As The Pie Bakes: A Waitress Journey in Faith

By Debra Goulet

There are happy, sad, embarrassing, and funny stories the author, Debbie Goulet, portrays in, "As the Pie Bakes," in her journey as a waitress for 30 years. She shares how she embarks on a journey of faith with God, and how God changed her life, and used her to encourage others. Her story will inspire others that God can enrich their l

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
• Release date: Jun 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798885907804

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Preface

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his book is about how God changed my life while I was working as a server at a restaurant. God put the right people at the right time in the restaurants I worked in to lead me to Jesus Christ and the church he wanted me to be a part of. God used me to bless people on my job. In this book you will find good, bad, funny, and sad things that have happened over the thirty years I have worked as a server.

Chapter 1

Never Say Never

Your word is a lamp to guide my feet

and a light for my path.

—Psalm 119:105 (New Living Translation)

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remember clearly the day I sat at the very same restaurant that I would eventually be working at in the future. I was on my lunch break from the grocery store I worked at. I was watching the servers work, and I thought, I could never do what they were doing. You have to get all the orders right, be fast and patient with each guest. I left the restaurant not realizing that particular moment would be such a big moment in the years to come.

I worked at a grocery store in the seafood department at the time, and I did not like it. My clothes smelled like fish, my hands hurt dealing with the fish, and I especially did not like handling live lobsters.

I had to take the bus to work, and often, that would make me late for work. My boss fired me since I was late so much of the time. I was desperate for a job, so I applied at the restaurant for a cashier position. I had no idea what God was doing or that he had a plan for me. It was October 1987 when I got the job as a cashier and hostess at the restaurant. It was the same restaurant that I had lunch at the day I was fired from my fishy job. I had no restaurant experience, but I did have cashier experience. I didn’t plan on staying at the restaurant job for long. I learned the menu, and over time I started to like my job. It was a new restaurant that specialized in pies, so I had to learn all the names of the pies and their ingredients. It was hard at first because we were a brand-new restaurant. The first day of opening, it seemed like everybody in town came to check it out.

It took a while for me to get used to the clients and the pressure of the job. I was not a Christian at this time and did not have a lot of patience in the beginning. Running back and forth, seating people, taking cash, answering the phone, and getting drinks for the patrons made me exhausted at the end of the day. The first thing I did when I went home was change clothes and take a nap. Keep in mind, I was only twenty-two years of age and felt the need for a nap to recuperate. I looked for other work but had no luck. I got used to working at the restaurant and dealing with the public. Many patrons were nice, and some were not so nice.

Time went by quickly. I