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MSM Crew
Every summer, we close early one night and invite the entire staff to dinner at Trio. We can never get everybody, and this year many of our American college students were already gone and a few of our other kids were home, either in or out of the U.S.
We seat the men and women at separate tables in the restaurant, and take lots of pictures after dinner. (We were quite loud and hope the other diners were not upset with us!) My camera battery was dead, so I did not have a camera and asked Yang for his pictures. He only had a couple, and this is not the best – Steve and Sam are looking at ???, and the beautiful Antoniya is not fully in the frame – but you get the drift. Linda, Marilyn, Judy and Misha, Gerald, Ben, Bill, Bruce and Bert were also in attendance – we had 17 men and 16 women – but left before the picture-taking session. It was getting late, and almost everybody had to work the next day!
Linda had the best comment. She didn’t recognize most of the girls – they all had their hair down and didn’t have a blue shirt on! (Most of our summer girls wear their hair in ponytails.)
We had a great time. Jerry and Ron and their staff do a wonderful job of serving our large group and rearranging the furniture for us. We wish we could do this more often – our staff is wonderful. We really appreciate their hard work, quick smiles and the incredible job they do taking care of our customers. We enjoy working with them all, it makes the summer go very quickly and happily.
Thank you MSM Crew of 2012!
Mens Table
This is the mens table at dinner. This practice started many years ago when the women decided to have an end-of-season night out. The men felt left out, so decided to do the same thing. We’ve always been seated at opposite sides of the restaurant – it has worked out very nicely!
We do all get together for a group photo at the end of evening, plus lots of little group photos. It is a fun way to thank our staff for a summer of very hard work!
After dinner - most of the crew!
Sometime near the end of summer, we close Main Street Market early and take everybody out to dinner. This year, we went on Labor Day evening. The store closed at 6:00 pm so it was easy for everybody to get out and to Trio on time!
We try to go before most of the summer people have to leave, but all the college kids were gone already. We always seat the men and women at separate tables, and last night, I told everyone the person seated to their right had to be from a different country than themselves! It gave us all the opportunity to talk to the international kids in a different setting than the Main Street Market!
As usual, the food and service at Trio was excellent! A bonus this year was server Christine Nesheim – the professional photographer who took pictures with the 8 cameras brought to dinner by the crew! Long after everyone goes home, pictures will remind us of the wonderful people we’ve worked with this summer of 2011.
