Holy smokes. Mother's Day. I'm glad it's only once a year!
Yesterday, we had our first 'event' - Mother's Day. We didn't do a lot of advertising for it, but as it turns out, we didn't need to. We had a grand total of 32 people booked in for lunch, with the first table arriving at 11, and the last at 1:30.
'How nice!' I thought, 'they've spread themselves out for us!'.
I was wrong. The first table arrived late and the last table arrived early - so in the end it was just a big crush of people at midday!
It was really, really good though!
We'd done a lot of prep the night before/the morning of, so it wasn't a huge panic putting together the lunch platters for our guests. Josh was loving being the 'front of house' greeting people and doing the wine tastings, and our special guest (Josh's mum) was our head waitress.
Although we had 32 booked in, we ended up serving food to about 50 people. Later in the day, we had a few more 'drop ins' who ended up sharing a few platters.
And along with all of that, we still had some regular cellar door guests, who were enjoying their Mother's Day visiting the wineries in the area!
It certainly was a busy day!!
And best of all, we made a heap of $$! (Double our busiest day since we opened!)
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