Training Day 3

The third day of training we took our expertise from learning about food and beverage and transitioned it to service by practicing role playing.  I had been sitting at a table with Tara, Lindsey, and Anastasia.  I liked them because they were less girly girl than the rest and were into having fun.  One of us would be the server and the others guests.  We’d be as obnoxious as possible asking really stupid questions and ordering made up stuff that wasn’t on the menu then give our server a hard time; just stupid silly stuff.  A trainer would come by eventually and evaluate our performance.  It really helped a lot especially with the ones who have never been servers before which I’d say was the majority of the girls there. 

Carol was in charge of the host stand and she showed us the system they used to rotate the tables just so we’d know how the hostesses worked.  That was challenging because there were so many of us milling around the stand that not everyone could really get a good look of what was going on.   We also went over the computer system.  With so many menu items it was hard to remember where everything went.  Luckily they used Aloha which is a very popular restaurant computer system.  If not I would have been totally lost. 

Every day I kept seeing newer girls that they had just hired.  I saw one that had worked at a previous Tilted Kilt and was one of their calendar girls.  She was only 19 but had on so much makeup that she looked much much older and her face almost didn’t look real, almost like porcelain doll.   I felt bad for her that she had to go through the training all over again because she obviously knew what she was doing and was probably really bored.  I wondered if she relocated from the city she lived in just to work at the Tilted Kilt or she was going to move here anyway.

 

Theresa told us all to get ready to make some serious money!   While she was training for manager at the

restaurant near corporate she said the servers walked with close to $400.  Girls’ eyes bulged out of their sockets when they heard that.  I don’t see how that’s entirely possible.  Maybe if those servers were working on a Saturday double shift with overtime and no break during a fight night or some big game I could see that.   But that had to be an exaggeration; you couldn’t possibly make that much on a normal shift.  The only people that really make that much consistently in a night are bottle service waitresses in a major city like NYC or Vegas.  Them or strippers.

I think Theresa was being a little misleading.  Maybe she meant $400 a week?  Working 4 days taking home $100 a shift sounds more realistic for our menu prices.  I hope I’m wrong because $400 a shift would be awesome.