graduation, part 1.
well, i worked pretty much all day and feel pretty good about how it went. i should be feeling a lot better but there’s little things that bring me down… like the hair that someone found on their pizza which was blonde and didn’t look anything like any of our hairs but they wanted a new pie nonetheless..which is fine but i just get bummed by stuff like that. another guy called and said there was glass in his to go salad which was really strange… don’t know how that could’ve happened. and there was the phone call at 10:20 that i picked up just in time to hear the cashier say we weren’t taking any more orders, but we still had 2 tables that hadn’t ordered yet and could’ve easily made their food and had it ready in 20 minutes…but most of all i was bummed that this weekend our pepsi machine decided to take a dive and our soda is flat and pepsi can’t fix it until next week… “oh, satch, great pie, crispy, maybe the best i ever had, but the soda was flat…” who wants a killer pizza with a flat soda? nobody. that’s who. i made a call to the biggest dog i know at pepsi to see if he can make something happen for me early tomorrow. they have an awesome service team, but our machines problems may need parts that have to get shipped in.
now as for the pizzas i cooked, they were looking incredible. i had them all super crispy and looking like they belonged in the MOMA, and we had practically no mistakes. we did have a few pies that took too long. the folks who ordered at 6pm got the worst of it, a 40 minute pie, a 50 minute pie, and a one hour deep dish… that was as bad as it got and i was feeling pretty bummed about that when it happened, but the rest of the night we did great and most pies were 30 minutes.
anyway, tomorrow i’ll be there all day again. i’ve worked every day and night this week except for wedensday day i took a break. i’m fatigued. i should not be worried about any little thing, i should be thanking my lucky stars that my business is so good and my employees so loyal and hard working. i should be pleased with my accomplishments. i should be sleeping.
it’s hard. my wife says i have OCD but actually i probably don’t actually have the disorder but am just an obsessive type person, a perfectionist in many ways, and anxious… i think the next lesson i need to learn is how to let the creation become it’s own thing, not stress about every person’s lunch or dinner or problem or whatever, and just let the beast be a beast some. i’m going to take a vacation to the beach soon for a week and i’m going to work on that… not being stressed about my restaurant being perfect every second of every minute of every day. it’s just pizza, right?
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