Prep cook in The Cheesecake Factory

There are six station in Prep cook :

1. Salad Prep 
This station prepares fresh, crisp vegetables for our salads, sandwiches and many entrees

Salad Dishes
a. Barbeque Ranch Chicken Salad
b. Caesar Salad
c. Carlton Chicken Salad
d. Grilled Chicken Tostada Salad
e. Chinese Chicken Salad
f. Herb Crusted Salmon Salad
g. Cobb Salad
h. Luau Salad
i. Fried Chicken Salad
f. Santa Fe Salad
g. Sheila's Cashew Chicken Salad

Sandwiches
a. B.B,Q, Pulled Beef Sandwich
b. Chicken Parmesan Sandwich
c. California Cheesesteak
d. Chicken Salad Sandwich
e. The Club
f. Grilled Shrimp & Bacon Club
g. Cuban Sandwich
h. The Incredible Grilled Eggplant Sandwich
i. Grilled Chicken and Avocado Club
j. Renee's Special
h. Southwest Chicken Sandwich
i. Spicy Crispy Chicken Sandwich


2. Oven/Production Prep 
This station prepares quality, baked items, such as roasted vegetables, croutons, Buffalo wings etc. Also prepares items like Avocado Rolls, Tex-Mex Rolls, and marinated food.


3. Sauce Prep
This station creates our fresh dressing, homemade sauces, as well as marinades that give our meats a unique flavor. This cook prepares many items at once.

4. Portion Prep
This station carefully weighs and measures food for recipes

5. PM Prep
This station completes any work not finished in the morning and keeps the night shift supplied. The pm prep cook must be fast annd knowleadgeable.

"Because we make more things from scratch than most restaurants, our prep cooks must be experts in managing many types of food.

NAIK BIS DI KUWAIT - BUS IN KUWAIT

The first 3 week i live in kuwait, i travelled by bus. The first bus i took was bus KPTC number 15. The route is from salmiya to Kuwait city. I get in the bus from apollo hospital. Then the bus stop in the KPTC terminal, right behind the liberation tower of Kuwait.

One day i'm going to Avenues mall from apollo hospital (salmiya). I took bus number 15. When i reached kptc terminal (kuwait city), i took bus number 59. The bus took me to Avenues mall. The bus stop at IKEA junction, Avenues mall. The bus fare is 250 philis or a quarter of dinar. 

It took around an hour to go from salmiya to Avenues mall. So i try another bus that has a direct route from Avenues to Salmiya. I took bus number 77.The problem is i  have to walk from avenues to 4th ring road. I walk through the road next to Direct sport. When i reached toyota showroom, i cross the road and stop the bus there. It took 45 min from Toyota showroom to salmiya.

Bus 999 goes to city and goes back to salmiya, apollo hospital, seaside, arabella mall and Fahaheel.

Skinnylicious in The Cheesecake Factory

Skinnylicious is the menu which has less thann 490 cal for the appetizer and less than 590 cal for main course. In the The Cheesecak Factory there are 19 skinnylicious menu which is:

1. Asian -

Me and The Cheesecake Factory Avenues Mall - Kuwait

Me and The cheesecake Factory
This is the photo of me in front of The Cheesecake Factory Avenues Mall in Kuwait. At the end of the month, there will be open another one in the new mall; Arabela Mall.

The Cheesecake 
In TCF (The Cheesecake Factory), more than 30 menus of cheesecake offer.

1. The Original Cheesecake

The original cheesecake
Creamy cheeseake with Graham crackers crust and sour cream topping.











2. Fresh Strawberry Cheesecake

    The original topped with glaced fresh strawberries

3. Oreo Dream Extreme Cheesecake
 "Oreo cookies baked in the creamy cheesecake with layers of fudge cake and oreo cookie mousse. Topped with chocolate icing."

4. Hersey Chocolate Bar Cheesecake
 "Herseys chocolate cheesecake between moist chocolate cake with creamy chocolate frosting and chocolate cake."

5. Ultimate Red Velvet Cheesecake
"Moist layers of red velvet cake and original cheesecake  covered with special cream cheese frosting."

6. Reese Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake
 "Chunk of reese peanut butter cup in original cheesecake with layers of delicious fudge cake and caramel"

7. The 30th Anniversary Cheesecake
 " Layers of original cheesecake, fudge cake and chocolate truffle cream"

8. White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cheesecake.
"Creamy cheesecake swirled with white chocolate and raspberry."

9. Chris' Outrageous Chocolate Cake
"Chocolate chip coconut cheesecake with layers of chcolate cake, brownie and toasted coconut pecan frosting."

10. Mango Key Lime Cheesecake
"Topped with mango mousse on a vanila coconut macaroon crust"

11. Fresh Banana Cream Cheesecake
"Banana cream cheesecake topped with Bavarian cream and fresh sliced banana"

12. Adam's Peanut Butter Cup Fudge Ripple
"Creamy cheesecake swirled with caramel, peanut butter, butter fingers and reese peanut butter cups"

13. White Chocolate Caramel Macadamia Nut Cheesecake
"White chocolate chunks cheesecake swirled with macadamia nut and caramel on a blond brownie crust"

14. Dulce De Leche Caramel Cheesecake
"Caramel cheesecake topped with caramel mousse on a vanilla crust"

15. Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake
"Silky chocolate cheesecake topped with a layer of belgian chocolate mousse.

16. Vanilla Bean Cheesecake
"Layers of creamy vanilla bean cheesecake, vanilla mousse and whipped cream."

17. Chocolate Tuxedo Cream Cheesecake
"Layers of fudge cake, chocolate cheesecake, vanilla mascarpone, mousse and chocolate.

18. Pineapple Upside Down Cheesecake
"Pineapple cheesecake between two layers of moist butterly pineapple.

19. Chocolate Chip Cookie-dough Cheesecake
"Creamy cheesecake loaded with chocolate chip cookie dough and topped with walnut."

20. Dutch Apple Caramel Streusel
"Original cheesecake baked apple, caramel and brown sugar cinnamon walnut streusel."

21. Chocolate Raspberry Truffle
"Layers of chocolate-raspberry swirl cheesecake, chocolate mousse and chocolate ganache."

22. Low Carb original Cheesecake
smooth creamy with graham walnut crust. No refined sugar added.









23. Low Carb original Cheesecake with strawberry
graham walnut crust with strawberry and whipped cream

24. Wild Blueberry White Chocolate Cheesecake
"Original Cheesecake swirled with wild blueberry, topped with white chocolate mousse"

 

  25. Key Lime Cheesecake
"Key lime pie in a cheesecake deliciously tart and cream on a vanilla crumb crust."

26. Caramel Pecan Turtle Cheesecake
"Pecan brownie and caramel-fudge swirl cheesecake, topped with caramel turtle pecans and chocolate."

27. Snickers Bar Chunks and Cheesecake
Snicker bar baked right into creamy cheesecake and topped with fudge and caramel"








28. Craig's Crazy Carrot Cheesecake
"Carrot cake and cheesecake swirled together, topped with cream cheese icing and roasted almonds"

29. Cherry Cheesecake

Original cheesecake topped with fresh cherry














Specialty Desert (cake without cheesecake)

1. Linda's fudge cake
Layers of rich chocolate cake and fudge frosting

2. Black-out cake
Rich chocolate cake with chocochip finished with almond.

3. Carrot Cake
moist layers of carrot cake topped with cream cheese icing

4. Lemoncello Cream Torte
Layers of vanilla cake and lemon mascarpone cream topped with streusel and served with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.

5. Chocolate Tower Truffle Cake
Layers and layers of fudge cake with chocolate truffle cream and chocolate mousse

6. Fresh Strawberry Shortcake
Shortcake topped with vanilla ice cream, fresh strawberries and whippedcream

First day at work

Today is my first day at work. Actualy my first training at my brand which i m working at. Last week we were in head office for general training called induction.
I am very excited to join The Cheesecake Factory.

I woke up at 5:30 am and having a run at my flat stair lol. It was wierd that i didnt sweat my self. I think its because of the humidity which is very dry. Hence the air just sucked up my sweat the minute it came out from my body.

From Indonesia Start working in M. H. Alshaya Co.

August 3rd 2014  is the first day i come to my office where i will work at. It is MH Alshaya Co. located in shuwaikh. Alshaya is a big company. its value is to be a world leading retailer of the best international brands with winning partnership that last. The value of this company is Think big, Act small and Be you.

Think Big : Always go the extramile, use your passion to achieve results.

Act Small : Remember where we come from, Work as a team.

Be You : Respect diversity and everyone's contribution

The owner of Alshaya is Mohammed Abdul Aziz Alshaya and the CEO is Wassim Arabi. Alshaya is an international retail franchise company which operates more than 70 international brands, 2600 outlets in middle east, north africa, ukraine and russia. It has more than 40.000 employee. It has diverse employees with more than 90 nationalities.

Since i am working in food division, i tend to write about food division related thing. The president of food division in Alshaya is DUNCAN GARROD. and Vice president in Cheesecake Factory is JEFF KELLEN. My Human Resource Bussiness Partner (HRBP) is Paula Carlin. 

Alshaya Food Division consist of :

1. Table Service Restaurants

- The Cheesecake Factory

- IHOP (International House of Pancake)

- P. F. Chang's

- Pizza Express

- Texas Redhouse

- Le Pain Quotidien

- Asha's

- Al Forno

- La Brasserie

- The Gaucho Grill

- Noodle Factoru

- Katsuya

- Veranda

- Cafe coco

2. Fast Casal Restaurant

- Pei wei

- Potbelly

- Shake Shack

3. Food Retail

- Dean Deluca

- Pinkberry

- Sprinkles cupcakes

- Castania

- Garret Popcorn

Berangkat kerja ke kuwait

Setelah menunggu 7 bulan, akhurnya visa saya keluar. masalah kembali datang.
pada saat
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Visa to Kuwait issued

Kuwait - New passport after visa granted

Kuwait - New passport after visa granted

The cost of missing a quality range in a restaurant

Restaurant and Food  service

Most of people think that quality ranges are set where they are, because of the guests experiences. Thats not the whole picture. There is a couple of different points that i would share.

1. Food safety
The first point that is the true cost of missing quality range is about food safety. It seems kinda obvious when we receive products in the back of house of restaurant there are many things we are going to do to control our food safety. We're gonna look at cooking temperature, far time, far termperaturem grill temperature. But if we receive products that doesnt meet ouf quality ranges.

HACCP in food processing

Ok now we're talking about HACCP in food processing. First of all, we have to know about the definition HACCP.

HACCP is an abbrevation that stands for Hazard Analtical and critical control point.
HACCP is systematic preventive approach to food safety and biological, chemical and phisical hazards in production process that can cause  finished product to be unsafe and design measurement that can reduce the risks in to a save level.

Running like a Champ!

Today is my second day i start running with nike pro app. It is nice and motivating -- the app i mean lol. Running is my new activity since i realize my stamina is decreasing. How do i know that? Last sunday, I had a basketball game. My performance was good even better than usual - it might be because i ve got no job recently that i do only going to gym and playing basketball. But at second quarter i felt like my body was so heavy and i cant barely move my body. At the moment i thougth that my stamina was decreasing very badly.
In order to bring back my stamina to the max, i start to run, download di app and excute!

My first run took place at an unused area next to my house. It is a field with flat ground and dominated with white sand - it might kinda chalk or something. It was 6:20 am when i started.

My second day of running was done on 9am (it was hot), I dont know why on earth i would run in that hot weather. But i guess breaking the record is the answer Lol. Anyway my second day of running was a tiring activity today. Moreover I had a basketball training a night before. Breaking the record was very fun. Ive done 3.03 miles of running. It means i ran 0.63 miles further than the day before.

Batam Basketball League

Batam Basketball League 2014 begins. The annual games for all basketball club in batam island. Our first match was yesterday, sunday evening (May 5th). For the record, I am a member of Banas -- one of basketball club in batam. Our opponent in first match was Boomerz.

Banas with white jersey versus Boomerz

It was a hot night, the temperature was so hot. Moreover, members of both teams know each other. It raises the sense of competitiveness. Their defence was so tight, they has got so much energy. Vice versa, we seems to be so tired. Maybe it because we dont have enough conditioning before the match. As the result is their team penetrated our defence easily. Luckly we have a good coach, Lolo. His decision helps us to organize our both our defense and offense. 

Coach Lolo in action

In first quarter, the score was tied. I think both of teams were nervous. We had our first time out after we had left 6-0 in the first 2 minutes. If im not mistaken, i scored 4 points in this quarter. The second quarter we played well. But in the third quarter, we were tired, so many turnover was done, I believe this was our worst quarter of the game. In quarter 4, we played well but they played better. The final score was 49-29. I scored 13 points, 7 points in the first half, 6 points in the second half.

Me posed after the match

Me posed after the match

I start reading the bible from Genesis to Revealation

Today is the third day i read the Bible. My first day plan was to finish reading bible from genesis to revealation. But i got bored and many verse was skipped until i reached the book of Deutronomy. I read every verses from the book of Deutronomy.

When i am writting this post, i have just read Deutronomy verse 21-25. There are a couple of special chapters since i read the book of Deutronomy. 

Deutronomy 8:1

"He humbled you, coausing you to hunger and feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of ELOHIM" 

I remembered the last sentence of this chapter. I was said by Yeshua when He was tempted by devil in the dessert. The devil tempted Him to change a stone into a bread. At that time, Yeshua was on 40 days 40 nigts fasting and He was very hungry. At the end of the first temptation, Yeshua use the word of God to encounter the devil. He said "there is written that human doesnt live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of Elohim. At the moment i read that verse, i was wondering, where exactly in the bible Yeshua quote the written words from. Eventually, i found it when i read the book of deutronomy. Hmm, I am wondering what else can i get by continuing reading the bible. Thanks God.

Deutronomy 12:23
"But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat"

This verse reminded me about couple years ago when i was in bataknese traditional ceremony. It was a feast and the host started to share the meat. The meat which was pork, was shared in to 2 type; with blood (margota) and blood free (na so margota). The blood free meat was for the guest from baptist church denomination. I heard that they dont eat blood. I was wondering why they dont eat blood and what chapter used from the bible. Now i know why they did it. Thanks God.

Deuteronomy 26:1
"When you have entered the land the Elohim your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land Elohim your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place Elohim your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name; YHWH."

It was like Elohim talks to me about the land He promised. I believe the land is Kuwait, the land where i have prayed for a year.  Now, I am waiting my visa to Kuwait (where also my wife has been working there for almost 4 years). But the point that come to be the highlight is the firstfruit. It was like Elohim reminds me from this chapter that the time i get there (the promised land - Kuwait), i have to remember to give back the firstfruit. The firstfruit talks about the first salary i get from the promised land, Kuwait. I will pray Elohim to give me the power to do what Elohim has taught me from this chapter, HaleluYAH.

Deuteronomy 23:14
"For Elohim your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that Elohim will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you."

This verse taught me about how i have to be holy. Camp means what is inside my heart. If i dont take care my heart, it is hard for Elohim to come in to and bless my life. I remember a verse from new testament that said "be holy because Elohim is holy. I realize that i have to guard my heart, fix my life, and be holy. Thx Lord.

Glossary in Bakery (in cheesecake specifically)

1. ICING - FROSTING

Icing is also called frosting in US. It is sweet, creamy glazed made of sugar with a liquid. Liquid can be water or milk and sometimes enriched with butter, cream cheese, egg white or flavorings. It is used to cover or decorate baked goods such as cookies or cakes.
The simplest icing is glace icing which contains powdered sugar and water. This can coloured or flavored as desired for example using lemon juice in place of the water.

2. MOUSSE 
Mousse is prepared food that incorporates air bubbles to give light and airy texture. Dessert mousse are typically made with whipped egg whites or whipped cream and flavored with chocolate or fruit puree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJAfLkhoZJ8

French Chocolate Mousse

3. GANACHE
Ganache is glaze, icing, sauce or filling for pastries made from chocolate and cream. Ganache normally made by heating cream and pouring it in to chopped chocolate.
The ratio chocolate to cream is vary. Two part of chocolate to one part of cream is used for making chocolate truffle. While one to one ratio is used to make glaze.

Chocolate Ganache Tart

4. STREUSEL

Streusel is a crumbly topping of flour, butter, sugar that is baked on top of breads, muffins, pies and cakes.