How are you going to be mad if the shitty tray is too small for three plates?
Rather, I would get angry at how stupid it is to carry three plates on such a small tray.
Nah, now she just has to go tell the linecooks she needs that whole order on the fly now. If you ever been a server you know how terrifying that can be.
Source: I was a linecook for over 10 years. May have made a few servers/runners cry in my time. Glad I got out.
If that was to happen they would need less seating to accommodate for the larger platter moving around and my money says the boss ain’t gonna like that.
Her first mistake was using a tray for those kinds of plates. Why? Just grab a couple napkins if they're hot. We have certain plates that kind of interlock/overlap so we can carry a fourth.
Is she trying to get that cappuccino as well? Put that on the tray and carry the black plate. Maybe the cappuccino is for a different table and she wants to drop it off first.
Some places don't allow ovals on the floor. Mine doesn't.
Some systems can be configured to save the video only when there is motion and this may be highlighting whatever is triggering the video to be saved. This technology has been around for at least 20 years.
You are right, it’s basic motion tracking. The cameras I check at work do exactly this. We definitely don’t have AI/facial recognition, most of our tech is stuck in 2010.
But I doubt these restaurant employees have benefits, they do probably need to unionize anyways
First day of work, within the first couple of hours, my daughter dropped and shattered a bottle of red wine. She was wearing a pair of tan pants and white shoes.
Tell her I once walked behind a sitting guest who decided to push away from the table and knocked into me carrying a tray with 16 different alcoholic drinks
In my first month of working as a waiter in an Italian restaurant, I had to bring a bottle of red to a table. I start putting the glasses on the table and did not facture in that they balanced out my tray, so the bottle falls on the tray and starts pouring... right on the lady with a white blouse. She laughed about it but I remember my boss just looking at me and without saying anything go out the back to have a smoke. Still feel the shame after 11 years.
This is what I noticed. Multiple people nearby and none stops and checks on her or the plates :(
I had a food runner do this. First thing I said was go take five and collect yourself. I'll tell the table kitchen is still working on food and offered a free beer for the extended wait that is about to happen.
Then all of the staff gotta watch the video of her dropping everything for a good laugh as a team
I remember my first mistake, backing into a steel frame at work with my truck. The supervisor came and checked for damage and there was barely a scratch.
Then came my coworkers, running to highlight the little ding in the metal and wrote my name on it to make it "forever".
I was a kitchen porter for a little while in a cafeteria of a call centre. Those pigs wouldn't scrape their plates, just pile dishes willy nilly all over the place on top of one another, covered in food etc It was disgraceful, and one day I was particularly overworked due to issues with the dishwasher (which turned out to be a deliberate act of sabotage from the other KP who wasn't supposed to be there due to his criminal history in what I can only assume to be an attempt at making me quit, or undermining me to "secure" his job or something) and I dropped a massive pile of dishes all over the place. That was my last shift as a KP ever, good riddance, underpayed, overworked, thankless task that fucks up your hands with arthritis.
Kitchen Porter. They handle secondary tasks like washing dishes and prep work. I've worked cleaning tables before dealing with the porters, although I can't say our guys were ever treated badly.
Interesting. We had runners, they had to have their station prepped. They would take food from kitchen to tables. Expo would organize and make sure the right food is heading out. Chefs would cook and prep their own stations. Bus boy would clean tables and bring dishes to the back, and then dishwasher was doing dishes. Never had a station prep and do dishes
Why even use that small ass tray ? Among the first things ive learned in my hotel school was carrying up to 3 plates in 1 hand. Im not saying i was good at it or that its easy but in this case the plates arent all full or swimming in sauce so id just grab em.
my first thought as well, I rarely took the risk of going to 3 in one hand whilst working in a restaurant but 2 in one hand (with the 3rd in the other of course) is really quite easy and likely much more stable than a tray
I think I only used a drink tray once or twice and decided to never use them again. Thankfully there were never too many drinks to take out at once since most people just waited at the bar unless we had a backlog of cocktails. If I had to clear tables I could generally do it quicker without the tray as well.
Is this all to try to save some walking or is there some other reason for doing this? Like something catering staff are taught, like impressing customers or something? I mean, given the obvious risks and perpetual tiredness
Well if you have to carry 200 plates a night, walking with 2 at a time is a 100 trips, just bringing 3 brings that down to 67. This also depends on the restaurant but once the food is plated it's cooling down, most people want their food to be still warm after they've all got it and taken their pictures.
That feels like it is all about reducing walking. I can’t imagine the tables are so far away from the kitchen that the food cools that much. I wonder if she’ll do it again or just needs the lesson once
For lots of foods is not really a problem, but for stuff that's served lukewarm or really temperature sensitive stuff like fish and risotto it does definitely matter. If a server only walks with 2 plates in the restaurant I work at after their first week they are just not up for the job. Yeah stuff drops, if you do stuff often enough the small chances eventually come around to bite you. And yes it saves walking as well, when I worked as a server I walked about 20 kilometres during my 8 hour shift. I could double it if I only walked with 2 plates.
If you're in the middle of a rush you need to get the food out, people aren't willing to wait longer than necessary for their food. Plus if you take out a couple of plates at a time then there's more chances of the remaining plates to be served out to a wrong table, gather them at once, keep them together, gets the food out hot, customers happy, more likely to get a tip.
I see. I kinda disagree because there's a risk of dropping the plates, reducing the amount of walks by half is quite a lot. After a few nights a waiter would be experienced enough to almost never drop a plate.
Oh man, I’ve felt this. However at my restaurant we were not allowed to carry trays bc of dropping issues, instead we just had to stack the plates up our arms which was just a different recipe for dropping.
I worked at an Italian spot that insisted on us carrying everything by hand. At least once a week, a small side dish had to be remade because their oblong shape made it just perfect to shift and end up right under your boob. One wobble and it would be on the floor or on your shirt. At least they let us wear black.
I feel bad for her, that looks like a beverage tray though not an entree tray which is much bigger in diameter. But if that's me, and I have a tiny bit of savings in the bank. I'm walking LOL
That food looks disgusting. 🤢
She did those people a solid JFC
F M L
thats tough but also why is there no or little meat in those dishes?
As a chef I’d be pissed, yet as a team member I’d console her. That has to absolutely suck.
How are you going to be mad if the shitty tray is too small for three plates? Rather, I would get angry at how stupid it is to carry three plates on such a small tray.
Why would you be pissed? It's just a mistake
It means he would have to recook it all, if it takes 20-30 minutes that is infuriating/I would be pissed as well as
And the customers have to wait even longer and they'll probably be pissed and take it out on someone
As a coworker I'd be pissed but I wouldn't take it out on her. Just keep working and take a long hot shower when I get home
I’ve been there.
Did the others scold you or console you?
Most of the time my coworkers were understanding.
That's good to hear 👍
That has to be so defeating
this happened to me with like 4 large pizzas it was awful
i will leave automaticlly hahaha
Fire her
I can help her
Yeah yeah, we can work something out, there should be no food wasted
How shitty is that restaurant to have a camera on the line like that?
I can feel the pain and sadness through my phone 😂
They just picked it up and still serve you
Bet she was having a crap day before and this was the cherry on top
She’s human and I’d probably drop it with 2
This sounds like you think people are attacking her lol, but aye that’s just me haha
Having been in food service, this is a scenario in pretty much every stress dream I have now. Yay.
The f she using a tray for 3 plates. That’s such an easy carry
She probably thought something like, "with the crappy day I'm having I better just use a tray so I don't drop these"
Ya looked like she was having a pretty bad day
I can't be the only one to think Amy Winehouse is still alive.
So sad
In her head, she was probably thinking "I'm totally fired"
Nah, now she just has to go tell the linecooks she needs that whole order on the fly now. If you ever been a server you know how terrifying that can be.
Source: I was a linecook for over 10 years. May have made a few servers/runners cry in my time. Glad I got out.
They want it as a wrap…
Thank you for always having the best pot!
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I work in a pizza kitchen, I don’t carry plates much but I can balance pizza pans above my head lmao, this was so obviously gonna fail
yes. management is not supplying proper equipment. they should apologize to her.
Was it her idea to put three massive dishes on that small trey? Surely she saw that coming herself.
You would be shocked by what servers do and act shocked about after
This is Kobeni at Family Burger
okay this cracked me up lol
Restaurant definitely needs larger serving trays.
If that was to happen they would need less seating to accommodate for the larger platter moving around and my money says the boss ain’t gonna like that.
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Poor girl.
Two trips are better than no trips.
I liked how all three plates magically disappeared
That platter is too small
Definitely. Honestly best she just dropped it in the kitchen, rather than on the guests when she pulled that first plate off in the dining room
Done that before lol
Half off if I still eat it?
You can tell she was already having a bad day.
If it was me and I was having a bad day, like a super bad day, I'd either: A. Laugh, B. Cry, or C. Quit my Job while doing all of the above
That's how I am when I'm already having a bad day and another thing happens. Usually just a laugh at what a farce the day has been.
Me after work 🍻
Her first mistake was using a tray for those kinds of plates. Why? Just grab a couple napkins if they're hot. We have certain plates that kind of interlock/overlap so we can carry a fourth.
Is she trying to get that cappuccino as well? Put that on the tray and carry the black plate. Maybe the cappuccino is for a different table and she wants to drop it off first.
Some places don't allow ovals on the floor. Mine doesn't.
If only tacitjane were there to fix her woes...
I'd tell her the story of our head Food & Beverage dropping a full tray of champagne glasses during wedding speeches.
No one is infallible. Mistakes will be made. Grace will be given.
Oh, yes, if only. Great googly moogly. I'm coming to join you, honey!
That's when I'd just go home.
You don’t need a tray to carry that.
A place I worked at you had to carry everything on a tray, even a side of sauce.
lmao same
Those guys need a union if there is fucking AI tracking at their workplace.
Some systems can be configured to save the video only when there is motion and this may be highlighting whatever is triggering the video to be saved. This technology has been around for at least 20 years.
You are right, it’s basic motion tracking. The cameras I check at work do exactly this. We definitely don’t have AI/facial recognition, most of our tech is stuck in 2010.
But I doubt these restaurant employees have benefits, they do probably need to unionize anyways
I can tell she just had a rough day
Why you putting food on trays in the first place?
I can fix her .... I have bigger trays.
I've read that in Jaws mode: "You'll need a bigger tray!"
Seriously, I would send her home to get some rest
Been there. I still have nightmares over stupid shit like this
First day of work, within the first couple of hours, my daughter dropped and shattered a bottle of red wine. She was wearing a pair of tan pants and white shoes.
Tell her I once walked behind a sitting guest who decided to push away from the table and knocked into me carrying a tray with 16 different alcoholic drinks
All of of the drinks went on the guest
In my first month of working as a waiter in an Italian restaurant, I had to bring a bottle of red to a table. I start putting the glasses on the table and did not facture in that they balanced out my tray, so the bottle falls on the tray and starts pouring... right on the lady with a white blouse. She laughed about it but I remember my boss just looking at me and without saying anything go out the back to have a smoke. Still feel the shame after 11 years.
What a nice lady, bless her for not what most people these days would have reacted
Oh man I could see it happen as I read your comment
I never waited tables but it looks like she could use some rest.
If they expect her to carry three plates at once, maybe they should give her a tray big enough to hold them.
I actually agree with this. Or at least a few trays, so you can do two each or something.
I know that exact feeling. That's the "I want to just fucking lose it but let me take a second so I don't lose my job" stance
If you think she's pissed wait til she has to tell the cook they need to refire that table
Why is there AI tracking on a work camera. Dystopian af
The tray might've been good for 3 cocktails but not 3 plates. Still sucks tho
As someone who used to work as a waiter, that's a "Fuck it, I'm going home!" Moment.
I'm getting the sense that this lady is already having a shit day, maybe she had to work a clopen to top it off.
I'd have probably just left to the walk in freezer (aka the scream room)
She seems a bit off. Like no reaction time at all. Poor thing working and being sick or whatever. Drugs, alcohol, bad boss or everything mentioned.
It's hard being human.
Over worked most likely. It gets like that
Yeah probably. No one in there bats an eye to it either so it seems pretty standard there..
This is what I noticed. Multiple people nearby and none stops and checks on her or the plates :(
I had a food runner do this. First thing I said was go take five and collect yourself. I'll tell the table kitchen is still working on food and offered a free beer for the extended wait that is about to happen.
Then all of the staff gotta watch the video of her dropping everything for a good laugh as a team
Much better response!
I remember my first mistake, backing into a steel frame at work with my truck. The supervisor came and checked for damage and there was barely a scratch. Then came my coworkers, running to highlight the little ding in the metal and wrote my name on it to make it "forever".
Greatest place I've worked at so far.
Just one of those days…..
Pretty much every day, tbh.
That's life. Just gotta do better next time.
Bigger tray next time
Maybe. But it's clearly the tray they use, so she's just gotta get usd to it.
Seems like management could do better then, actually buy trays for the job or do several trips.
Why use a tray for plates in the first place? Not very practical...
If the plates are boiling, it's a viable option but she definitely overloaded.
Overloaded? If only two plates fit on this platter it's not viable.
Which is why they should invest in bigger trays 😂
It’s funny cuz it wasn’t necessary her fault. The plate weight wasn’t evenly distributed and it fell by itself
I mean its her responsibility to do that, i do the same job. Everyone makes mistakes though
I think adjusting it or checking before taking it might be her responsibility though…..
OMG I feel so bad for herrrrrr poor thing must be going through a lot already
Things like this only happen when you’ve already had a day.
Whoops
I would have clocked out after that
Look I love the small tray but you gotta be careful lol
Why even use the tray? Do a 3 plate carry with your hands.
Hot plate
The tray was barely bigger than one entire plate, I don't know how three could ever fit on there
5 second rule. That was too much wasted time. I did feel her pain.
I remember something like this happened right next to me years ago at chilis
When you drop one item, you leave it and stop yourself from react, but is hard to get to that point (former waiter).
Okay, what should waiters do?
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WAIT
Over worked under paid
"Why didn't you buy big trays for this damn restaurant, you bastard?"
That tray is slightly larger than a single plate.
I worked at a place where we weren't allowed to carry trays. You used your arms and that was it. I still have burn marks 30 years later.
Poor Gal. Shit happens.
I was a kitchen porter for a little while in a cafeteria of a call centre. Those pigs wouldn't scrape their plates, just pile dishes willy nilly all over the place on top of one another, covered in food etc It was disgraceful, and one day I was particularly overworked due to issues with the dishwasher (which turned out to be a deliberate act of sabotage from the other KP who wasn't supposed to be there due to his criminal history in what I can only assume to be an attempt at making me quit, or undermining me to "secure" his job or something) and I dropped a massive pile of dishes all over the place. That was my last shift as a KP ever, good riddance, underpayed, overworked, thankless task that fucks up your hands with arthritis.
What is a KP? Kitchen prep?
Kitchen Porter. They handle secondary tasks like washing dishes and prep work. I've worked cleaning tables before dealing with the porters, although I can't say our guys were ever treated badly.
Interesting. We had runners, they had to have their station prepped. They would take food from kitchen to tables. Expo would organize and make sure the right food is heading out. Chefs would cook and prep their own stations. Bus boy would clean tables and bring dishes to the back, and then dishwasher was doing dishes. Never had a station prep and do dishes
Pobrecita
To anyone planning to do this job, learn how to take 3 plates with one hand quickly, it's super easy and saves a lot of time
Super easy to do, unless the plates are scolding hot. I have some burn scars from hot plates. If you can't manage 3, just take 2 and come back.
Why even use that small ass tray ? Among the first things ive learned in my hotel school was carrying up to 3 plates in 1 hand. Im not saying i was good at it or that its easy but in this case the plates arent all full or swimming in sauce so id just grab em.
my first thought as well, I rarely took the risk of going to 3 in one hand whilst working in a restaurant but 2 in one hand (with the 3rd in the other of course) is really quite easy and likely much more stable than a tray
Yep, feels much better.
I bloody hated carrying drink on those trays... only doused 1 woman tho... in red wine....
I think I only used a drink tray once or twice and decided to never use them again. Thankfully there were never too many drinks to take out at once since most people just waited at the bar unless we had a backlog of cocktails. If I had to clear tables I could generally do it quicker without the tray as well.
Can you blame her with that little plate holder
Charger is the word you are looking for.
Charger? I hardly know her
Fuck you I laughed
The look of defeat just makes this even more sad also why the fuck is that tray so small???
5Second rule?
That sucks for everyone, why is that tray so small anyway
Some restaurants prefer to be hand service only, so they only get small trays for drinks.
Is this all to try to save some walking or is there some other reason for doing this? Like something catering staff are taught, like impressing customers or something? I mean, given the obvious risks and perpetual tiredness
Well if you have to carry 200 plates a night, walking with 2 at a time is a 100 trips, just bringing 3 brings that down to 67. This also depends on the restaurant but once the food is plated it's cooling down, most people want their food to be still warm after they've all got it and taken their pictures.
That feels like it is all about reducing walking. I can’t imagine the tables are so far away from the kitchen that the food cools that much. I wonder if she’ll do it again or just needs the lesson once
For lots of foods is not really a problem, but for stuff that's served lukewarm or really temperature sensitive stuff like fish and risotto it does definitely matter. If a server only walks with 2 plates in the restaurant I work at after their first week they are just not up for the job. Yeah stuff drops, if you do stuff often enough the small chances eventually come around to bite you. And yes it saves walking as well, when I worked as a server I walked about 20 kilometres during my 8 hour shift. I could double it if I only walked with 2 plates.
It’s about saving time when you have a bunch of people to wait on
If you're in the middle of a rush you need to get the food out, people aren't willing to wait longer than necessary for their food. Plus if you take out a couple of plates at a time then there's more chances of the remaining plates to be served out to a wrong table, gather them at once, keep them together, gets the food out hot, customers happy, more likely to get a tip.
Didn't you read the reply to your comment? It makes sense imo
Yes. I read it as conformation that it is about saving walking.
I see. I kinda disagree because there's a risk of dropping the plates, reducing the amount of walks by half is quite a lot. After a few nights a waiter would be experienced enough to almost never drop a plate.
Get those poor waitresses bigger trays, that’s ridiculous.
You don’t even need a tray to carry 3 plates. This is a layup for any server. Even first day on the job.
You remind me of Dudley
aww just want to give her a hug, gotta feel so bad inside
Better for it to happen in the kitchen than in front of guests. I once spilled a glass of red wine over a guy with a white shirt on.
She’s just had it. This is 100% when you contemplate just quitting and walking the fuck out.
Honestly, if that happened to me while on a shit shift it would 100% make me walk into traffic
She was probably having the worst day as well, BEFORE this happened. She’s dead inside. When it rains, it pours.
Why I it on a tray the size of a CD?
Because big records are out of style
Oh man, I’ve felt this. However at my restaurant we were not allowed to carry trays bc of dropping issues, instead we just had to stack the plates up our arms which was just a different recipe for dropping.
The place I work at doesn’t let you carry more than three plates at a time. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a plate of food dropped.
I worked at an Italian spot that insisted on us carrying everything by hand. At least once a week, a small side dish had to be remade because their oblong shape made it just perfect to shift and end up right under your boob. One wobble and it would be on the floor or on your shirt. At least they let us wear black.
I haven't done exactly that, but I've DEFINITELY had that same feeling
I feel bad for her, that looks like a beverage tray though not an entree tray which is much bigger in diameter. But if that's me, and I have a tiny bit of savings in the bank. I'm walking LOL
It happens