The White Elephant 18: Excellence
Ceilia: | Do you know who we've got in the restaurant tonight? |
Gordon: | A customer? |
Ceilia: | Well yes ... it's a VIP ... |
Peter: | A 'V-I-P' ... what's that? |
Ceilia: | A Very Important Person – it's the town mayor. I can't believe that he's decided to eat in our restaurant tonight. |
Gordon: | Yes, that's the type of top-notch customer I like to cook for. Royalty! |
Mary: | Well he's not royalty Gordon, but he is an important person so I'm going to give this plate an extra polish. |
Peter: | There's the order Gordon. He wants champagne too ... I'll go and get some. |
Ceilia: | I hope you've sobered up after last week and I hope you're going to pull out all the stops to make an excellent dish. |
Gordon: | Excellence is what I excel at Ceilia, you know that. Right let's get to work ... wow, he wants the steak surprise. I can tell this is a man with first-class taste. |
Ceilia: | Oh just get on with it Gordon. |
Gordon: | There finished – perfect! Peter! |
Mary: | Well done Gordon ... you really have gone above and beyond your usual standards. |
Gordon: | Peter, I want you to take this to the mayor. Any bad view he has of our restaurant will be blown right out of the water when he tastes that food. |
Gordon: | Well, what did he say? |
Peter: | He said we had 'exceeded his expectations'. |
Gordon: | Good, good. |
Peter: | Yes ... we are even worse than he had expected. And also, he is a vegetarian and has never eaten meat. |
Gordon: | But this order said steak surprise ... |
Peter: | That one does ... but this says mushroom risotto. |
Ceilia: | Excellent! |
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