Outside the Box/Bar - 8/25/2008
You have to hand it to Christopher-- the man thinks outside the box.
Here's the situation: our beer cooler broke down. Ok, so that happens all the time in restaurants all over the world. Most other restaurants don't have the bar built around the cooler, however. The physical set up of our bar made fixing the cooler impossible without some serious rearranging. Conventional wisdom (or at least my line of logic) says that it would smart to wait to Sunday (when we are closed) and take the bar apart to extract the cooler. That's what I would have done, but not so for some other people around here.
Instead of taking the bar apart to remove the cooler, Christopher's idea was to cut the cooler in half and keep the bar in tact. That's cut the metal cooler and leave the wooden bar. When first I heard this plan, I have to admit I nearly fell down I was laughing so hard. But, as usual, Christopher can make his crazy ideas make sense. It usually stems from the fact I want to save money and Christopher has no problem spending it. Me, I want to resurrect the $1000 cooler, but Christopher says, "toss it." When you look at his logic for that (too boring to go into here) it actually made sense. But we talked him down and I figured we'd have a project for Sunday that involved wood.
Our Kitchen Manager decided that he would not wait until Sunday, but would in fact take the bar apart before we opened on Thursday. Now, I'm not much of what one would call a "handyman," so I didn't have much to contribute to this endeavor (other than my stunning good looks). I arrived in my normal fashion, an hour before we opened, to find the bar in pieces and no end in sight. And by no end, I mean no chance of us opening on time. In fact we didn't even open for lunch; I made a sign saying we'd be closed for lunch and you'd be surprised how many people walked past that sign to ask if we were open.
In the end, we got the cooler out, we put a new one in, and, despite some computer problems, we were open for dinner. Now we have a whole new bar set up and, hopefully, a few more weeks before the cooler breaks down again.
So come in and have a beer... and think outside the box.
Here's the situation: our beer cooler broke down. Ok, so that happens all the time in restaurants all over the world. Most other restaurants don't have the bar built around the cooler, however. The physical set up of our bar made fixing the cooler impossible without some serious rearranging. Conventional wisdom (or at least my line of logic) says that it would smart to wait to Sunday (when we are closed) and take the bar apart to extract the cooler. That's what I would have done, but not so for some other people around here.
Instead of taking the bar apart to remove the cooler, Christopher's idea was to cut the cooler in half and keep the bar in tact. That's cut the metal cooler and leave the wooden bar. When first I heard this plan, I have to admit I nearly fell down I was laughing so hard. But, as usual, Christopher can make his crazy ideas make sense. It usually stems from the fact I want to save money and Christopher has no problem spending it. Me, I want to resurrect the $1000 cooler, but Christopher says, "toss it." When you look at his logic for that (too boring to go into here) it actually made sense. But we talked him down and I figured we'd have a project for Sunday that involved wood.
Our Kitchen Manager decided that he would not wait until Sunday, but would in fact take the bar apart before we opened on Thursday. Now, I'm not much of what one would call a "handyman," so I didn't have much to contribute to this endeavor (other than my stunning good looks). I arrived in my normal fashion, an hour before we opened, to find the bar in pieces and no end in sight. And by no end, I mean no chance of us opening on time. In fact we didn't even open for lunch; I made a sign saying we'd be closed for lunch and you'd be surprised how many people walked past that sign to ask if we were open.
In the end, we got the cooler out, we put a new one in, and, despite some computer problems, we were open for dinner. Now we have a whole new bar set up and, hopefully, a few more weeks before the cooler breaks down again.
So come in and have a beer... and think outside the box.
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