What a Night

Here I am updating in an untimely fashion yet again. This Wednesday was kind of a coin toss. Wednesdays tend to be busy, but the end of the month tends to be slow. We had four servers, two chefs, and one busboy on tonight, and the only number we got right was for servers. We had a number of large parties come in, including one of eighteen that was celebrating the sixteenth birthday of a cancer surviving girl (awesome story in its own right there). I got a ten person table that was also celebrating a birthday. In addition to that there were at least one or two other birthdays tonight.

The night started off slow. We all were bored and thought it was going to stay slow. As soon as we got the call in for the party of eighteen the pace picked up and stayed up. That girl was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago and wanted to go to Koko's for her last birthday. Well as it turns out, she survived. And so she comes back on her birthday. The owners went a bought her a card and we all signed it and one of them even cried after we sang to her and whatnot. It was pretty awesome.

At the same time I had a birthday at my table and a few smaller tables coming and going. My table was completely awesome even though I burned some menus on the teppan table while taking their order! There were ten adults, five checks, five shares, and a number of alcoholic beverages. I managed to keep everything in order and when they left they all thanked me profusely and told me I'd done a wonderful job. I, of course, thanked them as well and told them how awesome they'd been. It was absolutely lovely.

There was a bit of time when the smaller tables had quite a wait due to the fact that there were larger tables being cooked for right before them, but the pace leveled back out after that and the one table I did have during that time period was totally cool. Closing proceeded smoothly after that and I ate makanai from lunch today that tasted absolutely amazing! It was a rice and chicken soup dish and I brought some home. It was /so/ good! And I ended up using all my checks and making close to twenty-nine dollars.

So I guess that's it. I work a double tomorrow, so I need to get some sleep already! Good night!