Decision Support System for Selecting the Best Restaurant Waiter Using a Combination of WENSLO Weighting and AROMAN Methods

The quality of service staff is a key factor in determining business success because they are the front line that interacts directly with consumers. However, performance evaluations of service staff are often still carried out subjectively, based only on the supervisor's perception or brief experiences with customers. This research discusses the application of a decision support system to determine the best restaurant service by combining the Weights by Envelope and Slope (WENSLO) method in criteria weighting and the Alternative Ranking Order Method Accounting for Two-Step Normalization (AROMAN) in the alternative ranking process. The dataset used in this study was collected in 2025 from one of the restaurants in the Lampung area, involving nine waiters as evaluation candidates using six criteria. The six criteria used consist of four benefit criteria: service speed, friendliness, accuracy, and customer satisfaction. The weighting results using the WENSLO method indicate that the order mistakes criterion received the highest weight of 0.7253, followed by completion time with a weight of 0.1700, while the other criteria have relatively small weights. The AROMAN method is used to calculate the final values of alternatives based on the specified weights, resulting in a ranking of restaurant servers. The analysis shows that alternative Waiters KS ranks first with the highest score of 1.6097, followed by Waiters QN and Waiters RB. This finding proves that the combination of the WENSLO and AROMAN methods can produce objective, systematic results, and supports restaurant management in making strategic decisions regarding the selection of the best employees.