Сontinuation, the beginning you can find here:
Andre has come to Odessa a few times more and has dropped in at the restaurant constantly. His escorts have been changed but only within seasonal prevalence. Besides Andre often came with his new friends and then a decent wines and other gastronomic excesses have appeared on the table instead of frugal dinner…and ladies have been invited to or with dessert.
Administrator Masha in spite of her origin has acclimatized herself fast and she even started to call children the kinders. However the changing of lexicon didn’t influence much on the rest things and the result was the pregnancy from another employer who had the family and the children already. A half of the pregnancy everything has beautified Masha and didn’t have an impact on work. Masha decided to give birth to her baby at her native land, in Tiraspol. After childbirth Masha together with one of our waiters who was fired because he added some amount to the guests’s checks and because of his hysterical affection for white socks, began to consult Moldovian restaurateurs successful enough. Meanwhile the city has been changed gradually. Someone grew fond of orange color and started to expect to semolina of a new format, someone replaced icons by flag of Shakhtar Donetsk at his home and learned the quotations of ideologist of team and region. In any case all these thing were very remotely connected with restaurants. The guests ate and were glad as earlier if it was delicious and something else. They asked about discounts as earlier and asked again with a puzzled look if they got to know that discounts are out of fashion. Sure the main event was an agreement about addition of one more premises to the restaurant, in a year this premises turned into one of the restaurant’s room under the name Wine room. Only the discussion has taken a few months. Then were local architects and a whole lot of brief sketches. Then were arguments and searching for contractors again. Then were arguments with director of that times and carrying of subject and menu. But those times the boss was rather adult Mr. Reinkert Yakov Emilievich, who has grown from the waiter of one of Soviet restaurants. His experience consisted entirely from the stereotypes of the seventies multiplied by his skill to echo right to the leaders of opinions and he impressed by his solidity. At the beginning of cooperation all these things plus a little bit tired experience has been interpreted as business position. In short it wasn’t easy… But thanks to our acquaintance with Emilievich the employers and then I in a few weeks after beginning of work have got to know that even at 72 years old sex is possible and at that repeated and almost unceasing. I specify that this is proceeds from his stories. Later his girlfriend, waitress-NLP expert who had one month experience of work started to consult everyone including us about matters of world macroeconomics and management after reading of a few brochures about NLP* and also about modern hospitality. A little bit later she became his lawful spouse, love together with NLP work miracles. Since then they consult together solely trustful residents of Kiev and Crimea, without entering Tiraspol on the Masha’s territory, and at that they do it within short period of time always. Judging by a few restaurants which were closed, they and other consultants have enough work. The subject of advices in business and not only there often attracts frauds and makes from them guru, that addle everyone. And it only gives hope to those who looks for chances or recipes in the fog. That year consultants have been multiplied, divided and budded especially successful. Afterward when I meet next consultant I recollect not one time Masha and other our employers who decided that they have enough knowledge and experience and it is time to share it and for money.
After YE, in the company automatically appeared upper bound of age for new employers and also addition in the letters of introduction for some persons who constantly looking for a chances: he/she prefer to consult and give references about strategic and other issues.
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Continuation.
The first and the second part were posted earlier.
Now it is difficult to imagine how exactly famous greengrocer’s gradually turned into the restaurant, earlier into one then into another. But the beginning of everything was department of Pan-Pizza where that times Sasha and Olya have baked and sold hundreds pizza by slices per day. Then, a little bit later, the department has been increased and it has occupied about 50 meters of the room.
Then Sofia Akopovna offered to open a confectioner’s in the neighbourhood and in one month the first tables and chairs appeared in the premises of greengrocer’s. The first old ladies who have been interested on what, in fact, grounds beetroot and carrot are sold now in 10 meters from usual place have appeared also. Sofia Akopovna was an excellent confectioner and everyone have got used fast enough to the fact that instead of huge baskets with cabbage, cucumbers and potatoes have appeared showcases with a few tens of various cream puffs, petit fours, tartlets which were packed in Italian paper and Italian boxes. Then Sofia Akopovna decided that it is impossible to find better name then Sofia for this department and she ordered bulky enough sign with her own name.
And then Raya has appeared. Everything that has taken place in the department can be divided into two epochs: before and after Raya. So, first of all Raya has notified all employers and later all guests then soon she depart to America with a certain former Mish and now Michael and that her part is only to help to organize and establish an excellent service fast. But Raya have heard about service rather from Michael who have leaved already 4 years in Brooklyn and who came to stay for a while with use in Odessa. Raya and Sofia Akopovna have drunk espresso with chocolate truffles often and discussed how difficult to teach Ukrainians service about which one of them has knows something from Steamship Company and another from Michael’s stories.
Meanwhile, Sasha turned into Aleksandr gradually and started to lead everything confidently enough and in that way that Raya has been sure that her decisions lead to such significant changes. Sure the greater part of a day Raya has spent at the department telling about what exactly scoundrel turned out to be Misha when he departed to his Brooklyn and didn’t introduced Raya to his parents. Nature abhors a vacuum and after Misha was Marik, then Robik also former resident of Odessa but this time from Germany. Why exatly Raya has got into emigrants’ nets? It seemed that one could tell that Raya is a beauty only in the darkness. I an telling about complete country darkness. But her constant failures to mention something and broad hints have abbled even experienced local machos. At one moment she tells about first opening at Viena opera house where she hasn’t been ever, at another moment she tells about fashionable among the emigrants restaurant at Brighton about which Misha told her. In short Raya was an expert at making impression. At that, in principle, Raya has been agreed to get even modest local man but officially she looked only for well-to-do foreigner.
True, in a month or a little bit earlier, when an opportunity presented itself, it has turned out that these «foreigners» counted rather on her fortune then on her passion just like Raya also. About her every new man Raya told confidently to all her friends in the way that everyone was sure it is time for Raya to find a substitute urgently. With time the main subject of the shop in next Monday began the discussion of next Raya’s husband. By then the department has increased by more 30-40 meters thanks to efforts of Aleksandr. Vegetables have stepped back slowly. Raya has stopped to hope. Sasha has bought a motorbike and led Olya to registry officeс. A wedding dress and a veil were present. Then Olya grew plump a little either because of pregnancy or because of pasty with chocolate icing and has quit. Sasha began to pay court to new shop girl from Tiraspol who was also not a beauty but still…
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We have new model for Compot. The previous one Victoriya managed her mission successfully. Today on placards, posters and etc is Maria Petrovskaya.
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Continuation.
You can read the beginning last Saturday:
Part 1
In 2003 city authorities have «allowed» to the townsmen to spend money on renewal of paving slab and respectively to use new surfacing for summer café. Plastic furniture has been sold at the seven km market like pastries with peas. One had to hire persons with higher education as waiters. At that time Elena Ivanovna has managed entrusted to her restaurant after her previous work at district committee with newspaper in her hands. A cup of coffee and a newspaper in general were as scepter and globe for her. She didn’t part with them even in the lavatory. Alena, who was a waitress at that time, after she has graduated language and literature department and language and literature department called her delicate enough old bitch. Elena Ivanovna has hold out two weeks. Then Alena made friends with one of the summer guests and in one month she gone to Denmrk with him to have a trial marriage trip. She is still there. Of course she has changed that man who helped her to come and see foreign country to another boyfriends but she still recollects her home only by Internet. Many girls have followed her successful example. To be more precise everyone has tried to do it and in summer the service became front-oriented. Even if the body didn’t allow much to flirt then a few bottles of wine, at that time it was imported from Georgia have done their part. To cut it short, just Alena has left the country but the staff liked the foreigners for a long time. 65 years old Frenchman Andre who became Andrusha at the instigation of his local brides have come to the restaurant every day and have treated them every day and told them about how nice it is there at his home land. How he mixes beer with blackcurrant liqueur and how he eats year-round strawberry after champagne there. How near his native Alsace is to other different foreign names. But it was end in talk and in autumn Andre gone home alone. His brides with waitress have recollected for a long time his stories about casino in Baden-Baden and his cheap tip. From that time one of the brides liked corner table and she spent not one Saturday night sitting there with a cup of tea and foreign newspapers. But only local drunken man or guest workers from Moldova who introduced themselves as businessmen from Kishinev have show their interest. Once one of such businessmen have tried to pay for his bill with the help of discount card of the restaurant having assured the administrator Masha that the director of the restaurant gave him this card. In spite of that Masha also came from Transdniestria she has distinguished one card from another easily enough and if the guest didn’t has a discount then she often used her own card with hope for big tip. Masha was puzzled out only because of a guest’s avarice. Vladimir Naumovich bragged at another shift that Masha calculates his bills with discount… At that he bragged to his lady-love who did not fail to tell about it to the then director when they arranged small stand-up party.
Masha wasn’t fired but she was warned. With time discounts gained epidemic nature. The staff has been growing fat, the profitability has been falling. On the other hand at that time CO* didn’t look fixedly on the restaurants and they were busy with fundamental transactions-issues-projects. It was easy enough to operate even taking into account waiters’ forgetfulness. And that lady who has shared information soon became the spouse of administrator from another restaurant and stopped to visit the restaurant. Gradually Deribasovskaya Street has been selling to “friends”. Strangers have leased the premises and earned a little bit money. Everyone, including us who have taken a great interest in the words hospitality, empathy and culture were satisfied.
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I will post the continuation next Saturday
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