umm, whoops

so here i was, all excited to run our now legendary halibut and pub chips, and i made awesome beer batter and the best chips ever, and around seven we had been sort of steady (not busy) and we hadn't sold a single order, and i asked crystal and jessie "why the hell isn't the halibut selling?  people usually love it!" and they both looked at me sort of blankly and jessie said "i had no idea we were even running halibut!"

*sigh*

k, here's the thing...we have this clipboard, and it has what i call the special sheet on it.  this piece of paper has who's working what shifts, what section they're in (for servers), the soup of the day, the specials for the day, and whatever might be 86'd (anything we ran out of).  it's right inbetween the computer where we all clock in and the soup pots, sitting on top of the server microwave.  so, it's pretty much right there where all the servers are all the time and i always look at it when i clock in...it's pretty important for me to know what specials there are, although we run a pretty predictable schedule.  friday and saturday night and sunday morning are different, and occasionally wednesday we do something.  and since i always look at the special sheet, i just assumed all the girls did too.  now, granted, they all work the same shifts every week, and i'm pretty sure they're all in the same sections week in and week out, but still.  it's right there.  look at the special sheet! 

of course after i told them we had the halibut jessie went out and sold one on her next table.  the boss walks by and i go "haha!  none of the girls knew we had a special, and it didn't even get written up on the board.  we just sold our first one."  and he looks at me and just shakes his head and goes back in the office.  classic.  then about a half hour after i get home he calls me and says "lets run the halibut again tomorrow.  make sure the girls know about it.  ok.  thanks."  and pretty much hangs up.  it was like a seventeen second phone call.  and he could have just left me a note on the special sheet for today and i would have seen it.  so i dunno, maybe he thinks it's my fault for not telling everybody that we had the halibut and pub chips.  but, you see, i didn't tell anybody because THERE'S A GODDAMNED SHEET WITH ALL THE INFORMATION ON IT RIGHT SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SERVER STATION!!!

so, yeah.  we're running the halibut again.  also it's boss's birthday and there will be cake involved.  it's my friday and there's a new snl, plus the saints (my team) host the giants (wife's team) on tv tomorrow morning, so it's gonna be a good day off.  but one more day in the trenches, and it's a game day, so hopefully we'll be busy, but the last couple weeks we've slowed down considerably.  by all rights we should be busy on a game day, but last week was homecoming and there was the whole not-having-a-single-ticket-for-an-hour-and-a-half thing going on.  so who knows.  all i know is it's my fave crew to work with, and laughs and good times will be had.