Chris REALLY gets into cleaning the kitchen. Thanks Chris!

 

A few weeks ago I am closing up shop. It’s a Sunday night at 9:15 PM. There are two tables still lingering so, of course, the lights are on, etc. A young couple wanders in. I meet them at the door and the following conversation occurs…

Me: I am really sorry. We are closed. I can serve you cheesecake and a drink if you like but the kitchen is closed.

Customer: You’re closed? It’s pretty early for a restaurant to close?

Me: We have experimented with our closing time and we find that we do almost no business after 9 PM so we have decided that this is the best time for us to close.

Customer: (slightly indignant) Oh. So it’s for business reasons that you close at 9?

Me: Well… yes.

 

I did not really know what to say.

 

I have tweaked our hours one more time. We have been staying open until 10 PM on Friday and Saturday but there is almost no business after 9 PM. So I have decided that the kitchen will close at 9 PM, seven days a week. This means that I ask my customers to have their food orders placed by 9 PM. You are welcome to stay until 10 PM. And, on Friday and Saturday nights we will stay open until 10 PM for cheesecake and beverage.