is a waiter above bartender in the restaurant heirarchy

What?

No. There is typically a higher expectation of bartenders to be able to bust out drinks and know the food menu very well. It sounds like a minute bump but it is pretty big.

>>9129879
No. Bartenders actually need to be certified.

>>9129879
No. Bartending requires skill, waiting only requires consciousness.

Most of them have food runners too.

>>9129929
Most bartenders have barbacks

>>9129929
"I have never waited tables" detected
Feel free to share your worthless opinion

booze gatekeeper is higher of course

>>9129879
Nope, not unless the server is also the one who runs the place, like at many of the cozy vegan places I eat. Waiters don't know shit so it can take them three trips just to tell me wtf I'm ordering.

>>9129929
I fucking wish sometimes, I don't at my job.

>>9129939
Most bartenders also like it bareback

Owner > manager > Chef > sous chef = Bartender > Maitre'd = host > wait staff > bus staff

>>9129983
btw did I tell you guys I'm vegan?

>>9129893
The vast, vast majority are not.

here are some rhetorical questions, OP:

>are profit margins higher on booze or food?
>who draws in and serves more of the regulars, a waiter or a bartender?
>is there a higher rate of turnover for the wait staff or the bar staff?

>>9129879
Yes.
And i've never met a professional bartender who was "certified" by anything other than is or her ego.

>>9129939
Most barracks are De facto janitors. The bartender makes all the drinks and cuts his fruit where I work while the barbackcuck slaves away for minimum wage hoping to be a bartender in the next 5 years. Food runners, on the other hand make about 80% of what the servers make and the bussers make about 50%

>>9130020
I gave your mother the Maitre'D last night

>>9130679
heueheueheuheuehe

>>9130675
Huh, different work dynamics then. At my place, barback preps all the fruit, helps make drinks, and gets tipped out at the whim of the bartenders (usually 15~25% of the bartenders tips, from 2-3 bartenders)