Since it was an eight hour shift, everything from here on was time-and-a-half. As Bill figured it, he would make at least two hours overtime a day. That would increase his salary handsomely and was, as he could see it, a nice benefit. Bill saw Rosie pass by on her way through the double doors. He followed her with his eyes as far as he could see her checking out her ass and her legs. Only when she was completely gone out by Kalista did he turn back.
“Like what you see?” Edelgarde was standing at the serving counter of the open-kitchen window.
He could have been embarrassed. Maybe someone else would have been. Instead he just smirked and said, “Yeah.”
“You can have it, you know. She’s stricken.” Edelgarde smiled, shifted her weight one foot to the other as she stood there. “You can have us both if you want, separately and together.”
Bill stood there, looked at her.
“You’re cute,” she said. “I’m usually not this forward and I generally don’t fool around at work. But… Rosie and I are really good friends and as good friends sometimes do, well, you know, we share things and we enjoy being with each other.”
“That so?” Bill asked.
“That’s so,” Edelgarde said. “Anyway, we got an order. And I’d like a hamburger with fries for dinner, if you don’t mind. Usually I eat first and then Rosie.”
“We done for the night?”
“Probably. Mostly. We don’t usually get much after 10:00 and if you’re wondering, tonight was a pretty good sample of what it’s like. We do about fifty covers on average. Maybe seventy-five on a really good night and a hundred on an exceptional night. Friday nights are usually up there.”
“Okay, Bill said. “Let me know when you want the hamburger.”
“You can do it now. Rosie will do the table.”
“How you like it cooked?”
“Rare.”
“Really?”
“Yup. I like all my meat rare.”
“Me too. Good girl.”
“I am a good girl,” Edelgarde said. She smiled and leaned forward so that she was leaning on the counter. “In time, you’ll see what good girls me and Rosie are.”
As she leaned there, kind of resting on her arms which she’d rested on the counter, Bill could see almost all of her bosom. He knew, given what she’d said, she’d made this move so he could see exactly what he was seeing. She knew he knew too, or he surmised this by her somewhat blatant attempt to look cute, which she surely did. She looked downright edible.
“So…” she finally said. As she said this the double doors opened and Bill could see Rosie step through. She was carrying two shrimp cocktails. He saw her look at Edelgarde in the service window and maybe frown a bit, maybe not, maybe he just imagined it. Anyway, as Rosie went around and out into the dining room, Edelgarde stood up and moved away from the service window.
With her gone, first thing Bill did was fetch a hamburger and set it on the grills of the broiler. The broiler was plenty hot since nothing had been cooking, so he watched the hamburger patiently and as soon as he was sure the down-side was striped, he slid his spatula under it and moved it so it was rotated and would be diamond-marked. Because the grills were so hot this did not take long and a moment later he slid the spatula under it again and flipped the burger.
While the burger was on the second side, he quickly dropped an order of French fries into the fryer. Then he grabbed a bun and put it face-up under the broiler. It toasted in about five seconds real-time. He grabbed up the bun, set it on a plate, slid his spatula under the hamburger and placed the burger on the bun’s bottom.
Done! He put it a set-up of lettuce, red onion and pickle on the plate before he went for the French fries.
