(When someone orders tea I hate it...hate them...and hate
doing it!!! There is nothing worse than being in the weeds and
someone orders hot tea. I have worked in 4 star restaurants
and everyone I talk to hates tea service it is a royal pain , time
consuming, and in my opinion stupid! What is wrong with easy
coffee???!!!)
It takes 20 steps to serve tea; here they are:
1. Take the order.
2. Find the tea box.
3. Bring the tea box to the table, watch as they slowly pick a tea
like it was
choosing a funeral plot.
4. Bring the tea box back to the service station.
5. Find a lemon, which you have most surely just ran out of so you
have to run to the walk in and find a lemon, find a knife, find a
cutting board, cut the lemon in 6 equal parts.
6. Get a saucer and a cup !
7. Locate a metal tea pot amongst the scattered smallwares tossed in
a bus tub by the dishwashers.
8. Heat the metal tea pot or the water will be warm not hot when you
get it to the table .
9. Get sugar
10. Pour a pot of skim milk. (God forbid you bring milk or
half and half!)
11. Check your station, which has now completely fallen apart for
the sake of one $1.75 cup of tea.
12. Finally you get all the above listed items to the table and lo
and behold what would they want with the tea !?? Of course,
the last thing on this planet you want to hear: "CAN I
PLEASE have some honey with my tea?"
13. At this point, ready to snap, you go to the kitchen ask the chef
for honey, which he does not have.
14. Find the manager to give you the keys to the locked store
room...who is now in your section, talking to all of the angry
customers wondering where their server is!
15. Unlock the store room, desperately searching for the
honey. Discover that it is huge 10 gallon jug.
16. Realizing you do not have anything to put the honey in,
rush back to the kitchen with the tub of honey and look for a small
dish.
17. Grab the dish, put the honey in it, and rush it to the table
like a rabbit.
18. As soon as you put the honey down the stupid person of course
then asks: Can I have a spoon?
19. Rush back to the service station--no spoon! Go back into
the dining room and take a spoon from one of your coworker's
settings and bring it to the table.
20. Finally the tea is done. But nooooo! "CAN I
HAVE SOME MORE HOT WATER?"
--Eddie, from The
Funky Monkey Cafe
