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[Paul the Headblader]

Hey.
I'm having a qualification course now, and as soon as I'll be done with it, I'll try to sign up for a job as a waiter somewhere around US, on a cruise ship, or, on a worse case, somewhere around Europe.
I was wondering, is that OK for a waiter to be bald? I've never seen one around, so that's why I'm asking you: Have you ever seen bald waiters on restaurants around?

[tomgallagher]

Yes, in the United States they are all over the place.

[bennett11]

Hey.
I'm having a qualification course now, and as soon as I'll be done with it, I'll try to sign up for a job as a waiter somewhere around US, on a cruise ship, or, on a worse case, somewhere around Europe.
I was wondering, is that OK for a waiter to be bald? I've never seen one around, so that's why I'm asking you: Have you ever seen bald waiters on restaurants around?

Yes in Texas I sometimes sometimes have a waiter at a chain restaurant  is has shaven head.  Usually a guy who likely is around 20. 

[Paul the Headblader]

okay, thanks. I'm also waiting for other's reply
I was asking that because some one told me that in Romania, I'll have low chances to get a waiter job with a shaved head. For some reason which I don't know.

[D.A.L.U.I.]

My experience in NO and everywhere I've traveled in the US is that it's totally accepted in the hospitality industry including restaurants.  I've only been on a cruise ship once--and it wasn't for a cruise, it's where we lived after Katrina working to get the City up.  The crew had several sly members.  It's nothing unusual in the States at all.

[BaldHDbiker]

I've seen sly waiters in restaurants locally in New York.

I've also seen them on cruises. Very normal to see and accepted.

[Laser Man]

In New York City, bald waiters are pretty common. My wife and I had dinner in the city last weekend and both the waiter and the maitre'd had shaved heads.

[baldjoeg]

I have had a lot of bald waiters in restraunts. They have class!

I usually compliment them on how great they look.

[Chavster]

I doubt a US cruise company would hire you in case they wanted you to work on a European itinerary, because its not as acceptable in Europe as it is in the US, and they wouldnt hire you purely to work on their US itineraries. When you get a job like that with a cruise line, they'll post you to whichever ship they need you to be on, and you generally have a 10 month contract which you then re-negotiate at the end of it, so you're rarely on the same ship for more than 10 months, and as I said, they wouldnt hire you if you ONLY wanted to work on a cruise ship based in the US.

I dont know about the hotel industry these days, but when I worked for Marriott, baldness was a no-no unless it was natural and unavoidable, as was facial hair.

[D.A.L.U.I.]

I doubt a US cruise company would hire you in case they wanted you to work on a European itinerary, because its not as , baldness was a no-no unless it was natural and unavoidable, as was facial hair.

  How is facial hair other than, "natural and unavoidable?"  Just curious

[Slynito]

I was in a restaurant last night and the boss and a server were BBC. Oh and me too. It looks very clean. Sure it's acceptable, I sure don't want to see any hair in food.

[TheSlyBear]

I see it all the time.

[buddha]

I would tend to think that in the food service business it would be reasonable to be sly or wear a hairnet when serving peoples' food.

[theebaldguy]

I currently work in food service, and I'm still required to wear a cap, even if I'm freshly sly. Not sure if they require it simply because it's part of the uniform, or Health Dept. regs actually require that.

[Paul the Headblader]

some one who works as a waiter told me  that, as a man, it's adviced to be bald:d
I felt damn good:D