- Put up a shower-rod and a curtain on the front kitchen entrance, so the light from the kitchen won't be so distracting in the dining room.
- Put the final coat of brown paint on several sections that needed touch-ups.
- Steam-cleaned the carpets.
- Hooked up the Interac machine.
- Hooked up the cash register and tested it to make sure that it still worked (this is the old machine - we hope to buy a better register within the next month or two).
- Hung all of our licenses and certificates for public display.
- Cut door keys for the staff members that required them.
- Did touch-up painting on the beige in several spots (there is still more touch-up painting to be done, but we'll get to that over the next week or so).
- Fixed the coffee machine.
- Installed one of our open signs, which Randy wired up after supper.
We also laid out all of the tables in the main lower dining room, in preparation for our first trial runs.
At about 7pm, we invited most of the staff members to bring in a guest or two apiece, for a small trial run of the kitchen. Tiffany and I wanted to get practice making a dozen meals or so, to let us start to discover any equipment problems in the kitchen that we had missed. However, far more people showed up than I had invited, so our "small trial run" turned into complete chaos. We got through it eventually, with the help of several of the off-duty staff members (thanks especially to Ali & Sarah & Emily), but it wasn't what I had intended for our first test of the equipment. One consolation, however, was that we at least discovered several problems in the kitchen that I'll have to rectify before we open to the public.
