Are you nuts!
Sure, it looked like a glamorous position when you attended your friends wedding last month. Watching the banquet manager, or maitre d', escorting the bride & groom into the room, then directing his staff in serving the food, then later even taking center stage during the cake cutting ceremony, seemed like a cool job. You even thought, hey, I would like to do that.
I'll say it again, are you nuts?
The term "the grass is always greener on the other side" really applies here.
This job is great for you if you like the following:
• never getting paid what you're worth
• working 70-80 hour weeks without any set days off
• always having to deal with cranky chefs & dopey sales people
• never having weekends or holidays off to spend with your family
• dealing with union waiters that make more money than you do
• and worst of all, absolutely NO job security
Other than that, it's a great job.
Some of your main job responsibilities will be:
• pleading with the waiters to come in for a last minute (pop-up) event
• having to explain to them why the gratuity (tip) was so low for the event
• arguing with the sales manager as to why giving you the room diagram on Saturday morning for a Saturday night event is not acceptable
• explaining to the General Manager on Monday why you "harassed" her when she "got you the diagram as quickly as she could"
• fighting with the chef because he didn't give you enough food for the buffet
• explaining to your wife why you can't go to her friends dopey birthday party tonight because you need to "do a double" because your assistant called in sick
I need a REAL job!
Next time, I go to http://www.myworkathomedaddy.com
S. DiGioia has been in the hospitality business for 10 years. He writes an "insider blog" that tells really what it's like to be a banquet manager. Visit: http://soyouwanttobeabanquetmanager.blogspot.com/ to join in his RANTS and post a few comments yourself.
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