/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Odd. Usually dish-bros are so fucking competent you can trust them on the line. Start looking for another job. If you find one and it pans out, then you can tell the owner why you left. Because the chef wasn't running the kitchen.

Welcome to the greatest industry in the world!
It's almost like there being no required qualifications to walk into a kitchen job means the worst type of people come though the revolving door time after time

>>15896237
Spend a comfy shift listening to music and wash dishes, let the chaos unfold you are in the dishpit

be all things to all people

>>15896237
I used to work in a restaurant for cats. Exclusively high end meals for cats served in little dishes on tables about three inches off the ground. The place got raided by the ATF for hydroponic catnip and three ginger toms and a Russian Blue kitten were escorted out in locked cat cages meowing non-stop. Eventually quit, now I work as a pediatric gynaecologist and monster truck driver.

>>15896237
wouldnt meth make him wash faster? Why kick him out

>>15896353
Meth would make you more pedantic.

>>15896237
Best get to stealing shit, chances are you won't be getting those wages come payday

>>15896237
So you remembee anything about what the head chef made you do to cook while yo uwere doing nothing?

Looking the scteaming manager in the eye, and tell them, YOU are the chef now

If you are here, in the food industry, and know how to google, you'll be fine forever behind some black cutting board'd baine marie that the health inspector keeps dinging 3 times before the owner finally shows up and they both go for cocktails while you bleach the bottom of some freezer that nobody has seen since opening

>>15896376
kek

Can we get a kitchen horror stories thread going?
Worst thing you've done/seen done during service

>>15896530
I've seen a chef throw a steak on the floor, stamp on it, and put it back on the grill, after a customer sent it back for being not tender enough

>>15896237
>>15896237

Not my problem

>>15896316
I'm not sure I believe any of that.

>>15896541
kek

>>15896541
This is perfectly hygienic

>>15896530
Had a 70+ year old customer grab the ass of a 16 year old waitress. Me and the dish washer spent a solid 10 minutes kicking his sausage patties across the floor before frying his sunny side up eggs in pure spit rather than butter. It's not a meme that you really shouldn't fuck with the people cooking your food before it's been served.

>>15896837
>yfw he turns out to be dead of gololololololona rn

>>15896530
When I was washing dishes: fat retarded lady dropped a pancake on a filthy mat and put it right back on the plate
Disgusting

>>15896837
Go kick him out in person you passive aggressive faggot. He doesn't even know he had floor sausage or spit eggs, his life is completely unaffected.

>>15896237
redpill me on dishwasher jobs
kinda want to quit my retail jobs

the owner at a place I worked at never had change in the drawer and always acted perplexed at why we'd constantly call him saying we're out of money and change when he stupidly priced things so that it would come out to like 3.46, 5.31, etc. with tax so it would constantly require a lot of bills and change if someone was paying in cash. I legit would stop at the bank on the way to my shift and exchange 20 dollars of my own money into quarters.

The food was really good though and the business is still thriving several years later and at some point he took my advice of making it so every item went to a round number with tax.

>>15896902
oh yeah also i got screamed at because he sent me to starbucks to exchange 500 dollars and they wouldn't do it so I had to walk 3 more blocks to the bank and in the meantime he had to give away 15 meals because the register didn't have any money in it besides 20s. This guy also worked as an accountant and business consultant which is how he made the money to open this restaurant.

>>15896876
its literally as low as you can possibly go in any profession. there is zero barrier to entry. if you can talk to the manager and you arent a literal drooling retard youll get hired. the pay is shit, the job itself is disgusting and youll stink of food when you get home and even after you shower it wont be gone. if you have any kind of functioning brain the chefs will get you doing prep and eventually you can work your way up to being a cook.

the only upside i can think of is you'll probably meet some people with interesting stories since the only adults who wash dishes professionally are drug addicts or severely mentally fucked

>>15896262
>Usually dish-bros are competent

>>15896989
thanks anon

>>15896237
Why? He could do the dishes like lightning

>>15896316
Sounds legit

>>15896376
Remember, copper wiring sells for a lot at the scrap yards!

>>15896530
>be me
>just starting to comprehend the restaurant industry
>get a job as a dishwasher
>get a second job as a dishwasher
>second job makes me a line cook since the sous chef of 10 years is leaving
>small restaurant, plus im enthusiastic, owner/chef is like yeah lets do it
>pretty cool, run a line by myself in the morning
>owner helps out for night shift
>literally just me cooking lunches, owner at nights and owners wife for 2 morning shifts
>only cooks in the restaurant, rest of the people are servers, no hard liquor
>lead server shows up late a few days
>I open/setup the kitchen, then do the front as well
>serve 3 tables water, wine and take their orders
>then I go back to cook the food
>no one else in the restaurant
>server finally shows up, I switch tables to them
>never get tipped out
I realized several months later they were so enthusiastic to have me cook because it was actually fairly easy and the owner was able to pay me almost half as much as the last guy. remember future chefs, most people want to take advantage of you

>>15896541
Why did he put a stamp on it?

>>15897448
shipping isn't free anon

I applied for a job at some restaurant and the chef said he wanted to set up an interview on zoom but he never got back to me and I didn't want to message him back and possibly annoy him and now it's been a week since that was supposed to happen. Wat do? Give up or message him?

>>15896376
I loved stealing shit from my first job at a shitty BBQ. We were allowed to get ourselves sodas in these styrofoam cups, so I would grab myself a cup and fill it to the brim with chicken and dumpling soup to take home. Free dinner after getting home from an underpaid ten hour shift. Sometimes if I had the time I would make myself a salad kit and stuff it in the cup too.

>>15896316

>>15896371
Dictionary time

>>15896316
its a good thing the yall didnt cater to dogs. theyd all have been shot.

>>15896876
Worked in a restaurant before moving to retail. This guy >>15896989 ain't kidding. Nothing on earth could convince me to put the hairnet and foodservice gloves back on. If you wanna stay in retail, the comfiest position to go for is something where you work in the back, away from customers. I unload the truck and then process the stuff in the stockroom, there's minimal oversight and I'm mostly left alone to fold shirts or whatever. (And stealing is stupid easy because I know the camera's blindspots.) The constant rapid speed you're expected to maintain in the kitchen is insane compared to retail. Took a long time working retail before I could stand in place for two seconds without feeling like I was underperforming, even if all my tasks were done.

>>15897351
Worked at a restaurant through college. Basically ran the place entirely. Spent way more effort and emotion in it that the owner. I knew the owner like a dad. We were close and I thought had a great almost loving relationship. He went on vacay once and I snooped his office. He'd been rounding down hours for years for everyone including mine. Tens of thousands of dollars during the time I worked there. Still hurts my feelings desu

>>15897799
Message the chef again. If he has a problem with you reaching out after not hearing anything for a week, then you don’t want to work for him anyway. If anything, it shows initiative to follow up.

>>15897895
Alright, I'll do that. One more thing: there was another restaurant I applied to and the guy emailed me saying "I'm reaching out to see if you'd like to work at another one of our restaurants" and I said yes but haven't heard anything from him in a week as well. Should I email him too or no... Man I hate applying for jobs

>>15897923
you should be messaging them twice a day every day until you get an actual answer.
fucking zoomers man....

>>15897929
Really? What the fuck. Also I'm not a zoomer, I just don't know anything about applying for jobs because every job I've had was basically handed to me through sheer luck

>>15897870
What's this retarded story, you don't record hours for your information and you can't do basic maths? You've been working there for years and not a single month you said to yourself, "huh I was supposed to earn more this month"?

>>15897937
Either they forgot and you're reminding them or they're cunts that ghosted you so who cares if you're rude.

>>15897955
Good point, thanks anon

>>15897945
yeah i was young, unorganized, and under immense pressure from my college program and working all the time. I definitely should have, more than the lost time it was that i trusted him. Also, it was never a huge amount, just a huge amount spread over so many employees over time. this was years ago and i'm a salary bitch now so no need to record hours

>>15896237
Reminds me of when I used to work at a texmex restaurant when I was in college
>show up to work as line cook
>only person there
>whatever I have keys
>open up and head to kitchen
>flip lights on
>head chef is passed the fuck out drunk in the sink
>down to his boxers
>douse the motherfucker awake
>ask him what the hell
>says his car was towed in the lot due to non payment and he left his keys and phone in there
>lives alone
>said he'd close up yesterday
>waited for everyone to leave then raided the indoor bar
>made himself dinner and got smashed in the kitchen
>walked in on end result
>he left the freezer open so the food is spoiled too
>text manager as guy falls back asleep
>manager shows up minutes later sprinting through door
>going full drill sarge on the guy
>fires him and sends out group text on everyone having the day off
>watch him lose his shit over the loss of product and day without operating
>feels bad man
>get ice cream from free ice cream machine and go home

>>15896371
what sort of drug is that

>>15896237
>dishwasher came in tweaking on meth, got kicked out

Thats why I only do coke while cooking.
It's the Superior work drug.

i miss bartending but the pandemic really shit on hospitality
i'm down to do it again but part time/side hustle sort of thing

>>15897052
Dish bros are usually Guatemalan immigrant guys who can barely see over the sink. They work their asses off. Had one guy, fresh from what I'm sure was a 100pct legal border crossing, was so scared to lose his job that he pissed in the floor drain rather than leave for the three minutes.

>>15896316
Your bot is broken homie

>>15896316
sounds like the average career path of a person casually posting on a laotian theme park survivor forum

>>15896316
>pediatric gynecologist
CUNNY!!

>>15896262
>dish
>bros
>competent
they're always stoner losers that get fired and replaced 3 times a week


>>15896530
>zoomer redditor wants free greentext for his "Best of 4chan" weekly youtube compilation
no fuck off, go and get fucked cunt

I was a dish bitch at the top of the CN tower, I got paid 17 dollars an hour in 2008. Was the best job I ever had, mainly because I still lived at home. Ah to be young again...

>>15896237
cookcucks:
>have to cut onions and cry all day
>get yelled at by the chef for getting it wrong
>have to cook well-done steaks for customers that ask for it
>hate cooking at home because it's your job
dishbros
>perform vital service
>focus on one job and do it to perfection
>gets to order cookcucks around by telling them to take over while he goes for a smoke break
>gets laid by hot customers while cookcucks seethe

>>15896837
it's more funny that you didn't have the balls to confront a 70 year old customer. you're a little bitch.

>>15896262
Hi, never worked in a restaurant before!
You just reminded me of the dishwasher I used to know who refused to by waterproof shoes, and would stand in a foot of dirty dishwater in his fucking old nikes. This nigga would be squishing around the back lot at lunch time acting like it didn’t bother him he’d find rotten lettuce in his toenails so he could save thirty bucks on fucking rubber shoes. Also he was fucking deaf so naturally did not hear us yelling at him to hurry it the fuck up every other ten minutes. What a fucking time that was, Christ I feel old now...