It's still the weekend!

Ok, Sunday I didn’t make it into work. I realized that I didn’t have black pants to wear on Monday. At my old job, I usually wore jeans and when I did wear black pants they were pin striped. So, I met up with a girl from work and we looked for pants. She needed some too! Afterwards, I went to the BBQ, I mentioned in my last post. Shawn, I didn’t even realize I said cookout! Damn New Yorkers got me saying that. ;o) It was nice to hang out with them, but they are CRAZY. Between 4 of us we went through 7 bottles of wine. There were more people there but they were drinking beer. We had tons of food. There was jerk Chicken, blackened Dolphin, and some great steaks cooked on the grill. We had garlic potatoes, green beans, and salad with strawberries and poppy seeds. Needless to say, everyone was full and a bit drunk. Oh and did I mention that we lost a guy? Ok, here’s what happened, one guy was DRUNK! He fell asleep in the pool. So when we got him inside, he was laying on one girl’s bed. Side note: All of their bedrooms have back doors leading outside. So, he was in there on the bed when we closed the door. When we opened the door he was gone! We looked everywhere for him and couldn’t find him for about an hour. So we left. They wanted to go to a bar down the street so we went. We really did look for him. After all, he couldn’t have gone far without his cloths, wallet, keys, and phone, right? Well, while at the bar, he calls. He broke into the house to get his stuff and went home. He was mad at us because he said we left him in the pool. He was not in the pool! We had to walk by the pool to get out so we knew he wasn’t there. To this day, neither he nor the rest of know where he was. Needless to say, I did not make it home that night. I ended up sleeping over and got home at 6:45am, just in time to shower and get all dressed up for work.

Monday was friends and family day at work. Basically, people that knew someone made reservations to come in for lunch of dinner. They got 2 glasses of wine per person, an appetizer, entrees, and a desert all for free. I didn’t realize it would all be free. Lunch kind of sucked because I only had one table. After lunch, I hung around waiting for the shipment of more wines to come in. They never did, so I headed off to meet my friend that was home visiting from DC. Well, when I spoke to her she said they wanted to meet on Las Olas, which is where I work! So I turned the car around and had a brilliant idea. I called the manager to ask if I could bring my friends there. She said they were pretty booked up, but she could do it as long as we sat outside. No problem. So my girlfriend, her boyfriend, two of her brothers, and another of her friends that I am not that close with all met up at my restaurant. The food was good and the wine was good. They enjoyed it and my girlfriend even bought a couple of bottles of wine. After they left, I stayed around to do inventory. We had to count all of the bottles of wine in the entire place. It was ok. We actually had a pretty good time hanging out and chatting while counting. We actually opened up a bottle wine and had a little while working. It was really good wine. The only bad thing was that we found 2 bottles missing from the bar area. They weren’t the best wines and it seemed a bit random that they were gone. There’s no way to tell who took them, so I don’t know what they are going to do about it. There were only 4 of us there so I don’t know that anyone else knows yet. We'll see what happens.

Yesterday was our first actual day open. It was really slow when I got there. The whole street was empty and because we are still missing the sign and awning out front, people didn’t realize we were open. I only had 4 tables all night, but we spoke to lots of people walking past outside. We told them about us, gave them to go menus, and tried to get them to look around inside if they wanted to. It was a pretty good first day for a soft opening, I guess. The real test will be Friday when we are guaranteed to be packed.

On another note, my parents are coming down on Saturday. I really need to clean the house!