Working as a waiter or waitress can be a very difficult job, especially in a classy restaurant. Not only do you have to put up with customers making unusual requests or complaining about the food, but you also have to take all of that on the chin and maintain an aura of sophistication around you. There are numerous things you could do or say during a shift that would get you fired instantly from a job working as a waiter.
Not everyone can cut it as a waiter, as it takes a lot of dedication, patience, and anger management skills. We can actually tell how you would fare as a waiter in a fancy restaurant based on your responses to the questions in this personality quiz. Some people thrive in the role and make good money working in it. Many others, however, briefly work in restaurants and then later decide they will never be a waiting staff ever again. Whether you have a career in hospitality will depend on your answers to these questions.
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Can You Work Shift as Waiter in Fancy Restaurant Withou… Quiz Questions
When arriving for your shift, where will you park your car?
This is a trick question, waiters can't afford cars
Far away in the parking lot
Near the back entrance to the restaurant
By the restaurant's front entrance
A customer is insisting upon ordering an item that is not listed on the menu. How do you handle the situation?
Take the order and let the kitchen figure out what to do
Select any random item from the menu and serve that to the customer instead
Take the order and then politely ask the chefs if it is possible
Inform the customer that item is not available
A waiter you are working with has begun serving a table in your section. How do you handle the situation?
Begin serving tables in that waiter's section
Cry loudly about how you will lose money on tips
Ignore the situation and continue your shift
Politely inform the other waiter of their mistake
A customer claims they found a hair in their soup. The hair is clearly from their head, however. How do you handle the situation?
Pretend to faint and then lay motionless until the customer leaves
Give a free item to the customer, apologize, and then make fun of them in the back
Explain that this particular food item is supposed to have hair in it
Tell the customer it's their hair and not the restaurant's responsibility
A table of 8 asks to all get separate bills. How do you handle the situation?
Begin to sob uncontrollably until the customers say that just one bill is fine
Bring them 8 copies of the same bill
Tell the table that you are unable to do this
Get them all separate bills. It might take a while but it's your job
The busboy on shift is clearing tables in other sections before he clears tables in your section. How do you handle the situation?
Rudely tell the busboy to clear tables in your section
Bus your own tables, it's not that hard
Complain to the restaurant manager
Politely ask the busboy to clear tables in your section
You are concerned that a table of customers is not going to leave you a good tip. How often should you bring up that you are a student and have to pay for tuition and books?
Never
As often as possible even if you are not actually a student
Give a full detailed account of your financial situation on the customer's bill
Only as it seems appropriate
A customer asks you to recommend a dish. How do you handle the situation?
Recommend your favorite dish on the menu
Recommend the easiest dish for the cooks to make on the menu
Recommend the most expensive dish on the menu
Recommend a dish from a different restaurant and suggest the person go there
A table has just finished their meals and looks as though they are about to ask for the bill. How do you handle the situation?
Ask if they are in a rush and need the bill
Ask if they would like something to drink
Ask if they would like any dessert
Bring them the bill even before they ask
When meeting the other serving staff on your first shift, you notice that they all smoke and talk about being struggling actors. How do you handle the situation?
Just keep to yourself
Wish them all good luck on their upcoming auditions
Start smoking and become an actor just to fit in
Explain that smoking is very bad for one's health and that acting is a risky career path
While in the middle of a busy shift your manager asks you to cover for someone else later that same day. How do you handle the situation?
Work the double shift
Agree to the shift but then just not show up for it
Quit and find a new job
Explain that would be disastrous on your knees and feet
A table of customers is letting their toddler child just run around the place and cause chaos. How do you handle the situation?
Bribe the kid with dessert to sit down
Tell the child that misbehaving children are cooked up and served to customers
Add a "400% Unruly Child Gratuity Fee" to their bill
Ignore the situation
This woman wants to talk to your manager. How do you handle the situation?
Film their every word and post to social media
Get the manager
Say you are the manager
Ask to speak to THEIR manager instead
A customer says that you got their order wrong when it arrives. You know you brought them exactly what they ordered, however. How do you handle the situation?
Tell them the dish is exactly what they ordered
Apologize and correct the order
Apologize, say you'll correct the order, and then bring them the same dish again
Blame it on the kitchen staff and then bring them a new dish
It's at the end of the night but a table of customers isn't leaving. How do you handle the situation?
Wait patiently for the customers to finish
Start stacking the chairs to communicate the restaurant is closing
Start loudly complaining about your last remaining customers
Turn the lights out
12 Comments
I had a successful first day.
I got a promotion as head waiter, but probably just because I chose to give the unruly kid ice cream to calm down instead of telling them unruly kids are cooked in the oven at this establishment……lol.
But I could go either way on that choice. 🙄 lol
Most others got promotions, and I’m happy for them. But I’m not embarrassed yet to say I got fired the very first day. Kind of makes me sad though. I was expecting it.
Hi friend!
I didn’t get a promotion, I almost got fired. But it said that everyone deserves a second chance, so I didn’t get fired. What a relief!
Well, good for you! I’m happy you made it. From the start, I never thought I would be cut out to be a waiter, and this quiz proves that is 100% true.
You got a promotion!
Yay !
promotion, slay!
Promotion! Slayyy!!!!!!
Amazing quiz. I got a promotion because I slay.
Since you’re a Karen hater, what did you tell that Karen who wanted to speak to your manager?
I put that I am the manager…lol
I got a promotion too
Same
I used to play waitress with my aunt