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SIX WEEKS. THAT WAS HOW long they had left before The Bear was scheduled to officially open.
Kitty found herself leaning against a small table in the kitchen of the restaurant in between Richie and Sweeps. The whole kitchen looked utterly strange. With no appliances in there and only tape on the floor indicating where Carmy wanted to place them once the new ones would arrive. Kitty hadn't seen the kitchen in such a state since...ever. When she had started working there, the kitchen was already set from when Mikey had gained the restaurant and he decided not to change anything about it, especially due to how much kitchen renovations cost; not only because the cost of appliances was extortionate, but the fact that having to close down a restaurant for renovations also meant losing weeks upon weeks of income.
She watched as Carmy measured out the designated spaces by eye (after having tried testing it out hoping for the movement from one appliance to the one at the other end would only take five seconds; it hadn't, currently sitting at just over seven seconds) when Tina entered the space.
"Morning, fam," She greeted.
"Hi, T," Kitty grinned.
"Yo, T," Carmy nodded.
"What's up, T?" Richie smiled.
Sweeps sent her a greeting nod, "T."
"Jeffrey?" Tina called out.
"Yeah?" Carmy asked.
"You have an extra knife lying around?" She asked, smiling, "I need a good one for school."
Kitty grinned when she spotted the smile on Tina's face. Noting how happy being at culinary school for the past couple of weeks had made the woman. Before fully opening, Carmy thought it'd be best for some of the chefs to get more training, seeing as many of them hadn't had any former or prior training before having been hired by Mikey.
With Marcus needing the break, Carmy was able to send him over to Copenhagen to work with a chef Carmy once worked with, in order to learn and design some new desserts. Some more fitting for the type of restaurant The Bear was going to become.
Ebraheim and Tina were both enrolled on a culinary course at Kendall College for a few weeks. Simply to get them to be more comfortable with some of the skills they hadn't needed for The Beef due to the simplistic nature of the menu.
"Yes, uh, just, uh, over there on the bench," Carmy nodded, looking away from the floor and gesturing towards where Tina would find the spare knife.