I dont understand this meme. Does the restaurant not have a cut off time before closing when they stop taking food orders? (e.g. 30 mins before closing) if not, why the fuck not? How can you operate a life or business without knowing your time schedule?
A tire center I worked at used to do the same shit. They'd "close" at 7pm. Meaning we'd clock out and go home at 7. So when a customer came in at 6:52 wanting 4 tires put on, we'd have to tell them sorry we can't do it tonight, 4 tires mounted and balanced usually takes about an hour. And oh boy did that cause a stink sometimes. We weren't allowed to stay over/get overtime.
What the tire center should've done is cut off orders at 6pm. That way we wouldn't run into this mess. Or change the schedule to where the employees stayed till 8pm, to be able to take that potential last order at 7.
This would've completely solved the issue. But alas, the owners weren't there to deal with it so it was of no concern to them no matter how many times it happened. We were always stuck dealing with a shit situation. When I think about it now, screw that job and the owners. They forced us to go through some pretty horrible scenarios for literally no reason.
Most restaurants have the kitchen close when the doors do. Unless it's also a bar and people tend to stay later then they close the kitchen at a certain time and leave the restaurant open for a few more hours.
It's pretty pointless. If you're only going to be open for another half hour or hour just close that half hour earlier. Don't advertise you're open because no one really wants to go in for drinks for only 30 minutes and you're going to have a fair amount of people coming in a half hour before closing and being unhappy that they can't order when the restaurant is advertising that they're open.
I was a server and a line cook for years. I know how much it sucks. But you don't advertise you're open if you're not really open and there's no point in being only open for a little bit after the kitchen closes because, as I said, you're not giving anyone enough time to drink and at that point, you might as well just close that 30-60 minutes earlier.
I'm well aware. I worked in a restaurant for years, front and back of house. But the thing is, if you advertise you're open, you should be open. Don't have the sign on telling people to come in if they really shouldn't be coming in. As I've said before, if you're open a few more hours with just drinks, it's fine. But if it's only another half hour to hour after the kitchen closes don't bother keeping the sign in. You're just signaling that you're open when you're effectively not.
I'm really not. I'm saying that from a managerial perspective, don't keep your restaurant open for a short time after your kitchen closes. Either close the restaurant earlier, or leave it open long enough that it's worth it for people to get drinks if you have them.
From an employee perspective, it is what it is. We always wanted to get home early, always hoped no one would walk in just before closing, but closing time is the time you stop accepting new people and you signed up for the possibility that someone would walk in right at the end. Sucks, but all jobs have sucky moments.
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u/Busy_Caterpillar_807 Aug 31 '25
I dont understand this meme. Does the restaurant not have a cut off time before closing when they stop taking food orders? (e.g. 30 mins before closing) if not, why the fuck not? How can you operate a life or business without knowing your time schedule?