Staff Meeting

Today at work was actually REALLY REALLY fun!! We had a big giant team meeting today (with bagels, waters, and spreads to fill our little tummies so early in the morning) and at first, Peter just talked to us about how amazing we are doing (2nd in the country compared to the other stores' scores!! That's AMAZING!) and what we could improve on and all the new things coming up. But THEN, we had a trivia game where we had to answer multiple choice questions about procedures (I did TERRIBLE because I would get lost in my thoughts, and since they were only allowed to read the answers once, I wouldn't hear them and fell behind) and then the best part was after that. We had this SUPER fun competition activity where we were split into teams and then completed different tasks against the clock. The "front of the house" part included getting out and stretching the dough, filling anything that needed filling (during), making 4 salads and labeling them and putting them in the case, making like 20 pizzas CORRECTLY (this is big because most of the time, we don't actually measure the ingredients out, we just plop them on and we're usually pretty close!), wrapping them, and stacking them correctly. And cleaning everything up, including doing the dishes. The "back of the house" included making a whole batch of dough, dough-balling it all, oiling it, labeling it, and putting them in the walk-in. Also included was making 4 cheesy breads and 4 smores, AND cleaning it all up. Thank goodness we didn't have to make cookie dough. That would've taken us FOREVER. It was so fun. We were all competing at the same time, being timed, so we were all running around like little ants when their hill gets knocked over, bumping into each other, apologizing, but mostly just getting in the zone! It was really fun. I love being in the heat of the moment! It was also weird because we all had to come in before the store opened, pretty early, and then half of us left and came back for our later shifts. Haha

My team had Taylor leading, then Danielle, Justin, Drake, Lindsey, and Genessa. We rocked it, I won't lie. During the back of the house part of it, the phone rang and, although we were yelling at him not to because it would waste time, Drake answered the phone, telling us "What if that's part of the competition?!" and we all laughed at how ridiculous that would be! Turns out, it was and it's what ended up making us WIN!!! So we all got gift cards to the movies. It was so awesome. I'm tellin you, I really have the BEST job.

Taylor wrote on her facebook about it. I felt so cool. Haha