Well today is my first "double." Now, by "double" I really just mean it's my first time working both lunch and dinner. At only around nine or ten hours, it's far from being an actual double. Obviously, I've only worked lunch today so far (ended up being from 1030 to 1430 today) and I go back in for dinner at 1700. It was also my first time not working with the lady that's primarily been training me, but today went well nonetheless.
I had two teppan tables and my first dining table today, totaling out to five checks. Customers, owners, and fellow staff have all been quite nice to me thus far and I'm slowly getting into the rhythm of things. I took on more tasks today and forgot fewer things. My one big mistake was completely screwing up one check but I fixed it before it was taking to the table. I met a regular family with a one month old baby, served a couple and their friend, and served a table of friends (two of whom were Japanese) in dining. It was my first time handling sushi and kitchen orders on my own and I didn't completely screw it up! One thing we did screw up at was leaving some of the used tables unset for closing too early so we had to set them back up, but nobody else ended up coming in.
During closing I found myself kind of doing everything alone at one point...the family member that was there yelled at the other two servers upon realizing that...I was hoping they'd come back from wherever they were so she wouldn't notice. But even though I was left to my own a bit more today it helped me get the hang of things better, so I didn't mind. I also tend to like doing things myself because then I know it's been done.
It wasn't too busy today, but it wasn't as terribly slow as it can apparently get. Oh! Before we officially opened we tried some funnel cake fries today! They were freaking awesome! And they had caramel drizzled over them! Mm...I want some more now that I'm thinking about it, but no! I shall settle with my onion soup and just eat some ice cream!
I experienced the difficult of having multiple tables at one time. So far I think I'd only really dealt with having multiple parties at the /same/ table. That's easy. Remembering to go back and forth and keeping track of which table needs what is challenging, but it definitely beats standing around eyeing your table to see if they need refills.
Hm...did anything else interesting happen today? I was asked if I'd gone to see Totoro and if I'd seen Ponyo yet, so that was a nice little discussion (always have love for the anime, especially when it's Miyazaki). So I guess that's really it. I've got to remember to clock out /before/ tipping out, and I made a lovely six dollars and some change after tipping out the chefs. Whoohoo. So I think that was...what...twelve or thirteen dollars total? Something like that.
So far I think I can honestly say that I like the job! But maybe that will change when I'm flooded with evil tables on a Friday night. Let's hope that doesn't happen! That's all for now!
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