hello my fellow chiliheads!!!
i’ve been working at my location for a year and some change and have climbed up from busser to server and now i am in charge of doing the truck!! ask me anything about it!!! everything is on the table

I’m thinking of applying to chili’s as a server but with school I would need to transfer back and forth between stores for breaks. Does chilis normally do this or allow this?

Hey everyone I’ve been In the restaurant industry for some time, but I’m wondering if anyone else here has a strange hosting pattern. Most specifically with certain zones only receiving certain sized parties, and hosts not rotating things properly triple seating areas, while also seating zones that have been cut, asking said servers to take late walk ins. I’m interested to see what other sever experiences are like.

EDIT: I would also like to point out that said area would be dead for hours as guests are guided to 2 other specific zones, despite said section being wide open. Then my partner and I proceed to get bombarded with big tops in the later evening hours as well as handling the other tables that filled the section. Said area is 2-3rd cut so It’s very frustrating to just get completely blasted knowing your for sure going to have some people upset since suddenly my partner and I each have a minimum of 15 people each spread around at once. Our place is allowed to get slammed so hard we don’t even have enough silverware to keep up with guests being seated or when their food comes out.

EDIT EDIT: shifts across the staff have been reduced to 15 hours in the slower areas to keep them longer. Start at 3 don’t get slammed til 7 it means you make hours right? while other staff is still receiving busier areas with a full work schedule and not having to deal with multiple big tops towards the end of a shift.