you won't mind ... i am so sorry!
health code schmealth code ... guests who are really liking the whole b&b experience ... really connecting with the innkeeper(s) feel like friends ... the lines blur ... yes, they totally understand that the kitchen is just for 'staff' but this does not apply to THEM. they totally get that health codes prohibit them from coming in to the kitchen, oh yes ... they understand ... but they just want to chat or to watch or to help.
i had to put up a moveable barrier ... inconvenient as heck ... but i needed a physical block since i was often alone ... people would come in to chat, would grab plates to 'help' serve, would try to open the fridge to get things out for me ... would try bringing their dirty dishes into the kitchen, piling them up right where clean things and food prep was going on..
seashanty said:
would try bringing their dirty dishes into the kitchen, piling them up right where clean things and food prep was going on.
This drives me batty. We have the coffee bar laid out with juices, glasses and all the coffee stuff. 'Helpful' guests will pile up their dirty dishes right in front of the juice so no one can get anything. Or they will come right into the kitchen and hand me everything when there is OBVIOUSLY no room for the dirty stuff.
I am plating food and they are handing me dirty dishes. STOP IT!
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We have it, but seldom. I usually say that if they clean up the plates, that I'm going to have to fire DH and they wouldn't want him to be unemployed, would they? They stop.
What I hate are the idiots who put their napkin right in the plate covered with maple syrup. Certainly they can put it to the side to be cleared properly.
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Eric Arthur Blair said:
We have it, but seldom. I usually say that if they clean up the plates, that I'm going to have to fire DH and they wouldn't want him to be unemployed, would they? They stop.
What I hate are the idiots who put their napkin right in the plate covered with maple syrup. Certainly they can put it to the side to be cleared properly.
I tell them something similar when they try to help clear the table. Then DH drifts in and says what I just told them "I have a system and you would not want to mess up my system would you?"
I hate the ones that use my napkins as a handkerchief. GROSS!!!!!
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gillumhouse said:
I hate the ones that use my napkins as a handkerchief. GROSS!!!!!
EEeeeewww That's disgusting. I'd throw them out for that.
I miss the chooks. Every scrap of left over food, bits of rolls, bacon fat, egg, sausage, mouldy fruit, I would stand at the kitchen door and throw it into their run. Occasionally I would miss and dh would complain that he found a bit of wet, soggy toast in his veggy patch.
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