Ice Cream Cake

10th February: Location - Sizzlers

Hi readers! If you didn't know already, I finally snagged a job after a little while job hunting and I am now a waitress. So, this is a story from my first night on shift a few days ago - enjoy.

I rocked up looking all neat and proper with my hair bunned back and my snazzy uniform on. Damn I sure was eager to learn the ropes and get working, so straight away I met my trainer and got right into it.
At first, I was like, " WOAH do you guys get strong wrists or something?! ", because carrying lots of dirty plates on a tray is harder then it looks at first. I'm fairly proud though because after about an hour of being my trainers shadow, I took flight and worked solo, taking plates away, farewelling customers, cleaning tables - being pro.

However with all this learning, mistakes had to occur and I made one particularly humorous mistake. Out the back of the restraunt, where you take the dirty plates, are slots in the metal benchtop which you scrape the food scraps into. These slots direct the food into bins below, and so I carried my tray into the backroom and put it down. I was scraping off a big heavy plate with a goopy melted ice cream cake on it, when I looked down and went, Oh dear no.

The icecream cake was all over the floor. Someone had removed the bin underneath to go empty it, and I scraped what was possibly the messiest food item straight onto the floor.
"Hey, urm do you guys have a mop? Got a bit of a fail accident here ", I admitted to my trainer.
"Oh, that's not good", he said and cleaned it up.
"Sorry! That's a mistake I won't make again", I apologised.
He walked away to wash his hands and called back, "Yeah you will!"
"HAHA, you're probably right . . . "

So that's my first mistake at work, aside from a near miss of tipping my tray full of plates all over a customer. It's hard okay!? Wish me all the luck in the world for my next shift. Who know's what will happen then.

Melanie xx