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Today I had the opportunity to spend some time with our friend Noreen, who owns the Dream Dinners store in Alameda, and help her with order receiving and processing. She gets the services of an extra pair of hands while I get to experience one of the operational aspects of Dream Dinners ownership.

This was my first time “working” at a Dream Dinners store, and it was a lot of hard work. There were a lot of boxes and food items to be put away. Noreen says that an order this large is not typical. Each month, Dream Dinners serves a different menu from the previous month. Since is the first week in October, she needed to make sure that she had all the ingredients she needed for the new menu. From 9:30 am to 2 pm, we were breaking down boxes, re-organizing shelf space, dicing 10 lbs of almonds and measuring out 1/3 individual cup full, separating bulk chicken breasts into 3 and 6 serving packages, breaking down a 25 lb of raisins, separating 2 gallons of sweet ‘n sour sauce into 1/4 cup measurements, chopping up sausages, partitioning flank steaks, tri-tip roasts, and pork chops, and some other food prep stuff that I can’t remember right now. There were a lot of stuff! It was interesting to see first hand what’s involved from when the food is received to when customers build their meals.

Although this experience was fun, it was quite humbling as well, for we have a lot of hard work ahead of us. We are so excited to get our store up and running, and we welcome the challenge! More to come on our endeavor.

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