/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I wait tables, and was stoked for the extra business. My managers over-scheduled and I was told to go home when I showed up. I managed to get a 4-hour shift out of somebody and made good money for how long I was on the floor, but I was scheduled to work for at least 10 hours. Shit was lame.

Unless you work at an understaffed restaurant, then you chose to work today. Why complain if you get more tips than normal?

One of the worst days to work.
Non stop from 11am to 11pm, then you gotta clean up for another two hours.
Glad I don't work today.

>>6493379
Sorry, anon. I had a shit ton of reservations that didn't show up. Crap day for me as well.

>>6493389
Man, sorry to hear that. Summer approaches, though, with many super-busy days.

I work in retail and worked the day before mothers day. I ended up taking an aderall before my shift and spent the half the shift in the bathroom hiding cause i was too stressed cause of all the people

>>6493379
>>6493381
>>6493389
>>6493405
>front of house bitching about anything
>ever

>>6493419
this
bitches be leavin shit to die in the window for ten minutes while they gossip with each other, then bring shit back and complain that it's cold, and I gotta refire it

>>6493381
Mo' money, Mo' problems.

> the women who think the world belongs to them on this day

> their messy asshole kids
> their miserable husbands
> the idiots who don't understand that they can't get a table immediately

>>6493423
Oh abloo bloo bloo, you fucks make enough to pay my rent on one good saturday night, work half as hard as we do, and don't carry the risk of cutting off a fucking finger because you haven't had a day off in two weeks.

>>6493381
>>6493419
FOH staff is bitching about wanting more work and getting more tips (and you usually don't let shit sit in a window if you want good tips).

Obviously your reading comprehension is as good as it usually is for back of the house staff.

>>6493350
It wasn't that bad.

Had to deal with this one customer who was obviously trying to give his mom a 5 star experience and failed to make reservations. He was apparently obnoxious enough to warrant my attention. He and his family left dissatisfied and "will never come back again" because I wouldn't toss another customer off their table, so they could eat at that very moment. We have no tables open and there are people who have reserved seats, calm down.

Spent a couple minutes with this family explaining why we couldn't make her salmon bisque vegan. She also "tasted gluten" in her salad.

All in all, it was a good day.

>>6493439
>front of house bitching about anything
>EVER

>>6493419

It's not my fault that you took the shittier job. Maybe if you weren't such an asshole you could deal with the general public and get paid for it. Now get behind the line.

>>6493458
>FoH bitching about anything
>EVER

>>6493458
fuck you man, I'm too creepy looking to be allowed in the front of house

no seriously my nickname is slingblade and I'm often told I remind people of the stapler guy from office space

>>6493465

kek

>>6493468
it's not funny asshole!

>>6493440
>She also "tasted gluten" in her salad.

>>6493458
Cooks literally make your job possible

If you were a bartender responsible for anything maybe it'd be possible to respect you, but all you have to do is run back and forth to tables and smile

You don't have to prep or maintain anything, have no cleaning to do, and always get to leave when your shift ends

so i say once again
>Front of house bitching about anything
>ever

>>6493484
The fuck do you want? Just cook the fucking food, stop complaining, or get another job. Do you want to get fucking tipped out or something?

>>6493484
>always get to leave when your shift ends
i stopped making social plans when i started cooking professionally.
working the line IS your plans.
now add on three filet medium and give me that fucking strip you've been babying - i need to sell this ticket.

>>6493506
I'd like to get tipped out, considering if I started fucking up your tables for long enough I could probably starve you to death

>>6493521
I'd just comp a bunch of stuff and tell my customers that the kitchen was shit and get the same tip.

Select all sushi below. Ha.

>>6493546
And we sink the restaurant together because you can't respect the people who work their asses off behind the scenes to keep you alive

>cooks getting assblasted ITT
>they're the ones responsible for fucking up orders and fucking up tips for waiters

>>6493560
>waiter fucks up order
>ticket prints wrong order
>I make order perfectly to the ticket
>waiter gets mad because I "fucked up his table"

>>6493350
Who even remembers that holiday

Like what is even its purpose

>>6493560
There are times where the waiter gets a bad tip because they don't put much effort into catering to their needs. I've seen waiters with their hands on their hips waiting for someone to place an order. So it isn't completely the cook's fault.

>>6493589
>>ticket prints wrong order
If by printing ticket you mean a computer printed the ticket then thats bullshit. A computer doesn't change "medium" to "well done"
>>6493620
I'm talking about when a customer specifically asks to remove something from the plate or have it added to the side or the other specifications cooks need to pay attention to. Too many times have I asked for sauce on the side and my pasta came out drowning in sauce or asked for bbq sauce on the side of a special burger so the bun wasn't soggy when it was served.

>>6493635
In that situation, the cook is mostly to blame. If it isn't caught by the runner or server, then they are partially liable. But, in the end, that is more the cooks fault, like you said.

I work as a cook. We were busy for a Sunday night I guess, but no more so than any other usual busy night so it wasn't that bad.

And for the first time ever I fucked a waitress after our shift, a pretty little 19 y/o thing. She's a new girl :)

>>6493606
>Who even remembers that holiday
anybody who has a mother. I once forgot to mail my mom a card for mothers day and she flipped out on me

>>6493668
>I once forgot to mail my mom a card for mothers day and she flipped out on me
Jesus, why is america so backwards? Just call her every week or so and say happy birthday, what is this fake-ass holiday

>>6493350
Only had 3 servers on and 3 people in the kitchen, we had to turn down two separate reservations and several parties on the waitlist. It was a shit show

>>6493350
>mfw I work at a pizzeria

The only thing I have to complain about is that our AC was out and I wasn't allowed to come to work in boxers and a wifebeater (an apron would've covered most of the shame anyway).

Even though we do some eyetie cuisine and we've a dining area, we're primarily a pizza place.

We were dead slow all day, so we mostly spent it standing around sweating our balls off.

We went to a Mexican place around the corner, had a two hour lunch, got drunk as shit and then had a slow night.

I didn't even have to prep much shit. Had lettuce prepped from Saturday - that's how slow it was.

Really, we spent most of the evening downing water and gatorade, whipping each other with rags soaked in sweat and talking shit to the counter girl since it was her last night here.

>>6493381
>you chose to work today

Because we all make our own schedules and can tell our bosses whenever we don't feel like going to work and shit'll be cool, amirite?

>>6493440
>Had to explain why you couldn't make her salmon bisque vegan.
>She also "tasted gluten" in her salad.

I am so sorry.

>working 7 days a week for the past month
> had to work today closing till 1am
>mfw I'm opening at 8am today
>too much of a push over to argue my schedule with my boss

God I'm such a wimpy bitch

>>6493419
>>6493431
>I'm so fucking retarded I didn't realize that >>6493423 agreed with me completely
Filtered.

>people who get a side salad as the side item to their salad.

I went through more than 150 heads of various lettuces, mostly romaine.

>work at a family owned italian restaurant, bar and banquet hall
>worked there as a dishwasher and made salads and subs for 2 years and went through 2 mother's days
>the second mother's day there's a storm and the power goes out
>restaurant working on emergency lights and a generator that only powers the registers and kitchens
>me and 4 other assholes are washing never ending dishes by hand in a sink
>power was out for 2 days and the restaurant had to throw all their perishable food out

> mfw it was pretty easy today

Almost everything was prepped, and we had enough staff to flow through it all

It was a fairly steady day, people obviously coming in for mothers day
The tips were decent

>working at burger king tonight on mother's day
>mfw I had to listen to all the trashy irresponsible moms that work there talk about their shitty kids and spouses

>>6494101
sheeeit forgot pic

>>6494105
>What do you want in your burger
>Just fuck me up

Work at one of the delivery locations for a local pizza business. It's been pretty damn busy since Friday compared to usual - I'd say about 25-45% more orders than usual, and most of them at least two large pies. Add on the fact that I worked the longest shifts besides the AM this weekend and I'm probably getting about $120 just for the three weekend days if the drivers are being cocks and only tipping out 10%. Hopefully more.