Crunch Time!

You have to be prepared for “Crunch time” at any given moment. I guess that’s why we call it Crunch Time, if you had enough advance notice, we wouldn’t have it. You just dig in your heels and get to work.

Take last week’s funeral luncheon for example….there was supposed to be 50 to 70 people, it jumped up to 135, with about 2 hours notice. I got called in and they pulled a server from the floor to work this luncheon. There were 5 of us in all, we all scrambled around at the last minute to get the extra tables set up, and take care of whatever else needed to be done.

Then there was the shower I was working by myself…..we had the wrong start time. Turns out it was starting half an hour earlier than we thought. Got a couple of servers to help with last minute set up. It all works out.

Now there’s today………(here’s where all the restaurant training comes in handy) I am half the committee for funeral luncheons at church. The one today is for 50 people, which is normally a piece of cake. However, one of those Murphy’s Law things kicked into place. This is going to be a later lunch, they won’t be eating until about 3:00 p.m. I am supposed to be at work at 4:00. I arranged to go I to work a little late. Cool, it’ll all be handled. My committee partner will stay and make sure the clean up and gets done. That is, until she ended up in the hospital last night. Crunch time! Do you panic? No! Just dig in your heels, get to work and find others who know the drill, and can stay and finish up.

Moral of the story: Don’t focus on the problem, focus on the solution, and it all gets done rather quickly.