24 July, 2008

Food/Bar Service 101


Attention bars of Seattle! Alittle education on what everyone knows day one about the service industry as it pertains to alittle thing we call "turnover".
If you're a bar, and have limited space, and in limited space have limited tables....do not, I repeat, do not reserve said tables for three hours out for groups of 3 people. Do not put me in a position where I pay a cover fee, come into your tiny bar, and realize that I can't sit at a table because they've all been "reserved" for people who will arrive at 9 pm, despite the fact that it's currently 6:30 pm.
Hopefully you'll realize that in the time that those tables have remained empty and patrons are required to juggle a drink while standing, you could have shoveled three to four parties through that table and made waaaaay more money.
Unless you have $20 martini's on your drink list (which you may, because in Seattle, apparently all drinks are made with holy water), please don't think your establishment as so high end as to allow reservations of card-table sized seating areas. You're not special.

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