Walk in to the resturant and feel the family environment, first date jitters, and business conversations that discuss "important topics" over three margaritas. Behind the scenes, of the delicious food are the servers that are continuously "weeded."Weeded can be used as the removal of unwanted plants.
In the Saltgrass world, weeded signifies a plea for help because the server/cook/manager is about to looks their damn mind.
Saturday am/pm exchange is usually a smooth transition. The servers from the morning are released from hell as the night crew is joining the fiesta. Walk to the back of the kitchen and hear the cooks bashing the server that had a pocket ticket (late order) for over 30 minutes and now wants the food on the fly. The shelfer, who expos the food and makes sure that it goes out the window looking amazing, complains about the servers leaving the condiments scattered everywhere. Servers go back to the kitchen and argue with the cooks on how their table 62, seat 3, needs an upcook because their Pat's ribeye was too raw for the guest's liking. And they forgot to add the smothered topping! Cooks then tell the shelfers to pass on the message on how they no longer have rice at the moment. "86 rice! Pass it on, let everyone know!"
The restaurant is pretty slow for a saturday night. Then…BAM. Big pop at 7:30 with two tops coming in left and right and large parties of seven walking behind them. For servers, this can only mean one thing…Double sat, the rest of the night. Maybe even triple!
The only thing that can come to one's mind at that point is the nice cold beer to go along with their prolonged rant with the other fallen.
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