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    Memory for waitressing!

    Hi I wonder if anyone can help me, I am looking into nigtclub waitressing in stip joints and wondered if you have to remember all the drinks that people will order from memory, or can you use a pen and paper? I desperately need to know this as I am out of work and need money quick as I have recently split up from my partner and need to move out and start again! x

    Any help would be much appreciated!

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    You should go visit several strip clubs as a patron, have a beer, and see what it is all about. Pen and paper are fine. Only a foolish management would expect a waitress to memorize orders and risk ordering wrong drinks (wasting booze and time) where customers might get agravated. ...but, i have to ask, needing money fast and posting to this site invites the question: Are you considering dancing to make more money?
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    Some clubs post their price list near the waitress' station. I use a pen and notepad... mostly for the long orders since I've got my current club's prices down by now. Most bar staff will be more than happy to help you learn. My bartender gets the order together then tells the waitress the total and even breaks it down per drink if needed, if there is time.
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    Well, our waitresses are just a step above retard level and even they eventually remember. BUT, your ticket will have a setting with the prices on it and you can use a small calculator.

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    Got in this buisiness as a waitress. Cleaned tables. Dance now. Still clean tables.
    Memory is still intact. Once in while get to dance on top of same.

    Now the rest of the story.

    A waitress is another sales person. That is just all she/he is. Her purpose is to sell food. Just as a dancer may sell, dances, drinks, and on occasions "favors".
    A waitress may introduce a client to a dancer, regarding on the kind of relationships which they may have, a waitress may actually help the dancer get more "buisiness".

    When I worked as a waitress, I always scribble my guests' requests onto my notepad and bring them whatever they order. "Yes! Whatever they order!" Usually people in a restaurant read the menu and decide on whatever looks the best and sounds the most suitable for the pocketbook and the existing appetite. I know my job is to highlight the items I want to sell, but on days when I cannot care less I just walk up to the table and ask "Are you ready to order?" If they nod, I take notes. Maybe I say: "What may I bring you tonight?" and with a "Thank you very much that is a great choice!" I might leave the customers alone and march off to the kitchen.

    I tell you what, being a waitress first before being a dancer has really taught me a lot about how to handle people. I look straight at the angry guest, while his noise bypasses both my wide-open ears. And I jot down on a piece of paper only the facts of the complaint. Looking at the guest, who is letting off steam into my direction, I attempt to visualize what type of underwear he, the angry man or she, the ticked-off woman, might be wearing, right then and there, in front of me. If this is not enough, I use my imagination to twist the thought pattern and envision how this particular man would look in a bikini. If it is a woman, I imagine how she would look in baggy man's underwear. This way I cannot help it but smile on the inside, while on the outside I might not show much of any kind of reaction.

    But sometime, things go, and I have to realize it would be better if I go elsewhere.
    And I quit.

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    Thanks 'Wiseguy' for the advice. Yes you are probably right, visiting a club would give me a better picture of it all. Yes I have considered dancing, I even bought a pole to practice on! But wouldn't feel comfortable at all dancing right in front of someone! And I doubt there are any clubs where you can just dance on stage on a pole and not dance in front of the customers??

    Thanks 'Paigedwriter' thats a relief, I was getting worried because people that I was out with on Friday night were laughing at me when I asked them if they reckoned I could use a pen and paper when waitressing, they all said 'Don't be silly its like barwork, you have to be able to remember about 5 drinks all in one go, you get used to it'!!
    Thats why I was worried!

    So is this basically what happens when you are a waitress.

    Ask people at the table what they want for drinks. Take order down with pen and paper. Go back behind the bar and use the till to work out how much all the drinks ,come to while the bartender makes all the drinks up. Then go back with the drinks on a tray with the receipt to the people who ordered.

    Also how much did you get a night roughly when you were a waitress.

    Thank you very much I really appreciate your time for all my questions! x

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    I've seen plenty of busy waitresses use pen and paper...

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    here's what i would do: make a list of the drinks and their prices. laminate it and tape it to your tray every night. make abbreviations for the various drinks (ex: budweiser could be bud, champagne= cham, sex on the beach= sxbech) and laminate it and tape it to your tray. or keep it on you. this makes it quicker to write stuff down and remember prices. over time you may get used to the drinks and prices and not need it, but it might help starting out.
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    I tended Bar for a good many years and every waitress starts off with the Pencil/Paper. Especially in a club that offers more than 4 different kinds of Domestic Beer.
    Eventually, if you work for any real length of time you'll be amazed how fast you go from scribbled cursive to abbreiviating to just memorizing everything your place of business has to offer on the Drinklist.
    Don't sweat toting around Pen/Paper/Calc... they are every bit as much tools of your trade as the g-string is for the gals on the stage.

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    Yeah abbreviations are a good idea, thanks!

    I'm a bit put off now, I forgot I would have to deal with angry customers. Never worked with the public before, only ever done office work, don't know if I am tough enough!
    How many complaints are we talking a night.....1, 2?

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    I can't say as far as a SC, but I can tell you a LOT about complaints in both hole-in-the-wall bars and Dance Clubs. You might get 1-2 a Night, on a Good Night. I've driven girls home in the middle of a shift while they just sobbed their Eyes and Hearts out. I've seen girls walk out Many times never to return. You Will get very rude, very Vocal customers. Some nights the tips will suck beyond anything you can imagine. You will get pawed, hit on, and Ass-grabbed. You'll hear guys talking about all kinds of sick shit you prolly never thought guys thought about, and they'll be talking about doing these things with You.
    And don't even get me started on what kind of Nasty, Vapid Bitches women customers can be. Especially Drunk ones.
    Its a demanding job.
    But that said.
    You can make a damn good living doing it once you get a nice thick skin. Just tone out everything, smile and do your best.
    At an SC, as a Customer, I always focused on the Dancers, and the waitress was not only my Drink Spotter, but also my Dancer Runner. Its often MUCH easier to hook a waitress (at least at the clubs I attended regularly in the States) than a specific dancer. I would tip a waitress generously not only for drinks, but for snagging a particular dancer or offering her advice on which dancers were particularly... um... Nice.
    I'd imagine at a SC you'll hear a lot more bitching about the price of drinks than anything else... and at least the guys are grabbing the Dancers Asses and that takes a LOT of heat of yours! (Although probably not all of it)
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    Yeah abbreviations are a good idea, thanks!

    I'm a bit put off now, I forgot I would have to deal with angry customers. Never worked with the public before, only ever done office work, don't know if I am tough enough!
    How many complaints are we talking a night.....1, 2?

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    Thanks for your post 'Deluc', very helpful, if not scarey!! Just one question though, when you say 'SC' what does that stand for?

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