Week 7

The winemaker dinner is done and I have off for a couple days. Until Thursday, we do not have any guests staying on the ranch. The owners are coming on Saturday, and we need to clean. I work only a couple days this week but will be pulling 32 or more hours.
On Wednesday I am working by myself to make the employee meal. I made chicken fried steak, cheesey potatoes, and some nice gravy. I also put out some duck and shrimp skewers left over from the winemaker dinner. Most of the time that I am there I am cleaning or working on my co-op project.
On Thursday, we had guests that came in, but I was off so I worked on my project and got it mostly done. I printed all the final pictures and critiqued everything. On Friday I went back into work for my normal hours of 9 – 5. I was working with Kim so she worked on the employee meal while I worked on the lunch and dinner prep. On Sunday, chef and I went over my project and he graded it. He also critiqued my special recipe plate. It was a pretty slow week until Saturday. The owners, the Bolingers, came to the ranch on Saturday afternoon. They have a house on the ranch and came to check out the ranch before we close it down for 10 days. They had dinner in the ranch house 2 nights, and were very pleased with the food and service both nights.
The next week, starting Monday, we are closed for maintence. Everyone not able to work their normal hours will be working on projects. I will be cooking employee meals for the second half of the week, and Kim is doing them on the first half.