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How old do you have to be to get a waitressing job in NYC?

How can i get a job as a waitress in nyc w/o experience!?

  • im a 20 year old female interested in getting a job as a waitress in nyc. i would ultimately like to be a cocktail waitress because they make such good tips, but i know i would need experience in restaurant industry first. i have never worked in a restaurant before but i have worked in retail for the past year and prior to that, i worked in promotions which was really customer service-based. how can i overcome the lack of restaurant experience when i am applying to places? should i apply as a hostess first and tell them that i want to work my way up to waitress (so they see that i want to learn and advance in the business)? for example, i saw that a new, nice restaurant had a sign that they were hiring and they gave me an application that included questions about industry terms. some questions arent so bad because i can google the answers (such as 'name 3 white wine varietals') but others i dont know the answers to! such as: 'if a guest ordered a gin and tonic, what would your response be?' and 'if a guest ordered an espresso, what would your response be?'. idk what the right answers are! i would say 'sure, let me get that for you', but i think i would be wrong! im getting nervous! please give me some tips on getting my first waitressing jobs and if you can, tell me what the right answers are for the application! thanks!

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    the answer you are looking for is called up selling for example a customer says give me a vodka and cranberry (vodka is just house vodka maybe costing $5) you reply would you like it to be made with grey goose vodka (this increases the price to $ 8) customer asks for a $3 espresso you suggest a cappuccino which is $6 but you don't tell the customer that . your job as a waitress is to get the customer to spend more money and the place earns more money which makes them happy and when the check is more money ,you make more in tips which will make you more money .. good luck

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I would strongly suggest you get a job as a busboy (busgirl?) for a year and PAY ATTENTION to how the restaurant industry works while you're doing it, and then you can go out and get any waitressing/managing job you want. Sure, it's a year of low pay and hard work, but consider it to be on-the-job-training, like you're going to waitress school, and you'll also make a lot of industry friends and connections, too, so you'll be right there on the inside when something good comes along. If you don't get some experience before you jump in and become a waitress, you'll spend all your time "in the weeds" and the fact that you don't even know that expression proves that you're not ready to be a NYC waitress yet! Good luck!... ☺

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