Tales of Yaseen & The Catering Menu

This conversation happened earlier today between Dana & Yaseen (and here, here, and here):



Dana: Yaseen, read the catering menu for me please.
Yaseen: Ok mam.. We have man made oil.
Dana: What?!
Yaseen: Ah.. Manimade oil.
Dana: Ooh! You mean "Marinated Olives"?!?
Yaseen (with a beautiful baby face smile): Yes mam.


Here's this weak's pictures from our catering menu:

Bite size Morroccan Couscous Salad.

Tastes even better than it looks!

Munch's incredibly yummy/bite-your-fingers Vegetable Root Chips
with your choice of dips:
Creamy Avocado, Guacamole, Mango Avocado Salsa,
or Pink Beetroot Hummus (delicious!)

Another shot of the delicious crispy chips

Catering size of one of our famous specials at the dine-in, Slowly Roasted Lamb with Dates. Magnificent!

Wait until you see our Peking Duck Wraps in the upcoming post, best seller on the catering menu.

Typical Yaseen!

I got the following email from a friend:

Today’s Yaseen story:

Friend: Hi Yaseen I want one steak sandwich
Yaseen: ok sir you want anything to drink?
Friend: ok what do you have?
Yaseen: We have juices orange juice?
Friend: No…what else do you have..
Yaseen: You want special sir?
Friend: Ok what do you have?
Yaseen: We have steak sandwich sir!

Amazing!
Oh, and we learned today that Yaseen is MUCH better waiting on tables than answering calls and being the Cashier. So stay tuned for his new role!

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In other news, we are pleased to announce our new opening hours:

Saturday - Thursday: 8AM - 10PM
Friday: 1:30PM - 10PM

Delivery is also available during those times :)

Yaseen

In this picture taken a couple of minutes ago, Abdullah explaining to Yaseen that when someone orders Pomegranate & berries please dont put 'orange juice' on the invoice.

Electricity... Smoke... Action!

We officially opened only a couple of days ago and business is doing good. We're using this time to invite friends over and have them check out the place if they haven't before.
Everything was good until.. yesterday at around 12PM (peak time) the electricity goes off and we basically cant cook. It stayed like that until 2:30, turning people away and bringing the kitchen to a dead halt.
Technicians from the building were busy so we called our contractor to solve the problem (which turns out to be a burnt out electric fuse), problem was solved after some time, all electricity is working.. except the oven.



Yaseen


In the mean time, Abdullah (a managing partner in Munch) gets a call from an angry customer complaining about Yaseen, the Cashier. This was the 3469th complaint on Yaseen this week alone. He will sadly have another role that is far less visible in the very near future (next post will be dedicated to Yaseen, I promise).



Ahmed & The Ducks


At the other side of the kitchen, Ahmed, the head chef, starts improvising by putting this week's special "Peking Duck Wrap" in the Pizza oven (because the original oven is not working). Nice job chef, only if he knew that the pizza oven is far to small for 3 ducks!


Smoke starts coming out of the pizza oven, Ahmed runs and opens it only for MORE smoke to come out. It was a foggy moment at Munch.





At the same time guests enter, Dana (Guru of Munch & Managing Director/general manager/you name it) was quick to jump in and seat them. Here she is in this picture trying to explain the smoke thing.. and that the electricity was out.



Meanwhile at the cashier's desk, Yaseen enters Creamy Mushroom Soup for a customer that ordered Penne with Cream of Mushroom sauce.


Finally, electricity was back and all was good. In this picture, Mohammed -guy in the middle, our operations manager- settling everything with the engineer, while you can see Chef Ahmad right behind them .. still trying to clear the smoke and clean the Pizza oven!

See you tomorrow :)