As a current mid/night shift who was an opener previously, I prefer closing now. I used to love the rush of peak, but there is definitely more room for multitasking and flexing later in the day. You will have significantly less partners on the floor (ex my store 10 man play during peak w avg 60-70/half hr...at 130 2nd peak, 5 man w/avg 45-50/half hr), but if you are aware and have a strong shift, you get used to it. I like cleaning, tasking, and rearranging things my way haha. Then it shows significantly abt 2 hours before close, so time management becomes important.

It's just a different mentality. I think everyone should work all day parts at some point. It also helps prevent that us vs them mentality. There is more opportunity in the evening to work on whatever you feel is your weakness and develop your skill set.

I'm also always up late, so by the end of my shift at 1pm, I was a zombie haha

Edit: slows significantly, not shows.

Love working at nights with a really great shift but it really gets super slow sometimes so all we do is just clean

At my Bux nightshift definitely isn’t as nonstop busy as peak but it does have its rushes and mini rushes. Usually we have someone on bar, someone on DT, someone on front/warming/CS and a dish person. Almost everything in the store gets sent to dishes, ovens get cleaned, everything wiped down including things like syrup bottles, and backups made. The big ticket items are dishes, floors, breaking down bake case, and cold brew. it will probably be different at your store but it’s chiller than mornings, and is a lot of cleaning. hope this helps!