Shift Drinks and Cocktailing!

So I am fully into my life as a waiter at the Wild Bore Tavern. Christmas week was a non stop adventure. Twice during the week I stayed after the lunch shift was over to "cocktail" . We stop serving lunch at 3pm and then there are different bands that play from 3 to 6pm during which time we serve drinks and appetizers. Cocktailing is a good gig to have as you can do really well in tips. However, cocktailing does mean that you need to take drink orders while the band is playing so you can never hear a word they say and you need to ask them to repeat there orders at least three times. Also it mean you need to be running around the packed restaurant serving drinks while navigating between the drunken dancers and the ski equipment all around the place. The other down side of cocktailing is that you generally don't get a chance to stop to eat so you can find yourself finishing up for the day at 6pm with nothing in your belly except a yogurt you had at 8am, and thats when you ask Stevie for your shift drink . I did this a few nights ago and I find that having a very strong vodka and cranberry on an empty stomach will get you pretty loopy, follow it with wine at dinner and you will be sound asleep by 9:30 without a problem.