Today was my first day in the private dining kitchen at the Capital Hotel. Let me just say it was a ton of fun! I left my house at 6:30 and was barely awake driving. My drive to work is awesome. There was hardly any traffic this morning and I caught a beautiful view of the sunrise sky over downtown Little Rock. My favorite part of my drive every morning is getting to drive by our beautiful state capital. It brings me back to all the days and years I spent in the committee rooms during Arkansas Student Congress.
I clocked in at 7 o'clock and from that time on it was a consistently busy work day. I started off the day helping get stuff together for the employee dining room. One of the best parts of working at the hotel is that they provide their employees a free meal for either lunch, dinner, or over night depending on when you work. It is the private dining kitchen's job to prepare these meals and put them into the dining room.
After the employee's were taken care of, we prepared lunches for the Stephen's building next door. Warren Stephen's owns the hotel and we make lunch for him and his employees and deliver them daily. The building was absolutely huge!! It is one of the biggest buildings in Little Rock. Once we had delivered the meals to the Stephen's building, the chef I work with took me to the 25th and top floor of the building. On every corner of the 25th floor there is an outdoor balcony to look at the city. It was amazing!!! Here are some of the pictures I took.
The rest of the day included lots of prep work for tomorrow. I chopped up a lot of stuff and cut myself not once, not twice, but three times. Yeah, it is probably my worst cooking performance ever. The first two cuts were just small nicks that were no big deal but the last one was a good one. I was cutting small cherry tomatoes and one rolled away and the knife was still determined to cut something. Needless to say my finger suffered. I don't need stitches but it is taped up pretty nicely. The security guards at the hotel are in charge of the first aid and they got to know and make fun of me quite a bit today. After work I went to Walmart and spent almost $20 in band-aids, gauze, tape, and antibiotic cream. I will be prepared now!
Overall, today was a ton of fun! Time flew by and I could hardly believe I was done when I was. I'll let ya'll know how the rest of it goes!
-Rachel
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