I win!
I like analogies and metaphors, so today I will tell you about something that happened as work, using a restaurant analogy (I am stealing this idea from Erin).
I am a chef at a local restaurant. When I finish cooking a meal, I have to get someone else to check it over and make sure it is what the customer ordered before I hand it off to the waiter. One guy is a real stickler, and a typical conversation might go like this:
Me: How does this grilled cheese look?
Stickler: You were supposed to make Kung Pao Chicken
Me: OK I'll try again
But today was different. Today I got to make a salad, which I'm pretty good at, so the conversation went something like this:
Me: How does this salad look?
Stickler: The lettuce looks good, but we usually put dressing on it
Me: I am serving the dressing on the side, and I serve two different kinds of dressing so people can pick what they want.
Stickler: Well, we also serve the honey mustard dressing with the chicken fingers, so you should serve multiple sauces with that as well.
Me: No, we shouldn't mess with the chicken fingers
Stickler: OK You're right. I'll tell everyone else to start serving dressing on the side as well.
Yay! I won!
I am a chef at a local restaurant. When I finish cooking a meal, I have to get someone else to check it over and make sure it is what the customer ordered before I hand it off to the waiter. One guy is a real stickler, and a typical conversation might go like this:
Me: How does this grilled cheese look?
Stickler: You were supposed to make Kung Pao Chicken
Me: OK I'll try again
But today was different. Today I got to make a salad, which I'm pretty good at, so the conversation went something like this:
Me: How does this salad look?
Stickler: The lettuce looks good, but we usually put dressing on it
Me: I am serving the dressing on the side, and I serve two different kinds of dressing so people can pick what they want.
Stickler: Well, we also serve the honey mustard dressing with the chicken fingers, so you should serve multiple sauces with that as well.
Me: No, we shouldn't mess with the chicken fingers
Stickler: OK You're right. I'll tell everyone else to start serving dressing on the side as well.
Yay! I won!
posted by Paul at
6:35 PM
2 Comments:
Im jealous. When i talk in metaphors its because some team has ticked me off and i want to complain but NDA keeps me from making my complaints clear.
I wish the other restaurants would realize that our "restaurant managment team" is here for a reason.
-Erin
By
Anonymous, at 1:12 PM
metaphor? what metaphor? I really do work at a restaurant. Don't I?
By the way, congratulations on being chosen as the chief interior decorator for our restaurant.
By
Paul, at 2:24 PM
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