Confessions of a Line Cook: this is getting bad

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

this is getting bad

man, we were slooooow last nite.  barely sold any spaghetti.  and it's only $6.99 people!  all you can friggin eat!  it was boring, and all totaled up i made a whopping six bucks in tips.  barely bought smokes.  usually i'm busy in the afternoon and the mid shift server tips me that much.  yesterday i got two bucks.  it was bad. 

also for some reason we were running chili dogs yesterday.  i had two days off and i guess we became a gas station while i was home.  seriously...chili dogs?  they were actually polish sausages, which technically isn't a dog, but whatever.  i sold one.  after six hours of running it.  i don't think people come in to my restaurant to eat chili dogs.  we also have egg rolls, and it seems like only the servers ever eat them.  i just think some things are kind of situational, and chili dogs are certainly one of those things.  you're at a ball game, sure, go for it.  drunk at 2 am and the 7-11 chili dogs look good, then hop to it.  but coming to a restaurant that doesn't ever serve any sort of hot dog, and ordering a chili dog?  good luck, pal...it's your colon.

anyway the chili was actually pretty good and i ate a cup of it.  it wasn't as cold yesterday but a cup of hot chili went down pretty smooth.  i don't think we have a dinner special today, and our lunch special will undoubtably be something dumb.  for some reason the opening server picks our lunchie, and she never checks to see what we have a lot of or anything, nor does she ever try to be creative, she just picks something off our menu and knocks a buck off of it.  i prefer to make specials that we don't normally have, which makes them special, ya see.  every time i'm allowed to make something up it sells like firecrackers, but most of the time i'm just grumbling under my breath.  anyway.  five bucks says our lunchie is a mushroom burger.  i'll let ya know.

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