It's a Monday. Small, 75 seat lunch room that's open for 2 hours. We have a full hot buffet every day, as well as soup, sandwiches and salads made to order. Monday is a major prep day, after the weekend. The dumb waiter was acing up, so I grabbed a cart ,took the elevator to the kitchen to get our food (at this point very late) and set up the buffet. I ran some pans to the dishroom (headstart on cleanup, you know) and I noticed a burning electical smell. Then I noticed the smoke seeping under the dumbwaiter door. Raced backed to the dining room, called the kitchen, tracked down my co-worker and sent her outside, called my supervisor (doing a lunch at the Pres of the University) blew out 12 sternos, unplugged everything and left. An hour & a half later we were allowed back in the building. We had 10 customers today. Positive-noone hurt. Negative No more dumbwaiter.
Quite the day.
PJ
Quite the day.
PJ
PJ