“Water will be just…” before I could continue my sentence another waitress …show more content…
Is there anything else I can get you?”
“I think this will do for now. Thanks!”
She departs and once again I am left alone. I look outside the party room to see if it had died down yet but the restaurant seemed to be still packed. By the looks of it you could tell this was definitely a family restaurant. In the back table two teenagers sat on what seemed like their first date, a group of older men sat playing cards while their wives tell the latest gossip, and to the right sits a couple with their 3 kids. What a wonderful environment for local townspeople to come together and eat.
Here comes my food. My mouth starts to water as I smell this greasy cheeseburger in front of me. As my waitress sets down my food in front of me she explains her shift ends soon and Debra will now be my waitress. I quickly ask if she could spare me a few minutes and have a quick interview with me. She agreed to the interview and sat down.
“Hi, I guess I should properly introduce myself, I am Ashleigh Metzger. I just had a few questions about the …show more content…
Ask me anything.”
“Alrighty. Let’s start. As I can see tonight you were extremely busy, how do you plan for a busy night?”
“Normally for the waitresses we stock up all togo boxes, cups, and napkins. Next we make sure we have plenty of lettuce salad, dressings, butter, sour cream, and ice. Pretty much all we do is stock up anticipating the busy night. However, tonight we were not thinking we were going to be this busy so we were not very prepared.”
“How many people did you expect to do tonight and how many people did you actually do?”
“Tonight we were planning on doing around 50 people but tonight we ended with 124 people.”
“Oh my goodness.”
“Yeah you are telling me. We were a bit stressed out but now it is starting to calm down so all is good.”
“That seems like a very busy night. I noticed in the restaurant many different ages in tonight is it typically like this or is there usually a majority on the age of who eats