When you think of a pleasurable working environment, one might think…the beach, somewhere warm or maybe in a quiet setting. Others might say somewhere loud like a concert hall if they enjoy music or a kitchen if they enjoy the wonders of making food. But, what you probably won’t say is somewhere without air conditioning, wearing a button up shirt and a long back apron that acts like a blanket…in a setting where you might get yelled at for forgetting something or asked to do multiple things for people you have never met in your life and never again will meet. Sounds like hell to me. Well, on a shitty night, it is. So, why is it then, that so many thousands of people chose to serve food as one their main or only sources of income. It is not for their health, I assure you that. No one wants to get up or leave what their doing just to go to a place where you are under appreciate by your boss and the people you bring food to. No one wants to leave the comfort of their home to drive an hour and a half in traffic then rush up 8 flights to hit the ground running quite literally once clocked in.
This is what people maybe do not realize: that people do not chose serving as a career job because it is so appealing. It is chosen because, just like every person in this world, we want money. Why? To feed ourselves and our loved ones. To keep the roof over our heads and our beds warm at night. It is so simple. Servers do not serve you because they love their environment. They do not serve you because they love to watch you enjoy your food knowing they delivered it to you. They do not serve you because they cannot wait to see if you’ll order more food next. They serve food for WORK, and just like you, when you go to that shitty box of an office or shitty nine to five everyday, you don’t want people to be shitty to you in this already shitty situation. So, turn that frown upside down, pull out your twenty dollar bills, and get ready to leave twenty percent, because this blog is going to be the connection between them and us. The guests and the servers.
Cheers! To treating each other with respect.
This is what people maybe do not realize: that people do not chose serving as a career job because it is so appealing. It is chosen because, just like every person in this world, we want money. Why? To feed ourselves and our loved ones. To keep the roof over our heads and our beds warm at night. It is so simple. Servers do not serve you because they love their environment. They do not serve you because they love to watch you enjoy your food knowing they delivered it to you. They do not serve you because they cannot wait to see if you’ll order more food next. They serve food for WORK, and just like you, when you go to that shitty box of an office or shitty nine to five everyday, you don’t want people to be shitty to you in this already shitty situation. So, turn that frown upside down, pull out your twenty dollar bills, and get ready to leave twenty percent, because this blog is going to be the connection between them and us. The guests and the servers.
Cheers! To treating each other with respect.
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