Moving Around to Help

Delegation was a huge part in my externship kitchen. The station I worked on I was with another girl, Amber. She was the head of the station but told me that I was her partner not her helper. She knew that if I wasn’t there on busy days she would not be able to get all of the food out at the correct time with all of the correct sides. But during prep she basically told me what needed to be done for the day and then let me go and do everything that was on my list. Sometimes, even when I was not on soups, she would even ask me if I would make her soup and she would do all of the prep for the station. Another time that delegation took place is when another stations prep was so large that the two people on the station could not handle it. So, usually I was placed on the other station to help them prep all of their stuff out. I feel that this was mainly because they knew that if they told me that they needed something done I would use the correct product and I would do it as fast as I could.

Another thing in why I got all of the random work and I was switched all around of the kitchen was because I was the extern. I was at the bottom of the chain of command. Not only that Amber was full time cook, she was also a tournaunt. This just meant that she was just one step below our Jr. Sous Chef. So, I had to do everything that everyone wanted me to do, but before I left I had people below me because I was in the kitchen longer then they were. So I even had a chance to delegate some of my tasks to other people, including the Sous Chef.