We’ve got the equipment… err, hey wait!

Yesterday the equipment finally got out of customs and delivered to the shop. The delivery guys unloaded everything on the front sidewalk since the pallets were too big to get in the door. This was no problem for most things because there were lots of individual boxes most of which I could carry in myself. Only one of the boxes was too heavy for one person. The bread oven was another matter though.

That thing is quite literally built like a tank. Maggie called up one handyman who came with two other guys and that wasn’t enough to move it, so some more guys were called and finally with six guys they were able to move it just up the step up to the front door. After that it was possible to roll it on its wheels over in back of the counter.

While unpacking and checking the other boxes though, I began to realize that a lot of things were missing. After an inventory of the items I was able to narrow down the list of missing items. They include things like bread baking pans and forms, all the vegetable cutting equipment, the trash bin and the floor sign. All stuff that’s kinda hard to do without.

After going through the paperwork I think I’ve pieced together what went wrong. The shipment was supposed to be a total of four packages. I received three pallets and another two large boxes that were packaged together as what I was told was the fourth package. The paperwork indicates that those boxes were part of one of the pallets I received and that pallet got split up somewhere along the way. All the missing stuff was packed together on one pallet, so it appears that that pallet got lost somewhere along the way.

So yet another snafu to get sorted out…

Meanwhile, another funny delivery mishap occurred today. The uniforms I ordered were delivered by mistake to an office several blocks away. They were nice enough to track us down and Maggie and I went over to pick it up. When we were leaving the delivery guy was just coming back. Apparently he pulled the wrong box off the truck over there and didn’t realize the mistake until later.