“Serving Up Social Life”: 50 Painfully Funny Pics That Sum Up The Life Of A Food Service Worker

In my culture, it's considered impolite to boop your waiters

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*gives $10*

Do you often boop waitstaff on the nose? Just askin.

Giving you a dog/cat/ferret/rat/snake or whatever else you fancy Is life's way of giving you both a tip and a boop on the nose

Been wait for it myself.

Awww. Who's a good boy then? You are. Yes, you are.

*boop*

How about a kind word? May life gives you more than you think you deserve. You are worth more.

That might be a pat on the rump instead of a boop on the nose.

Yeah same, but I just ruined yoyr premiumly clean angel-number reversible-number 111 likes, and thus changed it into a 112 like-count.

It kinda is...

Exactly! Letting employees chat and have a little fun while they are stocking shelves or clearing or straightening something won't hurt the production or work quality, and significantly improves employee morale! (Now, I HATE walking into a store with messy shelves and items out of stock just because things haven't been put out, and people aren't doing any work and are just standing around talking! I don't want to walk into a plane where you can tell the manager is obviously a tyrant and everyone is miserable, but it IS a business. I hate the "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean" motto, because sometimes you DON'T have time to clean because that moment to "lean" is just a break before another wave of customers comes in, and sometimes you just need to stop for a minute, catch your breath, stretch a little, and drink some water! At the same time, though, it sucks to go into a place where the employees aren't actually working when it's obvious that there's work that needs don

Thank you for your word choice. "Morose" is defiantly an under-used word these days despite it being very appropriate way too often.

I worked retail for years and I am sure its a lot better seeing people happy then the workers silently pretending to straighten shelves so their supervisor will leave them alone.

i went to a chinese buffet, and the two front desk workers were talking in very spirited Chinese, I couldn't tell what they were saying, but they looked like they were having fun talking. made my day

Or similarly staffed like a cemetery.

I feel like that rarely happens. Just because people are talking doesn't mean they're not talking about customer orders or business in general. Sometimes they might be but often they are just taking care of business...

I worked at a family-owned restaurant and their policy was anyone walking in 30 minutes before closing was given the option to order takeaway or come back another time to have a sit-down meal. They spun it that the customers couldn't possibly receive proper table service in that short amount of time, but the real reason was that they wanted the staff to be able to go home when their shift was over and not have to wait because some folks think the restaurant only closes when they decide to leave.

So disrespectful! I've had people come in 2 minutes till closing and start looking around and shopping. We tell them we're closing and they just keep going and going. I'd love to know where they work.

And then takes at least 30 minutes before deciding what they're ordering

I love it when a restaurant posts 2 closing times. When the kitchen closes and when the building closes. Kitchen closes at 9? You can order anything you like so long as it will be complete by then. And we need everyone out at 10

On new year's eve...

I'm sorry, we've just run out of menus.

And then picks a sampler platter and the one TJ ng the restaurant serves that isn't precooked, frozen, and thawed on demand.

I had people knock on the door at 3:30 pm when the sign clearly said " Christmas Eve closing at 3 pm". They kept banging, do we answered thinking there was an emergency. They wanted food. They did say they were willing to do take away.

Yeah. Nah. Sorry the kitchens closed and cleaned. I burn water.

How dare someone partake in your business during opening hours...

I worked the line as a second job for years which meant I always closed. I never understood the frustration with this. The restaurant closes at 9 means the hostess stops seating at 9. The kitchen closes when the patrons are done.

I guess it doesn't work in countries where the customer is always right?

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies. Once you have it, you jave it forever. Now it turns put that cheese powder is the herpes of cooking supplies. On a similar note, if your car ever has a shattered window, you will forever afterward be finding stray chunks of broken glass. No amount of searching and cleaning will ever discover all of them.

depends a lot on the currency. Dollars, euro? Sure. Iranian Rials? Vietnamese Dong? Not so much.

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In a large city in the US that's enough to get by but not like living in any state of luxury and sometimes would still make difficult choices. Plus since you're basically self employed at that point have to provide you're own health insurance that still won't pay for everything and could be hella expensive to go with your hella expensive rent.

In NYC you still need a roommate..now 100k after taxes, maybe.

People with kids in CA.... sigh

Makes you wonder what the MANAGER is getting paid... and how much their significant other makes, too

NYC…

depends on the currency. Dollars? maybe. Diamonds? yes.

You could live nicely if you didn't buy a new car or home.

Im going with on dollars and the would be $75,000 more a year for me and that means luxury living....getting car repaired, paying property taxes, being able tip folks like I want, fixing things around the house, afford insurance, healthcare, pets, etc. Ya know luxury!

I'm way too medically expensive to live on *just* $100k, after taxes, without the badass health insurance my husband gets through his job. Was lucky to only pay $5k out of pocket for 2 surgeries on my hand, and 6 weeks of IV antibiotics. That's just the most recent surgeries I've had, too, and that doesn't cover my other health issues. I shudder to think about what private insurance costs, what my deductibles would be, 10 years down the line.

Between societal greed and individual stupidity there's a lot that can't.

Believe it or not but my wife and I together make just shy of $150,000 a year and we live paycheck to paycheck.

Right? I was living on a quarter of that living alone, before the pandemic, and felt like I was doing okay actually. I am frugal by nature though.

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100 000 in Norwegian kroner(NOK) isn't much, but in $ or £, YES!

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Depends on where you live.