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flirting with the bartender to remember who was next. One of the new tables is a group of four very beautiful young women. You are yelled at in the kitchen because one of the male servers has a standing order with the hostess that ALL beautiful single women are to be seated in HIS section. You deliver the new fish-taste-free glass of water.

You get the food and drink orders from the new tables. One wants a special version of one of the dishes, which means that you have to type in the instructions to the kitchen. After you place the orders, you check on the first table's entrees. One of them is wrong. Two of the three cooks are talking on their wireless headsets. The other is listening to very loud music on headphones. None of them hear you when you tell them you need a rush on the replacement meal. You have to bang on the stainless steel counter to get their attention. They are pissed that they have to re-do it. You take the other three plates out, explain that the other dish will be right up and go to the bar for your drink orders. They have seated a fourth table for you.

The drinks are served and the replacement meal is ready, which you serve immediately. The customer asks for ranch dressing, honey mustard and ketchup, plus a dish of tomatoes. You go back to the kitchen. Your other orders are not only not ready, but the expediter keeps moving your ticket back on the table three because the cooks have no idea how to make what you ordered even though you wrote out detailed instructions. You take out the orders for the second table plus the extra condiments for table one and tell table three you'll be right back with their order. You take orders from table 4. They are friends of the manager. They want to see her.

You go to the kitchen, tell the manager she has visitors at your table. Table three's orders are still not ready. You ask the cook what the deal is, they get pissed and move your order back. You deliver the drinks for table 4. Table one wants to order dessert. But they want to talk to a manager about the fact that they had to wait so long. You stop at table 4 where your manager is flirting with her friends and tell her table one would like to see her. She comes to the kitchen a few minutes later to say we are comping the desserts. You ask her to find out about table three's order. She really doesn't care because her friends are waiting. It takes another 15 minutes before the order is ready, but they've burned it. You get the manager to talk to the customers,

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