Server Test #1 Flashcards
Menu price range?
$8.50 - $34.00
What is our number one priority at the Ranch?
Running hot food!
Hours of operation?
M: closed
TW: 4-9
ThSu: 11-9
FSa: 11-10
Our founders name?
Mariano Martinez
Catering directors name?
Amanda Paulson
Credit cards we accept
Master, Visa, American Express, Discover, Diners
Most important step of service?
“2 minute 2 bite”
What things must you specifically suggest to every table?
Specific margarita (The Mariano) and another drink; Specialty Queso and another appetizer
Late policy: AM and PM
AM: do all sidework
PM: sidework and section of 2 of your buddies
Where is employee parking?
Behind the blue line in the rear of the parking lot
What question should you ask every table in the greet?
Have you ever dined here before?
What did our founder invent? When? Where is it located now?
First frozen margarita machine
1971
Smithsonian
True or False: our roasted salsa is served warm?
True
Frozen Sangria Swirl
- Sangria (a sweet red wine, made in-house)
- Swirled in our original frozen margarita
Cost: $15.00
Served in a pintr glass and garnished with a dehydrated blood orange
Sunburst
- Sangria Swirl
- Strawberry margarita
- Mango margarita
Cost: $14.00
Served in a pilsner glass (suggest stirring), and garnished with mango slice
Premium Rocks
- Herradura Silver Tequila
- Lime juice
- Simple syrup
- Cointreau
- Squeezed lime wedge
Cost: $14.00?
Served in a pint glass
Mushroom Quesadilla
Flour tortilla
Stuffed with jack cheese
Epazote herb, poblano, and sauteed onion and mushrooms
Served with sour cream and guacamole
Cheese Quesadilla*
12 inch flour tortilla
Stuffed with jack cheese
Quesadilla mix (poblanos, tomatoes, onions)
Grilled until melted
Cut into 6 triangular pieces
Garnished with sour cream and quac
Chicken Quesadilla
12 inch flour tortilla
Stuffed with jack cheese
Quesadilla mix (poblanos, tomatoes, onions)
Grilled until melted
Cut into 6 triangular pieces
Garnished with sour cream and quac
Your choice of meat (chicken)
Beef Quesadilla
12 inch flour tortilla
Stuffed with jack cheese
Quesadilla mix (poblanos, tomatoes, onions)
Grilled until melted
Cut into 6 triangular pieces
Garnished with sour cream and quac
Your choice of meat (beef)
Quesadilla Mix
Poblano Peppers
Tomatoes
Onions
Brisket Quesadilla
12 inch flour tortilla
Stuffed with jack cheese
Slow roasted pulled brisket
Grilled poblano and sautéed onion
Served with sour cream and quac
Side of Mariano’s Special BBQ Sauce
Cowboy Queso*
Fiery Sundance Queso
Diced Fajita steak
Apple Wood smoked bacon
Served with dipping chips
Queso Mariano
Bowl of queso
Topped with spicy beef
Topped with quac, sour cream, and tomatoes
Served with dipping chips
Emily’s Queso
Fiery Sundance sauce
With spicy beef
Scoop of pico
Served with dipping chips
Mariano’s Original Nachos
Quarter-moon shaped tostada chips
Covered w/ refried beans & melted mixed cheese
With choice beef fajita meat, chicken fajita meat or a combo
Garnish with quac, sour cream and jalapeno relish
Old Fashioned Pulled Chicken*
Quarter-moon shaped tostada chips
Covered w/ refried beans, spicy chicken mix and jack cheese
Garnish with guac, sour cream, and jalapeno relish
Texas Torpedoes (2 kinds)
- Cheese Torpedoes:
Jalapeños stuffed w/ jack cheese
Dipped in a light batter & fried until crisp
(batter consists of Lay’s Potato chips & Captain crunch cereal)
Served on a bed of leaf lettuce
Garnished w/ leaf lettuce, two tomato wedges
Served with ranch dressing - Chicken Torpedoes:
Jalapeños stuffed w/ jack cheese & spicy chicken mix
Dipped in a light batter & fried until crisp
(batter consists of Lay’s Potato chips & Captain crunch cereal)
Served on a bed of shredded lettuce
Garnished w/ two tomato wedges
Served with ranch dressing
(These have red flakes on the outside so you can tell the difference between chicken and cheese)
V.I.P Platter
Sampler plate with:
6 cheese quesadillas
4 chicken fajita nachos
4 beef fajita nachos
4 pieces of fajita beef
2 chicken torpedoes
2 cheese torpedoes
4 chicken flautitas (two flautas cut in half)
Garnished w/ guac, sour cream, chip cup of queso, and a blue ramekin of ranch dressing
(6-4-4-4-4-2-2)
Salad Mix
Mixture of iceberg and romaine lettuce
With purple cabbage & thinly sliced carrot sticks
Large Fajita Salad
Large = 6oz of meat
Handmade deep-fried flour tortilla taco shell served in a white oval bowl on top of shredded lettuce
Filled with salad mix
Topped with grape tomatoes, black beans, corn
Choice of chicken, beef or combo
Monterey jack cheese served in a ramekin on the side
Choice of dressing served on the side
UPSELL: Add guac
House Dinner Salad
Served in a small blue chilled bowl
With salad mix, cucumbers, croutons, grape tomatoes
Choice of dressing served on the side
Tex-Mex Cobb Salad
Served in a white oval bowl
With mixed greens, mesquite grilled chicken, fresh avocado, Monterey jack cheese, boiled egg, diced tomatoes, sliced black olives, crumbled applewood smoked bacon
Topped with red onion rings
Choice of dressing served on the side
Tapas n Tacos*
Seven mini crunchy beef tacos
Garnished w/ lettuce, mixed cheese, tomatoes
Table Side Guacamole (and procedure)
Made by server table-side in front of guests
Contains: ripe avocados with tomatoes, red onions, cilantro, salsa, garlic salt, and lemon
When you bring your tray out to the table, the tray should have: a mocajete bowl, all fresh ingredients, fork, spoon, moist towelette, and appetizer plates
PROCEDURE:
Clean hands with towelette
Scoop avocados into the mocajete
Mash them a little then add the garlic salt
Mix avocado and garlic salt
Add remaining ingredients except lemon
(Guac should be chunky)
Squeeze lemon and stir one more time
Serve with dipping chips
All 2 Salad Dressings
Ranch
Balsamic Vinaigrette
All 9 Fountain Drinks (2.95; kids 1.75)
- Coke
- Diet Coke
- Coke Zero
- Sprite
- Dr. Pepper
- Diet Dr. Pepper
- Tea
- Sweet Tea
- Pink Lemonade
All 4 bottled Drinks (2.95; kids 1.75)
- IBC Root Beer
- IBC Cream Soda
- Dasani Bottle Water
- Mexican Coke (Pure Cane Sugar, made and imported from Mexico)
All 5 Juices (2.95; kids 1.75)
- Apple
- Orange
- Pineapple
- Grapefruit
- Cranberry
(Unlimited for kids only)