(September 29, 2018 at 4:40 pm)Joods Wrote: And don't forget about the side work. Rolling silverware, stacking clean dishes, refilling salad dressings, putting away cups and other tableware, vacuuming, wiping down tables, cleaning the front doors, refilling ketchup bottles and salt and pepper shakers, refilling the sugar packets. All that has to be done during down time - provided there is some. And all for $2.13 an hour. Some restaurants don't even have busboys, so the wait staff has to clean off their own tables. People who think the host lifts a finger to do any grunge work are also in for a surprise. They don't do shit but stand there, wait for customers and walk them to a table. They might run a register, but that's about the extent of what they do.
One place I worked as a bus boy, the bussers had to do the hosting too. It was mainly so the host/manager could go get stoned in his office. Sounds like a raw deal, but when the manager "called you in to his office" you at least had the chance of getting high after he bitched you out.
