Life as Banquet

I don not know how to type out in Chinese for this article, so, pardon me as it will presented in English form.

If you would ask me, what is a banquet?
In old French words, it mean, a feast.

A function where u can eat a lot of food. from appetizer, main course, soup, dessert and drinks.

but, nowadays,
Banquet till hold the same old concept. but, with many other elements added in.

In simple, we, Banquet Waiter does,
- Chairs,
- Table,
- Food and Beverage
- Customers Service
- Food testing ( in private)

For those of you who had been into any hotel banquet function, you'll know what we did.
For those of you who never been, it's ok,

Go to any restaurant, try imagine, it is a empty restaurant,
with no chairs, no decoration, no table, no ppl service you, no food, no drinks.

We, banquet guys, will deliver all these to you.

Why i like banquet?

hmmm, 1st of all, it's not boring, our events and layout is different form days to day.
and most of all,
once after our guest steps out from the ballroom,
we will have our own buffet inside.

i mean.... Food testing.

Banquet holds on to several skills,
Leadership,
Team work,
organizing and planning.

Leadership,
when boss ask something to be done, he will pass to Assit. Manager, then will drop to Supervisor, then to captain, then to lowest ranking waiter to get the job done.

Team working,
after every function (function with F&B involvement) over, no matter where you are, what you are doing, everyone will gather in that specific function room to conduct a, " Food Testing"

All in all, Banquet is the Veteran in F&B service.
We know everything, from Chinese Set, Western, French Service, Bar, and etc.

We will do what we can, to get a thing done.

The best example was,
when i was a part time in a hotel. A guests ask for a cold water, i don not know where to get such things. and so, i turn on my pipe, fill the glass, and Serve.

Guest happy, my ass is save, Mission Accomplish!

Moral of the story is: Eat and Drink what u saw, and don request extra. We hospitality industry is not that Hospitality as you watch in movie.

I enjoy working in Banquet. Sadly, i will need to leave this dept for some while. i need to venture, to gain something more.

And I WILL BE BACK!