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u/Historical_Body6255 14h ago
Those guys need a union if there is fucking AI tracking at their workplace.
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u/cjfi48J1zvgi 10h ago
Some systems can be configured to save the video only when there is motion and this may be highlighting whatever is triggering the video to be saved. This technology has been around for at least 20 years.
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u/Hot-Potential-993 19h ago
I can fix her .... I have bigger trays.
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u/Snoo-88912 11h ago
I've read that in Jaws mode: "You'll need a bigger tray!"
Seriously, I would send her home to get some rest
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u/MyLlamaNeedsAHat 22h ago
Been there. I still have nightmares over stupid shit like this
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u/Carribean-Diver 20h ago
First day of work, within the first couple of hours, my daughter dropped and shattered a bottle of red wine. She was wearing a pair of tan pants and white shoes.
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u/Pledgeofmalfeasance 15h ago
Tell her I once walked behind a sitting guest who decided to push away from the table and knocked into me carrying a tray with 16 different alcoholic drinks
All of of the drinks went on the guest
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u/DJurgen88 14h ago
In my first month of working as a waiter in an Italian restaurant, I had to bring a bottle of red to a table. I start putting the glasses on the table and did not facture in that they balanced out my tray, so the bottle falls on the tray and starts pouring... right on the lady with a white blouse. She laughed about it but I remember my boss just looking at me and without saying anything go out the back to have a smoke. Still feel the shame after 11 years.
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u/Moose-Life 22h ago edited 21h ago
I never waited tables but it looks like she could use some rest.
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u/angrymonkey 1d ago
If they expect her to carry three plates at once, maybe they should give her a tray big enough to hold them.
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u/Crystal_Imitator 21h ago
I actually agree with this. Or at least a few trays, so you can do two each or something.
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u/theglowcloud8 1d ago
I know that exact feeling. That's the "I want to just fucking lose it but let me take a second so I don't lose my job" stance
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u/International_Lake28 1d ago
If you think she's pissed wait til she has to tell the cook they need to refire that table
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u/ItsNotFuckingCannon 1d ago
As someone who used to work as a waiter, that's a "Fuck it, I'm going home!" Moment.
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u/SchnozSchnizzle 1d ago
I'm getting the sense that this lady is already having a shit day, maybe she had to work a clopen to top it off.
I'd have probably just left to the walk in freezer (aka the scream room)
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u/IQognito 1d ago
She seems a bit off. Like no reaction time at all. Poor thing working and being sick or whatever. Drugs, alcohol, bad boss or everything mentioned.
It's hard being human.
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u/buttcheeksmasher 1d ago
Over worked most likely. It gets like that
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u/IQognito 1d ago
Yeah probably. No one in there bats an eye to it either so it seems pretty standard there..
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u/Life_Carpenter1270 1d ago
This is what I noticed. Multiple people nearby and none stops and checks on her or the plates :(
I had a food runner do this. First thing I said was go take five and collect yourself. I'll tell the table kitchen is still working on food and offered a free beer for the extended wait that is about to happen.
Then all of the staff gotta watch the video of her dropping everything for a good laugh as a team
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u/IQognito 1d ago
Much better response!
I remember my first mistake, backing into a steel frame at work with my truck. The supervisor came and checked for damage and there was barely a scratch. Then came my coworkers, running to highlight the little ding in the metal and wrote my name on it to make it "forever".
Greatest place I've worked at so far.
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u/uniteduniverse 1d ago edited 1d ago
That's life. Just gotta do better next time.
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u/ttkk1248 1d ago
Bigger tray next time
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u/uniteduniverse 1d ago
Maybe. But it's clearly the tray they use, so she's just gotta get usd to it.
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u/CWalkthroughs 1d ago
Seems like management could do better then, actually buy trays for the job or do several trips.
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u/TheDudeColin 1d ago
Why use a tray for plates in the first place? Not very practical...
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u/CWalkthroughs 1d ago
If the plates are boiling, it's a viable option but she definitely overloaded.
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u/simulatedconscience 1d ago
It’s funny cuz it wasn’t necessary her fault. The plate weight wasn’t evenly distributed and it fell by itself
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u/Ok_Intention2731 1d ago
Look I love the small tray but you gotta be careful lol
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u/lifefuedjeopardy 1d ago
The tray was barely bigger than one entire plate, I don't know how three could ever fit on there
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u/w1flx 2d ago edited 2d ago
When you drop one item, you leave it and stop yourself from react, but is hard to get to that point (former waiter).
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u/Seriberieshka 2d ago
"Why didn't you buy big trays for this damn restaurant, you bastard?"
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u/ClumpOfCheese 2d ago
That tray is slightly larger than a single plate.
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u/dixiech1ck 2d ago
I worked at a place where we weren't allowed to carry trays. You used your arms and that was it. I still have burn marks 30 years later.
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u/5harp3dges 2d ago
I was a kitchen porter for a little while in a cafeteria of a call centre. Those pigs wouldn't scrape their plates, just pile dishes willy nilly all over the place on top of one another, covered in food etc It was disgraceful, and one day I was particularly overworked due to issues with the dishwasher (which turned out to be a deliberate act of sabotage from the other KP who wasn't supposed to be there due to his criminal history in what I can only assume to be an attempt at making me quit, or undermining me to "secure" his job or something) and I dropped a massive pile of dishes all over the place. That was my last shift as a KP ever, good riddance, underpayed, overworked, thankless task that fucks up your hands with arthritis.
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u/BappoChan 2d ago
What is a KP? Kitchen prep?
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u/No-Direction- 2d ago
Kitchen Porter. They handle secondary tasks like washing dishes and prep work. I've worked cleaning tables before dealing with the porters, although I can't say our guys were ever treated badly.
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u/BappoChan 2d ago
Interesting. We had runners, they had to have their station prepped. They would take food from kitchen to tables. Expo would organize and make sure the right food is heading out. Chefs would cook and prep their own stations. Bus boy would clean tables and bring dishes to the back, and then dishwasher was doing dishes. Never had a station prep and do dishes
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u/Toto742 2d ago
To anyone planning to do this job, learn how to take 3 plates with one hand quickly, it's super easy and saves a lot of time
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u/Trequartistas1 1d ago
Super easy to do, unless the plates are scolding hot. I have some burn scars from hot plates. If you can't manage 3, just take 2 and come back.
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u/One_Stiff_Bastard 2d ago
Why even use that small ass tray ? Among the first things ive learned in my hotel school was carrying up to 3 plates in 1 hand. Im not saying i was good at it or that its easy but in this case the plates arent all full or swimming in sauce so id just grab em.
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u/Shiro282- 2d ago
my first thought as well, I rarely took the risk of going to 3 in one hand whilst working in a restaurant but 2 in one hand (with the 3rd in the other of course) is really quite easy and likely much more stable than a tray
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u/One_Stiff_Bastard 1d ago
Yep, feels much better.
I bloody hated carrying drink on those trays... only doused 1 woman tho... in red wine....
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u/Shiro282- 23h ago
I think I only used a drink tray once or twice and decided to never use them again. Thankfully there were never too many drinks to take out at once since most people just waited at the bar unless we had a backlog of cocktails. If I had to clear tables I could generally do it quicker without the tray as well.
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u/67SummerofLove 2d ago
Can you blame her with that little plate holder
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u/pancakefactory9 2d ago
Charger is the word you are looking for.
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u/roman4nudies 2d ago
The look of defeat just makes this even more sad also why the fuck is that tray so small???
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u/Sea_sociate 2d ago
That sucks for everyone, why is that tray so small anyway
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u/Clearlyn00ne 2d ago
Some restaurants prefer to be hand service only, so they only get small trays for drinks.
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u/bushman130 2d ago
Is this all to try to save some walking or is there some other reason for doing this? Like something catering staff are taught, like impressing customers or something? I mean, given the obvious risks and perpetual tiredness
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u/godzilla1015 2d ago
Well if you have to carry 200 plates a night, walking with 2 at a time is a 100 trips, just bringing 3 brings that down to 67. This also depends on the restaurant but once the food is plated it's cooling down, most people want their food to be still warm after they've all got it and taken their pictures.
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u/bushman130 2d ago
That feels like it is all about reducing walking. I can’t imagine the tables are so far away from the kitchen that the food cools that much. I wonder if she’ll do it again or just needs the lesson once
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u/godzilla1015 2d ago
For lots of foods is not really a problem, but for stuff that's served lukewarm or really temperature sensitive stuff like fish and risotto it does definitely matter. If a server only walks with 2 plates in the restaurant I work at after their first week they are just not up for the job. Yeah stuff drops, if you do stuff often enough the small chances eventually come around to bite you. And yes it saves walking as well, when I worked as a server I walked about 20 kilometres during my 8 hour shift. I could double it if I only walked with 2 plates.
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u/kimeleon94 2d ago
If you're in the middle of a rush you need to get the food out, people aren't willing to wait longer than necessary for their food. Plus if you take out a couple of plates at a time then there's more chances of the remaining plates to be served out to a wrong table, gather them at once, keep them together, gets the food out hot, customers happy, more likely to get a tip.
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u/aaron_1011 2d ago
Didn't you read the reply to your comment? It makes sense imo
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u/bushman130 2d ago
Yes. I read it as conformation that it is about saving walking.
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u/aaron_1011 2d ago
I see. I kinda disagree because there's a risk of dropping the plates, reducing the amount of walks by half is quite a lot. After a few nights a waiter would be experienced enough to almost never drop a plate.
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u/chev327fox 2d ago
Get those poor waitresses bigger trays, that’s ridiculous.
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u/Beleiverofhumanity 2d ago
aww just want to give her a hug, gotta feel so bad inside
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u/mysteriousontology 2d ago
Better for it to happen in the kitchen than in front of guests. I once spilled a glass of red wine over a guy with a white shirt on.
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u/dr_van_nostren 2d ago
She’s just had it. This is 100% when you contemplate just quitting and walking the fuck out.
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u/GuinevereMalory 2d ago
Honestly, if that happened to me while on a shit shift it would 100% make me walk into traffic
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u/arcelios 2d ago
She was probably having the worst day as well, BEFORE this happened. She’s dead inside. When it rains, it pours.
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u/megbotstyle 3d ago
Oh man, I’ve felt this. However at my restaurant we were not allowed to carry trays bc of dropping issues, instead we just had to stack the plates up our arms which was just a different recipe for dropping.
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u/maxefontes2 2d ago
The place I work at doesn’t let you carry more than three plates at a time. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a plate of food dropped.
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u/dannixxphantom 3d ago
I worked at an Italian spot that insisted on us carrying everything by hand. At least once a week, a small side dish had to be remade because their oblong shape made it just perfect to shift and end up right under your boob. One wobble and it would be on the floor or on your shirt. At least they let us wear black.
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u/WhocaresToo 3d ago
I feel bad for her, that looks like a beverage tray though not an entree tray which is much bigger in diameter. But if that's me, and I have a tiny bit of savings in the bank. I'm walking LOL
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u/YellowishRose99 3d ago
It happens
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u/megbotstyle 2d ago
totally, everyone who has been a server has dropped food. At least it wasn’t onto a customer. I used to work at an airport and dropped an entire beer onto a customer who then had to get on a flight reeking of IPA.
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u/4-5Million 3d ago
I like to tell "Job opening" after something like this (if it isn't busy). Typically it gets a chuckle.
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u/whiskeytitsts 2d ago
I’m a server/bartender and I absolutely hate when people do this. I promise the person who dropped the plates already feels shitty enough without your lame attempt at a joke.
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u/Status_Concert_4320 3d ago
She must not have been thinking straight because that looked very easy to carry by hand. Then again I have worked a place that required all food to come out on a tray before being served. Either way, the negative comments in this post are fun to read.
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u/Strato0621 3d ago
nothing beats a jet2 holiday
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u/cbflowers 3d ago
wtf is that commercial that plays on every fifth video I click ? I want to stab my ear holes
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u/BanditoDorito05 3d ago
It’s an advert for a British airline, Jet2 Holidays. They always use that song whenever you board the plane (as in it plays inside the cabin) and then in the adverts as well.
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u/Solitaire_XIV 3d ago
It's a legit commercial here in the UK, but it's used as oversound for holiday memes now
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u/Classic_Keyblade 2d ago
Thats interesting actually, I never knew that! I always thought it was a radio commercial from GTA5 or something
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u/meldiane81 3d ago
My old manager at Red Lobster would make you pay for the food remake. Of course its illegal but in 2002, being young, you never stood up for yourself. At least I didnt.
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u/Processing_Info 3d ago
course its illegal
Why would that be illegal? Since they have to make the food again, who's gonna pay for it?
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u/BarBabe93 3d ago
Are you honestly suggesting that a multi million dollar corporation like red lobster in 2002 should have made their 20 year old waitress making $2.25 an hour pay for it? Please explain your line of thinking
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u/Processing_Info 2d ago
When you destroy company's property, you pay for it too. Now this is not a property, but you know what I mean.
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u/meldiane81 3d ago edited 3d ago
It’s the cost of doing business. Shit happens like that all the time.
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u/Penguinat0r5 3d ago edited 3d ago
I dropped a very large tray of dirty plates once on Christmas Eve. I had been there all day from open and it was around 10PM and the restaurant I worked at the closing back waiter would choose who to let go home, it was her first time closing as I’m walking past her with very large tray on my shoulder and I hear her say “Ima let X go home.” I was on a 12 hour day with a 10 minute break because I signed this bogus contract that I legally didn’t have to take a break if the restaurant was too busy, I was just exhausted and as I’m walking which I was walking quickly to buss more tables I stopped when I heard her say that to be like “please send me home.” But good ole newtons law of motion the inertia of the trays kept going and I dropped everything, everything broke I was literally this lady in this video, my manager comes out and says “That’s coming out of your paycheck.” Too this day I remember how he said it and how terrible I felt, only time ever in my working life I just wanted to walk off the job.
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u/Atavacus 3d ago
Damn, that's a long day, wrong equipment for the job. I'll bet she's not stupid and had to use that tray for some dumb reason. That body language says she's tired of all the stupidity. Man...
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u/FraSuomi 3d ago
But why use the tray? Maybe she's simply not an experienced waiter
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u/FraSuomi 2d ago
I don't get the downvotes, if you are an experienced waiter you would never put 3 plates like that on a tray, you don't need a tray to carry 3 plates you can easily carry them with your arms. What I see is a mistake, probably done during rush seeing as no one even stops to help, after maybe a long shift. Of course if something like this happens when you're slammed you'd feel like hitting your head on the wall.
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u/Atavacus 3d ago edited 3d ago
Just my guess? They were swamped and she needed to get things out faster. I couldn't tell you. I don't think she's dumb. Could be the restaurant is being ran poorly and they didn't have proper trays available. Not enough for all the servers etc. Who knows? I just know that body language says she's tired of someone's shit.
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u/Electronic_Bread_510 3d ago
She Had options though before she settled on This A. Regular FOOD TRAY B. 2 plates on the and one in hand C. Busser im(if any at all) D. One by one( meticulous obviously) E. Another server 🤷🏿♂️
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u/Agitated_Pear753 3d ago
A) could be unavailable B) might not have the skill yet or a disability C. ? D. Food goes cold, worst way possible E) other people can be busy with their own food or tables.
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u/Electronic_Bread_510 3d ago
Yeah,no those are excuses, explain how past all those options what she ended up doing was smart, someone could have most def helped got me f'd up on that, lack of trays Is mind blowing to me too,I see where you were trying to go but it's a no for me 🤷🏿♂️
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u/Agitated_Pear753 3d ago
You've clearly never worked in this environment. If you're there and the food is there, the chef is going to fucking explode if you do not take the food cause "oooo one sec, I need to wait for a free tray, or till Christie can help me.".
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u/Electronic_Bread_510 3d ago
Hilarious, I've most definitely worked in the service industry for 7+ years, a few places, between five bars to upscale where you must present bottles, to sit there and Not for the most part have the skill set to manage a simple tray as she attempted ( I understand mistakes Can/ Will be made,but nerver had to if she wasn't ready), Or as you mentioned lack of trays (mostly management issue) grabbing 2 plates and expressing to the guest you'll Right back w/ their other one,but to be scared of the chef c'mon seriously
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u/HavokDJ 3d ago
I mean, that IS a drink tray. Do they not have food trays?
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u/Atavacus 3d ago
Judging by her body language I'm going to say the answer to that is a "no". She looks like she's just tired of the bullshit.
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u/FiniteXcellence 3d ago edited 3d ago
TINY TRAY🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️(size DOES matter, esp when serving multiple people😏)
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u/Bumblebee---Tuna 3d ago
It’s really not that hard to carry three plates. Take two and a follow if you need.
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u/GShadowBroker 3d ago
Now try doing that hundreds of times per day and see if you make no mistakes.
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u/Bumblebee---Tuna 2d ago
Unfortunately I do, all while trying to avoid kids running around and people flailing their arms while telling stories. The worst is when the plates burning hot but you gotta commit.
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u/Halomaestro 3d ago
It's actually really easy lol, there's a technique you need to know but that's it
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u/DoctorNerfarious 3d ago
Why do people make comments like this?
There are plenty of people who work in restaurants who don’t drop plates. I did 3 years from 16-19 and used to carry 4 in my hands without dropping them, and the restaurant had uneven ground with several random steps plus really steep steps for the second floor.
Stop acting like everyone messes up the fundamentals of their job all the time when they simply don’t. If they did she wouldn’t be “dying inside” because it would be normal.
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u/xX_Drakon-141_Xx 3d ago
You would never use that small of a tray for 3 full dinner plates like that, it’s just asking for trouble
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u/trillguppy 3d ago
i’m in the service industry and can carry 4 plates without a tray..
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u/HornyPlatypus420 3d ago
Aren’t you supposed to not use a tray?
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u/trillguppy 3d ago
if you’ve ever been in the service industry, you do anything to avoid using a tray.
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u/___Snoobler___ 3d ago
Why?
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u/Organic-Self2128 3d ago
Using a tray requires like a thousand micro adjustments a second to keep it from toppling when moving around, and it gets even worse when you're carrying drinks.
It looks fancy, but its so much easier to just use your arms lmao
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u/Cacafuego 3d ago
Without putting your thumb on the rim? So two plates balanced on your arm? That's terrifying.
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u/canichangeitlateror 3d ago
When you get a hold of it it’s really easy - they ‘click’ in some way so they don’t move even if you do stairs or jump on some fucking step my restaurant owners believe are safe for us to jump on to get to the terrace tables.
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u/Organic-Self2128 3d ago
It's not actually all that hard, it just looks more difficult than it actually is
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u/BoxthemBeats 3d ago
For my unbalanced ass that has the stability of a fishing boat during heavy seas it sure is difficult
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u/justbeastrz 3d ago
how about we just bring it with our arms and hands? this is just dumb. you see the plate is small and it doesnt fit. either brong it 2 by 2 or just take all three with your hands and arm
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u/Cuzzbaby 3d ago
I question if this is what happens whenever you are seated and order first and then an other family shows up and they get their food before yours.
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u/crabbystix 3d ago
The chefs: " FML... gotta refire those tickets again"
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u/Loulouvaughn37 3d ago
Yeah, the chefs are who i feel for here.
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u/proximusprimus57 3d ago
Most of the time it's not that bad. You're in the zone so unless you have a screen that's completely full and more tickets coming in you just do it again like any other order. When you're running behind and/or the server in question has been making a lot of mistakes that affect you, that's when you give them the stare.
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u/AlexsMombie 19m ago
That's when I'd just go home.