I was at work last night much later than I wanted to be. We close at 11:00. At 8:45 a woman came on who was meeting two friends. They finally showed up and decided they weren’t hungry and “just wanted to talk.” The first woman ordered a burger and they each had two beers. They talked and talked and talked. By 10:00, they were the only ones in the restaurant They kept talking and finally left at 11:45. They needed this list.
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Here are ten signs that it’s time for you to get the fuck out of the restaurant:
- You’re the only one sitting in the restaurant except for staff.
- Your waiter has cleared everything on your table except for what you physically had your hand on.
- You notice that all of the candles in the restaurant have been blown out with the exception of the one on your table.
- Most of the lights in the restaurant have been turned out.
- You see a bus boy dragging garbage past your table.
- Now the bus boy is mopping.
- Some chairs in the restaurant are now on top of the tables.
- You have not been given a water refill even though your glass is completely empty.
- You see your server standing in one spot for more than ten minutes, all the while shooting you the evil eye.
- Your server says, “You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.”
Jen
Had this yesterday at lunch. 3 top obviously meeting to socialise which is cool. NOT cool to be half hour late for your reservation then order another half hour later, stay almost 2 hrs past closing so I stay too. Then hand me £65 on a bill for £62.95 and tell me to keep the change. £2.05 to split between 4 staff. For 2 hours of my life. Then tell me how great lunch service etc was. Just go, you’re dead to me.
Kristie
Bill is that asshole that comes in 5 minutes to close…
Zeke CoolRoy
You don’t need to get a new job. Just change your mind. One thing that sucks about the food industry is people are always hungry…and there’s only more and more people everyday. We’re doomed. Limited seating. I like making people food though. All of whom are living complex lives. Fighting stress, anxiety, matters of the heart..and that everyday day bullshit and maybe…just maybe this is their only night out. Only night they don’t have to cook for themselves or a family of four or a whole darn baseball team. Least we can do is ensure a good meal and a positive atmosphere. When someone comes in 30 mins to close though…i don’t give those jerks pickles. They don’t get their garnish. I do.
Anonymous
I had a table once who came in at five minutes to closing (and this was a chain restaurant so it was 11:55 pm). From 12:30 to 1:30, their infant screamed nonstop. (Which was especially grating since the empty building made it echo.) I went over to ask if there was anything I could do to help, and they said “oh he’s just tired.” WELL THEN TAKE HIM THE FUCK HOME AND PUT HIM IN BED YOU STUPID PIECES OF SHIT!!!!
G. B. Miller
I did that once as a customer some decades ago, and if looks could kill, I would be pushing up the daisies. Since then, I never come in that late to a restaurant. However, I think that same list can apply to those who spend two hours during a busy dinner rush chatting up after finishing their food, completely oblivious to those would like to eat at reasonable hour.
Red
In my country, you could never order food 5 min before closing. Let’s say the place is open until 11 pm. Then, the kitchen is open until 10 pm and that’s it. Period.
Benji
He’s not in the service. Or if he is he missed some important lessons that were taught in basic training. Either way his opinion has no relevance on the discussion at hand.
shelley
Anyone who has ever waited tables would never berate another for complaining about their job. They’re not complaining about serving, they’re complaining about all the other stuff that can happen during the shift. It would be any servers DREAM to go to work, do your job, be treated with respect, have people respect the place, and finish by close….BTW anyone who says “maybe I waited tables and maybe didn’t” …DIDN’T !!!
Chef Wolf
Isn’t the name of this site, the place we are in, CALLED the bitchy waiter? What else would you expect from a website with this name – rainbows and unicorns?
Why are you trolls here? There is zero purpose, except to gratify yourselves.
The author’s mission could not be more clear, it is to be a bitchy waiter.
Mission Accomplished.
Dee
It’s Fine when the customer understands/ has good etiquette about coming in last minute. But the other day I had a family of 8 walk in at about 11:10. Last call for kitchen is usually 11:45 even though we close at 12. So they come in and we have some arcade games up front. Half of them were playing games and some went to the restroom. It was 11:25 by the time they all sat down. Took about 5 minutes to take drink orders, and all they got was fucking SODA POP. Then NONE of these ppl seemed to understand how to read a fucking menu either. Took about 15 minutes to take their order, 4 of them being kids getting basic shit off the kids menu. Now that’s ignorant. Yes they were all polite and genuine people, but it’s not cool to act like you don’t know what’s going on in the world around you. End rant.
Bill
Close….I am white. However, im not angry and have a great career that requires the ultimate sacrifice for our country so that people have the right to bitch about their shitty jobs that require absolutely no skill or higher education, yet want to make six figures. Yes, I do find it entertaining.
yolanda harold
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ever worked in the food ind?
Tim
Bill don’t act like you have any idea what is involved with waiting tables.
As a veteran myself I will call your bullshit out Mr.Troll and using your service as a shield should be beneath you.
By the way when did they require you to make the ultimate sacrifice,when I was in it was only a possibility.
You sir have done Nothing to protect my right to bitch about my job as bitching about jobs is done by everyone everywhere.
Now go away, grown folks talking here.
Nance
Thank you, Tim!
Bill
So you make the presumption that I’ve never waited a table? Ok….maybe I have maybe I havnt ….you dont or camt prive that as a fact….and you presume to know what I have or have not done in the military….i could be a fake ass member of the stolen valor community or i could be a living medal of honor recipient….neither of which you know for a fact….so let’s stick to the facts that are known:1. You don’t know what the fuck you are talking about. 2. People are here bitching about their job….At least they have a job, so I commend them for that…but why bitch about it? If you don’t like the situation, change the situation. If you don’t like the facts, then change the facts.
CincyDrunk
It’s crazy that people would be bitching about their job as a server on a blog called The Bitchy Waiter, amirite?
Roxanne Roxy
Bill. Real men and real soldiers do not brag about their service to this country. Moreover, your so-called “service.” doesn’t give you a license to demean, belittle or bully other people. Many of us have served this country, and as such will continue to fight against people like yourself. You are so defensive regarding your occupations and skills; yet so freely attack others. Be a nice boy and remember the “freedom” you protect, is not all yours; we share it, and with that comes great responsibility. No petulance allowed Billy boy!
Cadavelier
Everybody bitches about their job. We bitched when I was in the service, we bitched when I worked fast food and I still bitch working for a large corporation. We all do it. Don’t tell me that you don’t occasionally bitch about your bosses/superiors.This blog is for fun and blowing off steam. If you can’t understand that, GTFO.
wenmoore
Fact: if you walk into a business (any) 5 mins before closing time make a mess and linger forcing employees (any kind) to wait for your sorry ass to leave so they can go home after they have already been on there feet running for the last 6-14 hrs (oh btw now that the place is closed and your sorry ass is all that’s left I’m having to clean up after you for free because if your clueless enough to stay this late your also clueless about tips) then expected said employees to bitch about you behind your back!!!
Jennifer Reid
Bill, it is a fact you are a shitty speller and I “cam prive” it. Idiot, ha ha ha!!
melanjve
if you supposedly made the ‘ultimate sacrifice’ for our country shouldn’t you be dead?
Bill
If you don’t like being a waiter, then get another job. However at that job there will be days when you have to work late for whatever reason, so then will you start another website called thebitchy****.com? #GTFOOH.
anne marie
methinks bill is an angry white male with a crappy job. so he pisses on other people’s cheerios to make himself happy.
Coco
Methinks you’re right!
Sil
Well get the fuck off this page if you don’t like bitchy waiter!!!
Cody
Fuck you bill…lol….entitled old man (I can just tell)
Just A Poor Server
First Bill, I would like to say thank you for your service. Hopefully, you ARE actually a veteran and aren’t just saying that to get sympathy and acknowledgment. Regardless, it’s a hard job that I couldn’t do, so I give you props for that alone
However, that does not mean you deserve my respect. Just because you serve, doesn’t mean you get it. I value all the men and women who serve and in my time as a server have met some really shitty veterans who act like we should treat them like kings and queens. One instance I was chewed out by one because we didn’t have a military discount and it was MY fault (newsflash: I don’t decide the policy and actually believe we SHOULD have a discount). I still respect them for their service, but I lost a lot of it when they acted like they did.
This is The Bitchy Waiter and on this blog there will be bitching. Because we have a hard job. Would I love to make 6 figures? Of course! Who the hell wouldn’t? I know that’s not likely to happen, though.
Let’s say, for example, you have a 9-5 job Monday through Friday. All of a sudden your boss comes in at 4:55 and says “Hey, I need you to stay an extra hour to finish some work. Oh, and you won’t be paid much extra for it.” You would be pissed, right? Don’t say you wouldn’t because yeah, you would.
That’s where we are coming from. We don’t KNOW if this table was about to come in, spend lots of money and tip super well. As restaurant people, all we see is someone coming in super close to closing, forcing us to remain there when we could all be going home, and making little to no money for it.
It’s the same thing when we have campers (for you non-restaurant types, these are people that sit for longer than they need to). We could be making extra money, but they want to sit there and we can’t do much about it.
It’s annoying. It’s rude. You shouldn’t do it. But people do, so we grin and bear it until we get home and then we BITCH ABOUT IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Because, as you said, we have the right to do so, just like you have the right to bitch about our bitching.
I’ve seen your comments before, so I can only assume you are on here so you can continue to troll this page. For what purpose? I don’t know. If this makes you happy, continue doing it, I guess, but expect people to fight back.
Again, thank you for your service if you are really telling the truth, but just let us bitch. It helps with frustrations so we don’t lash out at work.
CynCyn
Bill, the problem here is that you are actually being paid your regular salary when you have to work late. Servers are paid less than minimum wage for those hours they spend babysitting you after the place is closed.
Steve
I work in a brewery and we get the same thing. It’s worse because we have to stop pouring beer at a set time, and there’s always some asshole who wants to buy more than one two minutes before the cut-off and then will hang out and yap with two more ‘bros’ for an hour or so. Or they start playing chess or some other game right before close and won’t leave until they’re done. Our staffing is low, so you’re looking at a 9 hour day to start with.
Renee
It happens to us at least once a week. I work for a corporate restaurant group & we aren’t even allowed to touch as much as a candle until they leave.
Kayla H
I work in a local pizza joint, we close pretty early for summer time, about 8 o clock, but in the area that we are in, we dont get much bussiness after that. It was about 7:45, one evening and we had been fairly slow that day, so we thought we be getting out on time that night. We were wrong. A woman and her husband came in and asked me as Im running food if we would serve her and she motioned to her and her husband. I said sure, not a problem. She then turns around and motions from the doorway for someone to come in. A whole boys baseball team walked in. Like 7 year olds. And their siblings. And their parents. The staff and I all literally stopped what where doing. And to top it all off, we get in trouble if we tell people to leave after closing because its “bad for bussiness”. All because of one bad yelp review. Anyways, they didnt leave until 9 o clock….the time we are supposed to be leaving. Really made a mess of everything. So we didn’t leave until almost 10:30 that night.
I wish all people had a sense of when to GTFO.
Linda
I was out having supper with my bf last night. We were just about done with our meal when we saw a family of 4 walk in at 5 mins till closing. We felt so bad for the employees….many of whom looked at their phones to check the time.
The staff had already been cleaning all around us and we made sure to be done with our meal by closing. I could only assume they didn’t care because I just cannot imagine anyone being so clueless to their surroundings.
I have been in many aspects of the service industry and it is one of the hardest jobs to do. To make matters worse, the hostess that sat that table left right at closing time. I am sure many people were not happy last night.