Favorite day of the week-Friday!

My favorite day of the week has always been Friday. Back when I was in school, it was the end of a long arduous week of boring classes. (I wasn’t too crazy about school.)


For a good part of the population, it’s the end of the work week. Time to relax, ponder about what can be done with the next two days off….it’s usually the busiest after work Happy Hour day…time to breath.

For those of us in the restaurant industry, it’s oftentimes the busiest day. While the rest of the world is winding down, we’re doing the opposite. We’re gearing up for the busy night….it’s our money day. The more we see of the rest of the winding down world, the happier we are.

Ya gotta put on your game face and get ready to run. The rest of the world has no idea how hard we work so they can relax. And we love every minute of it. We get that old adrenaline thing going…..flying around all the corners on two wheels…..(and yes, we have quite a few near collisions with each other, tearing around those corners, but somehow we never crash. It’s like we develop a close range radar system where we have the ability to stop abruptly, keep the tray level and sidestep around each other. Don’t try this at home.)

We are energy and agility personified.  (Watch the staff next time you eat out)  At the end of the shift, it’s our turn to take a deep breath, stand back for a minute, grab a cold drink and sigh. Though tired we may be, after all, we just ran the restaurant decathlon, (events to be described in a later blog) and now we have to clean the restaurant. But! We can still rally ourselves up to go out for the rest of the night.

One man I worked for posted a sign in the back office that said it all: “If you don’t think the dead come back to life, you should see this place at closing time.”