I went out showing my shirts tonight. If you don’t know, I go out many Friday and or Saturday nights in the Dallas Fort Worth area and show my shirts. I generally come home with a lot fewer shirts than I take with me. In fact I have seen about 15,000 waiters and waitresses and maybe once came home with every shirt I took out.   So in other words, these waiter and waitress shirts move well. I always come home so pumped up that I can’t sleep for several hours. So I thought I would document my fun. Amanda stayed home with Tessa. She didn’t get much sleep last night. Anyways, it was a very slow night tonight. I showed up to my first restaurant, Carrabbas at 9:30 and the parking lot looked like it was 10:30. It’s funny how I can tell what is going on inside the restaurant by the parking lot. I know that if there are three great parking spots available then first cuts have been made and it’s generally ok for me to go in. If I can’t see three great spots this means the waiters and waitresses are a little to busy for me. I will a lot of times catch the food runner leaving early or the guys on a smoke break in the parking lot. I will show them my waiter/waitress shirts first and a lot of times they have to own one because they love them so much. They can also generally give me a good feel for the restaurant and sometimes the manager.

I love Waiters and waitresses. I love everything about you. You have no idea how great it feels to see you guys laughing at my shirts. I know you have a rough job and I want you to smile when you see me come in. I, like you, believe that everyone should be a waiter or waitress for at least a year or so. I do believe that this world would be a better place.    

Anyways, most of the restaurants I visited tonight were pretty dead. When you have a slow night, I have a slow night. It’s cool though. I got some good waiter waitress pics to put on the site and I got some surveys filled out. I always survey 100 waiters and waitress before I introduce another shirt. I will put 20 jokes and let them rate them from 1-10 and I will put the most popular on the shirt. This has saved me a few times. I think something will be a hit and something else I might just put up to fill up space and I get a surprise. For instance “everything that is wrong with your food is the kitchens fault” was never expected by me to make it to the shirt, but the waiters spoke.

I got asked to leave by two managers tonight. That is a little higher than normal. I generally get asked to leave a restaurant once per shift I work. That still amazes me though. I would think that every restaurant manager would love me. After all, they used to be a waiter or waitress and they should know what its like to need a laugh after a tough night. It’s not like I am causing a commotion or anything. I am the only person who is serving the waiters and waitress except bartenders and drug dealers. You would think they would welcome me with open arms. I guess even some restaurant people are up tight, on a power trip and just plain old sticks in it the mud. It’s funny because it usually takes me two nights to get though a normal size “restaurant row” so I will just call the next night and ask “is ______ closing tonight?”  It’s amazing how the host won’t miss a beat and give up the information. “Oh no, ____ is closing”. I just pop back in and show my shirts and generally do well regardless. I sure would love to see the manager that asked me to leaves face at the next Saturday morning meeting when half his waiters and waitress are wearing our shirts. They just can’t keep us down. I often times have fantasized about posting all the “no bueno” managers names and restaurant names on this site and give you the corporate number so you can call in a fun report on that particular manager. I don’t think I would ever do that but its still fun when they ask me to leave to say “what’s your name?” You should see the look on their face as they tell me. I just write it down and keep great records. I like to know what I’m getting into next time I go out. I guess I can handle getting asked to leave once per shift, on average, for the fun and success I have when I’m out. I can’t recall one person not liking the waiter waitress shirts that I create.

Ever wonder why I am constantly saying waiter and waitress? Check out our frequently asked waiter and waitress questions for a full explanation. I assure you its for a reason.

One of my favorite things is when I see a waiter or waitress that I have met a year or more ago who still is wearing the shirt they got from me. I have heard that a customer is not a customer until they wear the product out. Well I meet people all the time who have done just that. Then sometimes I will run across a waiter or waitress that did not get one and they will run to me and tell me how much they have regretted not getting one and they want one of every shirt I have. It is so rewarding. I love this job.

I saw a girl I used to work with at another restaurant years ago. She told me how happy she was to be gone from that horrible place. I smiled and told her she would find something wrong with this one soon enough. I have learned that there is no such thing as a perfect job and that something is going to drive you crazy everywhere you go. People carry their environments with them. Your problem is not your job; you are the one that needs to change. Sorry I just felt like preaching for a minute. Regardless, it’s true.

So I went to about 10 restaurants tonight. I generally only visit six or seven per night but like I said, it was a dead night and a few of them I was only inside for 5 minutes or less. The key to my success is to be in and out. I try to allow 15 minutes per restaurant on average. I was once in Sports city café in Mesquite for like 30 minutes but then again I left with like 20 waiter waitress shirts less than what I came with. So in other words it was well worth it. I must have made 15 trips to my truck to get more shirts. They were apologizing. I’m like, “ladies I will run all night long if you keep handing me twenty’s. This fat boy will shock you and how long I can run”. Run is exactly what I do when I am going to get a shirt for a waiter or waitress. I am not about to make them wait. I love to serve waiters and waitresses. After all they are the best people to serve.

Oh yeah, we are looking for a few more people to show our waiter waitress shirts. It’s an easy part time job that pays very well. If it works out, you could have part ownership in the company. We are going to do so many things that we just don’t have the money for right now, but let me tell you its going to be great.  

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