Restaurants - Tip #4 Tell em how you feel

This one goes out to all my waiter friends out there.

Tip #4 - Don't Lie

I'm giving a shout out to my good friend Katie who talked to me about all the annoying things that you have to go through when you are a waiter. We shared tons of stories, but one of the things I loved, that I never had the balls to do, was to tell my tables the truth!

What a concept right! When you are having a bad day, tell them. The worst thing you can do is have a totally off day, forget things left and right and have your tables treat you horribly, complain to your manager and worse of all, leave a really crappy tip. All because you are having an off night. They happen to everyone, and they even happen to people who have 9-5 jobs. But their waiter isn't there to breath down their backs.

So, when you have an off night, just say, listen, I'm not on my game, and it's been kind of a rough day. So if you think I forgot something, I probably did, so just remind me and I'll make sure to help you out. They laugh, you laugh and everyone is happy in the end.

Happy waiting!