What position is the best to work at in a general restaurant?

	What position is the best to work at in a general restaurant? Host, server, busboy, kitchen staff etc most fun? safest? most paid? overall what best? Asked By: Playboy♠ - 3/2/2009

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None of them, the pay is lousy, hours are worse. You will smell like food when you get off work. A job at the local supper market stocking shelves is better. Answered By: bkingshott - 3/5/2009

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I would have to say host, honestly all you have to do is look good and talk nice, that bout it (aside from giving customers a seat) the whole restaurant would be a chaos and you still dont have to work hard.... and it also pays decent well.... Answered By: Aztec Soldier - 3/6/2009

Under 18 - Bus person if you can handle the dirty dishes and heavy load under 18 - Host if you want to chat a lot meat people and have fun. 18+ (State dependent) Defiantly Server or bartender most fund, and most paid as far as the tips go. People can make a killing waiting tables especially if your good at it. (fast, efficient and friendly) Culinary - It's hit or miss, if you wanna cook and enjoy it go for it. It's hot, stressful but you get a good pay check seldom the tips though. Safety wise anything that has to do with lifting like servers and buses can burn up your wrists so be careful. In the kitchen you play with oil you might get burned so practice safety and you won't get hurt. Source(s): Started as a buss person and have now worked every position in a restaurant for 10 years running. Answered By: Taz - 3/2/2009

I have never been a manger in a restaurant, but I assume it would be hard at times, but should also pay well. As for the rest, I've done all of it plus bar-tending. We'll start with the kitchen, (back of the house) all of this is depending on what type of restaurant you are working in and also who the regular clientele is and what location this place is in. I will give you an example of a chain restaurant. The kitchen workers make an hourly wage depending on experience, but they deal with smelling like the grill or fryer or whatever is used in that establishment. They also deal with constant heat, steam and grease. If you work the closing shift in the kitchen, it kind of sucks. You have to clean EVERYTHING down at the end of the night. If you are to work in the kitchen, I would suggest being a prep person or a dish washer. Sometimes the dishwasher is the prep person also. I say dishwasher, because you can usually listen to a radio or headphones and you can be in your own little world. It passes time and they almost always have a big dishwasher that does most of the work. It also gives you a workout from carrying the trays of dishes back to their places. It is however very very dirty. You have to take out trash. You will probably be soaking wet by the end of the day, especially if it's a busy place. But the diswasher is usually the first one in the kitchen done at the end of the night. All your cleaning up is stuff that's been wet all day, so basically it's a wipedown and then mop. Very easy to end your shift On to front of the house. There is the host/hostess at the front pedestal that greets you and takes you to a seat. Depending on how the restaurant pays, host/hostess may make what's called tip share. They take the amount of the sales and make all wait staff pay a certain percentage of their total in receipts. This money gets divided among usually bussers and hosts. Sometimes the dishwasher may get a cut, every restaurant is different. Anyway, as the host/hostess you are expected to greet the customer upon their arrival and seat them in a timely manner. Sometimes, not often the host/hostess may be asked to bus a table. They get paid an hourly wage plus any tipshare. Then there is the busser their job is to keep the tables clear. Some places have bussers walking around constantly checking tables and clearing them of unwanted items. Other places have the wait staff pre-bus by taking things a little at a time while you check in on them, then the busser only cleans up at the very end. Sometimes they get some of the jobs that suck like taking out trash. But they don't do dishes, and the only other thing they may help with is running food, or taking it from the kitchen to the customer. Then there is the wait staff and bartenders. The wait staff usually never gets to rest at all because they are constantly checking to make sure that food is gonna be ready or preparing a salad, or making buttered toast if it's breakfast. Making sure that the food they get from the cook is what the customer ordered, getting drinks, going between the tables, bar and kitchen repeatedly, they have to do all of this plus make sure the customer is happy. They make usually a couple bucks an hour, but the majority of their income comes from tips. But they have to deal with angry or ***hole customers. Don't get me wrong, I liked when I as awaitress and all, but some people make you feel like crap for no good reason. Anyway, usually the money is decent if the place has good food and is in a good spot. Bartending, by far, in my opinion, is the best spot to be in a restaurant, sometimes they get tip share, sometimes they share in paying it. The bartender gets to socialize with all the customers, sometimes they serve food also, but mainly they take some to go orders and maybe serve people in tables adjacent to the bar. They mix drinks and serve them and collect off of all the people getting wasted. They too have very little to clean up at the end of the night, they wipe down the bar, clean out the sinks, wipe down and rearrange seats, mop and take out bar trash, sometimes they have to do inventory of the bar also. Overall it depends on what shape you want to be in at the end of the night. Hosts and bussers make the least compared to wait staff and kitchen, but it is also a no-brainer with not too much effort, you are usually the first out from front of house. They may have side work which might be folding napkins or rolling silverware, but nothing back breaking really. Then next would be kitchen staff they would probably make more than a host/busser. Then the wait staff and bartender make the most, the difference is, bartenders make more because the deal with a higher volume of people . If it's a restaurant with no bar I'd work as a dishwasher if in the back, or I'd be a waitress up front. Only job that's close to safe in a restaura Source(s): Worked in a ton of restaurants Answered By: just me - 3/2/2009

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