Pros
Flexable schedule, lenient about reprimands
Cons
As a server, you work your shift and try to roll up to 200 sets of silverware PLUS finish your sidework AND take care of your tables AND run everyone else's food out. You are expected to be done with everything and ready to clock out by 30 minutes after your scheduled shift ends (even if the hostess seats you four more tables right before your replacement comes in). Then you have to chase around the server in charge of checking your sidework (they are still on the floor taking tables so you have to bother them and beg them to sign you out). If it is over 30 minutes after your scheduled clock out time, you HAVE to get a manager to clock you out... (they will all be busy trying to help out the understaffed kitchen or dishwashers, in the office with the door locked, signing invoice sheets, or sitting in the dining room eating). God forbid a manager upset another manager; this equals absolute asinine and childish arguing in front of customers and/or employees. The expo who works the line on weekends will simply scream and yell "RUNNER" over and freakin over again even though the only people who run food are servers who are expected to serve customers within a very specific amount of time. Its ridiculous. Did I forget anything.... OH YEAH- one of my favorites- After your hellish day is finally over and you have been signed out by management, silverware checker, and sidework checker and you have finally CLOCKED OUT....... then you get to stand in line in the "old Country Store" in the front of the restaurant and wait in line for your hard earned money. Get this though: every single time a customer walks up to the line, you lose your spot. That's right, customers go ahead of you no matter how long you have been waiting, what time you have to pick up your children from school, when you were supposed to be done with your shift, or how many customers insist you go ahead of them. The cashier will not give you your tips before a customer even if the customers get upset about it. It's humiliating, disrespectful, demeaning, and unlawful. This place is the reason I chose to leave the restaurant industry after over 20 years of experience. Cracker Barrel scarred me for life.