I was out of the country for the past eight or nine days, but while I was gone, some work continued to take place, under the supervision of Ian Allen. While I was away, the following major jobs got done:
- The propane installation took place. We're now up and running one stove with eight burners, plus two ovens. We had a ten burner stove in the old restaurant, unofficially, except one pair of burners didn't work very well. I'm going to order the parts so I will eventually have all ten burners working again.
- The propane setup was inspected by the provincial inspector, and passed.
- Ralph and Peter did several additional jobs for me. They installed a circulation fan which will move air from the kitchen into the restaurant at certain times (useful for minimizing heating expense in the winter), put up new wainscotting in the dining room in one section that didn't have any, installed a few additional heavy shelving units in the kitchen that I had built, drilled a hole from the draught cooler down to the basement for our pressure lines, and did a couple of repair jobs at the old restaurant.
- Jamie & Terry finished up some more plumbing work that was needed in the staff washroom.
- Kevin, our accountant, was finally able to get back to work processing some paperwork, which he had to defer for a while when the office wasn't functional.
We still need to finalize the three last major inspections: The Fire Marshall, the Board of Health, and the Liquor Licensing Branch. Because of uncertainties surrounding those inspections, I still don't know how soon we'll be able to open.
