In the annals of demeaning requirements made upon food-service workers to insure that we, the customers, are sufficiently entertained (such as the Cold Stone Creamery mandate that ice cream scoopers sing for their tips), one of the newer ones is the force-fed enthusiasm at Specialty’s Bakery. Every time a new flat of cookies emerges from the corporate oven, and the person delivering them to the display case calls out “Fresh Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies!”, all employees within earshot are now apparently required to pipe up together through their weary boredom in ebullient response: “Fresh Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies!” Because when you’re working at a place like Specialty’s, I’m sure that the excitement over a new batch of warm cookies absolutely never ends.
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