On the weekends I work in the back of a popular high-volume breakfast place in the heart of Scottsdale. Specifically, I stand in the kitchen and furiously make all the toast that goes on the plates of people liable to be charged with DUI on their drive home from the breakfast place.
I took the trouble to devise a simple yet powerful just-in-time delivery method for the toast and English muffins. The method starts from the bread's storage facility and combines a rotation schedule with an alert responder who has an arsenal of institutional knowledge and is sensitive to the flow of the kitchen's activity, ultimately producing benefits which are likely unperceivable to the end user. I have found empirically but unscientifically that my new method yields English muffins that are 20% crispier and better-buttered, all the while reducing shrinkage costs borne by the restaurant.
I was hoping to recoup some of the costs involved in my R&D, and enthusiastically demonstrated the new JIT system.
(I didn't get the raise.)
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