'please wait to be seated' sign at restaurant - David Tran Photo/Shutterstock At almost any sit-down restaurant, you'll be greeted at the front door by a cheery and welcoming host. If you have a ...

WRONG. In actuality, restaurant hosts are some of the hardest-working people in the business. Their job includes managing reservations, answering the phones, prepping tables, taking to-go orders, ...

On a Friday night last month, some friends and I walked into La Chinesca, a new bar and restaurant on Spring Garden Street in Philly, and were greeted by three smiling hosts at the host stand. We were ...

Caroline Young was thrilled to be hired two years ago as a host at Café Poêtes in Houston. She was pursuing an undergraduate degree in hospitality, so she thought the experience in fine dining would ...

Oh yeah, cell phone video shows several women involved in a scuffle that almost knocks over the hostess booth at carmine's restaurant on broadway and west 90th around five o'clock last night, the NYPD ...

A pleasant female voice greets me over the phone. “Hi, I’m an assistant named Jasmine for Bodega,” the voice says. “How can I help?” “Do you have patio seating,” I ask. Jasmine sounds a little sad as ...

Robert Irvine has weighed in on the end of his long-running Food Network series Restaurant: Impossible. The series followed Irvine as he made over struggling restaurants in just two days and with a ...

Forget the powerful maître d’ of old. Today’s hosts are mostly young, inexperienced women who have to enforce health rules and deal with the sometimes violent response. Caroline Young says that since ...