I’m only laid off because they’re too small for even limited seated dining with covid.

Yeah, i do feel for the good places that suffered through this like that, it can't be easy. I mean, i'm biased caused I'd love to do a foodtruck/eventual hole-in-the-wall type deal, so I think about it a lot.

Overall sounded like a good gig though, I mean at the very least, sounded like you were happy there and to me i'll take small pay cuts to just be happy where I work, ya know? I've worked for too long in too stressful places that extremely unappreciated me and my co-workers and always kept me drinking at night or just being grumpy asshole. I don't want to be that kinda person.

My second job ever was at a mom and pop burger place and that shit was so fuckin awesome. It was just the cook and me as server/cashier/fryer whatever needed to be done. But we got paid alright cash but I never had to deal with the boss, and the cook was the dopest dude ever and bought me beer when I was like 19/20 and we'd always crack a beer near closing time and just got along. Good food, always got a big ass serving for my free meals and overall just no stress. Even when a ton of people would come in I knew that job like the back of my hand so it never really got to me. I appreciated when it was busy actually, day go by so fast like that