I mean... 400 quail eggs for a brunch special? That's a lot of prep for something that tricky. And yeah the eggs came out bad, but guests never knew? Sounds like you actually pulled it off in the end. The waste thing bugs you, sure, but that's like a normal kitchen screwup on a smaller scale, not some disaster. People par-cook stuff all the time and it goes wrong, that's just how it goes when you're feeding 200 people. Honestly the fact that you recovered in 45 minutes while running an omelet station is kind of impressive, not cringe worthy.

Wait, are we sure more RFIs means the system is working better? Because to me 500 RFIs sounds less like progress and more like nobody can get a straight answer anymore. Back in the fax days the form itself was a pain, so guys only sent one when they really had to, and a lot of stuff got solved with a quick walk to the foreman's trailer. Now it takes ten seconds to fire one off from your phone, so people do it for everything, and half the time the answer could have come from the guy standing next to them. So yeah, I miss the walk down the hall too, but the real thing we lost is that friction made people think before they asked.