Boat Show madness

I survived boat show!! That is something to be proud of. While we normally do 300 people for lunch on a saturday, we did over 700 people!!!!! Can you say, crazy?? Boat show is a weekend (thurs-sun) when people, boats, and vendors from all over the world come to show off their stuff. Its HUGE! The Mooring parking lot turns into a tent and a space for only 1/3 of the actual boat show. This event takes up basically alll of downtown Newport. And because the Mooring is the only restaurant located inside the gates of the Boat Show and people don't want to leave, they come to our restaurant. I dont even know how we did so many covers for lunch, but we did. Ill be honest though, being on hot apps wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I was just watching the grill station the whole time getting slammed by hamburgers and chicken sandwiches, mainly. But basically, our prep levels multiply by three and we are still running around! I am happy I got to experience Boat Show because everyone has been talking about it since I arrived in March. I am SOOOO tired.

I guess its part of the job description...

Ever since my friends found out I like to cook, they are always asking me if I can cook for them or asking me about my cooking. Some are genuinely interested while others just want some food. I have been going through this struggle of who my real friends are for quite some time.
At work, I make cookies and desserts whenever I am doing my baking shift. I have a whole prep kitchen to my self with ovens and burners, so its easy. I started doing it one night when there was nothing to do and well, now it is expected of me to make something. There is one particular person who seems to have a nose like a dog. He won't come out to the prep kitchen to say hi or anything unless I have food cooling or any scraps. I made brownies two nights ago for the staff and he came out to get one. I called him out on this pattern of his and obviously he denied it (me partially just busting his buttons) but after joking with him about this occurance, I started to think about it.
Are people pretending to be nice to me just for food? I mean, really? I know that I can cook and stuff, so being my friend is just a perk, you get a friendship and food. But then there are those who are in it strictly for the food. Its not that fair. They don't truly appreciate it. I guess its just something I have to live with.

Speaking up helps...

So I was talking to my co-workers about the whole promise not being kept and one of them went to Adi about it and told him how mad I was that he wasn't keeping his promise. Well he had a talk with me about the whole issue of being on saute. He said this crazy thing about how he never "promised" and thats just what it seemed like. And he said that he had totally forgotten that he had to train another cook on the station for the winter back when he told me I would be on it. So he was having scheduling conflicts between training me and training the guy that is permanant on the station. Basically, I just go over there whenever I can. He schedules me for 2pm-close on Sundays. I go in at 2 and do my pastry shift till about 6 and then I hop over to saute for the night. It has worked out pretty well. I got to spend 4 hours on the station the other night. It was really fun! Its defintiely a lot smaller of a space when there are three people on the station though. But I guess that fact that I talked with Adi got me on the station.