I’d like to speak to the manager!!!

Day 2 is in the books.

First day open to the public.

I’m already tired of the friends and family question.

Just because you eat at the restaurant every couple of weeks does not make a friend or family.

And.

A bit of advice.

It is rude to invite yourself to a party.

And to question the host about you were not invited to to opening.

Today’s fun events.

My new bartender walked out after 30 minutes saying this is not for me.

A woman walked in at 3:10. She is very old.

I ask her if I can help her and explain that we are closed.

She says I know, I just want to take a look.

I say, I understand but we are closed.

She says I know, I just want to take a look.

I say once again that we are closed.

She says that I should stop being so rude she is just taking a look.

And she does.

She calls me rude again when she is done.

Why did I not want her to take a look you ask?

Because I had 20 minutes to get the task I was working on finished.

No one just looks. They want the menu. They want to ask about the purchase. They want to ask about the memorabilia. They want to ask about reservations.

These are 20 minute conversations!

A man comes in with an older woman at 4:45. I’m on the phone with Toast our POS company.

He tells me they are going to just sit at the bar. I explain that we have reservations for the bar.

He becomes angry.

And very pretentious.

He then says it’s a good thing you are saying this to me and not my mother.

I’m not swayed.

We do have reservations. At 4:45.

A single man comes in and sits at the bar.

On his way out he gives me a list of his suggestions. He stands at the host stand for 20 minutes doing so.

Another man comes in and brings me a container full of photographs of an encounter he had with a famous person. He shared this story when he was last in town. I looked at photographs for 10 minutes.

Another man came in with a phot on his phone saying our new restaurant wouldn’t be complete until we rehung a photo of a light house that is in the harbor.

The list went on and on.

But it was a great night.