Mother's Day Eve Miracle
Hi, I work at a winery. It's also full restaurant. Most unpredictable place I've ever worked. We're pretty popular and we take reservations. May or May not have walk ins, you never know.
Yesterday we were packed--Mother's day weekend. We're short staffed in the kitchen and the kitchen manager, the one that holds down fort, just had a baby. She wasn't there and they were doing it without her. They did great. But at the end of the night, they were fucked.
Us servers were done with everything. Kitchen was nowhere near done. Not gonna lie, I intentionally announced myself 'If we're done, I'm going back to help them.'
I went to the back and asked what needed done. Started with prep work and moved on to end of night cleaning. There was 6 other servers and we were done. It was late. 4 out of 6 of them showed up in the kitchen and we banged it out, and the kitchen got to leave before midnight.
I am just so proud of my team. I'm the annoying one always stressing teamwork, but watching them come together for something they really didn't have to do just made me so happy.
Then they all came into work today and kept the teamwork mentality and today went so smooth. Kitchen didn't crash out really either, and it might be partially because of yesterday.
We are all in this together. I say it constantly and I get my eyerolls. I'm going to continue to do what I do, because something is working.
Tl;dr Servers helped the kitchen clean and prep last night and it was honestly a magical moment.