Bill didn’t waste any time putting his plan into action. Tuesday morning, first thing when he saw Jimmy Banquet Chef, he told him what Jo Ann had said. The banquet chef listened and after hearing Bill out told him not to worry. He also told him not to bother telling the chef, that he would do so.
On his break before the setup for The Falstaff Room he saw Millie for a bit and told her too. He and Millie did not have any real time together and they wouldn’t have much time together for the rest of the week because of the way their schedules worked out, but they did talk and Millie told him she would relate it to her boss. Millie, same as the banquet chef did, made sure to tell Bill not to worry, that no matter what Caesar did, Bill would be okay. Millie told him that her boss was looking forward to meeting Bill, that she’d told Millie she was going to surprise Bill one day but that she didn’t know how just yet.
The final part of his plan was a talk with his girls. He made sure to have it away from the room, even away from Kalista’s station. He caught Jo Ann first since she was first in and he got her while she was still in her civvies and just heading out to the room to do the initial set up before she changed into her uniform.
It was a simple plan, nothing much they had to do except collectively speak to Caesar and let him know how happy they were with the new cook. Bill told her he was mobilizing his forces, so to speak, making sure that no matter what Caesar did, his people were ready to stand behind him, to make sure that Caesar would not be able to hurt him.
Jo Ann was agreeable. She said not only did she like Bill and like the fact that he was a good cook, but that what Caesar was plotting was not a nice thing to do to anyone. It was mean and it was spiteful. After all, she told Bill, she’d seen him be nice to Caesar to start and Caesar was the one who was not nice from the get-go, the one who was mean-spirited.
Bill met up with Rosie and Eddie after work. He managed to tell them that he wanted to speak to them and asked if they would meet him in the parking lot. Of course they said yes. They said it would be their pleasure.
The dinner service was busy. As it seemed, the dinner service showed no signs of slowing down, only showed signs of continually increasing in numbers. They did well over a hundred, over a hundred-fifty. Jimmy G wasn’t all that happy since he didn’t have much time to be goofing off, to be flitting around the main kitchen and hanging out with his family. He didn’t even have much time to be sitting out by his aunt. He had to work, straight through just about, but the one saving grace of that was the night went quickly.
As far as Bill could tell, it went quite smoothly too. They sold good food, not much in the way of hamburgers or chopped steaks until late in the evening when young couples came in for a late, lighter meal, something toward the effect of diner food only much fancier. Caesar stayed to himself, away from the kitchen and from Bill. Jimmy Banquet Chef came around a couple of times and made sure to tell Caesar that he was happy for him because the business was picking up thanks to the new cook. He made sure to get Caesar where Bill and Jimmy G could hear the conversation, right by the service counter, and to tell him that the chef was verily pleased with the way the room was running and how the new cook, now not all that new, was working out.
