Feast or Famine……….

That phrase applies to so many things…so let’s apply it to working in the restaurant industry…..

I’ll start with yesterday as an example….business generally slows down in the summertime, and sometimes it would seem as though it has come to a screeching halt. So how do you pass the time when you have three hours to kill, and nothing to do……ya gotta remember, at $2.65 an hour, there’s not a lot of motivation to start any major renovations, or even anything beyond light cleaning. I try to find something that will keep me amused for a short time, until I get bored with what I’m doing and look for another project.

I decided to dust the pictures. There are about twenty photographs handing throughout the dining room, so I dusted the top of the frame and the part at the bottom of the picture…..I stretched it out to about seven minutes…what to do with the next three hours….

I then found some stainless steel cleaner, and embarked upon my mission to polish whatever I decided need to be polished……I got lost in my reverie of making things shiny for about 45 minutes. Then I got bored with that. The non-existent customers continued to be just that, non-existent.

After all that hard work, I took a break and had some soup. Then I refilled my iced tea, (which one can turn in to a project, if one so desires, making sure to get the perfect amount of lemon and sugar) Perhaps a salad for the next course.

Oh look! Maybe I can rearrange those tea pots…and then again maybe not…..

Maybe I can roll some more silverware….don’t feel like doing that anymore, already went overkill on it, won’t need more of that until tomorrow night…….maybe I can dissect a piece of bread and experiment with the different salad dressings as bread dips……

Okay….the famine shift is over with…tomorrow we will be serving lunch to 55 people who all want to eat at the same time…..that’ll be a fun feast……