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It describes the complex systems hotel managers use to honor reservations, balance staff workloads, and keep service moving. It highlights the waiter and waitress role as careful, steady juggling—delivering the right food to the right person, refilling water, clearing plates, and maintaining a respectful demeanor. The passage also warns customers against rudeness or blaming waiters for slow service, and includes vocabulary and understanding check tasks for Grade 7 learners.","The Waiter is not your Servant  \nEnglish: Learner's Book Grade 7  \nThe Waiter is not your Servant  \nEnglish: Learner's Book Grade 7 Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia  \nCopyright © 2017, Annjoy M. Julius  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)  \nYou may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nHaving a meal at the restaurant is meant to be simple pleasant experience.You show up,sit down,order a meal,eat,pay and leave. However,while that may sound like simple experience,a lot goes into it. This is why we should respect restaurant workers. A restaurant worker's job is a lot more difficult that it appears.  \nHotel managers do not just wait for a table to be free and ask to seat people there. They follow a complex system to make sure that reservations are honoured, servers share the workload equally,and everything keeps moving.  \nThe waiters and waitress are not your servants.They need to be doing a staedy and seamless juggling job while standing for hours on end. While doing this,they make sure that everyone gets what he or she orders without losing that smiling face. Their sole job is not to bring you ketchup. They need to make sure that the right food goes to the right person,water glasses are filled,and dirty plates are cleared.  \nThere is alot that needs to happen in order to allow restaurant service to go smoothly. Even though you,the customer,are obviously paying,there is no excuse for you to be rude. It would seem like common sense to simply be nice,but for many  \npeople,impatience and rudeness flips on the moment they enter thr restaurant. They start shouting when it takes an hour to receive food. In such a case,it is okay to complain to the manager. However,do not assume that the root of the problemis the waiter,and do not take it out on him or her.  \n1. 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