Last night we had the local MG Owners club meet at the bar for fish and chips. The car park became a temporary MG showroom. The evening was busy with the bar full of people either eating or waiting for their meals.
Whilst walking through the kitchen I noticed a strange smell, checked that I hadn't left nothing turned on and thought no more of it. We found out what it was ten minutes later when "OMG" ( sorry I know its tacky language) the power went off in the whole building. The smell in the kitchen was one of burning coming from a cupboard which houses the main electrical imput into the cafe.
we had about 60 people in the bar, the fish and chip van had 25-30 orders still to fulfil and no power. We asked for hush and then called "Is there and electrician in the house?". Kevin stepped forward, came and had a look and diagnosed major surgery. The input box had grossly overheated and it was likely that major damage had been done. OMG!! J got on the phone to the local electrical suppliers emergency line, and then distributed candles around the tables. It doesn't get dark here until about 8.30 so we were able to trade on and hope.
Soregies, the electrical company were superb. They had an emergency engineer here within 45 minutes and he had changed the input fuse and power was back on a further half hour later.
Whilst it was a stressful couple of hours, on reflection it could have been a lot worse. Had we been cooking we would have been stuck, had it been during the quiz we would have had to cancel the evening. As it was we managed to carry on trading and just couldn't cook desserts or make coffees
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