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Vigilant Hose Company Hosted
Christmas in July
by Buck Reed The Vigilant Courtesy Photo
The Hose Company in
Emmitsburg hosted
Supermarket Christmas in July
during all its Bingos in
Gourmet the month of July. The
Company collected
lots of stuff for the
food bank, setting
out shopping carts for
In An O rgan ized Kitc hen collections.
A great example
of another positive
In culinary school, we were told our planning. A Point of Sale (POS) gesture taking place in
a story about a chef in France who is a system that helps organize the Emmitsburg.
worked for the king of France in the wait staff’s orders into tickets that
days of old. It seems that during one help the cooks prepare the food for Pictured from left are Patty
Nell, Sharon Keeney, Mary
of the parties the chef had prepared service. But that is only one small Ann Wivell, Sharel Boyle, Kay
for the king, they had run out of part of what this program can do. If Hollinger, Linda Miller, Sue
food, devastating the chef and his properly set up, POS can keep track Reaver, Mary Lou somebody
LoL, front Ed Little.
reputation. So, when the next party of your entire food inventory, helping
was planned and the food was you with ordering, food cost, and
delivered, the chef noted that there even tracking theft. It can also give
wasn’t going to be enough to feed all you a history of what happened in
the guests again. Not realizing that the past, and help you predict what Take Us Along!
there was another cart of food on might happen in the future. Knowing
its way, he became distraught and how much of a certain appetizer or Take The Catoctin Banner newspaper along with you on your travels!
eventually committed suicide, not entrée you sold last weekend, or the Have someone take a photo of you holding The Catoctin Banner, and your
wanting to face the humiliation of same time last year, can give you a photo could be included in a future issue! E-mail your photo, along with the
another ruined party. The moral that great jump on deciding how much details of where you traveled, name(s) of person(s) pictured, and any details
I took from this story was that you you should prep this weekend. you would like to add, to: news@thecatoctinbanner.com. Safe Travels!
better get organized or you will get Fortunately for home cooks
“run over” in the highway that is the such as yourself, you do not need
professional culinary world. a $10,000 computer system to get
A natural talent of most organized. Keeping your kitchen
successful chefs is definitely found and pantry organized will make
in organization. In my time, I have shopping easier. And, an organized
found that Lutece and McDonalds, kitchen is just easier to keep clean.
both successful restaurants have Making lists before you go out to
this in common. If you look in their the grocery store is a help, but like
walk-in refrigerators, you will find most of us, you may be shopping
that everything is neatly organized for sales or, even better, something
and put away the same way every that is in-season. Trying to shop in
single day. There is no guessing if such a way that you will know what
you are out of something or not. you want to cook for the rest of
There is no searching for a box that week is a challenge in itself. But, real
is out of place. Hide and seek is not cooks seem to make it work out. It
a favorite game of any chef. Now is almost as if we do it without even
we have computers to help us with thinking about it.
