Management Day have come and gone already... i can't imagine that all i have been working on for the past 2 weeks all end today... started out pretty okay. Wore my management suit... i think i look really good in it. =) Then at Lakeside had to cut the cakes we got for everyone for breakfast... i did not expect Ramsey and Maria to turn up today.... but for some strange reason both of them did, not sure if i was happy abt that... had briefing, then waiting staff briefing but during then i talk too much... became too long winded, then talked too quickly.... then Peter (our other F n B tutor) had to pull me aside to tell me not to say too much. Fine, then during mise en place (laying out of resturant), i had to run here and there and then i had to allocate the table, play the music, prepare the drink, oversee table layout and then i see quite a few mistakes that i think i should have noticed, but din see it until Peter pointed it out to me. Which should never be the case....=)
then after that, service. which was okay at the beginning, then i dunno why, i started doing the serving and etc etc... which again should not be the case... i did so much of those that Ioannis had to pull me aside, ask me who is the manager...then i say me. and Ioannis said, so be the manager... Which i think i did... good. =) We had one table that came really late... that's tbl 12 and they had to order 3 chateaubriands. and that took 25min and it totally slowed down our entire operations cuz we cannot get the figures till like 2.45pm and ioannis actually had to tell both of us to sit down and relax and he even served us...=) Bless him, ioannis...
Presentation was good... Ioannis said it was okay... but both of us dragged too long... talked too much... 16min instead of the usual 10min. ioannis told me that i am pretty monotonous... no tone, but clear voice, so gotta improve on my voice
Had some cake with Grace... celebrated a lil on the completion of our Management Day...=)
I can't believe this day has juz come and gone... so fast. I spent every night the past week working on this and then in 6 hours, it is over... But actually i think i did quite enjoy myself... i enjoyed wearing my management suit, din want to take it off at the end and despite all the stress and everything it was stimulating and i dare say enjoyable. =) I hope it is not because i have not felt so stressed for so long like in JC... Do i enjoy it? I dunno but the relief after all the stress is always immense... Hopefully, my results for my management day turn out okay.....=)
