Waiting staff

Assignment #2 Observational Study Ngu Binh Restaurant is located at the corner of a plaza at 14092 Magnolia Street of Westminster. It is a Vietnamese restaurant in California 's Little Saigon. At the entrance of Ngu Binh, there is a wooden bench to one side for people waiting outside. On one side of the glass doors, there is a clip board with a yellow legal notepad with a list of names waiting to be called and seated. Inside, the table tops are made up of marble. All of the tables have at least two chairs on each of the longer sides. There is at least four chairs at each table. The chairs are dark wooden with a dark green leather cushion seating. On each table, there is a metal organizer that contains the sauces, add ons, chopsticks, and white hard plastic soup spoons. There are five containers that hold the sauces and add ons: chili oil, chili paste, green peppers with garlic, white pepper, and a dark liquid sauce that resembles soy sauce. There are napkins in a separate metal napkin dispenser. There are large paintings framed with a gold color frame on all sides of the walls. The paintings depict various scenic settings, some with people, and some…

The scent was overpowering and it made me want to order a steak. Our hostess greeted our party cheerfully with six people the wait was going to be twenty minutes. This was not bad because the waiting area had a two big fifty inch flat screen televisions as entertainment. While sitting down waiting for our table to be called, you are able to eat free peanuts. The peanuts where in an old century barrel that gave off a wood like aroma. The peanuts must be good because, shells filled the floor, and…

Service Paper First of all the full service dining restaurant I choose to dine at was Olive Garden in Holly Springs with my family. When we ate dinner there it was a Friday night around seven pm it was pretty busy when we walked in and there were people sitting inside and outside waiting for their names to be called. The service started out great; there were three hostesses standing behind the host counter and they were all wearing black shirts and pants as their uniforms. They all had smiles on…

This short story takes place in a café. It is a night and the café is empty, except an old, deaf man and two waiters, talking about him. The young waiter wants him to leave the café so he could go home, but the old one is more understanding. When the old man „asks“ for another brandy, the young says that they are closing. When he is gone, the waiters resume their discussion. The young wants to hurry home to his wife, whereas the old waiter is one „of those who like to stay late in the café“. The…

1) In my opinion I think that older waiter is so slow and unwilling to go to bed because the fact that he suffers from insomnia. I believe that he is (based on what's seen or what seems obvious) holding/hiding/giving shelter to some form of guilt of something that affected him in his earlier years. Weather her he did something, either something bad happened to him andscarred him. This Nada refrain shows the old waiter has had some (having to do with human existence) terribly unfair treatment…

Star Service My past host parents from when I was an exchange student invited me to a restaurant called Square 1 Burger and Bar. They opened about two weeks ago in downtown Winter Park. Usually new restaurants are disorganized, employees have no idea what they are supposed to do, and the managers are frequently unsure of their business structures as well. I was not expecting too much, but since it was a restaurant a friend of my host parents recommended I was hoping for a good experience. From…

and Mann 1975:32). In the past women have mostly been seen as servers or care takers. The stereotypical ideal job for a women was to to a housewife, if she had to work her job would be similar to her duties in the home. In the film Dish: Women, Waitressing and the Art of Service by Maya Gallus, One woman who works at a truck stop talks about how when men come to the restaurant they want to be served by a woman so they can imagine it being there wife. This is the same at Brady’s bar, men want to…

As it is shown throughout past events, some people suffer through a type of evilness or loneliness in their life. The struggles that one goes through in these problems affect their daily life and affect how people react near him. In Hemingway’s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place a dark loneliness fills the void of man’s solitary existence, while in O’Brien’s 2006 film Isolation, physical remoteness allows for the entrance of a sinister shadowy evil, each demonstrating, in its own way, nature’s need to…

Imagine a buzzing crowd of famished customers waiting to be seated on a busy night. They overwhelm the host stand eager to get the best seat in the house. Some customers engulf the entire waiting area. The hostess was dressed in a luminous white collar shirt and in somber black pants. She is nervous and feels quickly overpowered by the persistent demands of the customers. That hostess was me. I was the new host at an Outback Steakhouse. I was still in training and I couldn't keep up with the…

In many restaurants today numerous people can see that there are more waitresses instead of waiters. “In other words, waiting on tables is defined as typical ‘women’s work’ because women perform it and because the work activities are considered ‘feminine’” (Hall, 329). Why? Why is this position considered something that only women should be preforming? I think that waiting on tables and being a server has been considered mainly done by women for a long period of time based on the research that…