Catering Chaos

That title may not communicate the right message.  We do not cater chaos, well not on purpose anyway.  I am sure that if someone wanted us to we could come up with it.  The title is in reference to the week we have before us.  It started today with a nice little catering job then continues through Thursday with 4 more.  Next Tuesday we have another and we have three large party reservations on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday this week.  It is great.  We love it.  It keeps us very busy while taking care of regular cafe traffic and preparing everything for the catering jobs.  That is where the chaos comes from.

Speaking of chaos, I am going back to 1985 in Sandy, Utah and my first skateboard.  It's design and paint scheme or board theme or whatever you want to call it was Chaos.  What a board.  I gave it a good run there for a few years.  I remember moving to Hawaii in 86 and riding it down the parking garage of the hotel we lived in for the first two weeks.  I don't have great memories of that hotel since I got food poisoning there but I do remember riding that skateboard.  I want to say it was a Best Western but I am probably completely wrong on that detail.  I'm sure the folks would remember, I was just shy of 13 when we moved there. 

Anyhow, the catering thing.  It is good stuff.  It takes a lot of work and coordination, even a little creativity now and again.  We manage to make it happen and that is good.  It would be great to make catering a bigger part of our business and we will.  We could use a slightly larger kitchen in order to really make it fly.  We are working on that. 

In other exciting news Lisa McKendrick from Lakeland came into the store today for lunch.  She had Julia with her as well as the little girls and their youngest boy who I met for the first time today.  He is a cute little guy.  Charlotte and Scarlet are the younger girls and I believe Charlotte was in Jack's primary class at church and Scarlet is Andy's age.  Wow, they are growing up so fast.  It was good to visit with Lisa.  Rich didn't make the drive across the country because of other engagements but will be flying out to join them later.  They are not staying in Cedar, this was just on the way.   Anyhow, great to see them and to enjoy a visit from some Florida friends.  It would be nice to venture out there again someday. 

This post is a little chaotic.  I'm all over the place.  I'm sure it is directly connecting with catering.