I hate breakfast..

Serving that is. I acutally like going to breakfast. Just as long as it happens after ten in the morning. Here is why I hate serving breakfast. Not that i've done a whole lot of it but at the company I work for you're often called to do all kinds of shifts one of them being breakfast.

Toast. Any server who has ever had to make toast understands this. I hate messes. I'm one of those slightly anal personalities that goes around all night long putting hot pads back by the line, wine glasses away, the beverage tray that was left on a side board. It all makes me a little nuts. Unless ofcourse i'm busy myself and then I don't mind until I can notice the little things again.

Here's my problem with toast. The crumbs. Everywhere. All the time makes me insane! I just can't keep it cleaned up. It makes your service station look like something out of a trailer park. There is also the insane amount of spilling involved in breakfast. At dinner the beverages are generally cocktails from the bar, wine and sodas. At breakfast there's a dozen kinds of juice, coffee, tea, hot chocolate (that's a big one by the way the mess hot chocolate machines make. There's also jam and jelly and syrups. All designed to be messy, sticky messes. And the insane amount of condiments involved. I hate condiments. I'm almost pass the point of wanting ketchup for french fries just because I dislike ketchup. Bottles are impossible to keep fresh and clean. Anyone who has ever married a bottle of ketchup understand. Or the alternative is to serve condiments in ramikins. Again time consuming and annoying.

And there's the issue with eggs. At dinner there's a right way and a wrong way to order everything. And with the exception of temperatures for meat there's just not that many versions of an evening meal. But, damn it all to hell. I'd be afraid to count how many different options there are for eggs. Scrambled, easy, hard, up coddled, boiled, basted, omelets fritatas, eggs in burritos, eggs benedict which ofcourse can come in a dozen varieties. And then bacon.. bacon soft, crisp, burnt, bacon in eggs on eggs blah blah blah... It makes me nuts. There are dozens of ways to have pancakes and waffles. The variations of breakfast make it a cool meal to go out for a really crappy one to serve. And ofcourse the issue that breakfast is cheap this means you have to work much harder to make the same amount of money that you would at dinner. There's rarely alocohol involved and people are generally on a time frame. they're just beginning their work day, or vacation plans. You are a 'stop off' and not the main event. I'd rather be the main event.

And ofcourse you have to consider that breakfast happens in the morning. I don't do mornings. have never done mornings and don't really plan on changing. When you work breakfast you have to have an alarm to wake you up. This sucks. For everybody. Nobody likes the beep or the buzz going off interrupting a dream and tearing you away from comfy pillows and blankets. I'm convinced that everyone feels this way. If you don't it's because you work in a bank and I feel kind of sorry for you.