There was a special New Year's Eve dinner at Angela's and my first night serving my own tables. It was... interesting. I was only assigned three tables and just purely dealing with the people at the tables was fine. Dealing with drinks and the computers is where I stumbled. I think that if it had been a normal midweek night it would not have been an issue. The restaurant was busy and therefore all the other servers were swamped. Sure, they were willing to answer questions, but the answers were rarely longer than a sentence and were not helpful beyond that exact moment and instance.
However, now I have had another night serving tables and things are starting to smooth out. Now the interesting thing is how little things can slow me down. There are still small things I don't know, but I thought most of them insignificant, things I could figure out on the go. As it turns out, those little things turn into big stumbling blocks when the restaurant is busy and no one can help me through them quickly.
Once again, at least now I know what my stumbling blocks are and I can work on getting them out of the way, one day and one bundle of questioning customers at a time.
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