Looooooooooooooooooong shift today.

A short summary:

Lunch was slow. This was expected, as everybody was likely at Territory Days.

We got slammed at dinner. It was slightly crazy. I was busy all night, and then after I got cut (no more tables for Kia), it just got busier for the sections left taking tables. Several of them were talking to the manager in front of the tortilla machine about how they were in trouble and too busy and needed help.

I raised my hand and went, "Guys, I'm still on the clock. I can still take tables."

Three simultaneous tables after that. They all won at life. :3

When all was said and done, I was less than $6 away from breaking $600 in personal sales for that shift. When I went to go cash out with my manager, Les, he told me that he had servers who'd worked six months and "never even sniffed $600." Tonight was my seventh shift at On the Border.

He also told me that I was doing incredibly well, that my fellow servers had nothing but good things to say about me, and that I was exactly what he was looking for in a server/team member and he was glad he'd hired me.

I told him jokingly that he owed me dessert.

...he then bought me dessert. XD Those turtle empanadas are really good.

So yes, I'm incredibly happy with how tonight went. Next shift is lunch on Monday - Memorial Day. That should prove to be interesting indeed.

As a rather random side note, I served food to a table in the bar who remembered me from last summer's job at Spaghetti's. That was random and strange, but somehow pretty cool. XD

In the meantime, I'm going to go crash. I've got early mass tomorrow.