A New Era

In Janurary 2010 I moved from Hamilton to Auckland to be closer to my girlfriend who lives here. After 4 months of long distance dating we had had enough and I decided to move.

I work as a Restaurant Manager for The Beach House Restaurant, in Bucklands Beach in Eastern Suburbs of Auckland. I have been at this job for only 3 weeks and it is proving to be quite challenging. The restaurant is great, with a solid reputaion and excellent food. The owners are passionate about food and great service and the other staff are all very good at what they do.


This week has be quite hard. I have just had a week off for a friends wedding in Napier. But i found it very interesting how when I come back I can forget so much. Tuesday, my first day back wasn't that fun.

For starters I was late as I forgot that I needed to shave for work..dawk. and then just little things which I had forgotten to do or how to do.

The night started out quite horribly as we were out of one type of champagne and so they requested a bottle of moet which we also didn't have that evening, so I then offered the table a different bottle of champagne only to find out they couldn't have that brand because of allergies. This little fiasco ended with the table decided upon a bottle of top shelf champagne for $20 less than normal as we didn't have what they wanted originally.

This lead to the whole night being a bit of a shambles and didn't make me very happy. I am finding it hard to remember and do everything as it needs to be done and when it needs to be done. I'm hoping that it is just new job jitters and that all will be well in a few weeks once I learn more and it all becomes easier.