It’s that time of year when we find ourselves a little short staffed. Some of the servers and busboys are going away to school, another left for a different reason, and those who are going back to school, but are staying in town have a limited availability….so the rest of us have a few more shifts to cover.
I was scheduled for the Monday lunch shift, (much to my chagrin, it's usually my golf day.) Monday lunch shifts are usually nothing to write home about, so my co-worker and I went in with an “at least we can keep each other amused” attitude.
It turned out MUCH better than we had originally thought. We weren’t even finished with our set up, when the first table arrived. Cool! It was a table of six. We had a reservation for a seven top and a thirteen top. We decided to pool the entire room. We got much busier than we expected! The boss ended up playing busboy for a while. My fellow server and I worked as a well synchronized team. We were tag teaming everything. As I was serving entrees to one of the large tables, she was in the back ladling up soup for the next large table. I ran back, picked up the soup, and she served entrees to two smaller tables. We made sure everyone had beverage refills, the boss was serving coffee. When you work in tandem like that, things go smoothly, and it’s actually a lot of fun! AND….it helps when you are making great tips! We ran for two hours, and before we knew it, it was 1:00 p.m. No new tables had come in for a while, so we figured the lunch rush was over.
We figured wrong…..more tables started trickling in! Actually, we were in the wait station laughing! Not only did we have a good Monday lunch, we had one of the best lunch shifts ever! Between the late tables and doing our clean up, it was 3:00 pm.! Our relief will arrive in half an hour. So the day flew by, we had fun and we made some money. We were shaking our heads and laughing as we walked out the door. Who says you can’t have a good time at work?!?
If lunch shifts were that good every day, we’d be fighting over them!
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