I have been writing food service schedules off and on for more than 20 years. I’ve written one for a Whole Foods Prepared Foods Dept. with I want to say 85 people that took me a full 8 hour workday one day a week to write…and for a crew as small as…just me.

Writing the schedule is, for lack of a better word, relentless. Time doesn’t stop and either does the ever present need to post when everyone is working next week, and the week after that, and oh shit did I remember so and so’s day off? And its Martin Luther King Day…oh crap 3 day weekend and I only have the regular amount of servers on. Its a beast, I’ll show you how to tame it.