Waitress Review

Amazing! Staff were great and really friendly, tho I was always busy which was hard. Lots of stuff to remember, ie orders and items on the menu, which took a while to get used to but the staff and manger were always there to help if I needed their advice

How to manage orders was a skill I picked up quickly, and which I know will be useful for forever in the future. Its important you dont forget anything as well when you bring to the table, otherwise you have to go back to the kitchen, which in the big restaurant I was working in was fairly hard

I enjoyed it a fair bit, but mainly because the people were so great - if the manager was a bit more grumpy etc then I think I would have found the experience less enjoyable, and it was also very hard work - constantly on the go and serving food and drinks

Ok, but mainly as this was organised long ago I've mainly forgotten the ins and the outs of the process, which I guess would have changed by now. Its always worth while talking to the specific manager of your desired restaurant whatever your pathway - there can help you organise it.

Very much - it was a really immersive experience and I learnt a lot about just how very high the standards are in the hospitality industry in general. Food prep was certianly eye opening, as I learnt a lots about the health and safety precautions etc and the importance of maintaining a clean working environment

Not very much as I didn't really think I was going to pursue the rather difficult and very very very demanding route of the hospitality industry - It was very important for me tho to explore this path, as I've always liked to cook etc and so wanted to see if this would be the career for me

I was paid for a few months of the work, but it was less than the £8 or so I've put in the box below- this was adjusted by me to take into account for inflation etc. I was therefore paid the minimum wage for the time i did the work

No, not really no. Meeting other employees is a definite definite YES - you are constantly working with the people around you, as teamwork and good communication is certainty very very key - if you can;t get along with others, then you cant work in wetherspoons or in any other restaurant

Yes

It was fun for the relatively short time I was working at wetherspoons, and it was, in further retrospect, actually a fairly eye opening experience about the general hospitality industry and therefore led me to change my career path, as Im now not working in a restaurant, so yes it was useful

In complete honesty, look for much smaller, more local restaurants first - although my experience was very good, id did feel fairly impersonal and I think I would have gotten more one to one attention in a smaller, perhaps specialized cafe, where I would be working on various stations and not just serving