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I'll sit this right here take it for what its worth because it may just save your business as a whole one day. i cook for a living and was born and raised in eunice. when you have a buffet in your restaurant you have to keep the items you offer on the buffet while you open for service. you cant be having customers waiting on a empty pan stop being cheap and put the food out. also when you have a steamtable you dont keep pouring food into a pan with dried up food on the edges you put it in a new pan and change the pan out. if you trying to save without waist put the vegetables in 2½ deep 3rd pans , main entrees in 2½ half pans and items that dont move fast at all put them in 2½ 4th or 6th pans . with a small buffet never put the foods in 4½ deep pans and 6½ deep thats only for high volume restaurants in high population areas take my advice trust me