Synopsis:

Set in the basement kitchen of a large restaurant, thirty chefs, waitresses and kitchen porters slowly begin the day, preparing to serve lunch. The central story tells of a frustrated love affair between a high-spirited young German chef, Peter, and a married English waitress, Monique.

'Flashing, illuminating, moving, funny, passionate, authentic' – Bernard Levin, Daily Express 

'Achieves something that few playwrights have ever attempted; it dramatizes work ... rising at the end of the first half to a climactic lunch-hour frenzy that is the fullest theatrical expression I have ever seen of the laws of supply and demand.' – Kenneth Tynan, Observer