Orientation

November 1st was our half day orientation (which really was not helpful at all) where we were given a bag of our uniforms, including:

2 jackets
3 pairs of pants
4 aprons
5 toques
4 neckerchiefs
24 side towels
1 pair steel-toed shoes

All of this adding up to the complete and proper CCA uniform (not cute at all, but better get used to it!). Thanks to the elastic waistband on those pants I can do my duty in the taste testing department! Whoo Who!

To make the walk to the BART even more painful they loaded on several textbooks (if you are interested...):

Professional Baking
Nutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals
Servsafe
Baking and Pastry Course book
3 volumes of Baking and Pastry packets

So, sufficiently loaded down, we were released and told to return in that stunning uniform, perfectly pressed, the following day at 7:00am!