hi all,
well we made it thru the busy thanksgiving holiday rush at work. it is tradtionally the busiest week of the year for us. with wednesday and sunday being two of the busiest days of the year. they are traditionally the busiest traffic days of the year. this year was down a bit to previous ones. i think the economy played a large role in sales being down. we were staffed and ready for anything and all ran very well, we got everyone in and out very fast so they could all get to their families to enjoy their turkey. hope you all had a great holiday as well if not i'm sorry, but that's life not some fairy tale

a busy time ahead

well, it's that time of year again. the holidays are upon us. this is a tough time of year for our family because my wife lost her father almost 2 years ago. he passed away in janurary of '08 and is dearly missed by his loved ones and everyone to whom he called friend.

this is also a busy time coming up next week for me. thanksgiving week is just about the busiest week of the year at work for me. we should do almost 50k in sales next week with wednesday and sunday being the 2 busiest days of the week. hopefully all runs well and we take care of our customers very well.

that's life, not some fairy tale

busy day off

well, it's wednesday and my day off is all over for this one. not much of a day off though. i spent it helping family with some of their projects, which is fine with me, it's never a problem when you are helping family. first i helped my father clean his rain gutters out then went to my mother in law's house and helped her rake all the leaves in the yard. at home we went grociery shopping and got all the food we needed to fill the empty cabinets and refrigerator. the best part of the day was that my wife did not have to work today so we got to sleep in late, we did not get up until about 8:30am, which for us is late since we have a 3 year old who is usually up by 7 to 7:30am. well i have to go now, my son is done having his bedtime snack, a yougart, and it's time to read him a book and get him off to bed. that's life, not some fairtale.

sunday in the park

hey all, just another sunday of work for me. i did a lot of work yesterday around the house. i installed 2 new mirror closet doors, one in the front hallway and one in our bedroom. the only pain in the butt part was having to trim the runners down to size. i also put up some plastic around some windows to prevent drafting in the bedrooms, only one did not stay up, i guess the tension from the shrinking got to it so i will have to re-do it today. but for now i am off to work to take care of the hungry public. hopefully i will get home in time to see the end of the patriots game. i do have 2 tickets with tailgate passed for the jet's game in a couple weeks so that will be great. that's life not some fairy tale

same old same old

another day in this world. we are up early to get ready for another busy day. i will bring my son to preschool/daycare then come back home to get ready to go to work. i need to follow up on my 2 new hires and then my managers to make sure they are getting ready for our inspection next week. it is one i am doing on them to help get us ready for the one our district manager is going to do on all of us at our restaurante. we are always doing things by the book and we keep our place very clean, but this is an above and beyond white glove inspection because it is the first step in getting the restaurante recertified to become a training store. that is something it has not been since the district manager was the general manager of this location. the manager that was there before me ran the place into the ground and i have been working very hard to rebuild it and we have made some great strides to that end in the couple of months that i have been there. we have gotten standards for both product and cleaning back in order and also gotten rid of the employees who were dead weight and did not want to do the right thing and brought a bunch of new people in and trained them the right way and work with them to do the right thing every day. so now it is time to go and deal with keeping the ball rolling. that's life not some fairy tale.

the way it is

a long day today up at 6am to bring my son to pre-school then off to work. people that work for you should not ask you to help train them on what they need to learn if they cannot handle hearing the truth. when you are working on someones people skills and they have a tendency to go from an even keel to spiking to mt. everest when something isn't done perfectly right they need to hear about it. sensitive personalities are the toughest to work with. this guy will see something done not exactally right and hit the roof then continue to harp on the person about it for an hour instead of camly dealing with the problem in a training way and moving on. no-one wants to keep being pounded about the infraction over and over again, especially when it is not something that is an easy fix. if you cannot handle being taught the right way to deal with people and trained yourself without getting overly emotional and almost crying when you are a grown man, then there is a problem. that's life not some fairy tale

another day

well it's monday and back to work again today. up at 4am to be to work by 5am to do inventory and start another week of fun. running the busiest restaurante in your company has a lot of ups and downs. the bosses are always expecting you to be at the top of all the different catigories when it comes to sales, guest counts and average check. that is not always possible every week. for me it is about being consistant thru the year and not having a lot of ups and downs in the catigores. i know come the end of the year i will be on top in most of the major catigories that count in the end.