How To Open a Wine Bottle Without a Corkscrew

Nice tips for the case you’ve forgotten or lost your winekey 🙂

A One-Minute Meditation with Deepak Chopra

The So Hum meditation is a simple but powerful technique that uses the breath and the repetition of a mantra to quiet the mind and relax the body. Always useful to know how to handle the stress in our work. Sooooo hummm 🙂

Free Guides on how to wait tables

Everybody has been new in business once for at least one day. Everybody will also have new collegues now and then. You can send them to this very well written and extensive page: Free Guide: How To Wait Tables. If you want hints in a list (and a bit hilarious) you can see Server’s Bible:

Do it daily tasks with flair

A nice video about how to do daily tasks with flair. It’s made by Gil Galasso, a French maitre d’hotel who won a lot of prices. His weblog is very interesting if you can read French!

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

The secret of the CrazyWaiter

I made a presentation to show in a comprehensive way my secrets 🙂 “Why did the CrazyWaiter become as one of the employees who were cited most as ‘outstanding’? A personal vision about Service and the quality of it by someone on the workfloor”

“How to manage the CrazyWaiter” – for dummies

I’m working already 20 years in the restaurant business and I think I can say I know how to do it. I’m very easy to manage, but even better if you keep the following things in mind! I guess it doesn’t work only for me, but for most of you – so feel free to

The CrazyWaiter serves… and pins

Pinterest is a huge source of information and inspiration. So I joined also Pinterest (read: shared my ‘private’ boards with my alter-ego), so follow me! Click at the image to see my boards. See my following list who I recommend to follow for other inspiring boards, and my likes for the pins I think interesting

Laying table cloths

This week I had a collegue who was fighting with the table cloths. No need to, just know how to do the trick! Laying table cloths from Rene Smit And the video Laying table cloth by ms. Riz. – YouTube.

How to build a tower of glasses in one hand

This video shows how to build a tower of glasses in one hand.  Good luck! EDIT: I have to practice a bit, the record is now 51 glasses!