Frank Sinatra – “My Way”

Tomorrow will be the last day as waiter.. at least for the moment. In two weeks I’ll go back to Rome, Italy for almost six months to work in an infopoint of Camping Fabulous, followed by a yoga teacher training at Samyak Yoga in India and traveling in Thailand and Indonesia. So no more tables,

Don’t loose your pen

Luckily there’s (almost) always a (cute) (Italian) receptionist(e) with loads of pens in her pocket nearby 😉

Coming home yoga for Crazywaiters

This is what I do when I come home after a busy night See at Slideshare: Coming home yoga for Crazywaiters. Download PDF

Hooters waitress donates kidney to longtime customer

Sometimes I joke that I do everything for my guests, even giving away a kidney. Mariana Villarreal, a waitress at Hooters in Roswell isn’t joking but did it really and might be the waitress with the most compassion in the world. At least she earned illimited karmapoints for this good deed! http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isSlim=1 Read the whole

Broken illusions

After almost 20 years of hard work in the restaurant business, I have the illusion that I understand mankind a little bit more. But that illusion can be thrown away when I think of some guests in the past… People who pay 50 euro for only some shrimps, potato smileys or spaghetti. Or asking for

What can CrazyWaiters learn from Navy Seals

Totally different but what can we learn from Navy Seals ? Preperation It’s all about preperation. A good set-up, mise en place (all your side work done) and knowledge and above all trained skills. It makes you that you don’t have to think about things and do it automaticaly and take decisions intuitively Feeling of

Once upon a time…

Once upon a time …. … there was a beautiful lovely princess wandering around in a park. Suddenly she found on the floor a very very magical wine-opener. She tought: “The person who did loose that one must be very special”. She asked every waiter in the country whether he lost his corkscrew. Everybody said

30+ Reasons to date a waiter

Every girl likes firemen and rich managers. But smart girls date a waiter ofcourse 🙂 We are highly passionated about food. Isn’t that the first need in life? We know everything about wine. And if you don’t like wine, what about a cocktail? We have an extensive knowledge about all the other drinks a bar

ServerPics

There is a lot of waiter humour  and -problems to see at Instagram. To make it visible easily I made a little tool, the CrazyWaiter ServerPics 🙂 Click at the image above to go there. Enjoy!

Leadership for Crazy Waiters

A quote of a recruiter tickled me:”People apply to be a teamleader but they don’t know nothing about teamwork or leadership. It’s in the word. Team-Leader” This has made me thinking about leadership. What is leadership? How can you show leadership if you are “just” a waiter and not the boss?Now I’ve set my new focus