Why do so many restaurants assign multiple servers to each table?

Question

One takes your order, another brings the appetizers you've ordered; a third brings the entrees, and the first one checks back to ask "how is everything?" When I served tables (a thousand years ago) each wait staff member was assigned a section of tables, and each table was that wait staffer's responsibility from start to finish. Either way works OK, I guess, but the new way seems so pervasive now, and I'm curious about why that is.

Answer 1

At out local Ninety Nine, if the original server gets busy another waiter will step in and help.

Answer 2

They have more people per table so the food doesn't sit in the kitchen and get cold and your needs are always met.

Answer 3

where i work, we call it "teamwork". if your server's busy, you don't have to wait for your food --someone who isn't busy delivers it to you. it's a good concept, makes everyone's lives easier.

Answer 4

Well, the first one is your server, the other two are probably just foodrunners. Or else they are just other servers that were helping out. Food runners help servers out a lot, especially when it's really busy.

Answer 5

THE OTHER PEOPLE ARE CALLED RUNNERS THEY WORK MORE FOR THE KITCHEN THEN THE WAITRESS THEY ARE THEIR TO MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR FOOD RIGHT AWAY MOST OF THE TIME THESE ARE MINORS WHO AT PLACES THAT SERVE BOOZE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WAIT ON TABLES BUT THEY DO GET A PART OF THE TIP THE WAITRESSES HAVE TO SHARE PART OF WHAT YOU GIVE THEM WITH THESE GUYS