People always look at me crazy when I’m pulling out the booth seats and sweeping behind them. The other cocktails hate doing it because it means more work. The dining room staff doesn’t do it at all because well….I don’t really know why. They’re supposed to do it every night. We’re all supposed to do it every night. Tonight, I found 20 bucks behind one of them, which just made my night.
I was also for once in a really good mood tonight. I was one of the only people there in a good mood, guests and employees alike were pissy and I don’t know why. Well, I do know why with my dept leader. He worked a 10am-12am shift today, and apparently was repeating to everyone “I’m in overtime” all day. He didn’t say that but once to me, but I was forced to tell him to take it down a notch at one point. He was just bitching all night. It was annoying. Not only that, but he stole a couple of tables in 2 of the other cocktails sections. At least he stayed and helped close while he waited for “FlipFlop” to get off work.
Tonight was also a night of menu creators and people who didn’t bother to read the menu at all.
“Do you have any kind of spaghetti with meat sauce?”
“No sir, we don’t have spaghetti. We have chicken alfredo and spicy shrimp alfredo, but no beef pastas.”
“What about spaghetti and meatballs?” Did I not just answer that question? How stupid are you??
Then we have the guy who just wouldn’t accept that we don’t have any other flavor of drink but cherry.
“I’ll have a strawberry lemonade.” Sounds familiar huh…same thing happened a week ago with some woman.
“We don’t have strawberry lemonade sir, I’m sorry.”
“Then I want a vanilla coke.”
“I’m sorry, we don’t have vanilla flavoring.”
“Then get your bartender to make it.”
“They don’t have any more flavor syrup than we do, sir, once again I’m sorry.” He must have thought I was lying to him though, because he went to the bartenders and asked them repeatedly for flavored soda despite us all telling him we didn’t have it. The best he would get would be cherry coke.
I had a kid in there who I think was pretending to be blind, but I can’t be for sure. He was being led around by his parents, and told which way to go and where things were, but I saw him playing a game later in the night. I don’t know what the reason for the possible ruse was but after seeing him playing Tekken, any sympathy I had vanished.
Got stiffed because I refused to get on the PA system and announce a birthday. It’s just not something we do, and if I change the rules for one person I’ll have to change them for all of the morons. They were pissed because I didn’t give them anything for their birthday at all, no dessert, no free meal, no nothing. Fucking entitlement junkie, not like your fat as hell friend needs another sundae anyway.
Nothing major tonight being that it was a pretty good night, and I’m too tired for any real inspiration tonight.
Come back tomorrow for a better post,
Ribeye
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January 6th, 2008 at 4:05 am
That’s what I can do the next time it’s slow as hell and I’m bored, I’ll pull out the cushions on the sofa and chairs in the soft sections and see what can be found. I just hope my luck runs like yours and I find a bit of moolah in there with the popcorn and whatever the hell else.
January 6th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Lucky you! All I ever find is the odd missed dime or nickel by the photocopy machines, although once I did get lucky and found a quarter!!
January 6th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Blind game player? You never heard of Tommy?
Hey, I thought I was reading your blog when I saw this (click). You need to get some Chinese managers.
January 6th, 2008 at 11:43 am
I had a managet that used to tape cash under cushions and around the lights and stuff- it could be a buck, it could be a twenty- and would always ask the server in that section if they cleaned their section throughly. If they did, of course they got to keep the suprise. If they did not, then of course he would tell them they missed out, and still had to go re-do it before they left. Bribery works! Too bad more people don’t clean, booths get NASTY!
January 6th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I was pretending to be blind while walking with my parents in a parking lot when I was ohh, 3 or 4. Wanna know what happened? I smacked into a sideview mirror on a car and had to get 5 stitches in my lip.
I wish the child in your restaurant could suffer a similar fate. Just because I hate all customers right now.
January 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I once found a hundred dollar bill whilst cleaning the women’s bathroom during closing time at my restaurant. Note to lazy servers: Keep doing what you’re doing, and we’ll reap in all the lost loot!
January 6th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I occasionally find money when cleaning up after lazy servers at the end of the night. Not much…most of the ones I work with can spot a nickle across the dining room, but are incapable of pre-bussing. Every now and again, though, I’ll find a couple bucks under a table or some such.
January 7th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
You guys are lucky. I only find money in my OWN washer.
January 8th, 2008 at 5:31 am
2 days and no new post……somethings up!
January 8th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I once THOUGHT I had found a hundred at work. Was some stupid religious tract made to look like money. I hate when people leave that shit at work.
January 9th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
When I worked at Crapplebee’s I was about the only one who did do my section, top to bottom. I found money… $100 bills, $20’s, cash in all forms!, brand new digital camera, and a whole bunch of drugs that I would sell to the kitchen or other wait staff that equaled more money! And was just doing my job! Imagine that!