25+ reasons to work in a restaurant or hotel

It’s not the easiest job in the world, but it’s the best job! You have weekend when others work All the shops are open if you’re off, it’s calm when you do (fun)shopping and you won’t ask yourself on Sundays how to spend your day You’re not depressive at Sunday evening You know the tricks

Wapaa!!!

Tonight a Spanish fourtop at table 22. Of course I play el camerero loco with dancing, singing etc. At a certain moment I say “wapa, wapaaa!!!”*) to the four year old girl when she twirls around in her princess dress. She looks into my eyes and says with a lovely little voice “wapo tu!“. 🙂

Happy Crazy Waiters Wisdom

We are going to start a new religion for Happy Crazy Waiters. Not only for crazy waiters, everybody will be happy when living like us. Besides the love for our clients, we have the following “rules”: Go for perfection. Even if you don’t succeed (to be expected) you’ll be far better than the others. If

You really moved me…

Sometimes I really love my (little) guests for the time they are in my station. Today at table 102 we had a French/Spanish family with a girl who didn’t speak and seemed to have a mental disability or something like that (not sure about this). Normally children are already uncomplicated, but these kids are really

You know you’re a crazy waiter when… (part 2)

you gave up dance lessons after 4 evenings because you were always called to work… please… please… please you can’t hear please… please… please…. any more. Anyway, your cellphone is turned of at your days off you know all the ‘can eat and can’t eat’-rules belonging to allergies, philosophies and and religions you’re pouring the

How to get those lovely women in your section

Whether it concerns lovely ladies, a very famous person or well-tipping people, sometimes you see someone or a group entering the restaurant in the corner of your eyes and you think:’I want that table’. Normally you have to wait to see if you’re luckily to have it. But you’re the master of your destiny! Today

Worthless Waiter!

I’m a worthless Waiter because: without any doubt I put two cups of tea (€ 5,40 each) on the bill when somebody asks for a glass of hot water (twice of course) to use her own top of the bill tea I say almost ‘shut up’ to the Big Brother (8 years old) when the

Synchronized serving for a wow!

People like when things go synchronized. See a ballet, military parade or a streetdance and it’s great when everything goes at the same moment. Also setting (and clearing) the plates on the table has a high wow!-factor. Somebody searched for synchronized service plate waiter and ended on this site, finding… nothing. Until now, because I

Swoosh!!!!

Last week there was a five year old boy with a Nike t-shirt with the Swoosh!-text in our restaurant. I say the word and make an swoosh-like-armmovement at the same time. The boy runs back to his table and my colleague heard him saying to his mother:”He’s too funny!!” “Who you’re talking about, I don’t

Handpuppets… without puppets

Hans Teeuwen is a Dutch humorist. Although not my kind of humour, this video (in Dutch, sorry) is funny. And there is some cursing in it, so be warned! In this video you can see how you can play with no (or little) attributes. I did it once (but I didn’t scream and certainly didn’t