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Great Verbal Tips This Weekend Grrrrrrr….
I don’t know how many times people said great meal and great service and left me just the minimum. I mean how many tables do I have to do to make great money when people are leaving 8 , 9 , and $10? All I can do is hurry through the numbers and hope by […]
March Is A Pivotal Month
March for me has been the month to get things set up for the summer. So it is work for me this month beginning with picking up two shifts on Tuesday and Wednesday so I am on 6 in a row. It has been slow some nights during February due to the enthusiastic viewing of […]
My Top Five Jobs – Number 1
For those of you who have been reading this blog for any length of time you would know my number 1 job was working with Renaissance Cruises between 1992 and 1996. The places I saw and the things I did with the people I met was unforgettable. Waiting on a cruise ship is like being […]
It Was Relentless
Okay I haven’t commented or posted over the weekend due to the hundreds of people we served over the weekend. Valentines combined with the fact it fell on the weekend meant Friday Saturday and Sunday were going to be busy. Today is a provincial holiday so it will be busy again but I am not […]
A Nice 2-3 Hour Wait Tonight
After a rather slow Friday we got rocked tonight. I had a section that was the speed section with one 4 top and 3 deuces. Not much right , but I did 16 tables tonight flipping them like a stack of pancakes. At the end of the night sold $1388 , tipped out $55 and […]
It is Thursday’s Quiz
Another week has flown by and the only thing I can say about my night at work tonight is I didn’t make much money but some older woman said I looked like Leonard Cohen. That was a first for me and my wife wholeheartedly disagrees with that. I wonder what Leonard looked like when he […]
A Good Night By Anyone’s Standards
Yesterday’s post I mentioned that last night was going to be a good night and it certainly was as we reached our budget projection of 550 covers and I dare say with how busy the bar got late that we probably came close to 600. For me I have to say that is was the […]
Sometimes You Got To Be Like a Pit Bull
Tonight my start time is 5:30 and when I arrive it is already picking up. Sometimes it is like walking into a middle of a football game. Everybody is busy and you are just checking your section. I get a deuce pretty quickly then I get a 7 top and another 2. The seven is […]
Answers to Quiz
How did you do? We’ll soon know won’t we? 1. To chaptalize a wine the winemaker adds sugar before or during the fermentation process to raise the alcohol percentage of the wine. We say the wine has been chaptalized when this is done. This is allowed under French law. 2. The pH of wines usually […]
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