The hardest part of the job for me was lifting the full-size soda syrups onto the highest shelf, followed closely by knowing when I needed to get back to the register to make a sale if I was cleaning in the secondary dining room. There were workers on my team with great attitudes and multitasking proficiency that made those hours a pleasure and a privilege.

Cash register work typically involved fellow employees paying for their meals by direct deduction from their paychecks, though cash and credit cards were also permitted forms of payment.

(Occasionally, the evening shift didn't have time to clean out one of the steam tables, and other catch-up work did come up from time to time.) Otherwise, the usual routine as an EDR attendant meant working with one or two others to assemble and maintain the food bar while keeping the dining areas clean and stocked. I clocked in near the Employee Dining Room (which was my work environment) and made contact with the manager to ask if I needed to plan for any unusual activities while performing other duties. I chose to have my uniforms laundered on-site, so after arriving, getting dressed was the first order of the day. The forks (the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at what is now Pittsburgh) were considered a strategic military location by colonial French.

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