Full-time Pastry Chef... Part-time hero

For those of you who didn't hear, Jen was actually in the newspaper twice yesterday, March 7th, 2007. So we all know about the big article, but tucked away in the gossip column (yes, there is a food gossip column), someone noticed our favorite pastry chef saved the day by calling 911 when she walked into the restaurant filled with smoke. The event happened the morning of Saturday, March 3rd, 2007. It turned out just to be smoldering linens in the basement and not anything more serious. Theories of how it started were that a worker accidentally threw a cigarette into the dirty linens or, more likely, rags, charred when used to clean the stoves, were thrown into the linens and smoldered overnight. The dampness of the other linens probably prevented a flareup from occurring. With Jen's quick thinking, the restaurant was back in business so quickly and smoothly they were open for lunch that day and some co-workers didn't even know there was a fire.


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