Now Age isn’t a completely off-topic factor in the restaurant business. Servers range from the age of 20 till your upper 40’s even, but what I’m gonna be talking about is the hostesses.
A hostesses job is to be the very first face seen when you step into our restaurant, they are responsible for sitting the customers, picking up phone calls, standing at the host desk looking pretty, and generally eye candy. Now I have to agree that I’ve seen a pretty fair share of very attractive hostesses and I can’t even say that I haven’t seen restaurant owners date his hostesses, they are present not because we need them, but because it is one of the finer luxuries in fine dining.
For what they do it seems a thankless job, they do quite a lot and occasionally even helps servers clean up the tables when the server is busy. They don’t get tips aside from what to-go orders are put and even that is a rarity, they get paid a flat wage and they don’t average nearly as much as us servers do. Hostesses have no restaurant experience thus they enter the entry level position and they tend to work for sometime and eventually get to the position of waiter or waitress. So it bothers me to see my fellow servers treat our hostesses like dirt, when they are just trying to do their job.
Recently the owner decided to hire a hostess, fairly good looking and for what it seemed she was competent. Though one thing that she was lacking in was age. She was too young to be in a environment such as our workplace and it kind of shows because she almost seems awkward when asked to do something though when she does it, it is executed with grace. I’m not necessarily saying that she’s a bad worker nor am I saying that she’s good, it looks like she’s an inbetweener(what kind of word is that…).
Today at the restaurant wasn’t necessarily eventful, other than the fact that I got to see the new hostess and eat a cut of NY Prime Reserve steak, all was bleak and money was shallow and here is me hoping for a better tomorrow.
(My rhyming is getting better, maybe I should step into the music industry now.)
Sincerely,
Your waiter today.
waiter days. 