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Are you a hostess or a food runner, OP? I remember begging my GM to help me transition to a server, but he wouldn't take me off the hostess schedule because he knew he could trust me to handle to-gos, phone calls, and keeping the servers happy with seating. Sometimes it's not that they don't want you to grow, it's that they don't want to lose a solid hostess. Can you talk to management about alternating with the new hire so you can get experience as a waitress too?
Well, you can keep bugging your management - agree to do server whenever they want so that you get experience. And then once you get a little experience, if they don’t give you more shifts, apply elsewhere. You just need some experience and then you can try your luck elsewhere!
wow sorry to hear that
This happened to me too :( I’m sorry you had to go through that it’s so frustrating! What I did was I honestly asked a waitress if I can ghost him when he was at his section just to get the hang of it , I would say ghost whoever you are cool with while you are on your break or off work just so manager can see you really want it . Second you can do what I did at the end because managers at dennys are so weird, quit the job and apply at a different dennys as a server hahaha!