Our flat top grill died right in the middle of a 200-cover Saturday brunch rush

It was last Saturday, 11:30 AM, the printer was spitting out tickets for eggs Benedict and pancakes like crazy. I went to flip a batch of home fries and the surface just went cold, dead, no heat at all. We had maybe 40 tickets already fired and everybody was staring at me like I had the answer. I told the front of house to put a 30 minute hold on any new grill orders and we scrambled to finish everything on our backup planers and in the oven. It took three hours for the repair guy to show up and it was just a blown fuse, a $5 part. Has anyone else had a piece of equipment fail at the absolute worst possible time?

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stone.sarah5mo ago

Oh man, did our ice machine quit on a hot July Saturday brunch once. Total nightmare.

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ninaw885mo ago

Read that ice machines always die on the hottest days. Classic Murphy's Law.

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