The main kitchen, with the areas for banquet, room service, garde manger, butchery, all the coolers/walk-ins, the storage room, baking, pastry, and so on, is rather large, so I'll be doing an on-going amassing of it....maybe I'll even map it someday

 

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room service
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general pic
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garde manger
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butchery
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hall of linens
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entrance to the store room
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very large exit to a very large dishwasher
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we would have drooled over this many ice machines at the CIA
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line of ovens
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dish station
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banquet area
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the bakery being scrubbed
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Okay...so I'm walking around the kitchen area, and I stumble on a room with several of these signs on it. It made me pause.
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Okay...now I'm even more confused. I found this sign yesterday. I asked what it meant, and got no real answer.

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I really feel sorry for this one....

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When we clean the fish room, we clean all of it

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Rachel and JD
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A lot of oysters

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This is JD...but the lobster is still hanging on to a piece of bread

 

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Okay...now the mystery is solved....this is a "queen mary".

I have yet to find out why it is called a "queen mary"....

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A lot of sauces

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A lot of silverware


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680 filet mignon...

to be grilled

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how long do you suppose that took?

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When we have to plate many dishes (let's say, 250 or more), we do it on a conveyor belt....

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Heather

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Heather and James


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"trees"

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"a forest?"

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This is cool...salad trees

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The Garmo "Garde Manger" cooler

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Now that's a spice rack

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Gallons of goodies

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It's filled with so many goodies

Unfortunately, this stock boiled....breaks the heart.  It had to be dumped.

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Plastic wrap is valuable...very valuable

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Shrimp boat

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One day a runner grabbed my knife and started to use it to open a pickle bucket (they come in 5 gallon buckets). After expressing my dismay, it was explained to this person that what they needed was the bucket key...which is the above instrument.

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J.D.

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Okay, those two are not at the hotel. They were on the roof of an apartment near mine.
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Just in case you were wondering where Carmen Miranda is these days...she's in a box in our hotel basement
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working in the store room
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Patrick...in Chef's Chair...

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Larry, Germain, and Me

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Kitchen meeting

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Yves

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Jeremy and Tim

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The last few remaining days' pictures....in no particular order
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How many other externship sites have their own in-house superhero.  I give you.....

Litterman

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