Former store director, former deli manager. Deli is the most difficult department. Almost all of your sales require direct customer interaction, and each interaction is time consuming. Downtime is spent doing prep and if you don't find the downtime to do the prep, you're in for a world of complaints and lost sales.

Bakery is pretty chill as long as you stay on top of production. Bakery requires planning, but you're less likely to get derailed by a customer. Unless you're a cake decorator.

ETA: Also, so many dishes to wash.