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57 Secrets Your Restaurant Server Isn’t Telling You

What would servers from across the country tell you if they could get away with it? Well, for starters, when to go out, what not to order, what really happens behind the kitchen’s swinging doors, and what they think of you and your tips.

After a certain time, it’s all decaf NOBUHIRO-ASADA/Shutterstock “In most restaurants, after 8 p.m. or so, all the coffee is decaf because no one wants to clean two different coffeepots. I’ll bring out a tray with 12 coffees on it and give some to the customers who ordered regular, others to the ones who ordered decaf. But they’re all decaf.”—Charity Ohlund. Check out the things restaurant owners wish they could tell you.

We give kids lots of sugar Petrovich-Nataliya/Shutterstock “We put sugar in our kids’ meals so kids will like them more. Seriously. We even put extra sugar in the dough for the kids’ pizzas.”—Waitress at a well-known pizza chain