Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A server and two customers - Static Media / Shutterstock / Getty I strongly believe working in a restaurant should be a ...

As a pretty frequent restaurant patron in New York, I’ve recently noticed that more and more servers across all types of restaurants — from casual establishments to fancier ones — don’t write down my ...

If you’ve ever worked in the service industry or even just waited a table, you know that certain customer habits can turn a pleasant dining experience into a nightmare. While most of us just want to ...

Who’s responsible for fixing things when things go awry at a restaurant? Here’s where servers should draw the line.

When our son Bill was 3, he loved going to a nearby Chinese restaurant. However, one night, he surprised us by flagging down the server on his own and requesting some more rice. She thought it was ...

A restaurant server turned to Reddit to vent his frustrations about those who don’t “understand the restaurant industry” after a group of customers left him a poor tip and some very rude, unsolicited ...

The restaurant industry is not one for the faint of heart. It requires long hours spent on your feet, late nights and nonexistent weekends, and more filched french fries that qualify as "dinner" than ...

Daniel M. Lavery cofounded and co-edited the site The Toast and is the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror, Something That May Shock ...

I strongly believe working in a restaurant should be a character-building requirement. When chatting with friends who are fellow servers, some joked that the top thing they wished customers would stop ...