Katie Foy – American Experience

October at St. Andrews!

My second month as a fully trained server has been busier and I found the club delegates a little responsibility to you such as having some new interns shadowing you and teaching new people how to do certain side-works (tasks for the restaurant set up). I felt the hours are more flexible as you know what your doing so booking a day off with your friend is easier as long as you put the request in a good amount of time.

In terms of the workload I would definitely say that its increases simply due to the fact we are heading into season which usually lasts until around may because the members come to the south to avoid the winter in the northern clubs such as clubs in New York. This basically means the amount of covers we do for lunch and dinner increases and also the team of interns is split between Gallery (fine dining) and Lakeside (casual dining) for the season. As well as this, the banquets team have more events going on such as today (9th November) we have the fall social for the members. This is basically when we close the gallery and there is a large dinner party usually in the St. Andrews room for the members and these socials usually occur on major holidays/events on the calendar and the Jewish calendar.

Another interesting experience was the season kick off party with Rick Dente (the new general manager of St. Andrews) which was space themed and all the staff gathered, then Mr. Dente gave a speech about his vision for the season/club overall. After this there was some light hearted quizzes/games such as how well do you know your general manager and the prizes up for grabs were pretty extravagant such as $100 gift cards. to round off the kick off there was an inspirational speaker who did a seminar on how to remain positive with yourself and self motivation. All in all the kick off party was definitely memorable and worth attending because the family-like atmosphere and not just the free doughnuts!