Sizzling Missiles of Meat

It will be our first month in operation this week and things are going as they should-ish. We have been testing the grill on and off, so far so good. We will raise the height of the grill maybe an inch or two to reduce the smoke escaping out to zero. The problem is we really hate the grill! It is the root of all grief in the shop but yet it will be able to create delicious food. We had a short-circuit last Sunday caused by the grill. You must be wondering how can a charcoal grill mess with the electrics. It turns out that the temperature in the exhaust hood was high enough to damage the wires for the light fixtures above the grill. The insulation was toast and there was a short circuit. It went so far as to damage our main circuit breakers resulting in the whole shop losing power. Needless to say, we did ZERO business that day. It really isn't about the loss of sales that bugs us, after all it is just one day out of the hundreds or maybe thousands that we will be here for. What was horrible was the fact that we disappointed and failed our customers. Eight were seated and ready to place their order when it tripped. They left hungry. A few more came repeat customers came by but had to be turned away. Some were kind enough to want to wait for the power to be fixed but we really couldn't guarantee that things will be OK before they starved to death. That sucks! we have decided to refer to the grill as The Bitch.