This weekend has been absolutely hell for us staff wise. It is a long weekend with Monday being a Public Holiday. The State show is on (I guess like your state or county fair) for the week, spring school holidays plus the final exams for final high school leavers is coming up in a few weeks. As we have a lot of school age staff this has impacted on our workforce. To top it off 2 of our drivers are interstate for the Univeristy sports games which are held every year. These 2 do Friday, one does Saturday both do Sunday and the other does Monday deliveries. Another driver is sick and another only works Saturdays and the other was away on leave.
We had a big black hole staff wise, especially drivers.
On Friday we only had 6 from or total of 22 staff available to cover shifts with no drivers (normally 3 on). Luckily the night was a real dud down about $800 - $1000 on normal Fridays and few deliveries ordered.
Saturday was a real good night, well up on normal for this night (Grand Final of the AFL - like your super bowl) which is normally a dud for us as the game is on tV at midday and most people have footy parties but with little if any pizzas. The whole industry is quiet this day, but for some reason we ahd a big one with minimal staff. We actuall sold out of our normal Saturday roll out at 9.15pm so that was good. Had one driver on for the night so we worked on a restricted delivery area to cope.
Sunday again no drivers and lost a few orders but had one of our biggest ever Sundays closing well after our normal close time as customers just kept coming through the door. All the staff had gone and I was by my self doing the counter, makebench and oven tending - very talented/skilled operator here :lol:
The week ended up being a good one after looking to be a disaster after Friday night.
Tonight, Monday public holiday again no drivers but we aren’t expecting a huge night so we shoud be oK as we have ample staff on duty in the shop.
Luckily most customers understand the situation as every week there is something either in the papers or on TV about the dire shortages of staff in the hospitality industry. It is like they are conditioned to it now and if we have delivery drivers available it is a bonus.
The next few weeks are going to be bad staff wise until the exams, holidays, show and sports are over then we will be swamped by the staff looking for extra shifts.
It never rains but it pours.
Dave
We had a big black hole staff wise, especially drivers.
On Friday we only had 6 from or total of 22 staff available to cover shifts with no drivers (normally 3 on). Luckily the night was a real dud down about $800 - $1000 on normal Fridays and few deliveries ordered.
Saturday was a real good night, well up on normal for this night (Grand Final of the AFL - like your super bowl) which is normally a dud for us as the game is on tV at midday and most people have footy parties but with little if any pizzas. The whole industry is quiet this day, but for some reason we ahd a big one with minimal staff. We actuall sold out of our normal Saturday roll out at 9.15pm so that was good. Had one driver on for the night so we worked on a restricted delivery area to cope.
Sunday again no drivers and lost a few orders but had one of our biggest ever Sundays closing well after our normal close time as customers just kept coming through the door. All the staff had gone and I was by my self doing the counter, makebench and oven tending - very talented/skilled operator here :lol:
The week ended up being a good one after looking to be a disaster after Friday night.
Tonight, Monday public holiday again no drivers but we aren’t expecting a huge night so we shoud be oK as we have ample staff on duty in the shop.
Luckily most customers understand the situation as every week there is something either in the papers or on TV about the dire shortages of staff in the hospitality industry. It is like they are conditioned to it now and if we have delivery drivers available it is a bonus.
The next few weeks are going to be bad staff wise until the exams, holidays, show and sports are over then we will be swamped by the staff looking for extra shifts.
It never rains but it pours.
Dave
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