start the close at 9pm!
You amateur. I used to start close at about 6.30. By 11pm closing, we'd be running on one corner of a grill, one vat, one spatula, heat lamp instead of the bin, one till, one each of the absolute minimum amount of equipment, shake machine off by 9 ("we've run out!"), drinks towers cleaned and covered in clingfilm, etc etc. We'd be done be 11.10 and eating donuts in the lobby till midnight before clocking off. I was a master at closes.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 16:26, Reply)