Day 15 & Blue

The name's bleu. Chicken Cordon Bleu, that is. Oh wait, that was for lunch my crew of two and I pulled off with a bang today. Things could scarcely have gone better. Plenty of food, good presentation (for summer, at least), and cleanup done on time.

My crew started work at 6 today, but even with the extra hour of sleep, they were still tired. Since Sunday morning are almost always easy, all food service working that morning usually eats together: cooks, bakery, and pantry. After finishing his breakfast, one of our cooks was so tired he decided to lay down on the floor and take a short nap in front of the hostess closet. I should preface this all with a statement about how creepy the Pondy Dining building is at night/early morning. It's dark, there's lots of shadows, and the building is always creaking or making scary noises. The paper tunnel in the back of the building seems like just the place for a snarling animal or serial killer to jump out from the shadows at you as you're unlocking in the morning. Well, back to this morning, one of the hostesses comes upstairs and comes around the dark corner to the hostess closet and beholds the body lying in the shadows on the floor. The lights hadn't been turned on in that area, so it looked like nobody had been through there that morning yet. She realized what was going on a moment later and comes around the corner to our table, finding one of the bakers laid out across three chairs, napping herself. Pointing at the two, I told her, "Don't eat the oatmeal."