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I eat at this restaurant probably once every couple of weeks. It's a small place, not a chain. There are maybe six waitresses total, and only two of them are consistant. When 2/3 of your staff is turning over every couple of weeks, there's a problem.
By contrast, I bartended at a similar sized pub/restaurant with eight servers, and in my six months there, not one of them left. I go back there now, two years later, and four of the eight are still there.
But when your trainee, who's good, who's worked in other restaurants, is already thinking of quitting in their first week? I think it might be time to adjust some things.
I'm thinking the two consistent waitresses only stay because they keep making a bunch off of trainees, too. I mean, if you're constantly getting trainee money added to the tip pool on top of your own tips, and you don't need to do any shadowing or handholding? Seems pretty exploitative, but it explains why they're there.
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How often do new trainees come through? Seems a silly reason to stay on unless they are getting that trainee money on a weekly or daily basis.
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