The best food and beverage employees are the one that think fast on there feet and have an ability to MFD (make fucking do) I have always told anyone that works with me, "there are two types of people, problem solvers or problem makers. Which one are you?"
I used to bartend for a guy that owned a jazz club on Market street in downtown Charleston S.C. The menu was good but the draw was the great live jazz. Charley decided one day that he was going to do a Sunday brunch. It was a great idea, just no preparation other than to say, we are going to open for brunch. The first Sunday that we were to do this, the night people hadn't done the best of a clean up to be open in the day light. So the couple of us that were suckered into working this horrible shift, were running around trying to get cleaned and set up before we opened the doors. Charlies son and his dog lived in the laundry room of this restaurant and apparently the dog need to go out some time during the night. As I ran around setting the last of the tables , the waitress was vacuuming the floor. As we both were close to being finished I looked up and noticed a small line developing outside. Just as I turned to inform the girl vacuuming, She hit a pile of dog poop with the vacuum. The stench filled the air as the poop went flying. I was hit by some of the shrapnel. Both of us stunned for a split second, then without thought I ran and grabbed a damp rag to wipe up all the pooh and she ran for her purse to get some perfume to rid the stench. We were open on time for a successful first brunch. At our break it was like we had forgotten what had happened pre-opening, when the waitress pointed out that I had some poop on my shirt. This caused total recall and a burst of laughter followed.
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