JORDAN RUSSO (Jordy) wasn’t born a cynic, but is driven there by eight straight years in the service industry. Previously burned out by a career in commercial real estate where he was fired, Jordan has taken up semi-lucrative employment in a pretentious, east coast shoreline restaurant where he is now burning out and approaching a mid-life crisis. The start of the summer, takes an immediate turn for the worse when the floor manager is fired, and Jordy’s friend—and restaurant manager—dies of a sudden heart attack, before prospectively offering the floor manage position. And just as things couldn’t look grimmer going into the busy season, the General Manager of Operations, DAVID KOPINSKI takes the reigns, disrupting the carefree status quo.

The only glimmer of hope for Jordan is GEMMA—a graduate student—who takes employment as hostess, whilst she, herself, works through her own obstacles and adjustment to incoming change. The two of them form a relationship which starts to ignite change in his personality and begins to motivate him to leave the misery of the restaurant business and pursue a different, more fulfilling path.

As his internal dialog and violent fantasies take hold, the summer season will become a true testament to his patients and mental fortitude to emotionally juggle the unpredictable day-to-day grind with eccentric, millennial coworkers, short-sighted managers, pretentious customers, but largely his own insecurities.