Well today has been very eventful...
I'll start with the salad bar fridge that died in the middle of the night... Once Monte discovered this, I went upstairs to wake up Tucker early & give him the unfortunate news. Of course he rushed down stairs to find that hundreds of dollars of prepped food had gone bad. :( Bummer huh? There's more....
Not only had all the food gone to waste. We basically weren't going to be able to serve anything off of the menu since we lost everything that was already prepped and meant for today. So Monte and I dove right in and started peeling peppers etc. It was about 6:30am at that point. After a while we where able to offer everything except Classic Bene. All of the Canadian Bacon had been in the fridge that died.
So once the repair man showed up he determined that the motor on the fridge was shot. So we have to buy a whole new set up. $1700, yikes! Right as we get this news, the fire alarm blares in the dining room, with two tables of people dining in for breakfast. Apparently the repair man had gone through the entire restaurant and blew the coils free of dust on all of the fridge & freezer units. Well the fire panel is right next to our largest freezer down stairs and there was so much dust the fire alarm thought it was smoke and sounded. So needless to say the fire department arrived shortly just as I discovered the computers had crashed and the credit cards weren't processing.
I'll tell you what, I thought what else could go wrong at that point! So I did CC's the old fashioned way, by hand.
Our first guests of the day where well aware we where having problems, with only Quiche to order from and all of the racket in the kitchen. Plus they where here when the fire alarm sounded. They informed me that today is Friday the 13th. I have never once in my life ever experienced anything odd on a Friday the 13th. But today is one for the books! And still two more hours till closing, sigh...
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4 comments:
Jenn, I couldn't believe what I was reading after our conversation last night. You were already so maxed and overdone! I'm so sorry about the catastrophe. Life sure can bring its share of tests and trials, can't it? I hope you all recover well! Try to get some sleep! Love, Adrienne
Oh the joys of being a business owner!
So sorry to hear about this. Bummer! I prayed for you and Tucker today. Even if the problems don't go away, I hope you can keep a good perspective on what really matters in life, even with all the craziness going on.
Life of the business owner!
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