My favorite part of Easter.

I do not celebrate Easter. My family does not celebrate Easter. I do, however, celebrate Easter Egg hunts. Especially ones at PF Chang's.

Each year, the opening crew (kitchen staff and then one bartender, take-out, host, and 2 servers) get to take part in an Easter egg hunt in the restaurant. There's eggs with $1 bills, $5 bills, $10 bills, and this year, there were two eggs with $20 bills. Some just have chocolate, and I have no problem with that either. This year was my fourth year doing the Easter egg hunt, and it is one of my favorite parts about working there. I've gotten so good at the hunt I know all the good places that the managers hide eggs. Next year my goal is to come in early and help them hide eggs in the morning.

So during the hunt I collected 10 eggs in about 5 minutes. Counted it all up and have $19. Not bad for ten minutes of work!

My manager Kevin mentioned that only one person had found a $20 egg, and so there was still one out there! I thought I had looked everywhere and for a while gave up. But 45 minutes after the hunt had 'ended' (when we opened the restaurant) I was looking behind the bar in hopes of catching something, then checked the service printer.. and there it was. A golden egg with a $20 bill. So I made an extra $39 .. just for being at work about an hour before most people. Not a bad day at work after all.

The Easter egg hunt is just one part of the reasons I love working at PF Chang's. It gets everyone excited to do something other than serve/make Chinese food, and brings together our front and back of house staff for at least a brief moment in time. It makes it a little more bearable to work on a holiday and plus, who doesn't love chocolate? If only we could do things like this on every holiday that we work...