Day 8: Laid back and Working

Today was a bit more laid back than usual, but still busy. There was nothing really that I focused on learning today due to the fact of continuous flows of customers. Although we had three orders for catering, they were all fairly small or fairly simple to due. For example, the first catering order consisted of eight people and all they wanted were eight sandwiches and eight bags of chips. The second catering order consisted of one large veggie tray, a side or ranch, and a tray with one dozen cookies and eight brownies for twenty people. The last catering order also consisted of a large veggie tray, and fifteen brownies, but was for thirty people. There were no surprise orders that we had to make at the last minute, so since all of the work that I could have done was done, I got a break until 11:00 a.m. when Schlotzsky's opened. I worked all around the restaurant doing various tasks from taking orders, serving food, making food, and running the drive-thru. There was a fairly large amount of people that came in for lunch, and at a steady pace. The rush stopped at about 1:30 p.m. when Mr. Rukieh gave me a quick briefing of what I was going to learn tomorrow, since it is only done on Thursdays. Schlotzsky's is changing their suppliers, so he is going to teach me how the ordering sheet works, how long in advance he needs to order the supplies, who he orders it from, and why it is a crucially important aspect of running a business.