3rd day at Yosh
Work started officially at 10:08 am for me today. Good thing there's the Bundy clock to verify the time-in and out's of each employee. This monitors the tardies and the official time for the store, which is actually very helpful for the managers.
I had a little chit chat with one of the managerial trainees about personal stuffs while waiting for the 1st customer. Kuya Danny even told me that he was once under mam Cherry sa SM Southmall (mam, he says hi!). In fairness, I'm beginning to feel at ease with the other crew members! They are very warm and always cracking up jokes! However, the one of the ARMs often remind the crew that there are always a time for everything, and jokes only delay pending work.
I was also able to notice that the managers constantly remind the crew to always observe the proper proportions of the ingredients by using proper utensils so as not to waste money, stocks and efforts. You know how it is in a kitchen, very busy and quite noisy, so the managers do this in shouting. At first I was intimidated, but later on understood and realized as to why they do this.
I also noticed that for every fraction of a time (i promise i will time the interval next time ma'am, hehe) a buzzer sounds and one crew member always shouts "SANITIZE!" This is indeed very efficient of the store since they are very conscious of the safety of their products.
As for my "duty" this day, I was able to, again, back-up for raddish and ginger. I am not liking ginger because aside from the fact that they are hard to peel, they are also hard to grate. My hands felt HOT after that, hehe:)) I was also able to prepare 3 buckets of red, green and apple iced tea.
I felt giddy when one of the ARMs instructed one crew member to teach me how to prepare their fresh vegetable salad side dish. It contains 20 grams iceberg lettuce, 20 grams romaine lettuce, 5 grams carrots, 10 grams green bell pepper, 15 grams turnips, and 20 grams carrots. I was able to accomplish this by making use of a sleek digital weighing scale, which I hope the CHE labs would have one, hehe:)) it is efficient because it is a simplified version of the top loading balance we have at FN 115. It has an on-tare function which makes it easy to weigh out the ingredients without preparing them one by one.
Towards the end of my shift, one of the ARMs present handed out a printed Yoshinoya OJT calendar which details the scope of my work. I was able to log out at around 2:18 pm.