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| So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager... |
| 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. Now it\'s time to tell you the truth! |
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| My Final Post |
| 2011-07-22 13:10:00 |
Well after 3 years and 370 posts, I must say farewell to this blog and the people that have been my faithful readers.
It's just that after all these years, its getting harder finding the time to sit down at my computer and tell you what it's like to be a banquet manager.
I never wanted to rehash an old story, or make up something that didn't happen, just to find some words to post on this blog. That's not my style.
I want to thank all of you that have supported this blog over these years and took the time to post a comment. A special thank you goes out to the fellow hotel managers and servers/bartenders that have linked their blogs to mine.
The additional readers that have come here because of this are too many to count. I only hope that you too have attained many new readers that have come from here to your sites.
Because of your support, we reached many milestones too. This blog received some awards and many of my posts have been ...
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| It's National Waiter and Waitress Day, Again! |
| 2011-05-19 05:37:00 |
…are they kidding?
This is a great country for so many more reasons than I could ever name, especially here. We celebrate political, religious, cultural and sexual diversity in every form. We even go so far as to name a “special day” after various types of people to remember and commemorate them.
We have the normal days:Presidents Day
Mothers Day
Fathers Day
Grandparents Day
D-Day
Independence Day
Flag Day
All Saints Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving Day
New Years Day
Then we have the “cute” days:Groundhog’s Day
Girl Scout Day
April Fools Day
Administrative Professionals Day (give me a break!)
Beautician’s Day
Take Your Son or Daughter to Work Day
Forgot Day (I forgot that one)
Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Day
National S’mores Day
Left Hander’s Day
Now guess what the brain trust of the country came up with?Drum roll please………..it's....
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| Now I Gotta Call More People In For This Shit! |
| 2011-05-07 07:45:00 |
We have a large social church group in today that ends at 5pm tonight. That's great 'cause it gives me plenty of time to flip the ballroom for Mother's Day tomorrow.
I have my housemen all set with tomorrow's floor plan since we closed-out the seating and it should be an easy flip.
A few minutes ago that fabulous "Sales Chick" comes by, yes she's here this early today, and says that the social group today wants to delay the start of the the event by 1 hour to give them more time to get back here from the church. Now since I know the history of this group since they have been here 2 times before and that really means 2 hours not one.
Then when we try to get them outta the room it takes another hour or so 'cause they move as slow as shit.
Bottom line is that I know they won't be outta the ballroom until around 8pm tonight I can bet the house on this. So now I need to call my pm housemen and change their call-times or they will be sitting around with nothing to do ...
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| How Many Boxes Do They Have? |
| 2011-05-02 19:00:00 |
I get a call on the radio this morning from my shipping and receiving clerk Paul. He seems kinda pissed and tells me I need to come down to the loading dock to see all the boxes that are coming in.
I sort of expected a shipment coming in today for the big pharmaceutical group that is starting tomorrow for a 4 day meeting. But I wasn't expecting all THIS shit!
There's 87 friggin' boxes, yes I said 87 boxes that are being unloaded from a special UPS truck that was sent here just for this shipment. WTF!
There's logo pens, special pads, folders with the company name on it, and even different colored Post-it notes with their newest drug logo plastered across the top. The loading dock looked like the back of Costco or Sam's Club.
I call up to the Sales Chick, of course I gotta blast her for this, to ask her what's the plan for this crap. Apparently Sales Chick didn't want to come down to see what we had 'cause she didn't want an earful from me. After...
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| Like I've Got Time for Another Meeting |
| 2011-04-28 07:00:00 |
Apparently the boss has forgot what "operations" is like. I guess when you get so removed from the day-to-day tasks of running a department you think that everybody else has all the time to sit through another friggin' meeting.We have the:
BEO meeting (2 times a week)- to discuss the upcoming events (and where I terrorize the Sales Chick)
F&B meeting (weekly) - to hear the F&B Director bitch about how high our food cost is
Accounting meeting (2 times a month) - to listen to those pencil-pushers complain how we didn't make the banquet checks correctly
Budget meeting - with the GM (thankfully this is only once a month)
Final detail meeting (with the upcoming brides) - this is torturous, can't take listening to their worrying anymore about wanting their special day to be so different from the rest of the brides in the world. BITE ME!
Now I need to take part of a new meeting called the "Property Assessment Meeting". WTF is this?
I'm not in the maintenanc...
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| Football Player Sexually Abuses Waitress |
| 2011-04-27 11:19:00 |
Updated Apr 27, 2011 5:42 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AP)Washington Redskins defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor sexual abuse, accused of fondling a server in a hotel restaurant in Washington.
A grand jury returned an indictment formally charging Haynesworth in the alleged incident at a downtown Washington hotel in the early hours of Feb. 13. If convicted, the 29-year-old two-time All-Pro faces up to six months days in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
According to the U.S. attorney's office, the government's evidence shows Haynesworth slid a credit card down the front of the server's dress and fondled her breast.
Telephone and email messages left for Haynesworth's agent, Chad Speck, were not immediately returned. At the time the server's accusations became public, Speck said "there seems to be no truth to these allegations."
Redskins spokesman Tony Wyllie said the team referred all calls to Haynesworth and his agent.
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| Easter Captain's Report |
| 2011-04-25 05:38:00 |
Date: April 24, 2011
Group Name: Easter Brunch
Event Time: 10:30am - 3pm (3pm last seating)
Covers: Reservations for 719, Actual covers 687
Room Setup: Assorted table sizes
Food Presentation: Kitchen did a good job for food presentation. Again this year, no large platters were used, just small platters that were easy to swap out. Less waste this way. A slight delay around 12:30pm in getting more Eggs Benedict but kitchen staff worked quickly to cook them. Customer not affected by this delay. One customer commented that they would have liked to see "king crab legs" on the buffet (yeah sure). Overall no issues from the kitchen, another good job done.
Service Plan: Wait staff did a good job and worked within their 9 teams. All tables were reset quickly (helped greatly by the 4 bussers). Food runners worked well, even the new waiter (he seemed a little overwhelmed at first but held it together).
Other Items: Much less liquor was cons...
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| Didya Get a Bowl of Soup With That Cut? |
| 2011-04-20 14:11:00 |
Sales Chick comes in today with some new hairdo.
Makes her look like some peacock or something. It's the worst come-over I've every seen, all pulled over to one side of her head.
Plus it's dyed this real fake red, like Bozo the Clown. You gotta see this!
What the hell was she thinking?
It took all the professionalism I had to keep from laughing my ass off during today's BEO meeting.
Ever had one of your coworkers come in with a silly haircut or some ugly-ass dress? Did you have the balls to tell 'em how stupid they looked?
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| Time To Count All The Chairs, Again |
| 2011-04-11 07:57:00 |
Believe it or not, the big boss actually wants to spend some of that money we apparently have left in our budget. He wants to get new chairs for the ballroom. That's great!
Today I'm having the housemen count all our chairs again, and our tables, for an accurate count.
I forgot to mention that he also wants us to reconfirm exactly the maximum number of people we can fit into each room, using each configuration (u-shape, classroom, crescent rounds, theater, etc). So now we're planning to set and reset each room over the next few days to get this done.
Yeah I know it's a pain in the butt but at least we'll get new chairs outta this. Can't complain.
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| I've Been Doing This For 3 Years? |
| 2011-04-07 08:00:00 |
Yes believe it or not. Today marks the completion of 3 full years (and 363 posts) where I have spilled my guts out on these pages for the world to see what it's really like to be a banquet manager. Hope you've had pity on me...
If course I wish to thank all of you readers (even the ones that say I'm mean spirited when I seem to bitch about those waiters of mine, or yours).
Without you I wouldn't have the desire to keep on bitchin' about them...well, yes I probably will still keep on doing that.
On a separate note, I've been thinking on doing my 3rd Guest Blogger event again. Is anybody interested in having their F&B related story told here? I'm happy to give you the opportunity.
Let me know and maybe we'll start it next month.
Take care all. And thanks.
From,the Banquet Manager
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