Easy and straightforward. Interviewer answered all of my questions about the day to day expectations and were professional throughout the process. They were accommodating. One of my better interview experiences!

Having never served before, but wanting a temporary job that would be more bearable than retail in a small Tennessee town, I lied about having previous serving experience at a P.F. Chang's in Nashville. Obviously wowed at the prospect of hiring a server from the big city, a veteran from such a "fancy" restaurant like P.F. Chang's to boot, my interview occurred the day I brought in my doctored resume. Having several friends in the service industry and hearing their, "war stories" over the years, I had a pretty good idea of what a serving job entails. I've always been a people person and already had a good 8 years working in sales from my previous job. I was asked the typical questions about availability, scheduling flexibility and why I chose Ruby Tuesday. Being desperate for a serving job at the time I told them everything they wanted to hear. I even made up a few humourous stories about how I defused confrontational situations with irate customers at my fictional P.F. Chang's job. I was eagerly asked to return the next day after familiarizing myself with the, (mostly filled with the typical, unexciting US family restaurant style selection of burgers, microwaved pasta dishes, the salad bar's heavily processed assortment of salad dressings and the uninspired list of signature Ruby Tuesday cocktails) menu to do a "mock-serve." Which consisted of one the managers and an off the clock server at a table testing my menu knowledge and my use of the corporate mandated, "steps of service." It was a cake walk. After that I was hired. I still had to shadow a senior server for 3 nights, basically doing their job while they kept all the tips.