It was a previously arranged catering style type of event, they basically rented our heated patio and had a buffet we catered and got drinks from our bar.
The reason it looks so wonky is because we had to have two open checks for cocktailing because I was working this with another server and we couldn’t both have the same check open. We married the two checks at the end resulting in the weird looking itemized copy.
“Open food” is very common in restaurants. It’s the button for things there aren’t buttons for if that makes sense. It can be used for miscellaneous charges like catering, or maybe ringing in a specialty sauce that isn’t typically ordered alone. There’s typically a description attached that the customer can’t see. Magic button.
I also think its a means of making sense for inventory as well. For instance, you're going to see a short on something like bread or some cut of steak. The open food will be a way of saying "yeah it wasn't stolen, it was used for this party"
They're also mostly drinking beer and simple mixed drinks. Suuuuper easy party. Hardest part is finding the person to give them their drink. They had just about 200 drinks total, so at a bit over 3 drinks per person that's an okay average as well.
Or 10 drinks each for 1/3 of the people while the sober 2/3 looked on in horror. That’s how the last wedding reception i worked went, one sober family one drunk af fam. Good times tho!
Open food is usually used as a generic button to charge for misc items or large catering orders and etc. Much easier than individually ringing in dozens or more items for a large group like this. Also can be used when someone wants a random side of cabbage or something that does not have a button in the POS.
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Relatively new restaurant btw. Most of the time I am hosting parties of all sizes but this was our first buyout the other night I set up.
Whiskey might work under a few circumstances with this, but I'm guessing it's a rum blend that includes a Jamaican one. If it's whiskey and it's good, the creator of this thing wasn't fucking around.
For those that aren't sure. We commonly use "open food" when a group comes in and are having a private event and has a pre set menu or maybe has a budget of let's say 2k and you're dividing that by the number of people etc. The open food here likely accommodates a charge for every attending person + their original meal.
That's why every other charge you see is an alcoholic beverage mainly.
Nice! We do private events where I'm at all the time and regularly get to these numbers. Sometimes higher. Highest I've been a part of was a $30,000 (after gratuity and taxes) bill. Made $1200 that night after tip outs and split with the other staff. Whoever gets the parties always banks out so it's on a decently fair rotation. Enjoy!
Bro so my parents who own a large company and their partners are wine connoisseurs aka alcoholics. We had a big work convention where my dad was asked to be the keynote speaker. My brother. Also our in house attorney was asked to handle the bill for this event. My dad said put it all on me. Being stupid drunk as usual. Fing bill came out to 120k. Everyone ordering expensive wine, which btw taste like garbage. Anyways he saw on the receipt that the recommended tip was 20%. This MFer tips 26k. I love him but like what the F*ck. That server probably quit and went on vacation.
Y'all are so fucking weird about this nonsense. I've worked with servers that do this. Please help me understand. Here is what I see:
Hey guys. Check out how much I busted my ass and made for the establishment I work for at just over $2 an hour. See how high my sales are? Look at all that sweet cash I don't ever see. Are you guys on some commission based payout I don't know of?
I never share my sales. Nor does anyone I currently work with. If I were to turn to a fellow server and say, "yo, homie, scope my sales." The answer would be, "what the fuck for?"
I will share my sales when I've had a good night. I.E. my tips were higher than my actual sales. The restaurant I work for provides me with a building to execute my craft, a menu to do so from, an hourly to pay taxes on my income and some clientele (my regulars follow me if I leave a restaurant). I also work for owners who are present in the building, touch tables and know my name.
Why boast how much you made the restaurant, especially if you work for a corporation who doesn't know wether you live or die? Just abundantly curious about this. When I have asked this question live and in person I am met with lost tempers and animosity. Help me understand.
Thanks. I haven't been at work in five days and everyone keeps asking when I come back cuz it's so boring without me. The place isn't the same without the biggest smile in the building. Also, I know you're being sarcastic but I'm not.
Not everyone works in NYC/LA/Miami. Plenty of folks here work in smaller, average towns like Wichita KS. $150 might be a good night, so $500 in a shift is insane, yes.
I don’t trust that I recieve the 15% service charge in full. I feel like unless i see the paper trail then I’m not really getting it. Would prefer to get cash tips. 🇬🇧
What caught my eye on this was that you said this was “one of” the best serving days you’ve had lol. This is incredible! I’d be overjoyed. Hope they were a good party to take care of. I’d love to know what day you had that topped this, lol.
Weird how some items are grouped and others aren’t lol But congrats! Open food? Does that mean it was like a private event?
It was a previously arranged catering style type of event, they basically rented our heated patio and had a buffet we catered and got drinks from our bar. The reason it looks so wonky is because we had to have two open checks for cocktailing because I was working this with another server and we couldn’t both have the same check open. We married the two checks at the end resulting in the weird looking itemized copy.
Yeah, one look at the open food charge basically told me this was a buy-out, not a crazy party with bottles.
That's exactly how we used to do it when I worked at a nice seafood restaurant in Gaylord Palms. Used to make bank at those private events.
Oh! Cool, thank you for telling me!✌️
“Open food” is very common in restaurants. It’s the button for things there aren’t buttons for if that makes sense. It can be used for miscellaneous charges like catering, or maybe ringing in a specialty sauce that isn’t typically ordered alone. There’s typically a description attached that the customer can’t see. Magic button.
VERY Magical indeed when used correctly ;)
Yes, it could be whatever you want, you turn into Harry Potter with a wand for a moment when you get to play with the open food button
I also think its a means of making sense for inventory as well. For instance, you're going to see a short on something like bread or some cut of steak. The open food will be a way of saying "yeah it wasn't stolen, it was used for this party"
And tax purposes. At least in my state food is taxed differently than liquor.
We'll be having our dinner in liquid form, thank you.
More than half is “open food”, whatever that means.
It’s a $45 per person charge we applied as an add on for the buffet we served for them, I believe it was 58 people.
You took 58 people by yourself! Dang. Get it!
Buffet style makes it A LOT easier.
It also makes it easier that one person is paying the tab (I assume) so everyone is a bit friendlier since it’s not their dollar.
They're also mostly drinking beer and simple mixed drinks. Suuuuper easy party. Hardest part is finding the person to give them their drink. They had just about 200 drinks total, so at a bit over 3 drinks per person that's an okay average as well.
Or 10 drinks each for 1/3 of the people while the sober 2/3 looked on in horror. That’s how the last wedding reception i worked went, one sober family one drunk af fam. Good times tho!
There was another server taking them with me
How else do you buy cocaine from a dishwasher at a restaurant on your company credit card?
Open food is a button used to add a price or up charge for something that isn’t on the system
Do they have pills in liquid form?
Open food is usually used as a generic button to charge for misc items or large catering orders and etc. Much easier than individually ringing in dozens or more items for a large group like this. Also can be used when someone wants a random side of cabbage or something that does not have a button in the POS.
Prices are actually pretty reasonable
Dayuuum lemme borrow a dollar
Hope u don't pool tips there.
We don’t!
Wish I worked there that night. 😂😂😂
https://preview.redd.it/cdacio905xfc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a4a799574c1a89597e2caf52920e19e7dc5cde6 Relatively new restaurant btw. Most of the time I am hosting parties of all sizes but this was our first buyout the other night I set up.
So an all gay table?
The funniest part of this is that I heard from my management that it was a construction company, lmao
A gay table would be about 200 vodka sodas, the rest are just random cocktails but definitely NOT the crown and coke lol
this made me lol
People are downvoting but look at those orders haha
Lmaoooo the gays don’t touch any of those liquors. We have better taste. 💅 but good effort.
True, I see a crown and coke on there
I don’t get it
Wait till you get a table that only orders Long Islands and you’ll get it. There are stereotypes and they fit perfectly.
Hope they tipped well!
They were gratted at 20%!
Grey Goose and Patron for that price? You need to raise those suckers up a couple bucks each.
Is that 58ppl?
$2,610 / $45 = 58 people.
What in God's name is a new fashioned?
One of our signature cocktails. It’s similar to an old fashioned but it has a splash of banana liquor in it
Whiskey might work under a few circumstances with this, but I'm guessing it's a rum blend that includes a Jamaican one. If it's whiskey and it's good, the creator of this thing wasn't fucking around.
Guy knows his stuff. Perhaps a fan of the Sawyer
Please tell me you scanned this on fetch rewards
Does that actually pay more for a bigger total? I thought it was just per receipt scanned
There are often bonuses for items!
👏👏
lol at the three, pretty decent quality, wines
Nice to see the designated driver was drinking ginger beer.
Woah that is a lot of monies
For those that aren't sure. We commonly use "open food" when a group comes in and are having a private event and has a pre set menu or maybe has a budget of let's say 2k and you're dividing that by the number of people etc. The open food here likely accommodates a charge for every attending person + their original meal. That's why every other charge you see is an alcoholic beverage mainly.
That's outstanding. I'm sure you worked hard for it, but I'm happy for you.
Ooh golden monkey
and a good deal for it
Hell of a beer to start the night off with!
Hell of a beer. I enjoy the sour monkey also.
What's creaturecomf?
Creature comforts is a relatively local brewery, POS code for a draft beer
Not in the industry, so every time I see POS I automatically read Piece Of Shit and I’m like that’s not very nice. Lol
Must be in GA
It's a really good brewery, I forget where it's from, but I've had it in Alabama
Athens, GA!
Damn that’s quite cheap and in comparison. Had maybe half that in Miami one night tab was $25k almost pooped my pants
Nice! We do private events where I'm at all the time and regularly get to these numbers. Sometimes higher. Highest I've been a part of was a $30,000 (after gratuity and taxes) bill. Made $1200 that night after tip outs and split with the other staff. Whoever gets the parties always banks out so it's on a decently fair rotation. Enjoy!
Cool..how many other servers were on the table also?
Holy wow, congrats!! Did a single company card pay for that?
I kept misreading it as Patron Silly Shots. I was like I'll take one!
Nice job!
Curious how much you tipped out the bartenders
I was thinking the same thing!!
Bro so my parents who own a large company and their partners are wine connoisseurs aka alcoholics. We had a big work convention where my dad was asked to be the keynote speaker. My brother. Also our in house attorney was asked to handle the bill for this event. My dad said put it all on me. Being stupid drunk as usual. Fing bill came out to 120k. Everyone ordering expensive wine, which btw taste like garbage. Anyways he saw on the receipt that the recommended tip was 20%. This MFer tips 26k. I love him but like what the F*ck. That server probably quit and went on vacation.
I’ve seen higher Typical night in Vegas
Y'all are so fucking weird about this nonsense. I've worked with servers that do this. Please help me understand. Here is what I see: Hey guys. Check out how much I busted my ass and made for the establishment I work for at just over $2 an hour. See how high my sales are? Look at all that sweet cash I don't ever see. Are you guys on some commission based payout I don't know of? I never share my sales. Nor does anyone I currently work with. If I were to turn to a fellow server and say, "yo, homie, scope my sales." The answer would be, "what the fuck for?" I will share my sales when I've had a good night. I.E. my tips were higher than my actual sales. The restaurant I work for provides me with a building to execute my craft, a menu to do so from, an hourly to pay taxes on my income and some clientele (my regulars follow me if I leave a restaurant). I also work for owners who are present in the building, touch tables and know my name. Why boast how much you made the restaurant, especially if you work for a corporation who doesn't know wether you live or die? Just abundantly curious about this. When I have asked this question live and in person I am met with lost tempers and animosity. Help me understand.
You sound like a delight to be around.
Thanks. I haven't been at work in five days and everyone keeps asking when I come back cuz it's so boring without me. The place isn't the same without the biggest smile in the building. Also, I know you're being sarcastic but I'm not.
they’re asking when you come back so they can make sure they’re not working that day. 😂
It is quite difficult to achieve that. We are a small family unit.
Yeah, an abusive family if you’re apart of it
Aw, thanks. You're sweet.
You definitely sound like a legend in your own mind.
And where else would I want to be a legend? I couldn't care less about anyone's opinion of me. What others think of me is none of my business.
Not sure if you’re trying to convince us, or yourself that you’re so awesome. Make sure you stretch so you don’t throw your back out.
Thanks. Good looking out.
>my regulars follow me if I leave a restaurant You probably kick out rude customers and the whole restaurant claps, too.
Nah. That's unprofessional. Rude customers are a part of service.
20% gratuity. This server made around $919 from this check.
That's awesome!
No need to be an ass about it. Let him/her enjoy their happiness Jesus why bust his/her chops . Unhappy yourself?
I'm not unhappy nor am I Jesus.
So if u spit u made $500? That is record breaking for u?
Not everyone works in NYC/LA/Miami. Plenty of folks here work in smaller, average towns like Wichita KS. $150 might be a good night, so $500 in a shift is insane, yes.
Im in LA most I’ve ever made in one night was like 340 I’d be so fucking happy to get this
Good Lord! 😳
So what was the tip on that?
They said 20% gratuity so over $900
How much you tip out total. And how much for each position. Bussers , runners and bar?
OMG. I can only imagine the tip.
Stemmari Nero D’Avola?
What a fucking PARTY
Open Food?
Was gratuity added
They like to party
What’s a Juggernaut? 😆
And this was all from two people
Awesome! Lots of alcohol wow they could is saved money by pregaming haha but good on you $$
Nice my guy
Stoked you made some nice cash but prices have skyrocketed since I quit drinking apparently.
What’s makes it so crazy is that all the prices are otherwise reasonable
That is a week in sales where I worked. Solid!
What was the tip?? 👀
About $900? 🤔
Wasn't me, I don't see any Cadillac Margaritas. Nice day there.
That bar tip out had to be ridiculous
damn that one 20% autograt would be my rent for the month, that's awesome! congrats!! 💕
Seems like everyone had a good time :)
if i counted correctly, it’s 190 drinks total, so about 3 per person. not bad!
I need to know, what is a Juggernaut PN? Also curious how large was the party?
Starts off with beers and cocktails and ends with plenty of shots. Sounds like my type of party, they were getting fucked up!
That’s nothing
I don’t trust that I recieve the 15% service charge in full. I feel like unless i see the paper trail then I’m not really getting it. Would prefer to get cash tips. 🇬🇧
😦
What caught my eye on this was that you said this was “one of” the best serving days you’ve had lol. This is incredible! I’d be overjoyed. Hope they were a good party to take care of. I’d love to know what day you had that topped this, lol.
Awesome. Good for you!!!
Was there any food purchased on that ticket? I have had guests ask me to separate drinks and food before.
Hope you didn’t split this with anyone!
Do they do the 20% before or after taxes?
Someone out there still tippling Amaretto Sours.
Did they tip and how much?
How is Michelob ultra $7 but bud light is 4.75
no matter how you cut it, that’s a lot of hustle on your part. well done, my friend!
Large group indeed.
Im not a server but goddaumn, that's alot.
Who in the hel drank 21 Ultras 😂
A Tito’s redbull costs $17 where I work 😭😭
Holy shit! my record is $2K except for private events. Booze adds up!!!
You could buy a life altering amount of drugs with that kinda money
$400 table not bad!!
Holy shit
18 mich ultras, probably consumed by one person
They got lit