Melina Salazar, a wonderful woman from Texas, has worked as a waitress for most of her adult life. While she initially jumped around, for nearly the past two decades, she’s worked at the same Luby’s Restaurant in Brownsville, Texas. Over her years as a waitress, Salazar learned to deal with difficult situations along with even more difficult customers.
However, some customers are a lot harder than others, like Buck, a WWII veteran who seemed to hate everything around him. In fact, soon after he started coming to Luby’s, Salazar became the only employee who would wait on Buck. While he was often a curmudgeon, in the end, Buck would change Salazar’s life forever…
1. Loving Her Job
Melina Salazar was a middle-aged woman working as a waitress at Luby’s, a cafeteria-style restaurant, in Texas. While most don’t consider “waitress” a dream job, Salazar felt differently. Over 17 years as a waitress, and six at Luby’s, Salazar learned to love her job and became incredibly good at it. Without a doubt, she was one of the, if not the, best waitress in the place.
Salazar always focused on excellent customer service, treating every single customer with respect and sympathy, no matter how difficult the customer behaved. According to her co-workers, she’s always smiling and trying to cheer everyone up. But, by setting herself apart from the rest of the staff, Salazar also opened herself up to her most difficult challenge yet…
