The best customers on a slammed night are the ones who say “no rush.” Be that person somewhere.

Patience is a thing you can hand to somebody else. On a night when everyone wants their order immediately, the person who takes pressure off instead of adding to it changes how the whole shift feels, and it costs them almost nothing. Working one of those nights yourself teaches you how rare that person is.

Find one place this week where you are the customer and tell them to take their time, and mean it. A counter, a help desk, a younger sibling doing a job badly. Watch what happens to their shoulders.