When we work a banquet (as I explained the other day) we are very well organized. One server will always be in charge of making sure the food on the buffet table will never run out. Most people attending a banquet, have no idea that we have assigned ourselves the various jobs that need to be done. All they see are people in uniforms, and are clueless to the fact that there is a rhyme and reason to the way we do things.
Invariably someone in the buffet line will point out “There’s not much chicken left.” Yay for you on your powers of observation! What I really want to answer with is, “Well then just take half a piece and save some for the rest.”
We know that one pan of chicken will not serve 60 people. Guess what?!? We have another on waiting in the wings! We also know that if it is cold, you will complain. So rather than have it sitting a few feet away, we keep it in the kitchen, where they have equipment to ensure that it stays hot. (What a novel idea!)
What people also don’t realize, is that one of us (and they really have no idea how many people are working their party) has been assigned to watch the buffet table, and bring the next pan out, just before the current one goes empty.
I was standing behind the bar making drinks, when I was informed of the ill perceived chicken crisis. “Okay! Everyone take 3 steps back, I’m going to twitch my nose, and chicken will come falling from the sky to fill the pan! Oh, never mind, here comes my fellow server with a new pan of chicken.”
Now, if you’re sitting at a table in the dining room, and the server approaches your table with a water pitcher in hand, you suddenly look at your water glass and realize you need it refilled…”Oh! I need more water!”…...no need to tell them……it’s why they are there.
Thank goodness the clueless dolts aren’t the ones doing the serving.
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