Let's Play the Catch Up Game

Hello Everyone,

The title does alot to sum it up, I'm going to play the catch up game with my blog. I just finished my three week stint in Back of House in my first restaurant on campus. The first set of restaurants we are in is more geared towards Contemporary Restaurant Cuisine. I ended up working in St. Andrew's for my first round of restaurants and at St. Andrew's the are more geared towards staying local to the Hudson Valley and trying to be sustainable. On top of that all because the school has changed around the AOS program, all the cuisines classes are getting moved to post externship. So the school has had a major loss in meals and the school needed to find a way to provide more meals to the student body. Part of that plan was to open up St. Andrew's to do more student covers. So our average cover count for the past 14 days has been between 120 and 140 covers. Currently St. Andrew's is doing the highest amount of covers than any other restaurant  on campus (most likely with the except of Apple Pie). So last block I spent ten hours in class working my butt off with my group and we pulled it off with success. This current block the PM block opened up and so we had a triple work load to prep our class, the next AM and PM class. It was quite the ride but we did it, pulled it off and Chef was very very pleased with our hard work that we put it.

Now my class and I have moved into AM Front of House at St. Andrew's and honestly its such a huge change. The front is a totally different world than the back, its quite the adjustment but our day one went really smooth and we were able to have worked it all out with a success though we only did 103 covers that day.

As to catching up, I'll include several posts in the next few days about everything that has happened, food thats been cooked, adventures that have been made, topics that have been discussed, concepts that have been though of. So much to catch up on. Which leads me to say that I plan on writing more and hopefully getting to do more photography. I haven't had much time for it and its something I need to plan out some more time for. So I'm off to start on another post!

-Garrett