I don't mean how long it seems like it takes I mean recorded how long it actually takes. My Store has 20 rack carts and it take me and about a hour. The 15 rack ones are faster but in general about a hour. And my store is open 24/7 is on the top ones in my city so cookies never stay too long always have to do them. And my department head is no help because even when there's a baker already doing bread before I come in she never seems to think it would be a good idea to start on the freaking cookies. So I'm stuck with filling tables, cookies, markdowns, breakout, and cleaning up the area by the time I leave. (our bakery manager doesn't do a damn thing) Hell I have to package up her stuff because she sucks that bad but say I'm moving slow.
-- Edited by damntastic on Sunday 27th of November 2016 12:25:55 PM
It takes you an hour to pan out one rack of cookies? That's definitely too slow. A good average is one tray per minute. Use both hands when panning them out and remember that they don't have lined all perfect on the pans. Yes, you want them in a fairly neat 6x4 pattern, but they don't have to be absolutely perfect. If you describe exactly who does what, I or 4hourrush could tell you who's not pulling their weight and whether or not you're being dumped upon. Even though we both work in the bakery departments at different stores, the workload at each of our stores is divided differently. Here's the way my store does it.
Baker comes in at 4:00 AM. Bakes the bread, sweet goods, and bagels. Scans the outdates. Pulls the artisan bread. Cleans the case and refills it. Breaks dow and puts away the frozen order. Does the CAP report for the bread bake the next day. Does the breakout.
Donut person comes in at 5:00 AM. Makes the donuts, obviously. Bags bread and puts it out on the tables. Breaks out donuts for the next day. May help pan out cookies if they have time left but that's rarely the case because they're so slow.
Bakery manager comes in at 7:00 AM. Fills the pie and cookie tables with product that didn't get put out the night before. Does the CAP for cookies, pies, croissants, and turnovers and pastry bites. Pulls the pre-made stuff out of the freezer and fills the tables. Makes out the orders. Works on the schedule.
The cake decorator can come in anytime between 8:00 AM and 12:30 PM depending on whether or not we have one or two closers. The decorator is responsible for filling the cake case, filling the individual desserts case, and doing cake orders.
Sometimes we'll have an extra person in the morning. They help wherever they're needed the most.
If the decorator comes in late, we have one more person come in around 3:00 PM. If not, then we have one come in mid-afternoon and the other come in around 5:00PM. They take care of baking and packaging the cookies, pies, croissants, etc. The last person is responsible for mopping the floor and taking out the trash. Tables and counters should be cleaned by whoever uses them. In other words, don't leave your mess for someone else to clean up.
I do everything I just told you, The bakers do all the bread stuff and donuts, and the bakery manager nobody knows what she does she take the scan gun and the order guide and goes to the back office to sit down and order stuff I've seen it. When I'm not there on my off days no cookies or breakout or filling tables is done so I have to play catch up on stuff. I even asked a baker there did the bakery manager help with the bread she said no she was just walking around. The only time she has to bake is twice a week.
Oh and where I lack in speed in baking cookies I am better at in breakout, markdowns, and tables, like the breakout everyone says takes a while I can finish the within the hour, markdowns again boom it's done, tables if I have all the right stuff on hand boom it's done it's just cookies are slow as hell to do for me. But it's not like I don't get the cookie table full because I do it just takes me a while. Time yourself next time you do cookies and see what the actual time is it may or may not be surprising.
-- Edited by damntastic on Sunday 27th of November 2016 03:22:21 PM
I can usually have one trolley of cookies ready a couple minutes after the last one is done in the oven, so for the 16ct i'd say on average 15 minutes a trolley. So yes, in my opinion, an hour is way way way too long but i do know everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Breakout for example, some people are amazingly fast at it, others not so much.
Idk if it's my perception or something but I timed myself and it took me 13 minutes once and about 20 minutes the rest maybe doing the same thing makes me feel like it's been a hour?
