Slammed at the Game

The projected attendance for yesterday's game between the KC Royals and SF Giants was 3800 fans. We had 6734 attend the game. The Giants are always a big draw, so the projection is a mystery. We had lines at the stand from about 12 noon through 3 PM, and it was all we could do to keep up with having enough product available. We did run out of foot-long dogs and brats briefly at one point, but other than that, we handled everything pretty well. Danny, our manager, congratulated all of us on a good job following the game. It is always better to be busy rather than standing around, but yesterday was borderline madness.

I performed the inventory count as always following the game, and there was, once again, a huge discrepancy between the cash and the goods sold. I have no idea what is causing these discrepancies, and neither does Danny. I recounted the inventory and came up with the same totals as the original count. The problem has to be in the cash or, perhaps one or more of the cashiers isn't ringing up sales properly. We were $600 short on sales of over $10K for the game. We did have a new cashier come on the job yesterday and our lead cashier was trying to train her while all the lines were forming at the registers. Maybe that had something to do with the shortage. It has become a frustrating situation. Our game today is between the Rangers and the Dodgers and we are expecting even more fans than yesterday. I'm holding my breath for the results after this game.

We were both so tired from the frenzy yesterday that we came straight home and watched just a little TV before turning in early at 8:30 last night. It is becoming a real challenge to stand on the cement all day without the mats that we had last year. All of the cashiers are complaining about having back pains after each game, and Josie and I have bad backs to begin with. It has been a long week, and there are still two games to go...