Andrea Hernandez
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hello! I am an 18-year-old on here to share my stories. this is an amazing outlet.
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Working as a Waitress
As a teenager in high school, this is probably one of the best jobs you could work part-time. Personally, I only worked the weekend and always made around $250 to $300 (of course it varies by area, restaurant popularity, etc.). My experience working as a waitress for a year was a roller coaster. At the beginning everything was amazing, I worked at a Thai restaurant, and of course it took me a while to learn the food, training was about two weeks long, but I had to be there every day for eight hours (I started over summer break). And after training you never stop learning: How to serve, what to look for, customer service, and how to handle specific situations and customers. When I started off I was shy, but I knew I had a job to do, so it is very important to always be loud and clear when taking orders. How this restaurant functioned is that all the waiters get half the tips on every table, so all the waiters don't just concentrate on one section, they do what has to be done. Communication is a big part, letting your fellow coworkers know what tables were attended to, what they got, and what needs to be done helps ensure a great job is done, increase productivity, and most of all it helps the customers have the best dining experience; for example, letting your other fellow waiters know about tables you checked helps ensure they don't check them again in such a short time frame, thus preventing the customers from being annoyed (this is referring to how the specific restaurant I worked in functioned). Working as a waitress, in my opinion, is one of the best jobs that provide quality customer service experience—take it as if everyone that walks in through that door is literally your boss, they are paying you.
By Andrea Hernandez5 years ago in Journal