{"id":52955,"date":"2016-07-19T15:50:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T13:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=52955"},"modified":"2016-07-20T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T08:47:43","slug":"video-tips-on-treating-your-waiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/19\/video-tips-on-treating-your-waiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Tips on treating your waiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You as a customer are now put on a guilt trip and feel solely responsible for waiters&#8217; salaries when restaurants and their management are supposed to be the ones paying them decent salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless they are still people who, because of unemployment and insufficient education, ended up in this situation.<\/p>\n<p>Most of them have families to take care of and do need your help when you enter a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are are some tips from waiters to you:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Please calculate your tip in when budgeting for eating out since most of their money comes from tips<\/li>\n<li>When they suggest extras, sauces, desserts or starters, please consider ordering it since they have a target to reach<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t order tap water because they get commission on bottled water<\/li>\n<li>Most problems aren&#8217;t their fault because they&#8217;re only the messengers<\/li>\n<li>Sit at the table they designate to you because if you move to another table, you move to another waiter&#8217;s table and your waiter won&#8217;t get any money<\/li>\n<li>The speed of the food depends on the order and remember, they don&#8217;t make the food<\/li>\n<li>If you leave without paying, chances are that they&#8217;ll have to pay your bill<\/li>\n<li>10% is not equal to R10<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t argue that you will not tip them because they already get paid by the restaurant, they work on commission and don&#8217;t get a set salary<\/li>\n<li>Be patient, especially when the restaurant is full because orders are being made according to the number on your slip<\/li>\n<li>Nothing is pre-made and therefore good food takes time<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t judge them on the language they speak or can&#8217;t speak<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Ngiyabonga&#8217; doesn&#8217;t pay the bills<\/li>\n<li>Respect them and their job<\/li>\n<li>Remember they are human \u2013 they make mistakes and accidents happen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, not everything is bad when it comes to being a waiter and it does have some perks.<br \/>\nEugene Mathibela, Julia Mokwena, Lucia Makua and Lorraine Sithole are all waiters that were interviewed by the Middelburg Observer on camera.<\/p>\n<p>They spoke about life as a waiter and all agreed that what they liked most about their job, was learning how to deal with and meeting different kinds of people.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/aCD30dend7k' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Read other stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/52965\/what-you-didnt-know-about-waiters\/\" target=\"_blank\">What you didn&#8217;t know about waiters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Send a message to our SMS line 33658 or add us onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">@Mobserv<\/a> to receive your free daily news updates. You can also WhatsApp us on this number 079\u00a0426 1396<\/p>\n<p>Also check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Video\u2019s<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> daily!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the system is failing waiters and like many other people in this country, they have to depend on charity and good hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":52968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Annie van Zyl","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[5302,1997,5300,5303,5301,5210,5299,5298],"class_list":["post-52955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-eat-out","tag-help","tag-kind","tag-respect","tag-restaurant","tag-tips","tag-treatment","tag-waiters"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Eat out","help","Kind","respect","Restaurant","Tips","treatment","Waiters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}