Today was kind of stressful. There was a point for maybe 20 minutes or so where we had a constant stream of customers with a new partner and a borrowed on tills and me (of course) on bar. The new partner wasn’t that secure on calling and marking drinks, so I had to double check most of the orders that she called out. The borrowed partner was stressin me out on top of this because she would blindly call out drinks to me without seeing if it was a good time. Like I would be right in the middle of calling and handing out drinks to customers to customers and she’s all iced grande sugar free cinnamon dolce soy light iced latte. When you’re calling a drink out, you have to make sure that the person is ready for you to call it or else you just have to repeat it again or say “you got it?” like a million times. I think we can all agree that this is a time waster.
So I’m in the middle of everything - you know, iced grande unsweetened passion tea lemonade this, iced venti skinny vanilla that - and some of my favorite regulars (a group of guys who work at this music venue) come in. A friendly face in the middle of some craziness can be really calming, so I’m pretty happy to see them.
So I’m making small talk with them while I finish their drinks, and I get my next drink called to me - iced venti vanilla red eye. OH HAY, I know who’s drink that is! Another favorite regular of mine - the fashion student who is a real life Ken doll! so happy to see him too! I had an afternoon full of non regulars and now I get two at the same time! Awesome.
So I turn around to put the shot in the red eye and the borrowed partner calls out a drink to me, but before she can finish “double short with room americano” I hear this Boston accent saying “hay youuu.” It was my favorite regular who’s been coming in for the 2 years I’ve been there, and works at the comedy club around the block. ANOTHER FAVORITE REGULAR.
I say “this is crazy! All of my favorites are here right now!” and “ken” says that it looks like the planets have all aligned for me. It was an awesome 3 or 4 minutes, and I totally lost all concentration for the drinks that came after that (one of my favorite coworkers came to my rescue and marked the next few cups after regularmania). Now that I think about it was kind of weird seeing these guys I know well separately together all standing around the handoff counter.
One of them mentioned me leaving (and if they’d be any staaahbucks in prague EDIT: there’s at least one) and so I had to break the news that I was leaving to the regular that didn’t know about it. Besides my hilarious coworkers, I’m probably going to miss my regulars the most :(
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