The Viking Range Corporation waded into the volunteer efforts at Dookie Chase’s last weekend, a crew of 30 from Jackson and Greenwood, Miss. Here are a few of them, pictured with the restaurant’s famous queen of the kitchen, Leah Chase.

I was impressed with the way they put the place in order, washing and boxing up dishes and pots and pans and polishing the wooden legs on chairs and all sorts of little details that you don’t really think about with a job this big.

I’ll certainly keep you in the loop as the work on these restaurants progress…