Luby's Onboarding Process
As the operator of roughly 95 restaurants located exclusively in Texas and neighboring states, Luby’s Cafeteria regularly hires local job seekers for cook, server, host, and management vacancies. Potential workers seeking restaurant industry jobs must complete and return the required forms to become eligible for interviews. Upon reviewing submitted information and selecting the best candidates, hiring managers contact prospective employees, usually within a couple weeks, to schedule interviews. Typically straightforward and standard, the interview process usually entails one-on-one meetings with restaurant supervisory staff.
What to Expect in the Interview
Luby's Cafeteria job interviews generally probe for relevant skills, schedule availability, and specific details of prior work experiences. Interviewees often have to disclose professional strengths and weaknesses and elaborate on why they want to work for the company. Additional talking points frequently raised by interviewers include the hobbies, personal background, and education of job seekers. Applicants often interview with an assistant manager first before advancing to second rounds of interviews with general management.
Be Confident and Courteous During the Interview
Make every effort to remain confident, attentive, and professional for the duration of the Luby’s Cafeteria interview process. Interviewees with previous customer service or restaurant experience may gain the favor of hiring managers and should point out personal accomplishments from such experiences at appropriate moments.
Tips on Answering Questions
Consider each Luby's Cafeteria interview question carefully before responding in a calm and collected manner. Avoid rambling or otherwise bringing up extraneous details by answering questions with specific and relevant examples from related jobs, if possible.
Follow Up With Hiring Status
Shake hands with the hiring manager before and after Luby's Cafeteria interviews and ask about the appropriate follow-up steps to take at the end of each session.
Luby’s Cafeteria Waiter Interview Video
Video Transcript
Interviewer: Please describe your job title and primary duties.
Luby’s Cafeteria Waiter: I worked for food-to-go and basically it’s for the people that don’t have time to wait in line and sit down and eat. They go to the food-to-go and they place an order, then a little ticket prints out. Then you have a cashier and two runners and then the cashier, he obviously does the cashier stuff and then the runners, they grab the ticket, go to the line, fill up boxes with the food, and then they bring it back.
Interviewer: What was the work environment like?
Luby’s Cafeteria Waiter: It was cool. A lot of … Well, the Luby’s that I worked at, it was near a hospital so we had a lot of hospital patients coming in and then all my managers were really, really chill and cool. It’s nothing really too hectic. Yeah, it gets busy but it’s nothing crazy.
Interviewer: What was your favorite part about working there?
Luby’s Cafeteria Waiter: Probably just my managers. I liked the people around, that worked there. The managers, they were real flexible. During the summer, with the process of coming to college, I needed a lot of days off and they were all cool with it. I always got days off or they worked around my schedule.
Interviewer: How would you describe the application and interview process?
Luby’s Cafeteria Waiter: The application process, you basically … You just fill out the application and then you get the interview. Whenever you get the job, it’s where it gets a little bit more difficult. They have a bunch of paperwork stuff that they want you to do online and you have to fill out a lot of that stuff. Then they go through background checks and things like that.
Interviewer: What questions did the interviewer ask during the job interview?
Luby’s Cafeteria Waiter: Past experiences, they asked what hours you could work. They didn’t really get into anything major, it was just basic application.
Luby’s Cafeteria Waiter: They’re all nice. If you go in, you ask for an application, then they’ll tell you you just have to apply online. They don’t give you applications at the store.
Bruce Burghard says:
What should I say If I don’t have any restaurant job experience. I love to cook and am trying to change careers, because the aerospace industry is to unstable and I was recently laid off. I would love to get into the business, it has alyays been one of my goals. Can you help?