/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18698741
"Because people who work in the food industry are just unskilled labor. If you want to make more money, maybe try getting a real job instead of slaving away in the kitchen for pennies. Plus, if we paid cooks more, it would just drive up the cost of food for customers. So, quit your whining and be grateful for the crumbs we throw your way.

>>18698741
Food is something everyone has access to now, and most people are fine with just eating slop.

>>18698750
How inconsiderate for someone makes your food, very ugly person.

>>18698750
You say it's "unskilled", yet most people posting on this exact website cannot put together a peanut butter & jelly sandwich or cook a bowl of ramen.

>>18698757
>for someone makes your food
If you want genuine gratitude, stop expecting things in exchange for your cooking.
I will give you my money. You are entitled to nothing beyond that.

>>18698741
Because people like this >>18698750 we're raised by single mothers and have learned no respect and have no concept of a work ethic. They have never been in the heat of a kitchen with a boss shouting you down and 20 orders pending and half your arm hair just got singed off by fire and then you had to get behind the grill to clean out the grease traps while they are still cooking and you inhale 500 cigarettes worth of smoke and your clothes perpetually stink no matter how much you wash them.
And mister too cool for school wouldn't be able to get his goyslop without people sacrificing their health and working harder than he has ever worked in his life but this sick society has somehow deemed food workers as unworthy even though people would riot if they disappeared overnight.

>>18698773

>>18698741
because so many restaurant owners are willing to hire ex-convicts, drug addicts, mexicans who barely speak english, and all other assortment of undesirables and desperate people, the pool of people competing for the same jobs is very large and thus the pay necessary to attract enough labor is very low
the margins on food service are also not that great to begin with, despite the prices, so there's not that much profit to go around anyway, especially after the penny pinching regional managers have had their share and cut labor costs to ensure the skeleton crew running the place is a bare minimum expense

despite their constant bitching, servers are the only people making any respectable amount of money from restauranting via tips, which they only get by whoring themselves out and pretending to be nice to cranky boomers who need their daily dose self-importance from having underclass scum tend to their desires

>>18698750
That's not the answer. Plenty of unskilled labor positions pay much better.

>>18698741
they aren't though.

>>18699256
name ten

Because customers don't want to pay very much

>>18699422
Slaughterhouse
Commercial cleaner
Night security guard
I can only name the ones I've worked, but all of those pay significantly more than minimum wage

>>18698741
I make enough money I can just pay people to bring me my food whenever I want. It's pretty great, honestly, because I suck at cooking and cooks are fucking losers anyway so it's not big loss being unskilled in that department. I rake in big bucks because I'm good at other things and everyone's happier. except the cooks

>>18698741
The entire premise behind the "restaurant industry" is perverse. Aside from the legitimate needs of long-distance highway travelers, cooking is properly an intimate, domestic family activity. Imagine if you started a business wiping other people's asses. What kind of patrons would you attract? And what kind of employees would you be able to retain? That's what a "restaurant" is.

>>18699436
that's not ten.
and yeah it's really a total fucking mystery why jobs that suck far worse than food service might have to pay more money to get people to come back the next day.

Because ((someone)) is greedy.

>>18698750
what if direct all of military spending on subsidized food serving for all citizens?

>>18699472
Because I haven't had ten jobs, I dont spend my time googling the pay rates of unskilled jobs.
Btw being a cleaner doesn't suck it's piss easy and has very flexible hours

>>18698741
Because 20% of restaurant intake is in tips here and back of house don't get nearly enough of it. Servers make about $40 an hour when it's busy enough.

>>18699513
sounds like you've found your dream job. it's one that most people would gnaw their leg off to get away from, but you do you.

>>18698741
because reheating premade sysco meals and tossing them onto a plate is piss easy and any illiterate peasant from mexico can do it.

>>18699585
>has never worked in a kitchen

>>18698971
Holy shit dude proofread your posts, or drink less or something.

>>18698741

>the product you produce is one that people can and do regularly produce for themselves at home
>'why aren't i being paid more for this, it's such hard work'

most of your patrons know how to do what you do, they just haven't learned the recipes yet. your product is the convenience of not having to do the work themselves.

>>18699796
no argument

>>18699256
Picking and packing
Process operator
Retail work
Receptionist
Cleaner
Ticket collector
Lawnmower
Mailman
Party clown
Dog walker

ill consider the idea of you getting more money when your whole industry stops being jews and expecting me to pay the entire places wages with tips

Getting ready for another night shift, lads

>>18698741
because if you pay them a decent salary the final product will end up too expensive for the average customer, and the place goes bankrupt. Its not hard

>>18698750
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>18700706
Don't forget your mask

>>18700415
I didnt get through reading it.

This is why I pretty much only go to go to Jersey Mikes nowadays because their subs are kino and their workers only have to assemble ingredients instead of having to cook shit, so I don't feel bad about having to tip. I used to work at Publix in fucking Orlando, so yeah I can pay $9.46 (no sales tax because Montana lol) for a regular size sub dripping with pickled veggies and delicatessen meat cuts without having being asked for a tip, and feel no guilt. Good shit.

>>18700706
What kind of place do you work?

>>18698741
Because there will always be alcoholics and drug addicts willing to do it for pennies. I got an engineering degree, have a much easier job I’m much worse at for 3x the pay. I get to cook all the amazing meals I want in my free time. Improve yourself anon, even retards like me can do it.

>>18698741
Because of the long hours

>>18699796
>why are there drunks in the chef thread

>>18703220
But you don't get to drink every day

>>18703496
The last place I worked was part of some corporate restaurant family that monopolized all the restaurants in my tourist town and they not only wouldn't provide us with any closing beers but they prohibited us from purchasing them for ourselves.