Two women came in on Sunday afternoon to check the place out, and sample a couple of entrée salads for a baby shower they were planning. They decided to sit at the bar. It’s very rare when anyone sits at the bar on Sunday, so I don’t bartend on Sunday, I work the floor. But it was the middle of the day and pretty slow, so I had a chance to chat with them. They were wondering where I had worked before, so I told them I had worked at a corporate restaurant for a couple of years, and prior to that I was the bartender at a place a few miles down the road for 25 years. One women looked at me and said, “Wow, either you really like the restaurant industry, or you’ve had one miserable existence all these years.”
No one has ever actually said anything like that to me before…..so I had to stop and ponder for a moment……(as I was smiling to myself)……she’s either got a really bad misconception of the restaurant industry from hearing too many horror stories, or she was a server in a previous life, wasn’t cut out for it and therefore it was a terrible experience. I mean “miserable existence” is pretty powerful language.
So how do you explain to someone that you’ve actually had more fun than most going to work all those years, without it sounding sugar coated? After all, she seemed to have some strong notions that this is an undesirable way to live.
I gave her the Readers Digest version of how I had my own business for 7 years servicing the real estate industry, and between real estate taking a dive and the internet, I was put out of business and lost everything. Hopefully now, she has a better understanding that there are worse things in life than working in restaurants.
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