Kitchen Training

So after learning the basics of food and beverage and learning about Blizzard Beach, it was time to start learning about the job!! 

The good thing about OTJ training is that you do it in pairs so you aren't on your own :) I was paired with a French girl called Marie and we became really good friends over the summer. There were also two other ICP's and two CP's being trained the same week so we got to know them as well. The first day me and Marie were trained in the kitchen. After trying to work out where to go we found out that out trainer wasn't on that day!! So one of the Spring CP's ended up training us, we started out in pizza where we learnt how to prepare pizzas, veggie burgers and the holiday sandwich which were all done in an oven.

We then went onto window which is where all the orders are filled and you have to learn very quickly that you have to shout to make sure people heard you from across the kitchen!! No room for quiet people in the kitchen! Although there were funny times when people didn't understand when you said tomatoes!!! Thankfully we were put on window 1 which was the quietest window and wasn't open for long during lunch time in June. We then had to close the window and clean it, this ended up being the only time ever that I closed counter bit it was still useful to know. 

Another advantage of OTJ training is that you get free food! We got to try some of the different things on offer for lunch before going through some theory and talking about things that we may not have covered while working. 

After that we headed to fryers which is pretty simple just hard work carrying all them fries!! By this time it was 4pmso the  kitchen was really quiet and we were able to talk to the people already on fryers. It was good to start to get to know some of the part timers, seasonal and other CP's (all the full time cast members get home early since they always open). 

The last job for that training day was broiler aka where the burgers are made!! It was fine but hard to judge how many burgers to put in! The hardest and dirtiest part of the day came when we had to close the broiler which meant taking most of the trays etc out and cleaning them! Trust me they were full of grease and it is probably the messiest job that you can do in QSFB. Again I was lucky enough that I never had to close broiler apart from training. 

That was the first day of four OTJ training days!! I'll talk about the next day in another post :)

Have a Magical Day!!!

Training - 14th and 15th June

After the high of being in Magic Kingdom for the first time that summer, it was back to reality when I had to get up at 6am the next morning to get ready for my first day at training!!

14th June - I was heading to Disney University again in my formal attire for the Food and Beverage core class. This class had people from quick service, full service and catering in it and there were a whole range of people there from ICP's and CP's to Full time Cast Members. We learnt all about the different areas of food that there are in Walt Disney World and about health and safety concerning food. It was quite boring but they tried to make it interesting and it was nice to talk to other people who were doing the same role as me. We then headed into a computer room where we had registered for the HUB and did some e-learning. After we finished this, we were told to head over to Costuming which is across the road from Disney University to get our work shoes. This is one benefit of QSFB, they provide you with non-slip shoes which saves you money in the first week. My shoes were like white trainers which turned out to be super comfy!
The rest of the day was spent going to Walmart for more shopping and doing some laundry, exciting times!! As much as it would have been nice to head to the parks again, I was absolutely exhausted and I needed just to do some essentials and catch up on sleep because I had a third early start the next morning!!

15th June - Forecast Blizzard
Today was yet another early start since I had to be at Blizzard Beach for 8am! I got on the K bus and it was clear who was going to the orientation of Blizzard since we were all in formal attire!! I started talking to some girls on the bus and they turned out to be a couple of the friends I would be hanging out with all summer :)
The orientation consisted of a walking tour and learning all about the park including using the Four Keys!
We had lunch before heading back to finish up our orientation by getting our training schedules. My training started the next day! So a group of us headed back to Vista and got the G bus to Caribbean Beach Hotel since that was were our costuming was located. This ended up being a pain since the G bus only ran every half hour which meant for a long return journey. We got our costumes and waited for the next bus, we it did turn up it was full so we all had to stand holding 5 sets of costumes!! Thankfully  most people got off at Pop Century or Art of Animation which meant we could sit down!! But we hit rush hour traffic and it was a very slow journey back to Vista. It was this journey that made up my mind about washing my own costumes!! It was easier just to wash my own costumes than having to do a 2 hour trip just to change costumes.

I'll talk more about my On the Job Training in the next post!!

Have a Magical Day!!!