This morning, I grabbed breakfast in the cafeteria. Getting food from the cafeteria is truely a culinary event. My favorite is scrambled eggs with veggies and cheese and a half order of links. I always have to have some kind of meat in the morning and I have found that the sausage links are best choice. I have tried their bacon and even though they cook it up crispy, it is too salty. Likewise with their sausage patties. But, their links are pretty good.

Now, the grill is on the back wall. Between the customers and the cook is a food prep area with a steam table. In the morning, they use the steam table to keep the meat and hash browns warm. The table is also where they take your order.

Now, when I place an order for scrambled eggs with veggies and cheese and a half order of links (2) the cook puts the eggs on the grill and then throws a couple of links on the grill to “freshen them up”. Then, when the eggs are done, they are all loaded up into a Styrofoam container and handed to me.

Well, the grill cook got promoted and a new cook was hired. The operative word here is “new”. And being new, there are a few things that he has to learn. One of which is that a half order of links consists of only two links and not three.

This morning, he threw three links on the grill. A food prep woman who has put her self in charge immediately came over and grabbed that third link off of the grill and threw it backwards towards the steam table. That poor little link bounced off of the sneeze shield and landed in the hash browns.  Well, at least it didn’t fall on the floor.  But, if it had, I am sure that she would have picked it up and thrown it back in the tray.

Yum!