I had a rather large order or fruit trays to slice up, or rather, 6 small orders. I needed 9 trays each of watermelon, honey dew, cantaloupe, pineapple and berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries).
I surprised myself and how quicker I got at peeling and cutting up these fruits. I was done everything in 5 hours. Still a lot longer than I want to take, but slowly getting better.
I have this tendency to sing Berries & Cream while I'm bowling up the berries, so I hummed away at that while slicing up my strawberries, and layering on the blueberries and blackberries.
The atmosphere in the kitchen was a little tense, an order for berries weren't done, pastry thought it was just berries, and therefore it was on our list of to-do, we thought it had granola in it, and therefore it was an order of parfaits, which is then placed on pastry's to-do list. After that was all sorted out, it was realized it was our task, and was quickly done.
Early in the morning a service staff came to pick up an order, that wasn't due 'til tomorrow, and almost took off with it before anyone noticed. More words were exchanged, and we all realized what a foul mood everyone was in.
After I was done with the fruit, Jennifer went for her lunch break, and I was left to do a vegetable platter, which was not hard at all, bowl up some nachos and dip, which I laughed because we use the same ones as we did at the movie theatre, and slice up some tomatoes. To slice to tomatoes, all I had to do was remove the core and slice them with this gadget Jennifer had at her station, with it I was able to slice up a whole box in under 20 minutes.
When Jennifer came back, she showed me how to do up meat skewers and we tidied up and went home for the day.
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