What must hostess do?

How can you get restaurant managers to stop offering jobs as a hostess?What kind of style do u have to have?

• clothes? hair? etc...why do they do this to someone with experience bar tending and as wait staff? Being a hostess is extremely mind numbing to some people and a complete waste of their skills which is extremely uncomfortable to some people. These are all places that DO NOT normally have wait staff start as hostess. How can this stop? What might an applicant be doing wrong? What kind of style or look might help?

• Answer:

  Your look or style really doesn't have much to do with this. Bartending jobs in restaurants typically go to people who have worked at the restaurant for a long time. That's just the way it is. Since you'd be coming in as a new employee you're getting stuck with basically what they consider an entry level position - hostess. Even if you have experience, they aren't going to put you in a better paying job like bartending over people who have worked at the company a long time and worked their way up to that position. You have better luck at a true bar or a hotel.