32 Hours But Who's Counting?

Most of yesterday's prep is crossed off - although some is not done, just eliminated from the menu, due to the cook shortage.  That being said, we are extremely grateful that the other cooks are helping to fill that gap: Mary and Marlena have been staying late after lunch service, along with Angie, and Rodrigo has been coming in at noon to work Brian's abandoned spot on the line.  Even Megan, with her hectic "real" life, has managed to get here earlier than her usual time.  We are really thankful to them for stepping up to the plate.  Kevin is lucky to have such a hard-working (remaining) crew.

Here's what greeted LaVonte when he showed up early this morning for his shift - the result of Kevin's early morning kitchen operations.  As per usual, no one works harder or longer than the Chef.  The past two mornings have seen him stretch up out of Bed at 4AM ("Six hours is plenty of sleep.") to arrive at BT by 4:30 and get cracking on that list.  Today and tomorrow are the biggest days - and of course last night we were very, very busy, so there's all that prep to do for dinner service tonight.  Will it ever end??  Yes, that is the beauty of it - New Year's Day will be a very slow one for the entire BT kitchen crew, and they will probably be very happy about that!

Oh, and what, you may wonder, am I doing to help out this year?  Besides fretting?  I made the honey spiced almonds!  Plus I'm going to help Angie put together the trifle.  Not to mention all of this historic documentation, eh?

Carry on!