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Server interview: the five situations

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Server interview: the five situations

The rush, the wrong order, the upsell and the exact sentences that work, ready for tomorrow's interview.

Restaurant interviews don't test your resume. They test five situations.

The five they ask

The rush, the wrong order, the angry table, the upsell and availability. One lived example each is the whole prep.

«A table says the order is wrong»


Apologize once, fix it fast, tell the kitchen calmly. «I'll get that fixed — two minutes.» No excuses, no blame.

Friday rush, two tables wave at once. What do you say?

  1. AIgnore one
  2. B«Be right with you» to both — then triage
  3. CRush both orders at once
  4. DCall the manager

Acknowledgment buys time and calm. Triage is the skill they're hiring: eyes up, one promise, then order of urgency.

The upsell they want to hear

Specific beats generic: «Sparkling or still?» sells more water than «anything to drink?». Suggest one thing, once.

«Do you have serving experience?»


Talk about pace and pressure you HAVE lived — any job with a rush counts. Then say how fast you learn menus.

Tonight

  1. One example per situation, out loud
  2. Learn the menu's top five sellers
  3. Sleep — energy reads as experience

They're not hiring your past. They're hiring your Friday night.

Now do it with yours.

Paste your own job description and Claude writes the deck on your phone.

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  • Homework help — explain it without just giving the answer

Built from a real restaurant posting, pasted into Claude

Quiz answers, audio and your progress live in the app — where the AI adapts the deck to your own situation.

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