Rule Six: Never spend money you haven’t made.  I am glad July of 2010 is behind me. I cannot recall a month that was less lucrative in my serving career. My income dropped by well over 50% last month. Unbearable heat combined with a disproportionate number of patio shifts took a chunk out of […]
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Budgeting for Servers
No single topic addressed in this blog is more fundamental to being a successful server than budgeting. This is the cause of a majority of issues servers have and the primary reason so many servers leave the business. Nothing can make a shift harder than needing to make money. Anxiety, stress, frustration, and most other […]
About The Author
David Hayden was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He took his first serving job in 1996. Since that time, he has worked for over a dozen different restaurant companies. He has held both hourly and salaried positions at independent and corporate restaurants. He has waited on over 100,000 guests and trained hundreds of servers. He has been named "Best Server in Kansas City" the last three years by the local weekly paper.