Alright. Soccerfest. The boys soccer team finally had they spotlight, and fans to cheer them on. As much as this blog is a chance for a dig and the soccer team but mostly Baldino, I came in first shift, and got to prep and lot of stuff as I had to leave early. Hoagy gave us 30 mins until she came back and expected us to be ready, naturally we missed a couple minor details but overall we got it all set, me and Parker dropped the various assorted fried goods, (and the bad Mac and cheese bites, really gotta get the triangle ones back) but I liked prepping, it was like the calm before the storm, and once that rush for the crowd came we were all in our stations and took them on, and even though we might have been slightly understaffed we did a good job and completed the task. I really have started to get the hang of this. I think you guys should offer varsity letters for each station, like I mean I should almost have one for fry cook by now... Bryce

Coming off of the most hectic snack shack in NHS history, is was actually looking forward to the next one if you can actually believe that. Well this time it was a boys soccer game and since they had been having a rough streak the attendance wasnt something to write home about. I kept anticipating more and more things to be fried as that is my official and never changing job, but the demand jut wasnt there. It was kinda nice being able to hear myself think. As I even got a go at being a cashier before the night ended, and with the leftovers had Parker make me the best fat sandwich he could. Anyway, it was nice working a snack shack with a certain organization to it, not where food is just flying everywhere. My sole suggestion as the starting fry cook would be to devise a system to get that fourth fryer under code and get it operating underneath that vent. It would be a game changer. I also feel the Mac and cheese bites that were triangular were 100x better than the new ones we have, just my two cents. Looking forward to the next one. Bryce

The first football game of the year. Even with all our prep work I think it's safe to say we were overwhelmed. Working both the fry station and the hotbox could get crazy. It's not that the hotbox was that hard. When I had four orders for french fries stack up and then I get asked for three cheeseburgers and a hot dog was when it got tricky. Sometimes I couldn't pay attention to what was running low on the hotbox because of all those fry orders. Separating paper boats from one another is a lot harder than it looks! It's a good thing giving what's asked is so simple a job, even when orders would sometimes overlap and I'd hand out more than was asked. The operation beyond that from my limited viewpoint seemed pretty flawless. As hectic as it got the system itself was sound. It was the pure unexpected numbers of people asking for what we were making after we told them no, we are out of Pepsi, and no, checking again will not help, that got to us. I personally burned through three pairs of plastic gloves grabbing the fries that were dumped into the hotel pans right out of the fryer, and I got off easy. I thought the evening, barring a few popped nerves, was a great success.
-Drew

On Thursday I worked the Snack Shack for the boys soccer game. I worked 2 games before this one but this was personally my favorite one so far. My job was to make fat sandwiches and to get the chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks and onion rings out of the hot box. I made about 30 fat sandwiches on Thursday and it was a great experience for me. At the beginning I was a little slow because I've never done it before but as the night went out, I got a lot better. On Thursday the game was kind of crowded but obviously nothing like a football game. At halftime it was very crowded though. We were running out of some food like fries and it was pretty crazy. We also made hot chocolate and only like 5 people ordered it. Overall it was another really fun night in the snack shack and I can't wait for my next game to work. Michael P.

This Friday was the first snack shack for football. It was very hectic. No one could hear any one, so different people would yell the same order. This caused multiple of the same order to be made, which wasted time when we could be making other orders. Also, once an order was made and we had to give it to the cashier when you went to give it to them no one knew whom it went to, so we had to stand there and yell to the crowd whose order it was. Sometimes when no one would answer we would think that it was an extra and put it away, then the cashier would be waiting for it to come and it wouldn’t.

Jillian

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

On Thursday the 10^th I worked my first snack shack. It got crazy when everybody kept trying to jump in to the job that you were doing. The people on money weren’t shouting out the orders they would just say them when nobody can hear them on the back by the fryers or by the grill. The people on the hot box would tell us when we need food the minute we need it, they didn’t tell us when we were low on food.

 kyle wallin