Just imagine it, you’re fresh off the plane with that smell of an unfamiliar city filling your nostrils, you’re collecting your bags and waiting for what feels like a day before the conveyor belt starts to move. You hop into the bus because let’s face it, your suitcase doesn’t slide easily onto the airport bus, it sets off and you arrive at your hotel in this new wonderful destination – let’s just add that the weather is amazing outside. You get to the reception and say your name, anxiously, just in case the booking didn’t actually go through or you have absolutely no money in your bank account to even pay for it, waiting to get up to your room and see what home will look like for the next couple of days. They ask:
“Would you like to include breakfast with your stay?”
And you reply “yes of course, what a great deal”
This is where I step in.
As a tourist I have noticed the way people act at a “Breakfast buffet” they’re like vultures swooping in, desperate to get their hands on anything available as they know, it’s effectively free. You see parents piling up croissants and ham (who even needs that much ham??) and waiting at the pastry stand for the freshly baked, toasty Chocolate croissants…
Now that I work at a breakfast buffet, it has allowed me to finally answer all those questions I’ve always had.
Do the staff see whats going on?
Does it annoy them?
Do they stop it?
Yes, Yes and no (well kind of).
Today I was asked to fill up the butter, so I walked off to the walk-in fridge and filled up the tray right to the top. Ten minutes later somebody from the same group (but not the same guy) asked me to fill it up. Here’s me thinking, ‘surely not I literally just filled this up?!’ low and behold the butter tray was empty… who pockets butter??
To add to this plot even further, the same party took two loaves of bread with them to breakfast. Who takes two loaves of bread with them to breakfast?!. Yes, two loaves!! Now we know where all the butter was going.
After explaining this to the chef he said to not fill the tray up full, so I took the empty tray away and added 6 packets of butter to it and put it back, safe to say they were all gone, straight in the pocket.
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