Waiting In Vegas

She’s Asleep Now

3 May 2010

Tonight started off slowly. One person called out and wasn’t replaced. Another person left pretty early. We didn’t get busy until 10 p.m. or so. 30 minutes later all of the computers went down. The problem was with the network itself. We could technically ring new tickets in and recall them on the same computer. [...]

The Course Line Key

27 December 2009

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Anyone who has waited tables for a number of years has probably witnessed an advancement in the computer systems used within the industry. Years ago, before computers, all servers wrote orders by hand and walked them into the kitchen. Now most places use a computer system that stores the tickets in a database and sends [...]

Freebasing Calgon With a Vodka I.V.

7 June 2009

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Have you ever had one of those days where freebasing calgon while attached to a central I.V. of vodka just wouldn’t quite do the trick? Today began innocently enough but soon turned into a cluster fuck nightmare – and remained so up until I was walking out of work. I was in a large station [...]