I just love it when I find out at 10:00 p.m. on a Friday night, that someone called off , and I have to be back at work at 10:30 Saturday morning, then that will segue right into my Saturday night bar shift, so I’ll be there from open to close.
On the plus side, someone brought in a couple boxes of donuts, (and I was out of coffee at home) so those were the first two things I grabbed upon arrival. I checked out my party sheet, only 3 items for them to choose from, so this would be pretty easy. There was 27 people in all, and some of them drank like fish, so they kept me running, but that’s okay.
There was another party scheduled for that room at 4:00, so I had to hustle to get the room re-set. As I was doing that, there was a wedding ceremony taking place in an adjacent room. I finished at 3:45, then went and sat on the deck for 15 minutes. I thought I could then go and set up the bar for the evening shift. I thought wrong. By this time, the wedding reception had begun, which was taking place in a different room from where the ceremony was, so they kept running in to get drinks. There was another banquet downstairs, they didn’t like the limited bar service down there, so a bunch of them kept running upstairs to get drinks. I had no time to restock. I gave one of the managers a list of wine and asked him to get it.
We had a ton of reservations Saturday night, I think for those who wanted to beat the Mother’s day crowds….So I had people drinking, while they were waiting for a table.
The busboys had to keep restocking the glassware….and of course the drink that is the biggest pain in the butt to make, (Sangria, we have 4 varieties) seemed to be the most popular beverage that night.
And so it went, all night long. 13 hours is a long time on your feet, running around….. but you have no time to think it about it…which is a good thing….because before you know it, it’s closing time. Whew!
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