"There was usually a room of about 100 to 150 people, with two to three servers and two bartenders. One night, it was just the bartenders and me, so about 50 people per section. This usually wouldn't bother me, but three of my big tables were occupied by one large group. I went to help with the middle of the three tables, as a large portion of their group had just arrived."
"I was then surrounded by almost all of the people who were a part of this group, and everyone started to just spout off what drink they wanted. I'm fairly short at 5'0", so not only were they intimidating, but I literally couldn't see around them, and without pushing someone out of the way, I couldn't get out of the middle."
A cocktail server at a family-owned restaurant with an upstairs concert venue regularly faced large crowds with minimal staffing. During one shift she covered three tables within a single large group, became physically surrounded as patrons shouted drink orders, and felt trapped due to her height; she cried and left after a manager offered to take over and other patrons demanded service. Another server tolerated an owner-chef who screamed in Greek every shift while earning high tips, then faced the added burden of a new basement sports bar that required running multiple flights of stairs.
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