Can I Take Your Order???

If you want to skip and go to just my blonde moments, they're listed at the bottom!

For the past 3 days, I have been training to start serving at Cracker Barrel. For the first two nights, I "shadowed" my trainer and just made drinks, cleaned, refilled drinks, and put some orders into our ordering computer. Tonight, I served while my trainer "shadowed" me. It was crazy!

I started off serving one man, and I had a really goofy look on my face the whole time from nerves. When he left though, he left me a note with the words "Good Job!" and a smiley face...so that made me feel more confident. The next group was a large group of 6 with kids....and I think I made them nervous because when I was passing out drinks I may or may not have come close to knocking over a sweet tea on someone...luckily I did not do that....just almost did.

Whenever you are training, you should only have about 3 tables because literally you have no idea what is going on. Not only was it a Friday night, but I had 5 tables. At one point only 2 were taken, but then 3 tables got sat in the rest at once (triple-sat) so I had to greet everyone, take orders, and continue to my next guest....so basically things were busy for me and slow for people waiting for their orders to be taken. And, some of those people who came in during that time included: Mack, Avery, and Matthew...as much as I wanted to chit chat with them, my trainer was like "MOVE FAST" so I could not talk to them which was sad.

After all of our tables left from the group that triple sat, we were really slow. I ended up leaving 15 minutes early, and I got compliments from 5 guests, 2 managers, 2 of my trainers, and other servers. Most of them couldn't believe that I had never served somewhere else before, which was good to hear! Now I am officially a server!

Blonde Moments:
-Almost knocking a sweet tea on a poor woman who I scared
-Refilling a sweet tea with un-sweet tea (which someone pointed out as I did it, and I fixed it!)
-Telling someone we have Vinaigrette dressing when we actually have only oil and vinegar
-Refilling a Sprite with water....which I realized after the drink looked really weird...but in my defense, the woman handed me her class and asked for me because she thought I brought out Sprite.
-I can't even begin to count how many words I pronounced wrong and all of my stuttering moments....most people were patient with me though!


And FYI, if you go in before August 13 whenever they go away forever, try the Campfire Beef or Chicken....the meat is slow roasted with corn, potatoes, and carrots and the are AWESOME! Also, my recent obsession is the turnip greens with apple cider vinegar....I never ate them until this week but they are AMAZING there!