Restaurant dishwasher cleans 500 per layer and says that it is every therapy

Most of the morning in the morning. It is therapeutic for Sophia Velador, who heads the judicial pit at the breakfast and lunch point Alder & Sage in Long Beach.

A sink with unwashed dishes marks the beginning of each working day. So she has made a living in the past 10 years. She wouldn't have it any other way.

The 40 -year -old Velador drives three separate buses in Long Beach's Bluff Height Heights district with every mother in Santa Ana.

Sometimes former colleagues who have moved to Orther restaurants try to poach everyone for their new facilities.

“No, thank you,” she tells you. “I'm fine where I am.”

To be outside the task of a dishwasher, the lower run in a restaurant, a coarse, differential and ultimately unmotor is. But is probably the most important role in a diningander house.

Without a dishwasher, the shell pit would be a hot and the restaurant.

Dishwasher is often confused with a simple entry -level job in a restaurant. But fast -moving, hard work that requires an understanding of all functioning parts in the restaurant

“Nobody talks about this UNUNGHONE,” says Kansteiner. “Dishwasher are often over overlocked, but we should all entertain.

Workers like Velador are fundamental to the restaurant industry. But you get SELDUOM the awards that the chefs of Orwner Usly reserved. In order to find out what one of these less visible jobs demands, we were followed by Velador on a recreet day when she worked.

6:55 a.m.

Velador in black hair, provided in a dark headscarf and lips, which is provided with lipstick, looks like a modern, Chicana version by Rosie the Rive. The wire throat listeners jump over their neck when they break to Cat Everswo on the corner of the Euclid Street and West Katela Average.

The stop is a few blocks from any time at home that the Parkinson's disease has. She spends two nights a week to take care of him. She blamed his place and spends time with him.

Velador's layer begins at 9 a.m. and she wants to take a lot of time for work. On the bus, she mainly holds a hopesel and lists the music. Others do the same. A man is reduced. Another listens to a loud show with earphones. The bus rumbles past shopping centers, residential buildings and expired condominium complexes.

His note until she gets into every second bus that she maintains with the woman who calls her “bus friend”, Zhanette Kazzeva, who has just completed a layer of cemetery that occupies the reception in a nearby hotel. Kazzeva often goes with Velador to every third bus of the morning.

Sometimes Velador wishes that she had a car and would not have to go to work and back to enlarge three hours a day.

But then she better beats it. She used to have a car, but it always seemed to collapse. Parking in Long Beach is rough and the parking certificates were stacked.

She is grateful that every boss, Kansteiner, works in every bus schedule. Velador but she remains loyal to Kanstein because she says she feels valued in an alder and pasture.

Velador, one of four dishwasher at Alder & Sage, worked with Kansteiner in Berlin Bistro 10 years ago until the restaurant was closed in 2022.

Velador didn't work during the pandemic. Nevertheless, the Berlin crew broke every cut of the tips.

“You don't have that,” she says. “That says a lot.”

7:58 a.m.

Velador climbs out of the bus -indo poet fog.

The fog dissolves during the Loving minute walk to the restaurant. It appears in Alder & Sage, an airy and light restaurant in the neighborhood in Cherry Avenue and in 4th Street, along the Retro Row Corridors by Long Beach. The restaurant serves locally roasted coffee and small production wines with farm breakfast, lunch and brunch.

Velador hangs up every bag, takes off every jacket and ties up on a black, rubber -like apron. She takes out the garbage, which comes to the liquid in the commercial dishwasher with a test to make the manufacturer.

“We are good,” she says to Herch.

Velador hangs up a portable speaker and switches it on. Hall & Oates' “You made my dreams” into the shell pit.

Shads for preparation and grabs a handful of dirty uensils and washes them off before they are placed in the industrial dishwasher, which mixes exactly the right of the chemicals to renovate everything.

Seconds later, she switches on the tap in the water pit and beats a saucepan that looks like it. The water splashes on everyone and part of the floor.

The chef comes over to say hello, and hands have a bowl with some remaining potato shells.

“Thank you very much!” He yellow.

Velador spends most of the daily day in front of the shell pit and plays against the corner of the restaurant.

She scrubs all types of kitchen products: tablets, pans, cook leaves, plates, pans. She hardly arranges everything in plastic cros. Sometimes it is like a tetris game to fit as much into the dishwasher as possible. Velador closes the bar and lets the dishwasher run.

They mops the water from the floor.

8:48 a.m.

Velador looks at a montage route: a mixed bowl made of stainless steel, a mixer jug, a whisk, dishes, pans and much more.

During a typical shift, she says, she washes at least 500 dishes.

Most would be released with the job. “I feel like what is therapy for me,” she says. “It is very satisfying.”

Velador does not wear glooves. She doesn't care about her because they make it difficult to handle it and make every accidentally remote dishes. It only wears glooves if it uses dilabilities that can be caustic but necessary to really clean a special, smeared pot or a pan.

If you end the dishwasher, the pans, plates, glasses and apartments are particularly hot.

Some dishwasher reports of pain in the hands or even arthritis after a long time in the workplace. That is the case for Velador.

A back back, hurt all foot. The pain after she wore orthopedic insoles. Now she is wearing three insoles. She buys every shoes that you make bigger so that you can make everyone fit.

10:25 a.m.

Velador has a seat on the inside for food waste.

Some plates will be extinguished at the time of this range. But sometimes where the restaurant is particularly busy, sheep with plends of remaining food are. A half -scale quiche. A splinter of a burger. Salad from a hardly touched salad.

“It's sad,” she says. “I see it more, I want to.”

Velador grew up in a family of working class. She completed the high school, but never had the desire to do the college. She didn't see the meaning of paying me to sit in a classroom to learn. Every first job outside the high school was in a Spirit in a Halloween shop. With the extensions, she works in clothing transactions, warehouse and call center. She says she felt like a “work animal” of all these jobs except the one she has now.

Initially, she says, it was difficult to wash dishes, but she got used to it.

“It is the first job I had when I didn't feel that it was hard, hard work or pressure,” she says. “My employees are also fantastic people.”

She started bistro in Berlin in summer 2015 and just stayed. Velador earns $ 17.50 per hour plus one part of the tips of the servers that run around $ 50 every few weeks.

It is typical that a dishwasher as a bus is prepared and then prepared cook.

Kansteiner tried to offer all of these jobs. Velador refused.

Kansteiner says that it is unual for someone on whom someone stays as a dishwasher for a decade. Nevertheless, she says, she learned to respect Velador's decision.

“In my eyes, ten years are incredible,” she says. “Sophia is a large part of our work.

3:30 p.m.

At the end of Velador's layer we are wet and dirty. But she says that it is a tangible result for all work: cleaning the cookware.

Velador drives out for the day and drives on the way to catch every bus. It will all take more than an hour to get home.

Sometimes, says Kansteiner, she will find Velador in the bus table for dining room that help because she knows that the staff of the restaurant is overwhelmed.

Nobody has to ask everyone to help, Canteiner number. Velador makes it easy.

Velador says she would like to rinse dishes over the next 10 years. She doesn't strive to do more.

Velador says she believes that society thinks that she doesn't.

She sees it difficult.

“I'm happy,” she says. “My family and friends who love and support me make me happy.