Another day at work…

…at the (Irish-y) burger joint in the first floor of a historic hotel, where I work now:

1) A (South Asian from South Asia) table of five (twenty-somethings) comes in, and as often occurs, they hop all over the place with their order, and one (curly and messy-haired) (lighter-skinned) (bespectacled) (girl) gives this order with her hamburger toppings – she’s substituting a black bean patty, and then has a number of other specifications, like most customers do – and then after I key this all in on the keypad, she’s like, “Oh yes, and I want some cheese,” which is a b*tch, since you can’t add cheese at that point without majorly upping the price, you’d have to originally key in the order as a cheeseburger in order to get a fair price for the customer, so I tell her that in so many (nice) words for next time, and I then delete that item and I have to enter everything in again, partially from memory and partially from re-inquiring with her about toppings.

And, one guy wants a milkshake, which is time-intensive and we have to make ourselves, and my coworker gives me guidance in conjunction with the posted instructions that are tacked onto the dessert cooler back in “the server alley,” but I make the 3 scoops of ice cream too large, and though there’s usually some left over for you to pour into a separate glass and sip, this time there was enough to make an entirely separate second milkshake, so I get to have that, which is kind of nice, just that once.

The bill is $72, paid by the (imperious) (darker-skinned) (male) shake-drinker, with $0 tip.

2) In that same area by the blender and milkshake instructions and dessert cooler in “the server alley,” there’s two tall quart containers filler with mixed nuts and cinnamon-and-sugar dusted cashews, left over from a recent wine tasting event in the reception room where our kitchen assembled the charcuterie boards and the event staff brought in the wines for the wine tasting.

At first I grab them directly with my hand, but then I realize that’s gross, and so I take two soup spoons and put one in each container, and I use the spoon to lift the nuts up and dump them into my hand, from which point I then raise them to my mouth to eat them.

After I’m done eating, too, I just leave the soup spoons in the containers, for anyone who wants some nuts in the future.