April 6, 2007, Newsletter Issue #71: Food On Your Tray
Tip of the Week
Much time is lost by looking at the notepad and trying to figure out who had what when the tray gets to the guestsī table. What I do is loading the trays in the kitchen in the same numerical order as the order taken at the table. And when I get there, to my table, with a tray full of food, my maximum are fifteen plates, I do not have to look at my notepad. Back in the kitchen I arranged my plates clockwise on my tray starting at number one. At the table I can serve each plate as I take it counterclockwise off my tray. If it is a table of fifteen than the first plate off the tray is number fifteenīs, followed by fourteen getting his order and thirteen is next, then twelve, then eleven. The last person to get his food is number one which happens to be the first plate I loaded onto the tray in the kitchen. Itīs simple this way, no chaos, no problems. It allows to serve larger tables like clockwork.
BTW as a beginner donīt start with 15 plates on a tray :-)
helmut schonwalder 12-14-2002
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