Repairs
Convection oven on the fritz again. This time a new element....$531.00
Salad Cooler - Compressor down $781.00
This is why you pay $30.00 for a bottle of wine which you can buy at the wine shop for $15.00.
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Convection oven on the fritz again. This time a new element....$531.00
Salad Cooler - Compressor down $781.00
This is why you pay $30.00 for a bottle of wine which you can buy at the wine shop for $15.00.
The new computer system is up and running. A server was in tears last Saturday night. I had a melt down over the system. My manager had a melt down over the system. Luckily we all melted at different times and could help each other out. That's what I call a team. The three of us have worked together on our old system for years and you know what they say about teaching an old dog new tricks....The servers without any problems are the young, technically mobile ones.
My manager stayed until 1:30 pm Saturday night trying to repay incorrectly closed checks. I stayed on until 3:30 am and would have pulled an all nighter except that the system closes down between 3:00am and 7:00am and I couldn't figure out how to reset those hours. I charged one customer 3 times for the same dinner. Since all the credit card numbers are masked, I couldn't tell. Luckily, he is a loyal regular and I was able to make the correction the next day.
But now, almost one week later, we are becoming friends with the computer. I am a little more proficient with it and can make most corrections to the database without too much trouble. But our specials were ringing up for $384.00 last night, so.....
You will not find me mentioning a restaurant that I have anything bad to say about. Life's too short and there are enough people out there with a burr up their butt who get pleasure in doing this.
My husband, daughter and I went to Osteria on North Highland Avenue for a quick bite last week. We sat outside on a beautiful evening and had a wonderful meal. I love the wine in little glasses and would do this at my restaurant if I had the guts. The petite desserts are a brilliant idea and trend. Their arugula salad is delightful. We had pizza, calamari and shrimp pasta and broiled trout. Our server Holly was so good I would have tried to steal her if I did that kind of thing, but I don't. Lovely!
I guess most restaurants have office managers, marketing people, but I don't.....I have Marketing Assistance from a wonderful friend Julia Roberts of Robert's Resource. I pay her in trade and take her to the Bahamas with me. My Chef de Cuisine pays the kitchen bills, I pay the house bills and balance the checkbook. I do my month end paperwork, not because I don't want my CPA to do it, he's terrific too, but because I want to see where the money is going and why my linen bill went from $850.00 a month to $1100.00. Perhaps I will change my ways some day.
and drinking mojitos and she is complaining about my lack of blog postings. I have worked for 12 days straight, 10 - 13 hours a day. I'm pooped. The $12,000.00 Point of Sales System is up but not without tons of problems and what should have been fun and exciting has been as wonderful as 65 hours of hard child birth. My manager is telling me to go home....so that's what I'm going to do.
Am I going to my weight watchers meeting in the morning....I DON'T THINK SO......
