I think you can classify people into five groups. Some people may fit into more than one group and some only in one. There are nice people, picky people, cheap people, old people and Bad Tippers.
Nice people are probably the least stressful to serve. They understand that the server is doing the best they can at any given moment. They are the when-ever-you-get-a-chaners. Some nice people are Bad Tippers. They will show so much appreciation and still leave 10%. Sometimes it is not their fault though, they were never taught. Nice people are usually the ones that make serving worthwhile even if the tip was poor. I like serving nice people. There is a guy that always comes in to my restaurant and orders the same thing every time. When I see him getting sat in my section I automatically put the order in the computer so that he can get his meal as fast as possible. He always gets two eggs over medium with steak fries, four pieces of white toast dry and a coke no ice. I get the food to him in about 2 minutes of him sitting down and he leaves a five or six dollar tip every time. .
Picky People. Why order something if it is going to be changed into a whole different meal? It makes a servers job about as stressful as it can get, especially when they are busy. A mild case of this comes to mind, a Mexican couple go to the restaurant I work for almost everyday.