Reasons why you shouldn`t work in catering
Guys, I had uploaded an article about why you should not work in retail several months ago, today I have the possibility to criticize the catering business. Like working in retail stores, restaurants, cafes, etc. offer low wages with bad working conditions. Besides, there are other reasons which needed to be mentioned here, so stay tuned and keep reading!
- The payment sucks, even if you get tips from the guests
It does not matter which position you have in a cafe or in a restaurant. You get low wages as a waitress, cook, dishwasher, cleaner, barista, etc. Perhaps the restaurant manager gets well-paid and the Chef de Cuisine as well. It depends on how big the working place is and who is doing the catering business. Do not think, those small restaurant owners can give you the amount of money so you can afford to pay your bills, but even well-known restaurants or coffee shops do not like to be generous toward their employees. I can recognize how low-paid a waitress is if she waits impatiently for a tip because that means that she can only survive by gaining tips next to her loan. This is a catastrophe of course!
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2. Working in a catering business is stressful af and the communication too harsh!
Maybe you know Gordon Ramsay`s show “Kitchen Nightmare” and how many time he shout at the candidates and his own employees. That guy, even if I admire him a lot, really demonstrates the situations back in the kitchen or even in every inch of the restaurants. Every meal must be done as quick as possible and no mistakes are allowed. The chefs always work under pressure in the name of every guest`s happiness and the waiters and waitresses have to act friendly towards impatient guests and their bosses, even when the situation get worse. I can not recommend to work there even to people are made with steel. At a small local restaurant or cafe, you may not experience with pressures, but making profit and spoiling guests is important there too.
3. Guests can be bitchy!
There are different types of human beings. Sometimes you meet nice and friendly people who show manners, but sometimes you are confronted with people, who are always angry and act aggressively towards you and that can happen everywhere and everytime, but mostly in restaurants. There are some people who just come to your workplace and want to start a fight without having any reason to do so. The most terrible people are these kind of people who wants to humiliate the kitchen staff and the staff for service. I used to work as a waitress, when I was very young and believe, I had to endure this misbehaviour of these kind of human beings as well. The most disgusting guests are male guests who want to harass the waitresses by slapping their butts and catcalling them….yeah I had witnessed this shit too. So if you want to avoid those people, do not work in catering business then.
I hope I could clarify my point of view about this current topic. If you have any questions and concerns please be free to send me your message or write your statement :-)
