Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Cartwheels

Typically I hate closing lunch shifts for one reason: 4:50pm.

Why?

Well, the dinner servers come in at 3:30pm, but they don't start taking tables until 5:00pm. They take a break from 4:30-5:00pm. But EVERY day, we get a rush of early birds at 4:50pm. And the two lunch closers are stuck running around with no bussers, trying to start every single table....which we then transfer at 5:00pm when the dinner shift can come onto the floor. 

It's a nightmare. 
Sometimes there's even the extra fun of being out of bread because someone's on a break, which is exciting. 

However, the last two days have been conveniently slow from 4:30-5:00pm. Yesterday there wasn't a single table in the restaurant. I went around the dimly lit room and lit each of the table candles with a long, single candle. It looked so creepy. 

Then I went into the backroom to tell the dinner servers that, "If [they] ever wanted to do a cartwheel through the middle of the dining room without any guests seeing, this was the time!"

We decided to do a conga line. It was my manager's idea :)

I love being home by 5:30pm!


4 comments:

  1. Can't be a good conga line and getting home early!!

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  2. that should be "Beat" friggin' typo's!

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  3. they let you transfer the tables? They refuse to let us do that! but quite honestly, it's usually an extra 75 bucks for me. I love closing lunch at my location. Just keep the tables if there's enough of them. You're usually done by 6 anyway.

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  4. Ya we can keep them if we want to. For me, it just depends on how my day has gone, and we HAVE to be off by 6 for labor reasons, so if they sit at 5...I'm in trouble.

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