Cha Cha Changes..

It's been awhile since I posted. Partly because I ran out of things to talk about. Partly because my job changed. I've talked about the Brazilians on my blog before, the international folks that are seasonal and work during the heavy season, go home for a few weeks, or a couple of months and then return when things get busy again.

When my manager left for Brazil in April I took over the restaurant. It was supposed to be until the first week of June. During the down-time I would make more money being paid as an hourly relief manager than I would as a server, the hours would be steady (I wouldn't be sent home if it was slow) and it was familiar.

I had a great time, had a little fun re-doing the napkin folds, re-organized some spaces that were sloppy. Did a bit of training and my best to avoid hiring new people thinking that the old ones would be returning from their perspective countries.

Well, June came and went. With no word on visas for my boss, two servers and a busser. Essentially half of the crew. We came into June and an event that takes a week to get through and is literally the most expensive time consuming time of year. It doesn't get any worse I had over fifty hours of overtime. And then the denials came pouring in. No boss, no servers no busser.

But, I was promoted! Put on salary and handed the reigns of a half staffed restaurant halfway though the season. I have done no celebrating of any kind. I immediately started interviewing servers hired replacements for the ones that weren't coming back brought in a new busser, re-designed my outdated too small reservation book. Re-printed my wine list taking off the Berringer White Zinfadel.

So far i'm tired. Pretty content with how things are but, tired. I would like to have a day off. I desperately need to shop for work clothes. And I have a motley crew of interesting personalities some of which will probably make it on to my blog maybe i'll find time to actually write my blog. There are funny things to talk about. Somehow stupid shit that happens during service is a lot funnier when you're just a waitress. As a manager.... well... Do I really have to tell a server not to catch their table on fire? Yes, apparently I do.