/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6789734
What food is microwaved and what's actually made there?

>>6789737
The only things that are ever microwaved are sauces being warmed and "steamed" vegetables. The veggies are bagged with a season butter and then steamed that way

>>6789734
Your House Thai Sushi Fusion in Long Beach. It's not part of a recognizable chain or anything, but fire away.

>>6789744
Also, pic related.

>>6789748
What do you do there? Also what the hell is Thai sushi fusion

>>6789734
Can you make chunky beef, tomato gravy to go on biscuits?

That was the best meal of my life. I ate that on Guard Post Ouellette not yards or meters away but inches away from North Korea.

We looked into their eyes daily. They wanted to kill us and we wouldn't have minded returning the favor. Keep your mind straight about us. We are killers. That's our job. We like food too. Keep us happy? Feed us, let us sleep.

But every night, after a heart thumping shift, our platoon cook made use tomato gravy with biscuits. It was dead silence except the sound of everyone devouring the food.

I would risk my life and do double patrols if I could have that chow hall experience one more time.

>>6789757
I'm a line cook, I work either on the Wok line or making soups and stuff. It's not really a Thai fusion restaurant, it's more of just a Thai restaurant that happens to have a sushi bar.

>>6789748
Isn't that place off of PHC in Long Beach?

>>6789794
Derp
I didn't read

Fuzzys Taco Shop
I do pretty much everything, I do kitchen rarely but still, mainly front and bar, we are one of the ones eith a full bar

>>6789794
Yeah, have you ever eaten there?

>>6789809
No your sign freaks me out. Its on at odd hours and off on days I feel it should be on.Also all the cars in front in the middle of the night make me think its a place for the Thai American Mafia.

>>6789811
Lmfao

>>6789811
That's a weird reason not to come. If the place wigs you out, you should try ordering something, we do deliveries through Grub Hub if that's what you're into.

>>6789811
That being said maybe I'll give it a try Tiny Thai is shit now, Panvaimerian is has always been shit. Also Thai Basil changed owners or something and sucks.

>>6789819
Have you ever been to Thiptara? They're a pretty quiet place but I think they're a good Thai place. It's a few miles east up PCH. It's pretty close to CSULB.
Thai Gourmet on 2nd Street is shit, don't go there, they really majorly lost their way and stopped being good.

>>6789819
If you come to Your House, I recommend the Coconut Soup. Our curries are gangster too, we sweeten with coconut sugar and not pedestrian palm sugar. The mango salad is dank, so is the Larb. The Pad Kra Prao (plus the variations like Pad Kee Mao etc) are pretty cash.
The sushi is pretty thug if you come during Happy Hour.

>>6789834
Thanks for the advice I'll try it out

>>6789734
>Outback Steakhouse. I'm an assistant kitchen manager and can work all positions but mainly stick to the flat top.
What's the exact recipe for the bloomin onion?

>>6789734
How long have you been a akm? What region are you in. Do you still enjoy it or has working there sucked all the passion out of you? 8 year Outbacker here.

>>6789834
Jaiya in NYC on 3rd ave bet 28th and 29th.
I can't think of any other in Manhattan that's even close.

>>6789914
Are you aussies doing some fag bonding?

>>6789890
You cut an onion using a device called a gloria, (can also be cut by hand, never seen it done, just read the recipe card) then you dredge it in "bloom flour" (flour mixed with house seasoning etc comes in pre-mixed, is an orange color) give it a dunk in egg wash, then back in the bloom flour, shake, and throw it in 2 minutes on each side. 350 degree deodorized beef tallow. Its gross, one of the fattest oil grease bombs I have ever had the displeasure of making, not to mention it WRECKS a fryer. If you could see the breading turds at the bottom where you go to filter it at the end of the night, my god....

>>6789919
Turds are right on the road to FLAVORTOWN!
Serve em up right to LONDON!

>>6789917
Nah, I just recently quit the outback and couldn't be more happy. I would like to get other outbackers thoughts on the company now compared to a lil while ago.

>>6789919
I swear to god if I had as big enough fryer I would still do it.

I work kitchen/prep

This counts. Ask me ANYTHING cineworld related

>>6790798
Do you make food in that theater or something?

where did the outback bros go? Workan the outback I guess? Bonzer mate

>>6790792
It's a pretty crap joint. I wanted it to be kick ass but they fell so far short.

>>6789914
I've been an akm for three years in North Carolina . Honestly it's terrible. It used to be alright but as time goes on corporate bull shit has ruined that place for me. Beginning with all the fucking "chef made" products. Sure all of our food and dressings and shit are horrible for you, but at least we made them all in house from scratch. Seems like everything that can come in a bag does now. Then there's a bunch of drama between our proprietor and the jvp which has resulted in our store being understaffed with managers and the ones we have are the worst in the area even though we're by far the busiest store, we did 65,000 this weekend the closest in our area did 44,000. I don't know man, I'm just tired of all the bull shit, ready to gtfo

>>6790792
Is this a chain? I've never heard of it.

>>6793506
Heard that. I was south Florida. I think chef made were the nails in the Outback coffin. I saw how bad they were struggling to nickel and dime everything with that to start. It then turned into 7 day lunch without any extra staff. Work the line and do a back line or front line prep shift as well as station prep at once and get out on scheduled time. Screw that doing three jobs and only getting paid for one crap. Then every KM shift I worked turned into a 13 hours fucking day with absolutely no break at all ( Im sure you know what im talking about) not even being able to eat the whole shift much less sit for five to rest your feet. Having to come in and work 2 or more hours "for free" just so you aren't so behind during the day. To think they consider that 35 a year is worth it to be raped as a KM, I would rather have a McJob than do that shit. I wonder what Tim would say if he was still involved in the company now. It used to be a pretty cool place to work...

>>6789805
Why are yall so skimpy with the tempura shrimp :( what's a good way to get more bang for your buck? I usually get both the shrimp tempura burrito and the shrimp tempura salad lol

>>6790792
What's the best thing to get here in terms of steak?

>>6789734
Why do you claim to have Australian food when the owners have never been to Australia and the food is not Australian. from an actual Australian.

>>6793818
>everyone pls respect my unique culture guise!
misspelled dim sum, bad wine, shitposting about japan, and sugar sprinkles on wonder bread are not valid culture, m80

I'm a line cook.

>>6793818
What are you talking about? I cant stand the place anymore but I hate this even more. Where have you ever seen or heard outback "claim" to have "Australian" food? Its theme was based on
Crocodile Dundee and everyone's interest in Australia in the late 80's. It made the brand unique and stand out. Nobody wants to eat your shitty aussie cuisine when they can inhale butter fried steak and greased up fried onion bombs you silly fuckin hoon.

>>6793858
my dad's trashy gf raves about this place for some stupid reason ( i think because you can get 2 meals for the price of one or some bullshit). it's just generic italian-american food catered to tourists. last time they came to visit they wanted to take me out to maggianos because my dad's a cuck and does anything his gf wants. i said let's go to nico osteria instead. they were insistent on maggianos so i just left and ate dinner at home

anyways, what are you opinions about their food/working there?

>>6793831
>shitposting about japan
Don't blame the aussies for this, everyone does it. its more or less weeaboos and japs against the world

>>6793906
Sounds like how my white trash family on my mom's side rave about Olive Garden lmao.

>>6793818

Some of the beer is, but that's it.

I travel to the USA regularly. It's the only place I've ever been to in the USA that reliably has Coopers.

>>6793906
maggianos is fine. its not great but its not shitty


youre a cunt for not going out to dinner at a fine place

are you autistic?

>>6793906
Foods pretty good tbh. Everything except the pasta is made from scratch.
Brinker (owners of maggianos) is a pretty good company, too.
There's a lot of pride in the food. But I work at the highest rated maggianos in the country, so it might not be that way at other maggianos.

Quitting in two weeks, fucking glad.

Chipotle in Indiana. Only crew member who has been there for over a year (others quit, became MGR), and quitting soon. 20 years old

>>6794577
What do you even serve?

>>6789734
Yeah I have an Outback Corporate question.

Why have they dialed the Australian motif down to 0?
The last time I went to one, there was nothing on the walls. All the wall props and charm was gone. There was a single boomerang on the wall in the whole place.

I'm just saying, without the atmosphere, Outback is just a middle class steakhouse franchise.

I work at subway. Really easy job, but learned a lot about it that I didn't know before

>>6789734
Currently working at my grandmas Thai restaurant before we go out of business because the rednecks living the area expect orange chicken when they walk in.

>>6794839
They are trying to modernize and appeal to a new demo. I said in an earlier post that the whole aussie thing was from the late 80's when australian shit was in. They have started to change it up the last two or three years.

>>6794849
What have you learned about Subway that surprised you?

Are there any vegetable fillings you would warn others to stay away from? What are your thoughts on the bread.

1 hour before my shift at chick fil a. You might be interested to know the fresh chicken is breaded cooked assembled and sold in under 10 minutes ready to start the process again.

>>6794593
why is it that only the hispanic crew members make good burritos that don't crumble or split in minutes

>>6794924
>why do Mexicans make good Mexican food

The world may never have the answer to your bold question anon.

>>6794908
>chick fil a
>supporting the christian jew

>>6792254

What was it you didn't like?

>>6793706

Filet 6/9 light seasoning,or if you want a ribeye do the surf and turf with your favorite kind of shrimp.

>>6789742
Is that it? I've gone there a few times and the one inconsistent thing is always the steamed veggies, they're either slightly underdone or slightly overdone.

a turkish gyro place in brooklyn.

turks are cheap motherfuckers, but damn do they have ocd about serving the freshest food

I served at Chuys, Cracker Barrel, and this small Texas chain called cotton patch cafe.
Ask away!

>>6794565
>>6794186
Why was my post deleted? Did the mod not like it that I talked shit about Maggiano's being a glorified Olive Garden?

and also isn't Maggiano's owned by Lettuce Entertain You?

I work at a little cheese shop.

I work at a hipster-style foodie cafe as a barista in OZ, ask me anything.

I work at a Subway at a casino, feel free to ask anything.

>>6795712
What kind of food do hipster foodies order? Do you have photos?

>>6795227
why are all your vegetable side dishes covered in butter?

>>6794884
We serve Orange Chicken at the Thai restaurant that I work at. It hurts my soul every time I make an order of that divey pseudo-Chinese bullshit.

>>6795730
why is there a subway at a casino? what is the most ordered item/sandwhich?

>>6795743
Its a cheaper alternative to having only dine in restaurants. Also its quicker and gets more food for less. Were the only fast food joint in the casino. Most ordered is probably between the spicy italian or the pastrami.

>>6795759
did you get the jared email yet?

>>6795762
I only know about the news. I dont get emails for that stuff. I remember coming into work and seeing Jared defaced and laughing at it. Also im not sure if this matters, but I work graveyard too. Feel free to ask that graveyard Subway is like.

>>6795688
>Why was my post deleted?
Because you're a faggot.

>>6794951
>>6794908
Because all Mexicans are hard workers. This is confirmed by my old manager being the fucking bomb and getting us all out in time every night and when he quit you could tell the restaurant suffered for it. Also because our employees aren't really taught that you,re rolling, not folding. And the consistency of the tortilla may depend on the quality in which they came in or if they were on the press for too long. Personally, I think you would love a burrito made my me

>>6795071
Well in the south florida region (which is also the test region for most menu changes and specials) we also started microwaving all the pasta dishes in a cambro giving them a spin and plating them that way. The kid mac-a-roo and cheese is also microwaved. Most stores also microwave sauces instead of holding them hot, but I think that was already mentioned.

>>6789734

Fellow Outbacker (server) reporting in.

This job is sucking the life out of me holy fuck please help.

I work at the best Japanese place in Central Oregon, run by the extended members of a Thai family.

It's actually a pretty great job, but fuck bento boxes.

>>6797115
Sorry to hear that, it'll happen. At least its not the BOH, or you might really need some 45 caliber aspirin.

>>6797144

I'm losing my ability to deal with customers. No food runners or bussers is a pain. Our hosts are all 17 year old girls and retarded. I'm only breaking even. And corporate and/or our GM keep introducing dumb shit, like making us ring in AI's and ketchups for tables.

A coworker said the people at the local Olive Garden make good money. Fucking Olive Garden. And I'm almost desperate enough to try it.

>>6797149

So fucking switch over to the Olive Garden, it's a lateral move from Outback at worst and you have the experience to do so easily. You make it sound like you're swallowing your pride as if you're giving up a Michelin restaurant but you work at fucking Outback for fuck's sake.

Also I've found that most customers are actually nice funny and decent people, I try to make friends with them to ease the pain of dealing with the complete and utter retardation of my coworkers. Added bonus, they tip well for my doing so.

>>6797149
Where you at? Funny thing is I have worked at 5 different outbacks and hated every MP to start and ended up really liking working with them in the end. The jvp though, Iv'e only ever cared for one of them I have worked under.

>>6797160

>>6797156

Customers can be cool but right now we're going through the unlimited shrimp LTO and shit like that really brings the trash out of the woodwork.

The thing about Olive Garden is just surprise mixed with disbelief. OG has always been a bit of a joke to me and always thought of it as probably being shittier to work at like Chili's or Applebees which I've heard horror stories about.

But hey, might get free breadsticks. Better than the honey wheat bread we steal at Outback.

>>6797160

Louisiana.

I'm a manager at Zaxby's. If you don't have one in your areas it's, like, one step above fast food. Closer to casual sit down kind of place. We make most things fresh anyway. It's got a vague christian atmosphere ala chik-fil-a

Our place is right next to the local high school so we're fairly busy most of the time, and we're miserably understaffed. As a manager for the last few months I've worked almost exclusively in the kitchen because we don't have any cooks.

I'm servsafe and have a year's worth of managing experience. Do you think that's enough to shoot for something higher? I make a measly 35k + bonus at the moment

>>6793858
Worked here as pantry
sorry for your brinker exp. I know it sucks

>>6797173
OH GOD that shrimp LTO is bullsit, nothing like all you can eat shrimp to bring out the lowest common denominator. Camping out for three hours sharing and shoving shrimps in yer gullet....

>>6797176
Probably. Its sad, that's all they wanted to give for a KM pos. at the OB, and FUCK. THAT. NOISE. I would get into the jizz mopping biz before I made that fucking mistake.

>>6797173
Chilis is less of a joke than outback lol, stop pretending to be something you aren't you're 1 step above a mc donalds
You get paid more than all but 2 posistions in BOH stop feeling sorry for yourself consider suicide

>>6797173

Dude they're all fucking table service chain restaurants. There's almost no difference whatsoever. If anything OG has nicer working conditions than Outback because they try to mimic a fancy Italian place

I can't believe you chain restaurant servers actually have a prestige system within this life-sucking circuit, it's like redneck trailer trash trying to claim superiority over ghetto niggers as if they aren't both just scraping the bottom of the same barrel

>>6795735
Not sure which restaurant you were referring to, but it's a restaurant and I guess it's because a majority of people like buttered veggies. If you're talking about Cotton patch order the skinny veggies.

>>6795688
No, they're owned by Brinker.

>>6797190
What do you mean?

>>6789734
>assistant kitchen manager
wew lad

Worked at Pizza Slut for about a year. Second busiest in VA and it showed

>>6789734
Why is every steak I get from you ass holes grossly overdone.

If you ask me how well done I want something I expect it to be how I ask.

>>6794897

What is the new demo?

Outback used to be bretty good for a chain steakhouse, but the last couple times I was dragged there you could see where the accountants started raping the food quality.

>>6797176

Why is Zaxby's so expensive and why can the drive-thru never get an order right?

>>6797200

No its not.

Chili's is shit compared to Outback, and Brinker is the most retarded company ever.

>>6789734
Do y'all baste your filets with butter? What all can you tell me about the rub for the steaks?

>>6789890
If you filter the fryer every 30 minutes like you're supposed it doesn't get that bad. I did it every hour.

Also, ever notice how they never cook right is clean grease? Its like the boom flour grease colors it. >>6790001

>>6798498
Why is that? I'm the maggianos guy and I've had pretty good experiences with Brinker so far.

>>6794839
They're trying to be Mediterranean now. Also, its now a corporate owned restaurant and no longer private. I quit when we quit making everything from scratch and started getting everything in white buckets and bags.

>>6798944
Yeah shit really fell off when we went pulic that's for sure.
>>6798925
Really, every hour? I've worked at five different outbacks and never seen that happen. How the fuck do they expect it to get filtered ( and properly mind you) that often when you are pushing 3k dollar hours? lol, thats not a fucking restaurant its an assembly line, and a shitty one at that.

>>6789734
I'm not saying because I'm a chef for an independent place and people would give me shit until the day I retire for even browsing /ck/, let alone posting something

>>6797176
>I'm servsafe and have a year's worth of managing experience. Do you think that's enough to shoot for something higher? I make a measly 35k + bonus at the moment
How many hours a week do you work? Servsafe certification basically means nothing to employers. It's easy as fuck to get if you can pay the $8 or whatever it is with a discount code.

I make $30k for a 9-5 job at a food wholesaler basically sitting at my desk doing nothing. I wish I had a faster-paced workplace

>>6798312

Oh, where in VA? The one where I live (Leesburg) has been here for decades but never actually looks that busy. Also I think one of their pay phones was used to dial in a bomb threat when I was in high school.

Why is the crust so greasy? Does it get enough positive feedback to warrant it? Is it to separate you from competitors?

>>6793858
Is it that bad? I almost applied for a sous position there

>>6789734
where do you get your crutons are they a restaurant recipe or a brand, if so what brand of crutons?

>>6793858
>>6797190

worked at maggis for a year. started on saute broil, ended as coordinator. quit when they wouldnt give me a raise even though i "certified" on each station and worked as coordinator for a month.

the dirtiest kitchen ive ever worked in was maggis as well. 20 dirty ass druggy cooks who didnt wanna work

>>6802160

if youre ok with bland southern italian/american italian food being put out in mass quantities with little to no advancement opportunities unless you want to move out of state, it's cool.

I work at a bubble tea shop in Seattle. We sell some fast food and Taiwanese shit too. I'm white and the longest employee there, everyone else is azn.

>>6802255
>>6802265
Really? I've really enjoyed my employment at maggianos! But like I said earlier, we just won the award for best maggianos of the year for the third time this year, so maybe my experience is much different from other maggianos.

>>6801142
I worked at a Pizza Hut for 3 months

The crusts come frozen, they go in a pizza pan with 3-5 squirts of olive oil, then they sit in a proofer.

That's why it's so greasy, it swims in oil while it thaws.

>>6802311

Thanks anon.

3 months huh? Was it that bad or did you get to jump ship for something better?

>>6802329
I was a teenager and got offered a job at 7-11 which was much better, and less likely to make you smell terrible all the time.

>>6797176
>Our place is right next to the local high school so we're fairly busy most of the time

Lawrenceville, GA? Or does Zaxby's do this a lot.

>>6802288

im guessing youre either in vegas or chicago?

>>6802559
No, Orlando, actually

Jimmy John's. I deliver sandwiches that have been thrown around on my car floor. Sometimes I'll slice meat and cheese with the dirty slicers. If it's the closing shift I'll also half-wash the dishes because no one knows the difference between rinsed and rinsed then sanitized.

>>6793858
Why do you guys always act so fancy and expensive, then give super awesome deals like buy one get one free pasta dishes?

>>6802745

interesting. i've heard glory stories of the clean kitchens and lower cover counts in other areas.

lunch was 200-600 and dinner did roughly 600-1000

>>6802767

it's a nice place, but the take home pastas are smaller portions than the hot portions, and most dont contain meat, or if they do its ground beef/sausage. the to go pastas just get people in the door. its really a cheap expensive on maggis side and takes a prep cook roughly 2 hours to do for the day

Waffle House signing in. Cook and waitress of almost 10 years. Various locations.

>>6802800
the waffle house near me is always so clean and pristine, while the waffle house an hour away where my family is is a dump
they always scold me for going there but they don't realize how shit theirs is

>>6802836
It all depends on its employees. Employees can make or break a place. The clean one shows they have a lot of time on their hands, so they clean. The dirty one shows they are always busy cooking orders and taking care of customers, so the food is better quality. I know it sounds stupid, but its true. The one I work at, were always busy. And on those slow moments, we usually just take it easy. If its dead however we will do extra cleaning. The only cleaning you need to be concerned about is proper hand washing, and dish washing. As well as the cold bar (where the veggies and bread are) and making sure they are handling meat properly. Get an attitude if you see someone lay a piece of raw chicken on a plate on top of a hamburger patty or something. Seriously. A few of my co workers think they know everything because they finished training without getting fired, and a few of them are also work release, or former work release. I promise every employee at waffle house is damaged in some way.

Fucking worst place to work in the world.
I have been here 2 months and almost been fired 3 times because of fuck ups relating to the fact we don't have enough staff

1st time
>Had to ice the cupcakes
>One of the cupcakes required blue icing
>Put on pink icing over the blue icing
>Manager got upset with me
>Tried to joke that ''it was blue because its boyfriend hit it, the pink dress covers the bruises''
>got in more trouble for my 'attitude' when it was a joke

2nd time
>Had a fight with a coworker for eating the free cookies I stored for lunch, management believed him because he is fat and 'funny' and makes ''thats the way the cookie crumbles'' joke 10 times a day, even when my dog died

3rd time
>Gave a customer free cookies because they flirted with me. Turned out to be an employee from another Millies and they knew my boss and told them. Fat guy from before now rubs my cock during the day then takes my lunchtime cookies and says ''well I flirted so you owe them to me''

>>6802800
thanks and thank you. for being there cop's and robbers at 0300 you need and want a friend thanks , coffee, blak. waddy have, a waffle, two ober easy. for once, seldomn a nice place if a sjc take it elsewhere neutal zone and that,once in a while, is very nice. Thanks

>>6802847
m8 I think you're just an autist. You'd be better off working for the sanitation department.

>>6795730
what is the most fuckd up thing someone ordered (drunk or not drunk)

>>6795768
What is Subway graveyard like?

Took me this long to figure out AKM stands for assistant kitchen manager.

>>6802847

is this real life?

>>6802207
Croutons come in bags pre-toasted from commissary, and they get tossed in a mix of butter, house seasoning, and garlic, and then thrown in the oven to toast a second time.
>>6803512
lulz

who /dishwasher/ here?

>>6795712
Is big dick really back in town?

Do grocery stores count?
If so, I work at one of the Publix's in TN

>>6805568

Yeah boy, hardest working lowest paid!
I bus half the time, hoping to get moved up to doing that full time.