Games to play at work - No. 1

For any waitresses out there, here's a mean (but funny) trick to play on your customers.

Wait until another waitress has seated said customers and presented them with menus. Monitor the expressions on their faces. Be diligent in this - it's all in the timing. If they're looking particularly excited by the menu selection then this works all the better. Just as they look like they're about to come to a decision approach their table, as though you're about to take their order, and announce, "Er.... the kitchen's closed now".

Watch the expressions on their faces as they try to understand whether that means they aren't going to get their food and wonder why they were seated in the first place if that is the case. Hilarious!

This actually happened to us last night. Oh how we laughed! Thankfully it turned out to be a case of waitress miscommunication... or so she told us.