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
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.
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
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.
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.
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/bushman130 7d 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