Sidework

I know that most of my posts so far have been about staff, but that is because I have just transfered restaurants coming from Managing one, and now back to serving in one. So the things I see are the things that a manager sees and my management does not. But here it goes another great day at the joint.

I have no idea how any person can be so bloody lazy in no less than the three weeks I have worked their I have been doing sidework for everyone, not quite true but pretty close. The fact that I can count on one hand the amount of servers who are doing sidework, on a crew of 18. Is pretty pathetic and the host team is no better. Really, how hard is it to bus and set your two dirty tables before going out for a smoke or grabbing a bite to eat. How hard is it to make sure the section is set for us evening servers? I don’t want to come on the floor at five and have to spend till 5:30 making sure my section is ready for guests! I have just lost a half hour of tips, over the course of a week that is two and a half hours, pretty well two turns in the section.

Not to mention filling shit up, sometimes I wish this was the old west and the cowboy code still applied. If you empty it, you fill it. If you dirty it you clean it. Simple shit right, apparently not to these clowns, the bottom of the socialite pool shall we say. These are the same people who get drunk off shift and than come walking on the service line, a story for another day.

I need some help people, I need some tricks to get these people to start doing sidework, I have a couple people doing it but those are the people I have trained and the closing servers do it, but we need to get the others on board too. I have tried being nice, I have tried being mean, and now I am trying being a complete DICK, but somethings gotta give so give me some ideas, the more creative the more it might work.