Service

Last night was my first serious look at service. Since I only work two days a week, Chef really cannot assign me service. I am not there enough to really learn how to plate everything and keep it fresh in my mind. Additionally, it usually takes a few days straight working service to solidly get something of a handle on it. People who have worked service for 2 weeks still have things to learn. Chef wanted me to watch (and help if I could) Saturday night service so that I would be familiar with it in order to have all the information I need when deciding to work their full time. There are many desserts and some overlap areas. The desserts that overlap areas are usually plated differently depending on the area. Desserts for the main dining room as part of the prix fixe menu will be plated one way, but the same dessert in the tavern may be plated differently. I already feel like I am going to need pictures of everything in order to actually remember them.

I observed and very minorly helped for a little over an hour until they kicked me out. It hit that 9:30 pm time when things get really busy and they needed the help of someone who actually knew stuff. So I went downstairs to continue the glories of coffee cake batter and marshmallows while the girl downstairs went up to help with service. I think the main girl running service was a little upset by my presence. She felt like she had to train me, and she definitely didn't have the time for that. I was really just there to observe, Girlie! Calm down!