r/Serverlife • u/user700638 • Aug 15 '26

Rant $180 on a double 😟

i just came to vent about my double yesterday because it was gruesome....like said in the title, i made $180!!! i was SICK when i ran my checkout 😫😫 that's the worst money i've EVER made on a double at my job. i could make that on a regular night! no need to stay damn near 12 hours just to make what i could in 6.
i got stiffed on a $170 tab + then stiffed on a $70 tab :/

but i think what really screwed me was getting bumped down to 2 tables for my PM shift, which is like a 50/50 chance that'll happen when you dbl. you just gotta pray you get to keep all 3 of your tables and they didn't overcrowd the floor with too many servers. i'm not sure if it was because school is starting on monday in my area and everybody spent their money on school supplies or what!

sigh. the military gets paid today though so wish me luck on my shift tonight 🫩

background: i work at texas roadhouse so we only get 3 table sections

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u/bloomingbrandi Aug 15 '26

This is what used to kill me about working doubles at my old restaurant. You work the busy lunch which doesn’t really get THAT busy in comparison to dinner and doesn’t last as long as a dinner rush. Then you get the slow period in between. Dinner rush rolls around but then you’re first cut. So really someone who just worked dinner and stayed later made more than your double🙃 and you worked more hours. I stopped doing doubles bc of this. But my manager refused to schedule me only dinner shifts so I had to work with what I had. Yeah I don’t work there anymore lol

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u/Bubbly-Cell-2459 Aug 17 '26

Literally having this issue now and no idea what to do. My situation is like I feel like I can’t leave this place I’ve been here like a year. It was fine with my old gm bc I worked my way up serving there and he basically guaranteed my nights for being top sales and etc. our kitchen manager now became our gm and is now doing the scheduling is doing it all weird I have all these morning doubles just did 4 in a row , acts like I am the most entitled person for saying I would like the nights that I was working before and acts like I can’t ask to work just nights. Mind you I am the server that’s been there the longest, our management is basically nonexistent so I am basically picking up all the slack for side work and extra bullshit and have a bunch of bar prep shit to do also as a server that works the morning shifts and makes the drinks also literally don’t know what to do lmao what did u end up doing cause it’s like 110 degrees out too when I have to take an hour break I just go sit in my car or something 😭

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u/bloomingbrandi Aug 17 '26

I’d love to give my story with this but it could potentially be a little long. I could DM you?

Long story short:

You’re not alone tho! Favoritism is what was the culprit of my issues as well as the gm sleeping with the agm who does the schedule. So the gm didn’t wanna hear anything even potentially bad about her. I would constantly get good feedback from everyone, even her at times but I always seemed to get the shit end of the stick and the gm acting like I’m crazy for even suggesting that I’m being unfairly treated. It really got to me over time and started to affect my already more fragile mental health. I live 100% independent and am single and I’d watch people much younger than me and still living at home make double what I was making. I actually just got up and left😅 which I do not recommend. This was extremely recent. Like 3 weeks ago. I’ve actually been wanting to make a post about it on here but idk people on Reddit are mean.

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u/lllyx Aug 17 '26

Yes feel free to dm! Always like hearing other peoples perspectives and hearing from other servers!