Quotes About Service

I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.

I had a little delivery van, and I did work around Queens. I was also a waiter at Red Lobster, so I was working on the business in between jobs.

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

I was a pretty damn good waiter.

I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.

Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.

For me, good service is efficient and discreet; it's that critical balance. As soon as the client sits down, the communication flow has to start. Customers need to feel that the waiters are supervised - that there's a system in place.

Waiter trainers claim that an investment in education pays off very quickly for restaurants.

There are career waiters in Los Angeles, and they're making over $100,000 a year.

The battle between server and servee is as ancient as it is well disguised, and it follows, therefore, that waiters have developed a private lingo that allows them to mock, complain, or simply entertain themselves.

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.

I would say a full-time waiter in a high-price house could easily make $75,000, $80,000 a year.

I definitely had fun being a waiter. I can't say for sure that I was a good waiter. I think that I made people have a good time.

If I'm brought the wrong order at a restaurant, I don't send it back, because I don't want the waiter to get mad at me.

If you're rude to waiters or waitstaff, I cannot handle that. I really think that shows your true personality.

Working Holiday' goes out to those earning their pay and a half: from retail employees at the mall and the kids selling popcorn at the movies, to the waiters at Chinese restaurants!

I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

I wasn't the best waitress in the world, but I was cheerful and worked hard.

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.