26. I’m going to do this EVERYWHERE
Fine Dining Chef here, worked in 4 three michelin starred restaurants. Wanna instantly get VIP status at your table when fine dining? Bring some beer for the kitchen, maybe two $7.99 cases of PBR and you’re golden. Hand them off to the hostess or Maitre’d, “these are for the cooks”, and you’ll be hooked up every time. Extra courses, soigne cuts of meat, table side truffles if in season, etc.
27. RedditName
I used to work for a very popular valet company in downtown for about a year.
- First off, all valets are shady as fuck. Most get into it because they get to drive nice cars. Most are in high school/college and have no ambitions.
- Everybody working valet is usually high. I’m not into drugs so I wasn’t, but every 2 hours my coworkers would go get blazed in their cars.
- We get paid minimum wage. We do not get a cut of the cost of the valet. So even if it’s $20, it all goes to the company.
- Standard tip is $2-5. Good tip is like $10. Give us coins and we will most likely throw it at your car as you leave. I still remember the girl in the green explorer who gave me coins. That was like 5 years ago. We remember.
- If spots on the street are hard to come by, we will park our cars at the beginning of our shift in spots on the street. Tip us $20+ and you can get a spot on the street where you can be there all night. If you ask for a spot on the street and aren’t flashing $20+, we will say we don’t have any. But sometimes we really don’t have any.
- If we scratch your car, we will hide it. I left a huge 5 inch scratch in some old ladies door. I made sure to stand right in front of it as I opened the door for her.
- If you have drugs in your car, don’t be surprised if some of them are gone. I can think of a few times where my co-workers would pinch some weed. And yes, they will go through your shit in your car if its a slow day. We won’t steal anything big tho (no phones/cameras/gps). Other shadier people might tho.
- If the garage/lot is around the block, we pull away from the place nicely, then drive like a maniac to get there. Time is money. We run stop signs, swerve around other slow drivers/pedi-cabs.
- If the garage/lot is far away (like 4 blocks) we’ll use a customers car as a shuttle. Two people park cars, the shuttle driver drives them back to the front. Every so often we switch shuttle cars so we don’t run the gas low.
- If its a slow day, and we have a private garage just to the valet, we will joy ride in that nice mercedes/bmw. Usually just flip off the traction control and do donuts.
- If you leave the restaurant when everybody else does and there is a line for the valet, complaining will not get your car faster. Usually slower. If you’re complaining, chances are we’re not getting a tip. So no reason to go faster. If you drop a $10 or $20 on the table and tell us which car you are, you can be moved to the front of the line. Better yet, just give your ticket to your waiter when they deliver the check and by the time you come outside we’ll have your car there. If it sits there more than 10 minutes tho, we’ll repark it and be PISSED.
- Some of the valet companies don’t do much investigating when hiring valets. My friend had his driver’s license revoked and still got a job as a valet. They found out about 2 months later. But still….
28. Did you know this?
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