by David | Feb 14, 2013 | Skills, Tips, Tricks, and Techniques, Uncategorized
Live TV is an art form I have great appreciation for. The people who perform it can seemingly handle anything. They know like the great stage actors before them that the show must go on. In a way it is very much like waiting tables. No matter what the guests say to...
by David | Dec 13, 2011 | Skills, Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
After returning from a brief vacation to visit the best Columbia, MO dentist I know and documenting the Jardines mess, it is time to get things back to normal. This is the fourth installment of the “simple tricks for servers” series. If you missed the others,...
by David | Sep 28, 2011 | Skills, Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
One of the first posts on this blog explained my fascination with cherry limeades that pre-dates my Arnold Palmer affection. I wrote of the benefits of pitching every table a “mean cherry limeade.” Eventually, I even posted my recipe for a cherry limeade. A funny...
by David | Feb 24, 2011 | Skills, Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Five tricks to make your sidework easier. I haven’t written one of these posts in a while. The first and second versions of this recurring feature were very popular. In defeating the case of writer’s block I seem to have shaken today, I decided to write another set...
by David | Aug 27, 2010 | Skills, Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
(Note: In yesterdays post I discussed why I feel it is beneficial to memorize orders. I will not recap to avoid redundancy, which itself if redundant in this post.) I am terrible with names. Not particularly good with faces either. I will forget three things every...
by David | Aug 26, 2010 | Skills, Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
When I started my first serving job years ago I worked for a company I will affectionately refer to as “Five Four.” That isn’t what it says on the signs out front, but it what we all called it. My first day a manager who introduced himself as “CSV” told me that if I...
