Across the aisle, is another table like yours neatly stacked with oranges, grapefruits, pineapples, papayas, and other fruits. That table, as well as the rack against the wall, are refrigerated. Your table is not. It is warm and cozy, like your native Ecuador. If you put cold air on bananas, Mr. Ramirez explains, they turn gray. If you ve ever seen bananas that are a grainy kind of gray, it s because they were subjected to temperature changes.
By Ernie Grimm, Feb 4, 1999 | Read full article
There are four line positions: pantry, griddle and fry, expediter, and sauté.
I hung out with a crowd of restaurant workers for a while, and the celebration never stopped. When they weren’t working in their own restaurant, they were in another, at happy hour or the free evening buffet. Or one of the endless parties. Every day. Waiters, waitresses, cooks, managers, huge groups of them, from the Chart House, the Brigantine. They all went to whatever sporting event was current, not only ba