This is my fifth day in the kitchen this week. The time counts toward the required banquet hours. Unless I am assigned to help with the banquet on December 3rd, I am finished working extra. I say "working" because there are very few of us here today and we are doing the cafeteria line food and service as usual. I have heard that until recently, the culinary arts department had a full time banquet manager who booked outside banquets for the department. Now, with very few banquets to serve, we must do extra hours in the department.
Someone mentions that there is a waiting list to get into the baking program here at the school. Some students take the first quarter of the cooking class to wait for a space in the bakery. I have observed many more females than males in that program...just the opposite culinary arts demographics.