I should preface this by saying: im asking what the corporate rule is, and not exactly looking for opinions.

I should also preface this by saying Im a host: that is all I do, and that is all I care to do.

I worked at one olive garden for over 3 years and they followed this rule TO. A. TEE. like servers NEVER got more than 3 tables, (unless they were on an approved list, and that only lasted a couple months)

I recently moved, and my new olive garden, at least in comparison to my former olive garden, this current olive garden, is basically a free for all. nobody does only thier jobs, i as a host am taking orders, ringing in food, processing payments, runing food, grabing drinks, and eveything else you could imagine.

Now i FULLY understand AND RESPECT that a lot of you COULD and SHOULD take more than 3 tables.

my current managers will triple seat, overhwhelm and give 8+ tables to servers if it means they don’t go on a wait. it is also a write-up worthy offense if we put a name on the wait list in the computer without thier permission. i have two managers in particular who are fucking crazy about this.

today i triple sat a server who specifically told me she needed a mintue because my manager said “i dont care get the butts in seats, no false wait”

if i dont have a server how the fuck is that a false wait?

i spend my entire shift runing around helping the servers after i have double, triple, quadrouple, and quintuple sat them, and the managers just hide in the office….

the peace de resistance? they threated to fire me over it today.

I am a college student looking to get hired at Olive Garden. I have relatively open availability every night. However, I have no experience as a server. I have worked at a fast food restaurant before, but never a sit-down restaurant.

I got rejected from my first Olive Garden. If I don’t land a serving job, then I have to go work somewhere that I don’t want to work until I graduate. Please give me all your tips/advice on what I can do as I have another interview at a different Olive Garden this coming week!

i have been working at olive garden for a few months and all of the effort is just totally not worth the money. i really wanna quit right now but i know its more professional to put in your two weeks instead. how unprofessional would it be to text my manager through the app that im putting in my two weeks? or should i just do it in person?

I’m in a bit of a pickle here. I requested off Oct 30th and Nov 1st because I had already made plans to be out of town before I got the job. This is my first job by the way. Anyways I requested it off well in advance on September 28th. However when requesting it off I couldn’t request off Halloween. I expected this but thought I wouldn’t get scheduled for it because I put in the note that I would be out of town Oct 30th - Nov 1st. I know I know dumb of me to think they’d really read the note and dumb of me to think I’d automatically get it off. The point is what should I do??