Holiday Workers

Happy Fourth!

I hope you were having a barbecue in your back yard with friends and family enjoying the muggy buggy air and the fifteen minute firework display. I was on the boat.

Now, I don't mind working holidays, but I do mind when people are extremely rude to their servers. I don't make any extra money working holidays, so please don't put me through extra work, OK? I will bring you your drinks as I can, and you will say, 'Thank You,' not, 'Finally.'

Please understand that anytime a restaurant is busy back-up in the line ensues. Whether in the kitchen or at the bar, more people equals more wait. Now add holiday 'cheer' and you have people wanting twice as much as normal so there is extra back-up. Now add under staffing, bad inventorying, general confusion, and literal rocking of the boat, and God damn it your going to have to wait for your third cosmo. And with a smile I will deliver it and take your rude remark, and no tip.

This is the life of a holiday server. Next time you choose to dine out on the holidays remember that manners and patience are still common practice, and if yo9ur going to be a selfish prick at least have the decency to leave 20%.