Nice badges!

I may have missed something, but are these actual co-workers or is this a virtual restaurant?

Oh, they're actual co-workers! For some years now, Chiaro, a professional line cook, has been in the habit of commissioning furry-themed badges as gifts for his compadres at whatever restaurant he happens to be working at (currently the local Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville franchise). Usually he does this annually at AC, but in the last couple years, he's been taking advantage of his own year-round live-in artist to produce a few. I do owe him, after all... ^.^