That one Tuesday last month where everything went right

I had a full week of bad breaks last month - messed up a lamb order, my bandsaw blade snapped on a Tuesday morning, and the delivery truck showed up with a whole beef loin that was all beat up. But then on Thursday I got a perfect 250-pound steer from a local farm near me in Ohio, broke it down in under 3 hours with no waste, and two of my regular customers came in and bought up all the chuck roasts within 10 minutes. Has anyone else had a day where the stars just aligned and made you feel like you actually knew what you were doing?

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colemiller8d ago

Nah I gotta disagree a little. That Thursday sounds good but you just described a week that started with a snapped blade and a beat up beef loin. That's not a day where everything went right, that's a day where you finally caught a break after everything went wrong. Real talk, a perfect day is when you walk in and the cooler is at temp, the supplier actually wraps your order properly, and your knife feels right in your hand from the first cut. Not a scramble to make up for a Tuesday that stunk.

alice4458d ago

You ever hear about what happened to my buddy Mark? He's a line cook over at that Italian place on Elm Street... walked in one morning last month and the walk-in cooler fan had died overnight. Lost almost a whole case of veal. Then his sharpening stone cracked in his hand before service. But here's the thing... by some miracle the rest of the shift went smooth. Tickets printed clean, no expo drama, even the dishwasher showed up on time. He told me it was the weirdest day because nothing started right but somehow everything ended perfect. Still doesn't call it a great day though. Says a great day is when the little things don't break in the first place.