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Propping the door of the walk-in open a bit to avoid becoanization "Carl, you good if I work in here for a bit? Rearrange sos?" I called out

"Sure, sure Roxie, leave ood-naturedly

I kneas happier when he was left alone Carl had worked here as long as anyone can re he’d been there One of riddle to clean it off I liked working with him He was quiet, he didn’t let the waitresses pull him into any drama, and he never lost his cool, even ere at our busiest

I stepped back out into the kitchen to grab et in the weeds, okay?" I stepped back into the walk-in, grabbed the clipboard fro an inventory

As I did, I rearranged everything so that like ith like Proteins on one side, vegetables and fruit on the other The menu was so heavily dependent on the standard diner iteers, etc) that the fresh selection was a bit sparse; most of the fresh deliveries went directly into the freezer for later As I reorganized, I started thinking of ways I could repurpose so how many pounds of potatoes I needed for fries and if I’d have enough left over to do a fennel and potato gratin when I heard a knock on the propped-open door

"I’ down the clipboard and starting to push open the door

"Why am I suddenly jealous of Carl?" Leo filled up the doorith his big body and grin

"What are you doing here?" I asked as he took a step toward me "It’s not your normal delivery day"

"Would you believeby?"

"It would depend on the beet," I said "What else you got?"

"What are you wearing?" he asked, taking another step

I backed up into the lettuce "This?" I opened the sides ofgreat," he said, taking the last step and slipping his hands insidelow aroundthe cold aroundup and around his neck

"I did," heunderneath ht ed to a snort else?"