Random Scrap:
Andy arrived an hour later and after a five hour shift I had finally learned what the role of expeditor involved. There were over fifty tables at the restaurant and all of the orders would come to the kitchen through a small printer on Kurt's side. He would take two slips, hand one of them on his side and then hand over the other to Andy. The expeditor was responsible for picking up a tray and putting the orders together, make sure the plates were clean, steaks had proper knives. Then we had to find a runner who was assigned to an assistant which who was then assigned to a waiter serving particular table. Sometimes we would also need take 'to go' orders directly to the bar. On top of that, the responsibility also involved making sure coffee pots behind were always full and shelves fully restocked with glasses. All of that while people were running through the kitchen screaming both in Spanish and English and cooks shoving plates and yelling for someone to make room for more. I was exhausted but at the end I held twenty dollars of tips in my pocket and there were more to come.