The customer is always SHITE!!! (OK so maybe not always...but a good percentage of the time) Tips for tips? Smile through gritted teeth, resist the temptation to tell the customer they left some 'loose change' (and or pocket fluff on the table) and next time they come in give them one less complimentary mint than the number of their party. Sit back and watch the mayhem ensue...
A stella bit of advice here from Lucy because as all good waitress's and waiters know "Kitchen pickers wear big knickers" however there are some exceptions to this rule we will now establish....
A bustling restaurant has no place for loose terminology. Leftovers means scraps, picked to pieces by seemingly ravenous ferrel children. Olives however are one of few exceptions to the rule "never eat someones leftovers". Unscathed by the questionably sanitised hands of the average restaurant-goer an
olive can be a real mid shift moral booster. Here's to the humble olive...
In reference to our aforementioned friend the olive. Its just the right thing to do...
Yes folks you read correctly "Leamon Chesscack" Leamon Chesscack is a game Lucy and I invented for those quiet day shifts that seem to go on forever. The rules of the game are relatively straight forward. Take an order from your table and put it through the till as a miscellaneous item. In the kitchen message make sure to us the most outrageous imaginable spelling for the dish (whilst still leaving the kitchen staff with no doubts as to what you are requesting). Leamon Chesscack is fun for all the restaurant family, front of house and back, sure to provide all with a hearty chuckle! Feel free to up the anti on particularly boring days by adding hideous spelling mistakes to the specials board too!
A breif testimonial from Lucy on the moral boosting benefits of "Leamon Chesscack". Here fucking here!
Despite providing us with much needed comic relief desserts can sometimes take on a much more sinister persona. For example the chocolate sauce in question here had disguised itself as some sort of skin condition. No fear though Dr. Lucy was swift with her diagnosis. "Its looks like leprosy to me" when I asked how she had reached this conclusion I was met with the response "I know what leprosy looks like, I've Googled it". Tips for tips? Google a variety of medical conditions on a regular basis so if you spill something on yourself at work you can rule out some of the more serious possibilities...
Another astute observation from Lucy, this time on Eton mess. The clue is apparently in the title and on that cautionary note we have come to the end of our break. See you after the split!
-Megan & Lucy xXx
