All too often, we hear about the horrible things that customers have said or done to their servers. After all, those are the stories that everyone wants to click and make go viral for all the Internet to see. But every once in a while, a customer might go out

I’ve got a dirty little secret and it’s an unpopular opinion for most servers to have: I am a fan of separate checks. Let me clarify. As a server, I’ve had several credit cards tossed in my general direction at the end of service with customers assuming I have kept

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Shout it from the mountaintops! Alert the news media! There are some things that restaurant customers need to stop doing right this very minute if restaurant workers are to retain their very last shreds of sanity. Some of these behaviors are subtle and some of them are as obvious as

Sexual harassment in the restaurant industry is as common as ketchup on french fries, but no one seems to do anything about it. It’s rampant in the back of the house between coworkers and just as much so in the front of the house with customers. A recent survey says

Having a meal in a restaurant is supposed to be a good thing. The staff is there to take care of you and to make your dining experience a good one. No one wants to have a disappointing meal, so here are nine red flags to warn you that the

Years ago while working in a chain restaurant in Times Square that catered to tourists who were looking for familiarity when it came to their vacation dining, one of my coworkers had something horribly mean said to her by one of her customers. Although it happened in the late 1900s,

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a major restaurant staffing shortage across the country, but a new rule that some cities are instituting provides one more reason that servers might not want to don the apron again. New York City announced last week that beginning on August 16th, anyone who

  What you are about to read may be seen as controversial seeing that I always stand up for the restaurant server. I preach that’s it’s important to think about things from the perspective of the person who is serving your food and to have patience, empathy and understanding and