Better late than never:
Last Tuesday Northstar gave away free Veggie burgers. That's right, every Earth Day we pay tribute to the globe byy opening up our doors and selling every person who wants one (for dine in only, no carryout boxes please) a free, house-made Veggie Burger with a simple salad.
What does that entail you ask?...
My kitchen sold 1115 Veggie Burgers. On a regular day, we sell oh, 275. Liz's store did 900. To make that happen we chopped, and chopped, and mixed together hundreds of pounds of rice, dozens of pounds of beets, made 7 or 8 batches of Black Beans in the time we usually make 2 or 3, paid lots of overtime hours, and ordered 42 gallons of pickles. Heck, one guy in my kitchen chopped HIS BODY MASS in SALAD GREENS on Earth Day. This was the first year that we started giving them away at 11 AM instead of 3 PM because Earth Day fell on a Tuesday rather than Saturday or Sunday.. It works out to about 100 burgers an hour, although our peak was 135 in one hour between 7-8 PM (that's 2.25 a minute, but who is counting?).
On Liz's end, since no one pays for the Burger that means they've got to buy something....aka drinks and COOKIES. I don't know how many cookies were baked that day, but it was at least 2 gross (or 2 dozen dozens). Liz didn't bake on Earth Day she was scheduled as extra prep, so she probably hand-pattied about 250 at least.
Of the 22 people in my kitchen 19 of them worked on Earth Day. The mood was very festive, everyone did a great job and it was the perfect way to return from vacation. I won't tell you how many hours Liz and I worked in a five day span; it might make your head spin. But we still made it to see Billy Joel!
Consider that the 215 E Royal Forest Jones update for the Spring!
10 comments:
I'm glad you guys survived the madness! :-)
Very impressive.
Kim, next year you could come out and help run food! Or, you could expo something like this, "Veggie burgers all day are 24: sell 8 regulars, then a no onion, then 9 regulars. Fire 10 burgers."
Oooh, I'm a good expo and food runner. :]
Holy Cow! That's a lot of burgers!!! OOps... maybe I shouldn't use that expression to describe veggie burgers!
Sounds like a mixture of fun and mayhem!
At least you/Liz got your "second wind" at the concert. Speaking of concerts, Sean, Neil Diamond will be in Cols. in Aug.!
Never heard of him.
Linda, there was lots of fun but definately no Mayhem. I'm not allowed to play Black Metal CDs in the kitchen....YAHTZEE!
Cute, Sean....What if I can get tickets??!!
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