Souvenir
People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel
Today I ate with my collegues in another partnerhotel. While walking to our privatized area, a young girl was waving to me. "You work at x, don't you", her mother said. "Yes I do, why?". The girl answered:"You draw a drawing for me. It's now hanging in my bedroom to remember that nice evening."
#the-fantastic-side-of-my-job
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KikiKi CoCoCo / Ping pong
As CrazyWaiter we're always looking for great happy feel good music in all possible languages and this is certainly one of those songs. It comes from Venezuela and is sung by Payasitas Nifu Nifa (wiki) in the eighties of the last century. On their Youtube channel are more songs of them.
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Message of hope
Today we had a limbless boy in our restaurant. Other guests and collegues of me were touched, even one was crying backstage. This is not a shame, but I saw his joy, force and hapiness despite of everything.
In this video is the main player of the Butterfly Circus and speaks for itself....
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Dirty Fork
New daddy
Sometimes even the Crazy Waiter is speechless. Some weeks ago I was talking to a couple of kids between the two restaurants in the hotel where I work. We had a lot of fun with joking, dancing etc. At a certain moment the mother came to take the kids for their dessert. It was a very friendly and beautiful lady in my age. "Mamma, mamma, we found a nice prince for you", her son said. "So you want me to leave your father for this man?". "Yeah, that would be great...."
(Foto by jcoterhals / CC BY NC ND)
Proactivity

I will tell you one of my secrets of being an above-average-waiter. The secret word is proactivity, anticipating on (un)expected situations. The biggest fun is when your guest doesn't expect this.
Some time ago I had a family with a girl who had an allergy of gluten. It was her birthday so we woud celebrate it with some music and all the waiters clapping etc. In all the cakes we have there are gluten, so the family was thinking about cancelling the cake. However they ordered it because of the little ceremony we perform.
In the kitchen I got suddenly a image of everyone eating the cake but the birthdaygirl who was looking sad to everybody eating her cake. So I managed to bring the cake and a fruitsalad for the girl. Needless to say that the family was very happy with this!
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Important!
Note to ourself:
We CrazyWaiters don't discriminate, the only thing important for us is:
- 1. The guest has fun, enjoys his food and the service
- 2. Treats the waiter and other staff with respect
- 3. Pays his bill
And the rest... is not important!
I’m an event manager
I worked a lot as freelance waiter for events, so the next list is very recognizable!
I'm an event manager so...
- I have unlimited resources at my disposal.
- I always keep at least 10 meeting rooms under my desk.
- I can make any of my rooms larger or smaller, depending on your program needs. I will naturally remove any supporting pillars from your meeting space and will install windows in every room as needed. Unfortunately the 'ocean view' is not scheduled to arrive until Day Two of the program for which I sincerely apologise; however, I will move the convention centre two feet to the left to accommodate your request by the end of Day One, although I realize the event is only next week.
- I can only throw myself on your mercy and grovel at your feet; I completely agree that it is inconceivable that we should have any other groups booked into the hotel during our event. And the additional breakout rooms you asked for this morning for tomorrow's conference will be added to the hotel by the end of today.
- Naturally it will be no problem to turn the plenary session for 200 (classroom style) into a hollow square for 300 with rear screen projection, simultaneous Japanese translation and satellite hook-up during the 15-minute coffee break.
- Unfortunately, due to space constraints, and the fact that the final program bears no resemblance whatsoever to the initial program that we contracted the space under, I'll have to suspend the lunch buffet from the ceiling above the plenary session, then suck the gravity out of the ballroom - not a problem. I've located the boxes that the sponsors sent last month under their mother's maiden name to the other hotel down the street, and again I apologise for not having found them sooner.
- In answer to all your questions, it is of course, understood that I am telepathically aware of all your speakers needs and I'll set up an overhead, LCD panel, dual slide projectors, two screens, laser pointer, podium microphones, two table top microphones, podium knock-out switch, timer and blue M&Ms in each room, which I've negotiated at no extra charge, just in case they are needed.
- Additionally it goes without saying that an A/V technician, engineer, baby-sitter and I will be underneath your head table for the duration of your event, in case you need anything else.
- It has been great working with you on this event and every other just like it and I can't wait for the next one !
(Image by Chemical Heritage Foundation / CC BY NC ND)


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