My God, the move was stressful! You cannot begin to imagine the amount of stuff that had to be transferred from one kitchen to the other. If I were to tell you that it took four of us to move my commercial oven from our old upstairs kitchen just in to the van, and it took over an hour, it might give you a little idea..... We had to saw the banister off the rails just to get it round the corner at the top of the stairs. Of course we only found that out when the bloody thing was stuck on the bend! It also weighs over 200 kilos, so not fun at all. The fun continued when we got the oven to the door of the new kitchen, only to find it was one inch too wide to get through the frame....Noooooooooooo! Enough stress already! At the moment the oven is sitting in the courtyard, (safe and secure), while we wait for a chap to have a quick look at how easy it will be to remove the door frame etc. As its all PVC, its not straight forward.... So my plan was to position the oven door right outside the kitchen door, so that I could gain access to it that way, if only a temporary measure until we could find a way of getting it through the gap. We then hit ANOTHER problem! There is no '3 phase' electric cable in the kitchen and the oven runs off 3 phase. Simple you say. NOT WHEN THERE IS NO 3 PHASE SUPPLY TO THE FUSE BOARD. !!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! We are now waiting for the word on whether or not we can actually have 3 phase or not. Could be disastrous if we can't.
Then there was every pot, pan, plate, glass, knife, fork, spoon, to move. Baring in mind we used 6 different types of plates and had 40 of each, it gives you an idea. If I said it took twice as many hours to move from kitchen to kitchen as it did from the old house to the new, that should give you a little insight as to how hard it was. Combined with the fact that there is now a zebra crossing directly outside the restaurant, (you remember the one!), parking anywhere near was a nightmare. Still, it's done now and we are up and running at 'Saffy's'. He's a top bloke and I think we could have a long working relationship together...hopefully.
Although we did the food for their New Years Eve bash, today was our first day at the new kitchen. It was a pretty quiet day, but it gave us a chance to settle in a little better and get some order in the kitchen. We still have some shelves to put up and some re-organising to do, but we're more or less in now. Just need my oven! Although I have an oven under my cooker, its not nearly big enough for Sunday lunch etc, so this week should be fun!
I'm going to leave it there for a while as I'm tired and still got loads to do, so I will just say happy New Year to you all, hope you all had a spiffing Christmas, thanks for reading and I'll be back soon!
Jimbo
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