Restaurant Success or Failure is in the Details
Many times the difference between restaurant success and restaurant failure is in the small details. Your restaurant can have a very talented chef that consistently puts out excellent meals, but if that meal is served on a dirty plate, your potential success becomes a failure in the eyes of your guests.
I’ll admit, one job I have never held in my food service career is dishwasher. That doesn’t mean I haven’t washed my share of plates and scrubbed more pots and pans than I care to remember. Even in management and chef positions I have always been willing to step in and work through a pile of dirty dishes.
In most operations the dishwasher is the lowest of low on the pecking order. Every crap job that needs to be done seems to fall to them. It is your basic entry-level, low skill position.
That being said, in many ways your restaurants success rides on the back of these kitchen drones. (more…)
