It wasn't a very good day for the health inspector to come in being that our general manager is on vacation and only the lowest level manager was at work today.
We normally always have two or three managers at work but today there was only one.
It was supposed to be a really easy slow day but instead it was very busy.
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I don't have a problem with it being busy because that usually means making more money, but when the health inspector comes she kind of likes us to have things set up a certain way.
The first thing that she did was notice that someone had brought in a lot of outside food.
Our friend David had made a giant tin of breakfast tacos and we were all very excited to eat them after our lunch shift.
The health inspector was not excited to see them though.
When she arrived there was quite a look of despair on our managers face.
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He was busy doing the work of two managers because there was only one at work today and we were also busy all throughout the restaurant.
The health inspector comes walking in and immediately goes to the back and through the metal doors. Our manager then realizes that he has to stop what he's doing and go deal with her.
Keep in mind that we run a very clean restaurant.
However, the health inspector has all of these little nitpicky things that she's interested in that don't really have anything to do with food or health.
So every time we see her we know we need to make sure no one's drinking a glass of water and no one has any food out.
You literally cannot drink a glass of water near her because we're not supposed to drink anything in the restaurant...... only the guests are provided that luxury.
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She doesn't seem to realize that we need to drink water to survive and it is impossible to get through the day without having a glass.
Needless to say we did pass the inspection but there are few issues such as the food that David brought.
I get along really well with the health inspector because I've been working here for 11 years and I've seen her many times.
When she was done talking to the manager she came over and chatted with me for about 10 minutes before she left.
She's actually really nice lady.
However, this particular health inspection did not go over as well as hoped because of the lack of managers and the extreme high level of business of today.
We passed but we didn't get any of those super high scores that you can post on scoreboards for others to see and get excited about.
Every restaurant everywhere has it's ranking system. You want to be ranked pretty high.
You never want to be near the bottom of that list.
We passed but I was also told that our general manager is not going to be extremely happy when he gets back from vacation.
Today we had a surprise visit from the health inspector.
It's always a good time when that happens.