Disaster averted

Today is beer line cleaning day, and while I was waiting for the guests to come down for breakfast, I decided to disconnect the various beer lines from their respective kegs, and couple them to the cleaning line.
There are an awful lot of different connectors, depending on which beer you’re talking about, and each requires [...]

When you’re tired

past tired, in fact, the sight of a cleaner (especially mine, who does a very good job) coming through the door is a wonderful thing!
It’s basically been a good morning. I had four guests in last night (a family), and after they’d had breakfast they asked if they could stay another night. [...]

Late Opening

Sadly, today the pub will not be opening on time at 12 noon. I have fed 6 hungry guests, started the dishes, cleared & cleaned the breakfast room, cleaned the pub & loos, stripped six beds and remade them completely (including two clean duvets and four clean pillows), started the laundry, ….
And now I’m [...]

120

hours plus that I’ve worked this week. I’m knackered!
Apologies to those of you who’ve been emailing me to find out where I’d got to. I’m here, but email hasn’t been anywhere near the top of my list of things-to-do.
StaffingTwo interviews today. Both turned up!
A poster in the pub window has [...]

Answering the wrong questions

So, I emailed the Commission for Racial Equality here in the UK to ask for advice over and above the standard ‘ask them to stop, then ask them to leave’ response to racist behaviour.
Here is the response I received:
Thank you for your email to the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE).
In addition to informing customers that [...]

Century

I failed to notice that the last posting was my 100th – rather surprising really.
CommentsDez & Carlarey: thanks for your encouragement. I was thanked privately by one of my regulars who had witnessed the rant for standing up to the man. Sadly they didn’t feel able to back me up in public, but [...]