@WakeUpCall – A Tally Rand Thanksgiving

If you just can’t bring yourself to cook Thanksgiving dinner or don’t want to hang out with family, there’s a place you can go and get a wonderful Thanksgiving meal…. The Tally Rand in Burbank.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanksgiving is almost here, ready to sit down for that
big meal. Well what if you're overwhelmed and you don't
want to cook, Well, guess what, you can still have
a great Thanksgiving dinner thanks to our friends at tali
Rand in Burbank. At we get tally Ran for all
the working staff every year and it's a highlight and
a special treat. And so we wanted to come down

(00:21):
to Taallyrand and take a look around and see the
business that they are doing today and it's gangbusters. So
with us we have one of the owners of tally Ran.
It's Karen Ross. Good morning, Karen, Good morning Amy, Happy Thanksgiving,
Happy Thanksgiving to you. Tell me how busy are you
guys going to be on Thanksgiving Day?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, we hope to be very busy. We've got reservations
for three hundred plus people. We're ready to do about,
you know, eight hundred dinners to go. We're prepared, We've
got a good crew ready to work for it starting
today's You can see we're already kind of jumping into
it today.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
But we're ready, okay, And how much food? Like pound wise,
give us some of the numbers of how much you're
going to serve in on this Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
So my brother Mark is the orchestrator of all food
Italian Rand and we're he's right over there. We're doing
about three thousand pounds of turkey. We're doing about nine
hundred pounds of potatoes that we are peeling here cooling.
We have about two hundred gallons of gravy made from scratch.
Stuff being made from scratch. So it's just a it
is a labor of love, one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
And what are your hours on Thanksgiving Day?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Ten thirty am to seven thirty pm?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
And if you don't have a reservation, you don't want
to even you don't want to deal with having food
at your house at all. You want to come down
and just have a nice meal. Do you take walk ups?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
We certainly take walk ups. Come on in any time
between ten thirty and seven thirty You can order to go,
hop in line, grab a steed here. We will accommodate all.
Just bring your patients with you.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, because there's going to be a line like we
were talking about earlier, for people coming in to order
and take the turkey dinners home. They're going to start
lining up early.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Right last year they were here at six thirty am.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
So bring some cope and like you said, pack your patients.
And the beauty of it is it's going to be
a nice day. It's going to be you know, sixties
and seventies, so it's not like we're going to be
standing out in the cold and the rain and tell
us what we get with our turkey dinner. We're going
to take a look right now.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
So the turkey dinner comes with obviously your turkey, white
and dark meat, mixed stuffing, homemade mashed potatoes, gravy. Tomorrow
will include yams and our fresh sour dough bread and
pumpkin pie.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
And I can speak from an experience, it's delicious. Any
final Thanksgiving thoughts today.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
We're just worth thankful. We're thankful for the mcinnia burbank,
for Cafi we'll take care of. If you're looking for
a place to come tomorrow, we got you. Just pack
your patience, come on in and have a good time
with us tomorrow, all.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Right, and enjoy that Thanksgiving meal. Thank you so much,
Karen Ross. It's delicious. I can't wait to have ours
because we, like I said, Talleyrand supplies our dinners for us,
or we get our dinners from tally Rand every Thanksgiving,
and it's a treat for those of us who get
to work Thanksgiving Day, so it's a fun way to
start the day