Courthouse Donuts Internship Analysis
Starting in October of 2015 and ending in February 2016 I had started an internship with Courthouse Donuts. Courthouse Donuts is a local doughnut shop and deli during the day and a catering business in the evening. My mentor was Jennifer Dyer, she is the owner of the restaurant. From this internship I was looking forward to learning about how the business is ran and all the meals and desserts I would be making, but mostly I was interested in the catering part of the business.
Monday through Friday we would serve donuts and lunches. My daily routine during my Internship would start at 4 A.M. I delivered ten dozen donuts at 5:45 at a local resort. After I delivered the doughnuts I would get the shop ready for the day. I would begin with making another ten dozen for the day normally I would have to make more donuts around 12 P.M. After I finish making the donuts I would start on the special of the day. Next would be our homemade soup. Making the donuts, the special of the day, and the soup is the most important task I have throughout the day. Other than the three main task I had task throughout the day. Making lunches and donuts when they were ordered, making sure our specialty drinks were made, …show more content…
We cater many types of parties anywhere between birthdays, baby showers, business lunches, weddings, special dinners and Christmas parties. Our most common catering event would be our dinner menu option. During the time of my internship I had worked during the month of December, which is one of our top months for catering. I learned how to cook all of our most ordered entrée which was herb crusted sirloin, rosemary chicken, honey Dijon glazed Cornish hens, and smoke pork loin. Besides cooking the main entrée I learned how to put together salad and soup bars, and learned how to cook all of our sides. Also I would bake desserts, one of our best desserts would be our cheesecake or our red velvet
Monday through Friday we would serve donuts and lunches. My daily routine during my Internship would start at 4 A.M. I delivered ten dozen donuts at 5:45 at a local resort. After I delivered the doughnuts I would get the shop ready for the day. I would begin with making another ten dozen for the day normally I would have to make more donuts around 12 P.M. After I finish making the donuts I would start on the special of the day. Next would be our homemade soup. Making the donuts, the special of the day, and the soup is the most important task I have throughout the day. Other than the three main task I had task throughout the day. Making lunches and donuts when they were ordered, making sure our specialty drinks were made, …show more content…
We cater many types of parties anywhere between birthdays, baby showers, business lunches, weddings, special dinners and Christmas parties. Our most common catering event would be our dinner menu option. During the time of my internship I had worked during the month of December, which is one of our top months for catering. I learned how to cook all of our most ordered entrée which was herb crusted sirloin, rosemary chicken, honey Dijon glazed Cornish hens, and smoke pork loin. Besides cooking the main entrée I learned how to put together salad and soup bars, and learned how to cook all of our sides. Also I would bake desserts, one of our best desserts would be our cheesecake or our red velvet