Back in the olden days of yore.....

Way back when I started waitressing in the previous millenium.....we did not have computers.....(and yes, this is a "walked uphill to school, both ways story)....we had to write out all of the orders...At my first waitress job....they threw a five page menu at me and told me to memorize the menu, the prices and the abbreviations.....thank God I was only 19 and had more brain cells back then....we used those little order pads....you know, the one's that are now used as scrap paper....this proces was even more cumbersome for those with sub-standard handwriting...(like me)....a great incentive for learning all the prices was "If you write down the wrong price and under charge, you get to pay the difference"....ahhhh, the good old days....



There was also a different process for running a charge card.....it was a rather simple little device that we used....you placed a pre-printed, carbon attached charge slip on the device...and then slid a slide bar back and forth ..these devices are still available...in fact, there is one in a black box that we currently call our "crash kit,"....this is used for emergencies when the computer goes out....or we lose power.....we had a need for this device one day....a server gingerly pulled it out of the black box....set it on a counter, and then four servers stood around staring at it, in awe...none of whom had a clue as to how it worked.....they saw me walking towards them, and frantically called me over...."HOW DO YOU WORK THIS???"