A Day in the Life at Jose's

I work at Jose's on Dickson Street. For those of you who aren't familiar with Joses's, it's a mexican restaurant (if you can classify it as "mexican"). We are primarily known for our atomosphere and our margaritas. It was established in 1980 and has become a Fayetteville Tradition. Jose's is located in the heart of Dickson Street. Our most popular feature of the restaurant is our "Street Side". Driving down the street, you couldn't miss our outdoor scene.

The outside walls are painted bright blue, accompanied with multi-colored swinging doors leading to our lower deck. The lower deck has a bar and a covered stage where live bands play frequently. We also have an upper-deck that is covered with a tent where customers can sit outside to enjoy their drinks or food. The atmosphere in the spring and summer is indescribable. When we are busy, live music is blaring, people are drinking, it makes working outside a great experience. Our second most popular area of the restaurant is the inside "cocktail" and bar area. It is a large room with booths, tables, and tall tables. There is also a full bar with a huge bar-top. There are roughly 5 different TVs placed around the bar area, which makes it a great place to watch games, or anything interested on TV for that matter.

I am always scheduled to work the Tuesday morning "cocktail" shift. At Joses, your shift is based on seniority. Luckily, I have been there long enough to get good shifts for the most part. On this particular day, Tuesday, it was extremely slow. Myself and my co-worker, Sean, were the only employees on this side of the restaurant. Sean and I have been working together for about 9 months now, so we've learned each others sense of humor. Since we didn't have many customers, we were goofing around.

There is a multi-colored wooden fish that we hide in random spots. We obviously have entirely too much time on our hands to even play a game like this, but people would be suprised at how amusing this game can be. Once we got tired of this game, I decided to help Sean with his prep for the bar. I cut his lemons, and in turn, cut my hand. "Shit!" I said, in front of customers and our owner. I decided to be nice, and ended up injuring myself. Sean was making strawberry puree for our frozen margaritas, and I told him that I wanted him to save me some. "The only way I will give you the strawberries is if you funnel them," Sean said. I said "Oh my Todd, are you kidding me"? It turns out that he wasn't kidding, so I ended up funneling strawberry puree in the middle of Jose's. I managed to get strawberry juice all over my face and my work shirt.

I understand this story is pointless, but if you were there, you would see the amusement that I got from that day. I hope that I was able to paint a good enough picture for you to understand a Day in the Life at Jose's.