Work Experience in Wakayama part 2
Hello and welcome!
This time will be the part two of my work experience in Wakayama and it was really a huge change for me, so here goes
After i quit job at the factory, i was thinking to go find a job at a restaurant or bar. But then the headmaster hooked me up with his acquintance. The headmaster was like a father to me, he’s really a nice caring guy.
After a few days the headmaster took me and a few of my friend to his acquintance office. Then we went for an interview. He was nice, very welcoming and don’t mind at all for us being foreigners to work at his place. He owns a few different businesses which one of them was a restaurant. So we got hired!
I was so stoked and worried at the same time about working in a restaurant because i was unconfident about my Japanese. A few days later my “boss” took me to the restaurant for an orientation. I met the manager she was really nice. The employees didn’t talk much because they we’re working, also i’m a foreigner so yeah..
First time working at a restaurant, lot of stuff to remember and to do, vaccum and mop the floor, clean the toilet, water the plants, remembering the menu, and i had to force myself to speak with “keigo” to the customers which is honorific language in Japanese. I watched carefully how to serve the food to the customer, how to talk, how to take phone call! Yes phone call, it was nerve wracking.
After a week surprisingly i’ve gotten used to it. I got closer with my co-worker, they we’re really nice and open about themselves, and i’m really comfortable with them. Months went by, eveything was cake and my Japanese improved a lot and i really proud of myself.
Oh, and the bad experience while i was working there. There is a lot. But there is one that’s really memoriable, i mean going to work from my flat to the restaurant took me 18-25 min at full speed by bike, then there was this moment when i work on morning shift. This man came with his wife, i wen’t to his table to explain the menu thoroughly, but he didn’t seem to understand it and didn’t ask anything, so i go back and waited for his orders. Then i came to take his orders and he looked very puzzled about the menu so i explain the menu again to them but i don’t know if my Japanese is just bad or what, but eveything seemed just fine after this guy came to the restaurant. Then in took his orders. Before i go back to the kitchen, i asked if he want a dessert. But then he yelled at me, telling me he didn’t understand the menu and tell me to go away. I felt really terrible, it’s the first time someone speak to me like that while i was woking in the restaurant. Then i stopped serving that guy and leave all that stuff to my co-worker.
I feel that’s enough about my bad experience working at a restaurant, i can go all day telling you one by one but it’s just too many... one day i probably going to talk more about it when i feel like it.
That’s all about my work experience at a restaurant. I liked the place, my boss was nice, and it was a huge change of atmosphere for me from boring to fun and very social. I’m really grateful for him giving me such opportunity.
Until next post, see you then!








