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How to carry four plates like a pro.

how to carry plates like a professional waiter.

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  1. Hold you hands out like you’re hanging lose 🤙 now hold the plate with your three fingers, curl your thumb and pinky over the plate so you can rest the second plate over it and hold it with your curled thumb and pinky. That will safely hold four plates that are heavy. This videos method looks like you could carry six plates possibly! The weight and distribution is the problem, dishes on the plates might slide and cause a problem. Thank you for the technique!

  2. You avoid the third plate incline and having food fall by using your little finger to level it even…

  3. Would only work in casual dining as anything thats plated nicely will slide on one of those plates

  4. I use this but it's actually USELESS when your plates are either salad plates, or the food is too bulky to not touch the other plates. This is only useful when you serve little amounts that sit at the center of the plate.

  5. in this job there are rules to follow and respect but often it is up to the professional to evaluate the situation well, because alternatives often have to be put into practice based on the situations and specific moments.

  6. As someone who worked in the restaurant business for a decade in several high-end restaurants as well as busy dine-in restaurants in the USA across several states, this is the standard. This is how we trained new servers to carry as well when large trays were unavailable due to high beverage orders because beverages needed trays more often than food which we would just grab with our hands because the rush would be so overwhelming, we wouldn’t have time to search for trays for food because the bartenders often always had them ready for loading drinks. 😅

  7. I find easier using my arm instead of my fingers and supporting the start/end of each plate on the first and serving the highest plate on your arm first if that wasn’t obvious

  8. If there was food on those plates my hands couldn’t hold out long enough to do that. Too much weight held up by the fingers

  9. Nahh …if we touch the plate with our thumb ..inner part ..it seems dirty for some people….. especially while there's dish inside.

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