![]() The bread girl said, “Are you talking about cleaning the bagel boiler?”Īddison pulled out a box of spritz cookies and laid them out on her table, on top of parchment paper. The girl who was supposed to be shelving commercial, sliced bread out on the floor was, instead, on the production side of the department, leaning against the oven window. “Did you hear what our boss did this time?”īagel Chips were still baking in the oven. She poked them, but they were still too frozen to be pressed down. She had pulled out the tray of triple chocolate cookies. “Oh Lordy,” said her neighbor, the cake decorator Dora. That Monday none of the cookies were stale there was no shrink. She looked forward to a regular breakfast snack to get her through till breaktime. Cookie shrink, product waste in this case past its date, was Addison’s favorite. Organic Cranberry only needed four baked off, there were two left from Sunday. Molasses had been over baked on Saturday, so she reduced her usual number laid out six frozen ones. Addison put together four trays, twenty on each tray, of chocolate chip cookies: they were for packages and the bar. Walnut Chocolate Chip had to be on their own tray, due to allergies, and they should be the lowest on the rack. She put the tray on a lower level of the six-foot baking rack while laying out the other cookies. Addison wanted to bake off enough cookies so that after work impulse buyers would have temptation available, but not so many that she would have to throw any away on Tuesday. Unless it was a school holiday, people ate the sweets they had collected over the weekend. Experience taught her that on a Monday sales were slow at the small store. She had examined the chart of how many cookies were baked off every day, as well as how many were thrown away. ![]() Addison counted out nine cookies and put the rest back in their bag, back in the box. The aluminum tray was 18” by 26” and lined with parchment paper. Frozen pucks of chocolate cookie dough lay heaped on the baking tray.
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