We are usually BUSY on Sundays but it was very slow this past Sunday and I will chalk it up to the Super Bowl. At 1:45pm we had 1 table in 45 minutes. There was no point staying open for another 1 1/2 hrs because it wasn't financially worth it.
I put up a sign and within 4 minutes a family came walking in. I exclaimed to them it was very slow so we made the decision to close down because it's not worth staying open at this point. The man got upset with me and said " We drove over here and your website says you close at 3pm so you should be open and this is WRONG (he rolled his eyes at me at the point)." I looked at him and decided this was not a fight I wanted to get into with him and asked the kitchen if they could do one more table. The kitchen looked at me with WTF looks and I just shook my head. Everyone was disappointed because now we had to stay there for another hour. But we all sucked it up and let them has a nice meal all by themselves in there. That is what we get paid to do but man it sucked.
Now the thing that got under my skin was if you see a SIGN that says CLOSED- SORRY why the FREAK would you walk in and demand to be served? If I saw the sign I would have walked away and not worry about anything. But no...let's give people who have been on their feet since 7:30 am and not making any money because the place is dead... ATTITUDE. Really dude! At least we are not mean kind of kitchen because I know other places I've worked at the kitchen would have said NO!
