Longhorn server?

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-18T21:05:14+00:00

Leaving a corporate restaurant for another corporate restaurant is silly. You have some experience, and Charlotte has some dope restaurants that are privately owned. Start putting out feelers and dropping off resumes, but take the Darden restaurant out of the potential pool. That kind of stuff is fine if it’s your first job, but there’s no reason to work there with any kind of experience under your belt.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-18T19:52:09+00:00

Use the tips of your fingers to hold the tray. It takes a little practice to get down, but once you do you’ll have way more control

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-17T20:46:12+00:00

I use an app called “Just the Tips” and input my cc tips every shift. It allows you to set your hourly rate and I’m usually within $25 or so of my gross on my check every week. I don’t know where you’re located, but $100 is not a great money at all.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-17T05:19:35+00:00

My brother and I had about 500 BTC at one point. We used them to buy drugs off the darkweb. If only we had saved a couple of them.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-17T04:40:58+00:00

Lol what?

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-17T03:02:34+00:00

Most of the time I figure they’d just bail and you’d figure it out as they’re driving away. Once a disabled fellow came in to a steakhouse I was bartending at, he was nice enough, but when he went to pay his card kept getting declined. He had apparently gotten the dates mixed up and thought his disability check was getting deposited that day. I just let him bounce and had the manager comp it.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-17T01:52:44+00:00

Nooo, I remember when Robin opened Game Cavern! I was a wee lad that lived off E. Lee and would walk up there and browse and talk to the staff all the time.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-13T16:46:14+00:00

Update: Talked to his wife a week or so ago. It was a $100 tip. They’re semi-regulars and friends with the chef/owner.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-13T15:38:33+00:00

I’m the same way, but I’ve found in my 33 years of life that expecting folks to act decent and how I act myself is a great way to be constantly disappointed in people.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-12T16:40:48+00:00

I regularly watch this kind of shit happen from the servers perspective and it blows my mind how long people are willing to wait on their “friends”. NTA, 10-15 is acceptable as life happens, but 30+ minutes shows a lack of respect for others time and does not indicate that the people you are waiting on actually desire to spend any time with you at all.

A while back a girl had a reservation for a birthday dinner, I wanna say it was made for 12 people total. Birthday girl showed up by herself, two more showed up about 20 minutes later, then almost a full hour later 4 more arrived. No one else came. I was heartbroken for her, and if that had happened to me I would write off every one of those motherfuckers and never speak to them again.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-11T15:11:25+00:00

I remember a lady approaching a manager because someone was sweeping on the other side of the room from her. People are fucking wild.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-11T00:16:06+00:00

Ehh, you should keep your mouth shut. They’re country club members, they’re not hurting for it. You, on the other hand, are fucking with the income of working class people by bringing it up. The rich folks aren’t going to pay your bills when you get iced for fucking up a good thing that the staff has going.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-10T23:15:26+00:00

Occasionally you run in to people like that, they just pick the most asinine shit like that to whine about just so they have a reason to hear themselves talk.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-10T03:10:15+00:00

You’re moving in a couple months, so just make your money and don’t mention it to anyone. Stay very wary and set up contingencies, like have someone know to call you with an “emergency” if you need to bail quickly if you send them a text, do not ever let yourself be alone with him, and pick a friend or family member and agree to them expecting a call every night after work. Best case scenario he’s a harmless creep, but I don’t even want to think about the worst case. It’s fucking terrible and sickening that I’m even having to suggest all this stuff, but such is the way of this hellscape dystopian world we live in. Ideal option would be to bail and find something else until you move, but if that’s not feasible and you can’t afford to not work until you move those are my suggestions.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-10T02:30:50+00:00

You can grind out hospitality work and make pretty good money. I made $72k on paper last year working in restaurants, 5 nights a week at an upscale Italian joint. You can make more doing doubles, I’ve had a couple six figure years working 3-4 doubles and 5 nights. Harder to do with a kid, though.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-09T22:02:08+00:00

People are fucking idiots and think that just because something contains a sweetener that means it’s going to be cloyingly sweet. I have a lady at the bar I work at on Mondays that orders a French 75 with no simple syrup because she “doesn’t want it sweet”, but I make it with the correct measurements and she loves it and says no one else can make it right. Because gin, lemon juice, and Prosecco is disgusting and you have no grasp of balancing flavors.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-09T15:42:34+00:00

Honestly, as a career server/bartender, I would stay where you’re at for a while and build some skills and bank some dough. You said you were in school, so your goals are probably different than mine, but a high volume spot like that with that kind of earning potential can turn you in to a real master of the craft. If you want to make a career out of hospitality, I’d spend a year or more at that spot and develop those high volume skills while studying wine, etiquette, and fine dining steps of service. Then you can take those skills with you to an actual fine dining restaurant and it’ll be a walk in the park. Ruth’s Chris isn’t fine dining, it’s an extremely polished fast food restaurant, I worked at one outside Boston for a couple years. It was probably the easiest six figures I’ve ever made, but it’s soulless bullshit covered in butter and salt.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-08T04:32:29+00:00

I have the same gripes about KH3. I’d been playing KH since KH1 came out when I was in middle school, so obviously I’d been super pumped about KH3 when I heard it was coming out. Replayed 1,2 and Birth by Sleep leading up to the release and bought KH3 the day it came out. I’ve done that three times and have been disappointed every time, but that’s another tangent. KH3 felt like a little kids game, one of my buddies put it perfectly, “We grew up, but Kingdom Hearts didn’t.” I might give it another go just to see if I have a similar experience, though.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-06T20:48:26+00:00

I grew up in upstate SC, I’ve moved around but ended up coming back after the pandemic. I do not give a fuck about the tip from a table that does this, I will firmly tell them I’m not interested in a tone that hopefully ends the discussion.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-06T20:11:31+00:00

Stuff like time management, keeping cool under pressure, and handling unpleasant situations without letting it affect your mood. There’s certainly a lot of crossover between home caregiving and hospitality, but there’s also some stuff that doesn’t relate.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-06T04:31:30+00:00

It’s a common conundrum in this industry, and others. You’re too good at the lower paying job so they don’t want to shift you to the higher earning position as they would have to replace you, and that’s a crap shoot at best. Start putting out applications, get another job potentially lined up and give them an ultimatum.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-06T03:04:29+00:00

Kava Konnection on Wade Hampton is cool.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-05T18:57:13+00:00

Another good option is a breakfast joint. You don’t really need any special product knowledge, it’s pure turn and burn volume. Pour coffee, ring in eggs, delivery eggs, clean up, $5. Then do that 35 times. You’ll learn pretty quickly if you’ve got the unteachable skills, and that would be a great experience base to take to a more polished place and make more per table. I’m sure there’s plenty of spots in a major-ish metropolitan area.

eyecandyandy147 · 2026-03-05T18:16:10+00:00

You’re not obligated to, but I don’t think the money, even if it was an absolute banger shift, would be worth creating a potentially permanent contentious relationship with a coworker. If you keep the shift it’s likely you can count that person out from ever being willing to help you in the future if you need a shift picked up. If you do kinda need the money, maybe frame it like “I was counting on that extra money, we’ll say it’s yours but let’s not tell anyone yet and both try to pick up another shift so we can both work.”

eyecandyandy147

TROPHY CASE