Right now are crew is going pretty good. Last night, one of my favorite waitresses said she was giving her notice.
Here is the my dilemma…
She used to host for 7.00 an hour and alternated waitressing a few nights a week. Our main server left and she became the main server. Her checks went from a couple of hundred bucks to the usual small server check.
Over the last couple of weeks she gets upset when she gets her $80 check. I kept trying to explain to her to make a living as a waitress you gotta put your tips right in the bank when you leave here. I show her that if she takes the 70 bucks she made and divides it by the 6 hours she works and adds her hourly she is making 15 bucks an hour. She just doesn’t “get it” and is quitting to go work at a diner where she thinks she will make more money. She doesn’t want to go back to hosting.
I really like her, she isn’t the brightest crayon in the box but she is an awesome waitress and employee. She is an awesome employee, just young (17). Do I make her an offer to stay? Or do I let her go?
We have never really offered an employee a counter offer to stay, I guess really we don’t have a big turnover and the good ones always seem to hang around until a life event takes them away so this is new to me.
Most of our crew has been there since we opened and our other location has had the same kind of thing. Employees have been there for years. Usually leaving because of college or babies.
I don’t want to tick off the other employees if I were to make her an offer which would eventually get out. I think maybe once you are set on leaving a job you are set on leaving.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Kris
Here is the my dilemma…
She used to host for 7.00 an hour and alternated waitressing a few nights a week. Our main server left and she became the main server. Her checks went from a couple of hundred bucks to the usual small server check.
Over the last couple of weeks she gets upset when she gets her $80 check. I kept trying to explain to her to make a living as a waitress you gotta put your tips right in the bank when you leave here. I show her that if she takes the 70 bucks she made and divides it by the 6 hours she works and adds her hourly she is making 15 bucks an hour. She just doesn’t “get it” and is quitting to go work at a diner where she thinks she will make more money. She doesn’t want to go back to hosting.
I really like her, she isn’t the brightest crayon in the box but she is an awesome waitress and employee. She is an awesome employee, just young (17). Do I make her an offer to stay? Or do I let her go?
We have never really offered an employee a counter offer to stay, I guess really we don’t have a big turnover and the good ones always seem to hang around until a life event takes them away so this is new to me.
Most of our crew has been there since we opened and our other location has had the same kind of thing. Employees have been there for years. Usually leaving because of college or babies.
I don’t want to tick off the other employees if I were to make her an offer which would eventually get out. I think maybe once you are set on leaving a job you are set on leaving.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Kris
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