I worked from 9:30-5 today and it was totally dead in the morning so I was cleaning the big fridges in the kitchen, it’s not a bad job it just takes ages cos there’s three of them. It stayed quiet until about 12:30 and then it was busy for about an hour but it was manageable and I was on the till/taking out orders for most of it.

After I’d had my lunch, a very tasty cup of plum tomato and basil soup (which I’m hoping we’ll also have tomorrow) and half a baguette for dipping, it got really busy and we were totally backed up to the point where there was dirty tables everywhere and a twenty minute wait for coffees. There was only three of us in (Nalin, Ros and myself) and really it was pretty much like a Saturday so there should have been four of us on. I don’t know if Nalin didn’t realize it was a holiday or what but it was chaos.

Eventually Nalin had to phone Emma and ask her to come in early and that helped a lot and we got caught up so I left a clean Beanscene behind. Hopefully it won’t be as busy tomorrow even though it’s still a holiday for the schools.

I really don’t like when it gets chaotic like that, unless I’m on the till. I’m really good at the till but when I’m doing coffees and there’s a lot of checks I get really confused and muddle things up. I think Nalin’s realized that as she always puts me on the till when it’s busy. I’m hoping that’s OK and not a think she’d let me go over.

I’m in tomorrow from 9:30-3 so that should be a bit easier. Really not looking forward to my 9-6 on Friday…

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