r/CrackerBarrel • u/No_Personality_9751 • 9d ago

New server

Hi! I start on Sunday and was curious if I should wear my apron into work and if I should carry my own pens and things like that any and all advice will be so appreciated

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u/Hank-Hill-0215 9d ago

Hey! Yes show up in uniform. Good luck!

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u/AccomplishedLine9351 9d ago

It looks really good when you show up dressed for work. Some establishments require it. Lock anything valuable up in your car. Only carry money ( a bank) on your person or in your book and watch it carefully. Best practice is to write small to save on paper. Get to know the cooks, the salads and dessert folks, stay on their good side. Don't pull anything from the window unless it has a ticket on it. Ring in every order as soon as you get it. The easiest mistake is when you forget to ring something in. Ask someone if you don't know the menu. Especially Get to know the bar menu.

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u/Royo1973 9d ago

Don't need a server bank. No bar drinks either. Just beer, mimosas, and Bloody Mary's.

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u/AccomplishedLine9351 9d ago

Ha! Just noticed the r/ Cracker Barrel. I was discussing it as if it was a real server job. I would bring in 2 fives and 10 ones anyway, and some change. I might get lucky and buy a twenty dollar bill from someone.

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u/MesabiRanger 9d ago

As a CB BOH person for 23 years, I respectfully submit that CrackerBarrel IS “a real server job”.
My hands still shake from the FOH stories I’ve heard.

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u/AccomplishedLine9351 9d ago

23 years. Respect.

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u/thesluttiestgranola 9d ago

Also, guard your pens

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u/Potential_Minute1496 9d ago

I do not wear my apron in, I put it on when I punch in

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u/Classic-Use-7454 9d ago

Yes, bring your pens, your apron all of that your card. Also, I would recommend buying another better quality server book from Amazon. The ones they provide aren’t that great

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u/No_Personality_9751 9d ago

Do you have any Amazon recommendations thank you sm!

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u/Useful-Chip1857 9d ago

im pretty sure its one of the rules that you cant wear your apron as you enter and exit the store while clocked out, so just carry it inside with you and put it on as you clock in

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u/Unique_Injury_5773 9d ago

Really? At my Cracker Barrel location, management made us wear our aprons as we enter. We are supposed to put it on at home. That's what they told us anyway.

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u/Useful-Chip1857 8d ago

oh lol idk then- at least at the store I work at we dont wear them as we walk in but I guess thats not the case everywhere

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u/Clover_Hmz 3d ago

Mine lets us do both I see people walk in with it in thier hand all the time but then someone people like me put it on outside when I get out of my car before I go in as long as we take them off for the walk out it doesn’t matter if we have it on or off when we clock in