this crap always happens

so, last night we had a party scheduled...supposed to be 20-25 people, and it's actually pretty rare when all of them show up, and it's even rarer for them to show up on time.  if we have a group scheduled for twenty people at six thirty, chances are that we'll get sixteen or seventeen of them around seven, seven fifteen.  and i love how nobody thinks its a big deal.  it's not like we set up half of our restaurant for them, and brought in extra help....oh.....wait....

anyway, the group last night turned out to be 31 people, which was awesome, and they all ate dinner and drank some beers or wine each, so the ticket was huge.  peggy took part of the table and jeana took the other part, and even though peggy's part was 19 people and jeana's was only 12, jeana ended up with more tips.  and peggy threw a hissy fit, and it became this whole big thing, and jeana was crying at one point, and it turned out that i finished before any of the servers.  ANY of them.  only one is supposed to close!  and peggy and jeana were still there, mostly cause peggy was whining and calling the boss and jeana was trying to not bash peggy's head in and get her sidework done, which had gone unattended due to the drama. 

so, from the kitchen perspective, the table went fine.  the boss was hanging around wanting to help but i've told him a million times, as long as i have one other person in the kitchen everything will be ok.  and i had tina and even though she's a little slower than i'd like, she did just fine.  boss is kinda cute, though, when he stands there asking if we want help...he looks like a kid asking for cookies.  we let this group order off the menu, and a lot of times with groups that big, we'll give them a limited menu just to make it easier on the girls and on the kitchen.  lemme see if i can remember what they had..

five matadors (one split)
four tuesday spag specials
one half rack ribs, mashies brown gravy
two chicken fried steaks, mashie chicken gravy
salmon and caper sauce, rice
almond salmon, rice
hamburger steak, mashie brown
meatloaf, mashie brown
two chicken strip baskets
cheeseburger, fries
single lumberjack cheeseburger, fries
country harvest salad
blt wheat toast
french dip, fries

that's all i remember off the top of my head but that's like 23 out of 31 meals.  and i have no reason whatsoever for remembering that.  i'm not gonna need to know that today when i go to work, but...there it is.  anyway. 

back to the salt mines...