by Erica Michaelson

Created on: October 08, 2009

Why should you be polite to your waitress?

5 Things your server can't tell you.

If you are polite to your waitress you are wonderful and make the servers job easy! This is not an easy job. It requires patience, organization, the ability to multi task, and the knack for reading people. If you could read the servers mind here are five things you would find out that your server can't tell you.

Hate hot tea!

Waiters and waitresses really hate serving hot tea! I mean I know it sounds really stupid, but it is true! I have several years in the business, and while it is not a scientific poll or anything, every server I have ever asked this question to, which is probably in the hundreds, answer yes 100 percent of the time. It's all those damn steps. You have to fill the hot water pot, and then the service for it such as the saucer, cup, lemon, honey, and tea bag. It is something you just have to deal with, no big deal, a silly little thing, but it is a pain, really!

Special orders do upset us!

If you place an order and make 25 changes and say your in a hurry, that may upset your server. When ordering special instructions on your food, the more you alter the food, the longer it will take the server to ring it in. Not that it is a problem or anything, it is just that your server will have to spend extra time finding the correct food mod keys in the computer to notify the cooks of these changes. Many times the cooks do not speak English, however they do understand ticket changes, and sometimes it still needs to be explained. This all takes extra time, so please understand this.

Get off the phone!

If you are on your cell phone while waiting to place your order, your server may not go and address your table needs in fear that they will interrupt your call. Also, it is very rude to put your caller on hold and give your order. Not to the caller, but to your server! Now really, are you here to talk on the phone or eat? Let me ask you this, what did you do before the cell phone? By the way, your mother called, she said to turn that damn thing off, put it away, eat your lunch, and to be nice to your waitress.

Don't call me that!

Usually the server wears a nametag. If you find the need to use a name, this would be the one to use. Hon, honey, sweetie, hey, and snapping your fingers while pointing to your coffee cup, are not really good ways to get your servers attention. That is really is not going to go over too good. Be respectful!

Now let me give you a tip!

It is the strangest

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