| Xxain said: I have Islands restaurant, Dave and Buster and On the Border on my checkout list currently. You guys think they'd be good places to start? |
I worked at Islands before as my very first job and I had a blast. It really depends on whether you think it would be fun meeting new strangers and being nice to them while serving them, and how the mood is around the employees. At the islands I worked at, and all the other Islands I've seen, the work atmosphere is pretty great.
You will have a lot of downtime since the employment tends to be less hours than a standard job. You will, however, be scheduled to come in frequently during times you may not enjoy as much (well, it depends on how flexible your schedule is). If you don't mind having an alternating schedule that you have limited control of, it shouldn't be too bad.
Kids can be a disaster, but at islands you mainly have busboys run around and clean everything for you! It works very unlike other restaurants I've seen. Waiters do VERY little cleaning up. The main cleaning you'll be doing is a thorough cleaning of your section once your section is closed for the day.
It may vary a bit at your location (and it's been about 7 years since I worked there), but I'm sure not much has changed. I regularly eat there and see all the same practices I used to see.
EDIT: Islands is a great place to start, but you will not get tipped much. Heavy tips rely around expensive food (i.e. fish and italian restaurants) and alcohol (i.e. italian restaurants). Yeah, everyone wants to work at high end italian restaurants.
