Market Server

This week at the Marriott I was a market host with Melissa. Melissa is not normally the Market host, she is the Market supervisor. The women who is normally the host had the day off. Melissa said that all you have to do as a market host is stand outside the restaurant and greet the guest with a smile, show them to their table and give them their menus. When the restaurant gets really busy they are allowed to help the market servers get theirs meals or drinks on the tables. Because of the huge winter storm we got Thursday there were thousands of homes with out power. Many workers from out of state came here to help fix the power lines, and filled up the whole hotel. Melissa said that for breakfast they were very busy because all of the workers wanted to eat before they went to work for the day. But for lunch they were very slow because people were working through the whole day, but she expected that they would be busy again for dinner. Melissa showed me the menu for breakfast and explained to me that it would be less expensive to get the buffet than to get your whole breakfast off the menu. Once again it was a slow week at the Marriott, but I still learned what you have to do as a market server.