Dreams of the Snack Shack

 The first time I had to work was a Thursday night varsity soccer game. There was pressure in the air since we had a un experienced staff working, with hunter as the only person with past experience in the snack shack. We also had another hill to overcome which was a new executive chef as in Mr.Hoagland. He however was very experienced in the restraunt atmosphere so he knew what we had to do.  Right away we were put to the test, we had to pat the health exception...  She went around the snack shack first making sure everything was clean and up to standards, while all of us made our selfs look busy at work prepping for a busy night ahead. She then asked some questions to the group, very simple ones, like oh why are meets at the bottom of the fridge, or when should you wash your hands. After 10 minutes or so, she saw enough, she told us we passed and wished us good luck and went off. We all felt victorious as if we won 1 battle, but we still had the war of the night to deal with.

It went very smoothly I was on the fry station/fat sandwiches whenever Haiden needed help, which was very little since he was a beast, just putting sandwiches away. I kept up with the orders for the most part on the fry station, with the only thing falling behind was the Mac and cheese bites, that was really the night that the Mac and cheese bites started selling, in the juicy Lucy.

By the end of the night we were all tired with some kids escaping before they had to clean up, but not Lauren hunter, and I. We brought all the carts down and prepped the sinks and threw them in there for them to soak overnight. I really enjoined my first time working bonding with all of the other workers and really was a good first time at the snack shack.

        My second time working was a very different atmosphere having, Mr.Neumeyer there and it being a football game. I had culinary class that day so right away i understood how razy this was going to be, with me having to prep 10 hotel pans of fries, with Mr.Neumeyer hoping that would last us for atleast half of the night. We had a good staff working with Lebinski on the fat sandwiches, hunter on grill, and me on the frying station. Together i thought we were a very successful trio. We all communicated very well, letting each other know what we needed more of, and helped each other out if one of us had a lot of work to do at onc.

        One thing I wish everyone including myself could reemeber would be to be very clean. I mean its not like im throwing food all over the place, just sometime when your in a rush, your drip some oil there, or maybe drop a fry under the fryer, just small things that you can’t realy just stop what your doing and clean that little mess up. However it adds up, and it adds up very quickly. By half time the snack shack look liked a mess, with the floors a slippery as of a public pools bathrooms. That made everything alot harder, since we now had the factor that you could loose your footing and fall down, especially when you are going from the fryer to the hot box, with the hotel pans of hot food, since you have to travel through the frying and grilling station, by far the most two dangerous areas for greece.

        Another issue we had was the ventilation in the beginning of the night, the vents weren't sucking all the smoke out, so our snack shack looked like it was on fire, with steam from the fryers and the grill top just making a thick smog of clamy air. It made it for an uncomfortable 10 mins, until we figured out what the issue was.

        I really enjoyed working with john and hunter, and i hope we wil be together for the big Masuk game next next wednesday, since we will be ready.

James M