SLOWEST DAY EVER!

This is pretty sad but Saturday mornings are usually my busiest days out of all the days that I work and yesterday was the slowest day EVERRRRRR! I only made 40 bucks. Seriouslyyyyyy.....the struggle. Gosh what a sad weekend. First world problems. Waitress Problems. It's hard when you get that monayyyy coming and all of a sudden jack crap. ughhhhhh okay I'm done. Happy Mother's Day folks! And happy ending day of Blogging :)

Work Work Work

I feel like my life has become all about school and work. I work more than I go to school and feel like I live at my restaurant. Now that school is almost done this month of May is going to be one crazy month  with all the extra shifts and doubles I'll be working. But hey it's going to be all worth it in the end with all the tips I will hopefully get :) I didn't have any fab story this week. Sorry guys lame post this week!

Still working when I'm off...

So the restaurant that I work at I so happen to live like 5 minutes away. My family loves eating there after church for breakfast. Fortunately, I have Sundays off and I like it because I get to spend time with my family. Although sometimes I don't like going where I work to eat because I feel like I'm there so damn much. Also because I feel weird that the waitresses that I work with are serving me and I'm just sitting there enjoying my food. This morning, we had one of the newer waitresses serve us. She's kind of ditzy and sometimes I think she doesn't know what she's doing but anywho. She comes to our table and I'm watching her waiting to see if she'll recognize me while she's putting down our settings. Once she sees me she's like, "Omg, why am I doing this?" "You should be doing this!" I'm thinking okay yeah I can do it but like I should just serve my own table then. So I take the settings and I start setting up my OWN table and then I tell her what drinks everyone wants (because we go there so often that I know what everyone wants). She goes to go get it and I'm like you know what I'll help her out and write out on a piece of paper everyone's orders. So I write down everyone's order and gave her the paper and she's like wow that helps! And then she takes forever to get our drinks and our toast. Then she comes out with the food and she has no idea where it all goes so she's like here I'm just guna give all the food to you since you know where it all goes. After we're done eating I'm gathering all the dirty plates and piling it so that it's less work for the buss boys. Then she takes forever to give us the check and after all that my grandma pays and she gets a 15% percent tip. I mean yeah she was a waitress but I think I helped her out a lot.....JUST SAYING lol.

Perks of being a Waitress

I notice a lot of the time I'm complaining about the kind of customers I have and what they do. But every so often, I have my good days and I remind myself why I love being a waitress. It definitely pays off when you get more money in tips in just three days than your 2 week paycheck. This weekend was definitely a good weekend money wise and I was in a good mood therefore I had happy customers. Happy customers=Happy Chelsea Yaaaaay!

Renewing of Vows

Friday night I had a party of 30. A couple renewed their vows and decided to have their "reception" at my restaurant. They made the reservation for 6:45 p.m. and didn't end up coming till 7. I had all the tables set up and luckily had all their waters made. They had a fixed menu so they were only able to order certain things THANK GOD. It got kind of frustrating because I would take orders based on tables so that everything would come out table by table but some people kept adding on things and they would order for people not on their table. When I made the salads no one remembered what they ordered so I would put it on the table that I remembered I got the order from and then they would tell me they never got their salad because they moved seats. All the kids were running around all over the place and it was just so chaotic. After all of that the bill came out to $150.00 and I got tipped $20. At first I was like wow okay I guess that's more than 10 percent but now that I think of it holy crap all that I had to deal with and $20??? Idk that's just my thoughts...

Sing it woman!

Another one for the books! I have a coworker who is from the Philippines and her accent is very strong. On Wednesday night, a lady comes in and my coworker goes anywhere ma'am! The lady with a sassy attitude, "well the sign says please wait to be seated" and my coworker goes yes but you can sit anywhere. Already I can tell this is going to be one heck of a customer. My coworker goes up to her and goes, "hello ma'am what can I get for you?" The lady says, "How is the hamburger steak made?" and my coworker goes we cook it well done and the lady interrupts her and says, "WELL I WANT IT RARE!" She goes okay ma'am we can do that. She then asks what she wants with her hamburger steak  and she says she wants potatoes and toss salad. My coworker then brings out her toss salad and she eats it. When my coworker brings out her hamburger steak she's crying. We have no idea why she's crying and she doesn't ask. She takes one bite of the hamburger steak and then takes a menu from another table and then pushes the plate away from her. She calls my coworker over and says I said I wanted a hamburger steak and she goes you know a hamburger steak like from McDonalds! (LADY THAT'S A HAMBURGER!) My poor coworker goes back to get her her hamburger. She and another table (which was coincidently my mom and brother) are the only people eating in the restaurant. I was sitting down with them since I had no other customers and all of a sudden the lady starts singing along to the radio that's playing in the dining area. Adele was playing. She literally starts singing along, "I HEARD THAT YOU....SETTLED DOWN...THAT YOU...FOUND A GIRL..."She literally sang her heart out like no one else was in the restuarant. My mom, brother, and I tried so hard to hold in our laughter. I honestly think she was crazy or something.

Drive Thru Take Out

So Friday night I had this old man come in and ask me, "Do you have this?" In his hand was a old bill envelope that had, "Veggie Stir Fry, no fish sauce, no mushrooms!" I'm assuming he was getting it for someone else and I said ohh no sorry sir we only have chopped chicken with vegetables or chopped steak with vegetables we don't have any veggie stir fry. He smiles and says, "okay I'll be back." Being that he's an old man he's walking outside back to his car to go tell his wife that's waiting in the drivers seat. I'm watching them talk and the wife sends him back in. He finally comes back in and says, "What kind of chicken is it?" I tell him it's chicken thighs with teri sauce. He smiles and says, "Okay, I'll be back." Being that the poor man can hardly walk I tell him do you want me to just talk to your wife? lol. So I end up going outside to their car and doing the takeout order with his wife. lol. I tell the wife that it's chicken thighs with teri sauce and she goes, "Ohh chicken thighs are awful!" I go ummmm okay....and she goes, "It is good?" I said yeah it's pretty popular. She goes okay I'll have that and make sure there's no fish sauce (We don't use fish sauce at all). I go okay do you want fried rice, rice or potatoes? She said ohh what's in your fried rice? I say there's white onions, green onions, luncheon meat, and bacon bits. She goes ohh no no no I can't have that and just gets white rice. Then I ask if they want toss salad or mac salad and she goes is there fish in your mac salad and I said yes there's tuna inside and she goes, "Ohh no I can't have that I'm basically vegetarian." Umm lady you just ordered chicken for Pete's sake! But I just said okay Toss it is then! lol. I tell you there's always those few customers that never fail to blow my mind.

NO TIP

I get it that tipping is not mandatory but I get so annoyed when I give such good service and get NO TIP. I don't know if it's the location where my restaurant is or the kind of people that come through but it just happens way too often. Today I had 9 teenagers come in and they were acting immature and singing and laughing super loud. They all ordered drinks in the largest size and when they ordered each person ordered 2 things. Thank god it was one bill! The bill comes out to $118 and there was one girl who paid for the whole thing. They leave and NO TIP! I feel like if teenagers don't know to tip they shouldn't be coming into restaurants that they can't afford. uggggghhhhh :( Okay sorry that's my little vent sesh!

Drop it like it's Hot!

So my restaurant is located in Kahalu'u so there are a lot of locals that come in and never cease to amaze me with the kind of things they do and say. Last night it was getting kind of busy and I had a party of 6 come in. When I got to the table I started placing down all the napkins and putting a fork and knife on each napkin. As I was putting the settings down the uncle on the table goes, "Ho babes, you can just drop it like it's hot no need make nice."(Meaning that I can just put it down and don't need to set it all up for them) I laughed so hard. First thing, never has anyone told me to "drop it like it's hot" and the second is that he was totally serious. He totally said it in moke action to which is what made it so much more funnier.

Runaways

So tonight, I had some really weird customers. There were two ladies and I came up to them and greeted them. I put the settings down and then one lady asked, "What kind of tea do you guys have?" I said we have green or black tea and then she said she wanted green. The other lady asked, "What kind of drinks do you have?" I don't know if it's because I am a waitress that I developed this annoyance when people ask what kind of drinks do we have when the menu is staring right at them with what kind of drinks we have. So I showed her the area where we have the drinks and she asked, "Do you have tea with no caffeine?" and I said no we don't and she says, "Ohh, okay I'll just have a small coke!" Uhh hello lady you just asked for something with no caffeine and now you want a soda!! ugh anways. So then I asked if they were ready to order and she said yes I will have your chicken caesar salad. The "no caffeine lady" says do you guys have anchovies? I said no we don't sell just anchovies but we have anchovies in our caesar so she said ohh okay I'll have your chicken caesar too. I said okay and then went to go put in the order. While the order was going, I went to go clean my other dirty tables and while cleaning my tables I spilt a cup of water and it got on the floor. I went to get the mop and cleaned up the water. Not realizing that I forgot to make the two ladies drinks, their two caesars came out already. As I was getting ready to take the caesars out, the other waitress working with me says, "Aye, do you know that your table with the two ladies just ran out?" I ran out to find them and saw them running away towards Subway which is like 3 stores down. I'm yelling for them saying, "HEEEELLLLOOO! HELLLLO!" And they totally ignored me. Obviously I'm not going to go into subway and be like wtf why did you just leave? So I just went back into my restaurant. I was so confused, I mean idk if they were mad that I didn't bring their drinks out? But usually people just say ohh excuse me can we have our drinks? Or if they change their mind about eating there they usually say excuse sorry can we cancel our order. But I just thought that was so rude. My cooks made your food and you just run away and leave without saying anything. Weirddddd.

Dine & Dash

My first blog is going to be about a customer that did something very interesting. Last week, I had a older guy come in and he was by himself. The restaurant was empty so I told him to sit anywhere. He sat down and I asked him what he wanted to drink and he said decaf coffee. I went to get his coffee, came back then he ordered. He ordered a Mahi plate with rice and mac salad. I put in his order then got his salad ready. I dropped off his salad and then came back to the wait area to wait for his food. His food finally came out and then I dropped it off at his table. Right when I dropped off his food he asked for the check. I thought okay that's strange maybe he's just in a rush. I go and get his check and he had a $100 bill on the table. I grab the bill and go to take care of it. Another customer comes in...she's a regular....and I say hi and already know that she's going to have her daily coffee. I drop off the bill to the guy at his table and go to get the coffee for my regular customer. I walk into the dining area and the older guy is GONE! I give the coffee to my other customer and go over to the table that the older guy was at and his mahi wasn't even touched. There was no bite into it at all. He did leave me tip though. I just thought that was so weird. To order food and not even eat it??? I just didn't get it. He ate his salad and drank his coffee but didn't touch his food. I look outside and I see him drive off. I just couldn't wrap my head around that for the rest of the night. That was probably the most strangest thing that's ever happened to me!