Adrenalin

It has only been 24 years since I even WORKED in a restaurant, let alone had the responsibility of operating one.  So, why am I still being blessed with nightmares involving THE INN?  Years ago another former restaurant owner in our area and I were discussing the frequency of our nightmares regarding our former lives operating eating establishments; she had decided that when she was stressed in her new vocation, the old stresses of the restaurant would haunt her sleep.  I agreed with her at that time and we congratulated ourselves that we could awake grateful we did NOT have to deal with that situation any longer.

New theory - I am an adrenalin junkie!!  Do you suppose there is a 12 step group for that?  I am not stressed; quite the opposite in fact.  But low and behold, there I was this early AM dealing with a new table arrangement in the dining room, a new menu printed from the cook's computer, and a customer who had a omlette served at DINNER TIME when our breakfast menu clearly said breakfast only until 11:30.  If one customer gets an omlette for dinner, everyone will want a breakfast any time of the day!!  Oh, and then he was giving me a hard time for taking so long to add up the hand-written ticket...that is when I realized that NO ONE in this century uses hand-written tickets in a restaurant - OK, maybe Mike's Mountain Deli in MiWuk does.  Even the INN now has a computer touch screen with progam that does inventory and ordering based on the items served, and spews out a ticket based on the current prices, taxes, and even a gratuity if your party numbers over SIX. 

I had to chuckle that my restaurant nightmares have not gotten into the 21st Century!  So I awoke charged up with adrenalin and grateful, but also laughing that the haunting had not progressed into the current way of doing business in the restaurant industry.  Like I said above, 24 years ago we did things much differently!