Could I have found a more perfect restaurant?

http://www.jasonscatering.com/downtown.html


Tonight was the meeting with all the people I will be working with...Jason's Downtown Wine Cellar. I am debating if I will go into a long winded description of the people and the place or just go as far as to say it will be a pretty sweet deal. Maybe somewhere in the middle?

This is a either singularly or family owned endeavor. "Jason" is an actual dude. He has been in the catering business for pretty much as long as I have been alive and has done multiple things with his own restaurants for year. I wonder why he is not still working at these places...but his laid back style, and quirky confidence appeals to me, and I can't help but like the guy right away. He will be an interesting boss to say the least.

His "hiring manager" of sorts...or at least the woman behind the man doing all the real work is his girlfriend Tammy. She reminds me of a classier version of an old supervisor I use to have. She's also very quirky. She's an entertainer, and does some kind of work on the "Queen Mary" which is this huge ass boat in long beach harbor...or something. I actually just saw it yesterday on accident...its funny how things go in circles like that.

There is like a server supervisor. I don't remember her name, but she's a friendly little Latino girl/woman. She cant be much older than me but she's got her stuff together and seems to know what she's doing.

Besides that I met a few other people "in charge" but didn't remember much of them besides the fact that they had a casual comfortable manner about them. I didn't feel freaked out to be meeting any of these people like I usually am.

My co-workers seem decent, though it seems like a lot of them already know each other so making friends for outside of work might be difficult. Besides that, they all seem to have very very busy lives...if not school then a second job. I may have gotten this job just because of my open availability...but hell whatever works right?

The restaurant itself is amazing. The design is spectacular. Exposed brick, red yellow and orange walls done in a very classy and not "Macdonald's" kind of way. Metal. I have been there twice now and don't even know how to describe it. Diffused lighting. Lots of bright reds and whites. It's nice...it's upscale...but accomplishes all of this without being pretentious or stuffy. It's one of the most comfortable environments I have been in since i got out here.


Here are some pictures I stole off their website. They aren't terribly flattering and because it looks like they were taken with a flash, they really don't look much like they really do in real life. Real Real Real. Word on the street is there will be a web photographer there tomorrow...I will take them all I will!





Uniforms are soft soft tee shirts, black pants, and comfy black nonstick shoes of our choosing with a bright red apron. Jason personally pays for half of our parking...which will only be a grand total of 5 bucks a day or so anyway...a dollar an hour...and that's only if we park in the big lotted building. On weekdays I might just try to find some street parking. Leaving there late at night was kind of new to me and therefore kind of frightening but I think I would feel better about it if it were in parking structure. Not that those are any safer.

Perhaps I will get some mace. Or a bomb ass switch blade from Mexico.

Sundays we are closed.

My schedule is Monday through Wednesday Lunch. I am off Thursday, and then work Friday and Saturday Dinner. We are located across from the court house...and this is THE courthouse for Orange County so I am sure we will have our fair share of drinking attorneys coming in for week day lunch. What I mean to say is that my schedule can't get much sweeter.

Oh, besides the fact that I host on Tuesday. That could turn in to a serving shift, but considering the hosts get tipped out here I should be ok.

And the food sounds crazy good. Most lunches are around ten dollars, and most dinners fifteen to twenty five. I don't feel like searching the keypad in the dark for the numbers, so enjoy the spelled out ones.

I should be making decent money here, especially with five shifts a week.

This is so exactly what I was looking for.

I wont lie though, there is a small part of me that is upset that I am serving again. I wanted to be on with my life, working towards something of my own not just waiting tables...but I guess this is still a step in that. What I need right now is some cash and some time to think about what my next move is...and this is a good place to make that cash I think.

That's yet another good thing about this place!!! They will be doing events all the time. This girlfriend Tammy is involved with events on the queen Mary...they know all kinds of people that are involved in the Santa Ana arts, theater scene. They are possible connections. This isn't a dead end server job if I don't want it to be, at least thats what I believe. This may be one of those times to be that squeaky wheel and get what I fucking want.

But first I must figure that part out...huh?

Ok, I now want to blog about something entirely different...so I will make a new blog I thing.

Well...on second thought I will save that for a later date. It can go with girl songs for boys, because it's also media related. It's two in the morning and I have to wake up and buy yet another pair of black pants. Arg.