Well the restaurant officially hit summer I think. We basically triple our staff, and there is always a day where EVERYONE starts coming to me with problems. Chef started today by telling me fucked up the schedule when he realized that, and was getting ready to do a double. Which works out in my favor because I told him no, I'll be fine. He has a double tomorrow because he schedules me off on Friday, I did not ask for it
Friday night is fucking hard, I don't think this is going to last, but the only other option is I have to come in and do orders on my day off, which is fine but I don't want to so I'm taking the fridays until it fails
If I keep getting my day shifts on the weekends I have no problem doing a thursday order, they are already about to get complicated as all fuck so I'll be working on them on my day off anyway. Sysco is unfortunately my main purveyor, and the local warehouse is reducing their stock, so I have to start doing an extra order the day before at the end of the month so they can send feeder trucks from Seattle. It's a fucking shitshow and I am confident I will be dropping Sysco when this inevitably doesn't work. I got US Foods showing up every week showing me how they improved their delivery system, but they literally didn't show up like five times a few years ago and I'm still pissed
I had to talk like three servers out of quitting this week. Like I'm not even their manager and normally they don't like it when I make front of house decisions lol. So here we go I guess
I get to be a real big asshole to my bosses when this happens. Two people are getting fired, one person is getting censured because I can't suspend them anymore, and at least one more is going to have to sit down and explain why they aren't accomplishing their position. It's fucking weird, but as soon as we hit our summer I just become in charge. Like I always have had a switch, but I get away with telling the owner what to do, and he just goes and does it usually. It blows my fucking mind that I get away with this
Like today I talked to him for like fifteen minutes and doubled the budget for new equipment. idk if they just suck at explaining things, I am not always involved in these because I'm fourth in that line. Owner, GM, chef, then me, then the other FoH managers, then the kitchen supervisors that aren't really supervisors yet. They need to show me they can be in charge, one of them does but he kind of is a shitty line cook. The other one is a great line cook but a worthless supervisor, I have to constantly remind her that talking to her friends is not work
I got away with changing my least favorite dish without an argument this time, so that's a plus. It was embarrassing, I honestly just 86'd every night I was alone. Like I was saying, Ben uses some fucking AI thing a lot. It was a crostini with goat cheese, strawberries, and balsamic glaze
It's still that but at least I made it somewhat more. Now it's whipped goat cheese topped with like a strawberry relish thing with some seasoning and then the glaze. He usually gets really fucking mad and we have a big fight when I change his stuff
But dude i can't sell that for 15 dollars. Like we are far from high cuisine, but come on. If I was handed that I would be upset, and it takes a lot to upset me when I go out. I don't go out to eat with expectations, and I not pay for that.
Speaking of not having met each other, I only took a few days off this spring before rolling into summer. So I should realistically get about two weeks off this fall, though Chef won't like it that's my problem. We should have at least one of these supervisor kids that can run a shift by then, they were supposed to be able to do it this year and that didn't happen, but that's on me for not training them well enough I guess
Anyway, I'll be in San Antonio to see some friends again this year, I'm half tempted to pull off what I did last time and just move there and hope for the best
I don't think we'll have another global pandemic that closes the thing I open again, but then again we're kind of looking at some bullshit in the world....
I'll bring it up again when we're a little closer, but it might be cool. We might also decide we hate each other and then I come home and find myself banned again lol
And I just got an update that I'm not getting a bunch of shit tomorrow and I take it all back, I fucking hate this job and I don't want to fucking deal with it anymore. Where the fuck do I get cooked turkey breasts in fucking June? I've never had to find this before.
I guess we'll see if the other reps can come in clutch, otherwise I have a shit ton of phone calls to make in about four hours because I can't otherwise fix this until monday