Waiting tables is always a matter luck and numbers and all last week I didn’t have either. It’s incredibly frustrating to look around a busy restaurant and know that the people all around you are making money while you waste time and effort.
Last week I worked six consecutive miserable shifts. Shifts I should have made $100 I made $70, $50 and $23, and yes my declining attitude might have played a role in that but the numbers just weren’t there, and what numbers I had weren’t worth waiting on.
Friday day I had five tables, all parties of women, not a single man in the bunch of a three hour shift. My sales were only $250 and I made $25.
Friday night the restaurant was busy but I was not. Do to some people vastly over-estimating their party sizes my section sat empty for two hours and then when I did get tables they weren’t worth having. In total I had 12 tables, all parties of two. Yes, you can make money off a night like that, my sales were about $600 so I could have walked with around $90 for the shift but my four largest checks all tipped me under 10 percent so that shift was a waste.
My Saturday day shift was so horrible I begged to get out of my night shift because I was in such a miserable mood by that point I just wanted get out of the restaurant and clear my head. Over five hours I had eight tables with a total of 14 guests. You can’t make money off of that section and because the first three tables I had were women eating by themselves. My sales were again only $250 and I made $25. The most I could have potentially made was $40 or so after tip out.
Sunday was better, but still disappointing. I took some time before coming in, came in with a positive attitude and just focused on giving great service, and I did. Lots of people were thanking me, saying I did a great job and I got some great tips as result, the problem was it was all small dollar people who were tipping well. Basically I did half of my sales on four tables, and three of those four tipped 10 percent or less, including one family who I had a great connection with but they left me $7 on $112.
Nothing sucks worse than standing around in a restaurant not making money when you have bills to pay, and I’ve did that all last week. At this point I’m off Monday and Tuesday and I just have to hope that my luck turns by the time I come back to work on Wednesday.
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