/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18108306
>line cook
>genuinely love working in a kitchen, love working with food, probably autistic
>if im working a pantry/coldside position i end up having to carry the weight of the shitheads that dip every 6 seconds to take phone calls mid friday rush
>no one on cold side or has a sense of urgency
>work broil/hotside stations
>everyone generally has their shit together
>generally good chemistry with these niggas
>servers manage to be the most obnoxious and annoying creatures to occupy the same time and building i practically live in.
>infinite complaining about how they only made 400 tonight
>employee tickets at close
>foh niggas that dont know the menu at all or think the guest is always right so they will ring in the fucking dumbest shit "yeah can you just put the different seasoning on da chicken they said sumn bout blacken or sumn lol is that burning it xd?"
i hate all of you fohtards unless you're a bartender or genuinely bust your ass. going out for a smoke break, run ur food faggots

>>17481304
>>17481294
>>17481189
this is why i work in the kitchen and not up front dealing with absolute fucking retards like you op
just so you know your favorite restaurants have nicknames for you probably revolving around your lack of brain or weight

>>17314450
>>17314445
>>17314436
what the fuck else would it be? you think theres god damn kegs in the shape of a coke bottle that the servers milk for fresh coca cola?
and sodas are expensive because everything is in a restaurant
just order water if you're paranoid about syrup being added to your sparkling water giving you radiation poisoning or some shit you schizos

>>17155372
my parents think that if i perfect risotto ill be a world class chef because they watch hells kitchen every day thinking their home cook bs is the same shit as a restaurant. i try to explain that along with the risotto you're making 15 other tickets with autistic ass modifications at the same time and you might just forget to stir or some shit that ruins the risotto, and they say shit like "well dats just bad time management"

industry bros whats ur favorite station to work if you're a line cook

>>16993380
i dont tip because im a cook and i want to kill servers

>>16860304
>start enjoying work again
>recently, my grandmother who i havent been close to much at all has had failing health
>go visit her while shes still functional as a human being, get my words in goodbyes and love yous
>havent gone back much because i kind of expect shes not gonna make it
>spend time with friends and coworkers to keep spirits up
>early today grandmother was perfectly fine again
>tonight she is back in icu
>requesting to be taken off support and let go
>still not really feeling much, my shift is at 12 shell be taken off at around 9, hospital is 45 min away, so ill be right on my way to work after seeing her go
>dont feel much, had first ciggie with friends
>would much rather get sleep for work
>going to go but its gonna make my shift harder i think, dont really know
work is my cope i guess lol

>>16836823
one time after work me and my friend went to ihop and this nigga dropped our hashbrowns on the floor, said oops and walked away never to be seen again

>>16779985
i have about 6 months before i can leave for plumbing
waking up is painful

>>16772603
>>16772569
servers work a quarter of the amount boh works and makes at least double the pay its absurd
faggot niggers come up to me " I H U N G Y MY SHJIFT TOO LONG AN MY FEET SORE" when im running a 14 hour shift and theyll be out at most after 5 hours
i wanted to be a chef and still would if i never have to see a servers ugly faggot mug again fuck servers i hate them all

>>16762928
six months or so until i can start my plumbing apprenticeship

i have about 6 more months left of food service as a career, moving to plumbing. how do i stop wanting to kill myself every night so its not a long drawn out 6 months

whats the easiest way to leave this shit show industry?
thinking about taking up plumbing or working for a city

>get trained on every position on my side of the restaurant
>have brief time where management needs me in togo
>get back to the kitchen
>all of my positions have been taken out of the system except for one
>niggas say i need to retrain everything
>still schedule me as the only person on my side on slow days
are chain restaurants the biggest hellscape of food service work

bros how do i escape chain restaurants and get into finer dining and hotels
got the most corporate answer practically denying a raise while the guy before me who left the line every nano second to flirt with servers made a whole dollar more than me lmao

this thread will make me look at meat products differently for exactly one day after that i will forget what i have seen and go back to enjoying the great taste of beef, lamb, chicken, duck etc
i do however still believe that the human race is evil and wish we never existed thank you for your time

how was your shift, /ck/?
anyone ring in any employee food to be a dick?