Hey,
I am busy busy. Still do not have all the products I need secure. I know I will have the turkeys, they cost %50 more than last year, but still a better price than I thought I would get. We usually buy 100 30 lb turkeys for the day, this year there are no large birds. We are buying 150 20 lb turkeys. We hope to sell 3000 pounds of turkey to about 1500 people in 9 hours. To do that we add 15 extra people to our staff for the day. I am still short a dishwasher for the day, but I think we will find one.
To go with that we sell 900 lb of potato and 1300 lb of stuffing. We make everything from scratch, it takes hours of peeling potatoes, cutting the bread into little pieces, and trimming green beans, among other things. Nothing comes from a can or is frozen. We start cooking turkeys on Wed morning and go on overnight in shifts to get it done. We have 5 large ovens that fit 3 turkeys at a time.
We hope to be busy, we really count on this day to get by. Please bring your friends and family.
Thanks, TJ.