path with. I don't know why I am surprised, but I can't believe you are sitting here telling me that you are thinking about the same thing. Well, almost the same thing. I don't know if you had something else in mind." Jasinda was talking so fast, Ginger had to just interrupt her.
"Jasinda, I am in."
"What?"
"I am in, I wanted to ask you if you would be open to the idea of me coming in here to work on this with you or for you. I was just nervous to bring it up yet."
"Steve will be so thrilled. A little upset I didn't wait for him, but excited none the less. He was really impressed with you last night. He said that you were very efficient and had a special way with the customers."
"Awe, I try. It is really nice to hear that though. So tell me about this guy," Ginger said.
"I don't know that much. He is flying in from Illinois and will be here for a few days. He will go over everything with us and set us up from the ground up. I don't know all the details. Steve knows more."
Jasinda got up when the door opened and a guy walked in holding a big white cardboard box in a red, green, and white soccer jersey. Behind him Steve followed tapping him on the shoulder.
"I got that, bro." Steve handed him some cash and sent him on his way. He walked the pizza over to the bar. "Woman, get some plates, I'm hungry."
Jasinda laughed at him and went into the kitchen to grab some paper plates. When she returned, she put them on the box and checked in with two guys milking their drinks at the other end of the bar. It was pretty obvious that they had nowhere else to be and probably didn't have a lot of money to spend drinking all day.
"She told you didn't she?" Steve asked Ginger.
"Really, is it that obvious? I'm not saying anything." Ginger was smiling so hard she might have knocked someone over with her cheeks if they were standing next to her.
"So I am guessing by the show of your teeth that you are on board?" Steve had a funny way of delivering things.
"I am not completely sure what I am on board for, but it feels right. I told Jasinda that I went home last night with the intention on waking up to start a new life and one that would include being in the restaurant business.
"Jasinda might sound like a dreamer to other people, but she is right about how sometimes being in the right place at the right time can feel like magic. So I guess we have a lot to talk about," Ginger said.
"We need to eat this pizza first. I don't mind cold pizza, but luke-warm pizza not so much." Jasinda opened the box, and Ginger's mouth watered at the aroma.
"Oh I forgot to tell you that Sally called after you left and said that some things have come up and she is sorry that she had to call out last minute last night, but she needed to let us know that she wouldn't be returning to work and that we can mail her last pay check," Jasinda said as she shoved a slice into her mouth.
"Tell me what you need. I am here to help. It will give me more time to get to know this place from the other side of the bar," Ginger offered.
"She was supposed to work tomorrow. We actually have two bartenders coming in tonight to work, somehow we are double staffed for a Monday night. With the consultant coming we want to spend some time strategizing what we want from him so it worked out so we kept them on.
"If you don't have plans tonight we can sit down and go over our books with you and talk about our options with the restaurant. We have talked about taking on a partner as a whole and expanding what we do here, and we have also considered having someone run the restaurant as a separate business and pay us to lease the space," Jasinda explained and went to fix two more glasses of her mixed berry iced tea for her and Steve.
"We are open to both options. I spoke to Redford about it and he said that if we had an interested party when he gets here that he would help us to come up with the best option for all of us. Of course we would then need to get our
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