Originally Posted By juicer I was a bussboy at the Club during the mid 80's - It was hard work - but at times was a lot of fun too - Quite a few B list celebrities came in along with big wigs from the studios - I made some great friends that I still have today -
Originally Posted By dresswhites in the college program i knew a few people who worked at the club. they greatly enjoyed it. as a custodian, one of my restroom rounds included the club. it was really neat to see the club. very beatiful. the only thing that disappointed me was with the beauty of the club, i always expected people to be dressed like they came off the titanic. the people in the club dressed like the tourists down below. it just seemed jarring.
Originally Posted By McCandie I know it must take years of working a Disney to get into that place, if any chance at all. I'm sure its the same with the Blue Bayou.
Originally Posted By soccermermaid not true. I was there on Friday and I wore my flip flops...and so did everyone else in our group. I thought they were enforcing a dress code, but apparently not.
Originally Posted By McCandie One thing I don't like about it, its such a limited entry place. Not general public friendly
Originally Posted By Disneyma Everyone there seems to have worked there for 20+ years. There seems to be very few young people working there.
Originally Posted By juicer The reason is that most of the servers have have worked there for so long is that they are making such good money - In the mid 80's the servers were bringing home at least $200-250 a day from tips - I can only imagine what they are making now - When I was bussing tables there the servers did not tip out the bussboys
Originally Posted By Hound >>When I was bussing tables there the servers did not tip out the bussboys << That's a shame (and cheap). My daughter was a waitress (not at DL) and she always tipped the busboy as well as a little for the chief. Strangely, her tables were always cleared first and her orders were up first.
Originally Posted By juicer That is funny you should mention that What I was told at the time...The reason that the servers did not tip out the bussboys was because that 4 or 5 years earlier (prior to when I was working there) - the bussboys were tiped out with at least 10-15% of what the servers at the club took in on tips - As per the story I was given...the union was renegotiating the bossboys and servers contract and gave the option to the bussboys a higher hourly then any bussboys working at Disneyland without being tipped out - As per the story...the club bussboys at the time said OK to the higher hourly and no tips - Well...by the time I came along the rest of the parks bussboys hourly went up to what the club bussboys were making per hour - only we were not making any tips! So naive me thought (at the time) Hey...I'm going to talk to my union rep and see if there is anything we (bussboys) could do - He said for me to talk to my restaurants shop stewart who by the way was a SERVER! It got back to her (the server who was the shop stewart at the club) and she in her mean way had most of the staff not talk to me for a week! I was sooo naive that I did'nt know what was going on and did'nt realy know that I should be feeling bad - All I knew that the servers were being very quiet to me that week! LOL! Its so funny that after all these years its still making me mad! By the way, all in all I did like working at the club and had some fun experiences there - But if I knew then what I know now....Oooo boy, things would of been different!
Originally Posted By Hound That's pretty interesting, juicer. So you had a cheap shop stewart that didn't want you to upset the apple cart. Thanks.
