Advanced/Apprentice: Culinary Chronicles, Capers & Canards

After working in the snack shack for the first football game I feel there are definitely aspects in which we could improve. The communication in the snack shack did not go as well as in previous events/years. People were yelling out of pure excitement of being in the snack shack which made communication of orders difficult. At times it was even difficult to communicate with the person standing next to me. One of the aspects that we did well though was being prepared with the utensils that we needed. Unlike last year when we were constantly running back to the culinary department to get materials this year we had everything that we needed. The only supplies we ran out of was food. Which is never a complaint when you sell everything you have. I think that we were definitely caught off guard with the amount of people that showed up. I was definitely hard for us to communicate with each other inside the snack shack. There were times when people were ordering hot dogs and i had to grill them from start because I didn’t know that there were none in the hot box. Bryce was standing right next to me and I could barely hear him let alone the orders that I needed to hear from the front on the house. The falafels were annoying to fry because we rarely got an order for them and when we did we already had stuff in the fryer which made it difficult. In addition we had an order get sent back because the chicken was not warm, in the future we should probably grill it and keep some in the hot box. Also we got an order of chicken tenders back. We needed to remember FIFO, first in first out. We were putting new chicken tenders on top of the old so when we got to the bottom they were cold. One lesson that it learned from the experience was that we can never fry off to many fries before the night begins.

-Matt B