[Sca-cooks] A question of serving

[Adele de Maisieres]

Speaker To Idiots wrote:

> This is what I, as head server, feel the job entails:
>
> coordinate with head cook about setup of feast hall
> set up feast hall
> figure out serving paraphenalia, plating order, etc.
> instruct servers
> liaison between the hall and the kitchen
>
> The cook should be done at this point, unless the kitchen staff is 
> helping plate things. We have a volunteer coordinator as a staff 
> position for our events, so that there's one main point of contact for 
> volunteers--in the past, I'd be handling that part of it too.
>
> In this specific case I ended up coordinating the toasts, but only 
> because I got proactive about it.
>
> So how do other people/places handle it?


That about jives with what I (a cook) do with head servers, except that 
I sort out the presentation aspects (serving equipment and plating) with 
the kitchen the staff, so that the servers don't have to do any food 
handling/messing around.

Adele d'M