So I didn't have time to write this when I got back but I had Spring Break recently from Feb 25- Mar 6. Yes I'm aware it was extremely early but my school gets out at the end of April so it makes sense for them to have their break early. Any who I had put on Hoot Staff that I wanted to work certain days and requested it I'm not sure what happened but they scheduled me to work from Feb 26 which is a Saturday at night till March 5th I was working literally every single day! I hung out with seven people so it wasn't so bad. I couldn't understand it though I was completely thrilled when I was at work usually after 3 back to back shifts I get cranky because I'm tired but not this time did every shift with joy. I worked at the Hooters of Baltimore Saturday morning March 5th it was fantastic well organized, bus boys were on point so were the girls when it came to the bar and birthday parties. It was like being busy didn't matter you stopped whatever you were doing for a picture or birthday if you had the time. It was very active so you didn't really relax much, they also didn't have regulars but that makes sense they mostly get tourist anyway. Your much more likely to sell merchandise there or get bigger tips because most people go for the experience. Oddly enough it took some getting used to Kiara and I both went to work that morning, we were used to greeting the door with "Hi, Welcome To Hooters!" and when we slung in orders we said "Order In" not here you just said hi and slung the order in. I honestly wouldn't mind working there again it gave me a whole new view of being prepared and prompt as well as organized. When I came back to work at my home Hooters of Laurel it was chaos it didn't make sense why it was hectic I say this because the girls were making everything chaotic it was like I was thrown into hell and my punishment was to fix everything. I had a fairly decent amount of tables and still managed to keep up with them while helping Lauren, our bartender, with delivering food and putting her dishes away as well as delivering orders for other girls. Yet they were having so much trouble and to busy to do one birthday. I was even more disgusted at the fact we had no drinking cups on the East side of the wait station nor knives and the dish tubs were full and unmoved. I was talking to Prisliza she has been here 11 months while I was here for 10 so were know the old ways this new batch of girls were trained rather poorly when it came to work ethic. Lauren agreed with me and she's been here for I think 2 or 3 years. Prisliza was saying that the only reason why the girls think John, manger of Hooters of Baltimore, is mean is because he does his job and he does it well. I was inspired that day to become a trainer I couldn't take it. I was on the ball but furious at how poorly they had control of the restaurant. When we had cuts I had tables on both sides and still kept up with them.
The point is that I can't wait to come back for the summer and do my best to be the best. I gave up that idea when I was trying to avoid getting so many voids. Now I feel motivated to try different things with Hooters. I recently tried out for the 2012 HC, I plan to try out for the bikini contest, as well as do more promos. So tell me what you think I should focus on or if you want to know something in particular let me know.
Ttfn xoxo, Hootie's Girl
