I’d like to speak to the manager!

I have a new host who started last week.

He’s doing great.

But he’s new.

After pre-shift he comes to me and says that there’s a man on hold who’s angry.

He wanted a reservation for three people at the bar, but one of them is a minor.

And he’s upset.

I go to the phone.

He’s already hung up.

The phone rings, it’s him again.

The other host answers.

Hands the phone to me.

He’s upset.

That he was put on hold.

That he left a message this morning but we are just calling back.

That the host told him we don’t take reservations for three at the bar.

(This is true, but we say we are booked, not that we don’t do it).

He keeps complaining about my host.

He changed tactics and tells me that he lives down the street. We are his favorite restaurant.

This never matters to me. But I also know he’s not a regular as he doesn’t know me.

I tell him I can make a reservation for him.

And I do.

Ably to discover he is looking for Saturday. Not today.

He is upset. Telling me 12 times he left a message. I should have known it was tomorrow.

I don’t tell him that I had 25 messages. They all run together.

He keeps on getting more and more upset.

Now he is yelling at me.

He yells at me that I should be better and that this is ridiculous.

I reply.

We’ll now you’re yelling at me.

So I’m sorry. We are booked Saturday. I wish you luck finding some place yo eat but you won’t be dining with us.

Have a good night.

And I hung up the phone.

I explained to my host that we never say we don’t do something. We are just booked. We don’t availability.

I assured him he was not in trouble. He’s knew.

Ignore them.

The man did not call back.