aargh!
First of all, for those of you who don't know, I have in fact bought the coffeeshop where I've been working for the last 2 years. It's kinda crazy but it's fun and I love the business and the customers, or I wouldn't have done it. I'm just a little crazy right now cuz I'm taking 1 or 2 classes all the time too. God I can't wait til I get done at CCAC.
But the reason for my aargh subject is this:
This kid Drew who started coming in with his friend who was a regular and consequently became a regular made friends with the previous owner (Sam) who is a chef. Drew has been cooking most of his life and loves it, and so he and Sam got talking about doing Sunday brunches at the coffeeshop. We used to do a really cool one, but it took Sam and Andy and me to work it, and it just got to be too much once they bought their building and were totally busy all the time. So we hadn't had brunch since probly last august or september. maybe even before that, I don't remember. Drew says he's thinking about moving back to pittsburgh anyway, and maybe he could do the brunch out of the back room and treat it like his own business.
This is the point that I buy the coffeeshop. Then do renovations, where it is proven that drew is an ass and he and I don't get along so great. But nothing major, and I still helped him find a table to serve his food on, busted my butt to get the back room looking great for him (with minimal help on his part). So he starts doing brunch. The first one happens to fall on Mother's Day and we get a decent crowd, but nothing huge since it was a last-minute thing that it would be ready. And then, week after week, he slowly stops trying....first he's makes fewer dishes each week, then he's cleaning up early (he's supposed to serve the entire time we're open but he'd leave an hour early), and then he got sick, and then he didn't have any money so he couldn't do it last weekend either, and then the little fuck comes in this morning and tells me he's not going to do it anymore.
and it's going to make me look bad. because customers don't understand that it's his business, his failure to try, etc, etc....it's in the coffeeshop, so it must be my fault that it went wrong.
AARGH!
so now, I have to sacrifice my one day off with my boyfriend to start making some sort of sunday brunch myself, because people really like the idea and I can't really afford to lose any customers. So I think Andy and I are going to do a create-your-own pancake bar type of thing. It'll be really neat and I don't think it'll be too hard or messy, but it's just annoying, especially cuz we're open til 1 am the night before, and I'm almost always there at that point (with clean up it's usually closer to 2 when i leave). so it just sucks all around.
but wait there's more.
apparently our little fucktard cook has been going to the bar all the time, and last night stupidly told andrew (my coworker and mostly friend) that he was quitting and that he just couldn't stand it anymore, every time he was "in there I just wanted to strangle her"
...
her being me.
wtf?
what exactly have I done to this guy? Except help him start his own business and charge him no rent, only 25% of his sales to make up for the added electricity of his fridge and stuff, not to mention the loss of ALL my storage space that I gave to him as a kitchen.
God forbid I should tell him he really needs to have set times to offer his food, and that he can't just close down for no reason an hour early, or that he needs to post the prices somewhere, along with allergy warnings.....obviously this is so offensive.
GRRRRR!
good thing everyone else thinks he's a dumb fuck too, or I'd actually be mad. But still, it just pisses me off that he turned out to be such a dimwit and waste of energy when it was such a good idea.
maybe I can find someone else to do it eventually.
alright, I have to go write a 10-20 page sales manual for a class final project due on friday. i'm on page 2. just like the good old days.
But the reason for my aargh subject is this:
This kid Drew who started coming in with his friend who was a regular and consequently became a regular made friends with the previous owner (Sam) who is a chef. Drew has been cooking most of his life and loves it, and so he and Sam got talking about doing Sunday brunches at the coffeeshop. We used to do a really cool one, but it took Sam and Andy and me to work it, and it just got to be too much once they bought their building and were totally busy all the time. So we hadn't had brunch since probly last august or september. maybe even before that, I don't remember. Drew says he's thinking about moving back to pittsburgh anyway, and maybe he could do the brunch out of the back room and treat it like his own business.
This is the point that I buy the coffeeshop. Then do renovations, where it is proven that drew is an ass and he and I don't get along so great. But nothing major, and I still helped him find a table to serve his food on, busted my butt to get the back room looking great for him (with minimal help on his part). So he starts doing brunch. The first one happens to fall on Mother's Day and we get a decent crowd, but nothing huge since it was a last-minute thing that it would be ready. And then, week after week, he slowly stops trying....first he's makes fewer dishes each week, then he's cleaning up early (he's supposed to serve the entire time we're open but he'd leave an hour early), and then he got sick, and then he didn't have any money so he couldn't do it last weekend either, and then the little fuck comes in this morning and tells me he's not going to do it anymore.
and it's going to make me look bad. because customers don't understand that it's his business, his failure to try, etc, etc....it's in the coffeeshop, so it must be my fault that it went wrong.
AARGH!
so now, I have to sacrifice my one day off with my boyfriend to start making some sort of sunday brunch myself, because people really like the idea and I can't really afford to lose any customers. So I think Andy and I are going to do a create-your-own pancake bar type of thing. It'll be really neat and I don't think it'll be too hard or messy, but it's just annoying, especially cuz we're open til 1 am the night before, and I'm almost always there at that point (with clean up it's usually closer to 2 when i leave). so it just sucks all around.
but wait there's more.
apparently our little fucktard cook has been going to the bar all the time, and last night stupidly told andrew (my coworker and mostly friend) that he was quitting and that he just couldn't stand it anymore, every time he was "in there I just wanted to strangle her"
...
her being me.
wtf?
what exactly have I done to this guy? Except help him start his own business and charge him no rent, only 25% of his sales to make up for the added electricity of his fridge and stuff, not to mention the loss of ALL my storage space that I gave to him as a kitchen.
God forbid I should tell him he really needs to have set times to offer his food, and that he can't just close down for no reason an hour early, or that he needs to post the prices somewhere, along with allergy warnings.....obviously this is so offensive.
GRRRRR!
good thing everyone else thinks he's a dumb fuck too, or I'd actually be mad. But still, it just pisses me off that he turned out to be such a dimwit and waste of energy when it was such a good idea.
maybe I can find someone else to do it eventually.
alright, I have to go write a 10-20 page sales manual for a class final project due on friday. i'm on page 2. just like the good old days.