/ck/ - Food & Cooking

We complain because you brouts can't read a goddamn printed ticket.

>All while making 2-3x more what you sad zombies make

I've worked both sides, even both sides at the same restaurant. You BOH idiots are the real divas.

>>8166816
No one respects the dishwasher. NO ONE.
>mountain of dishes, almost as tall as I was
>hey anon, wash this for me
>gigantic piece of crap that takes 5 minutes to get all the crud off of
>mountain increases
>get fired in favor of the guy who works for burgers and doesn't really wash the dishes, just semi-rinse and chuck em in the bleach bath

I was 14

I own a restaurant and I fuck the servers you wish you could get

>breakfast chef in a hotel/fine dining restaurant

Perhaps some of you remember me.

>been working there for 6 month
>open at 5 am weekdays
>lunch chefs show up at 8:30
>have fun and dick around most of the time
>descended into moderate horseplay
>standard nip flips and faux cup checks
>one of the dudes is gay
>always laughs his ass off to any kind of shit
>today after service my exec says I need to speak with him before I leave
>gay chef is MAD AS FUCK and wants to go to HR to file sexual harassment charges
>never even let on that he was anything other than entertained by me and the other chefs bullshit
>immediately just get mad as fuck and goes to the fucking exec chef about it

What the actual fuck?!

>>8167891
I bet you were slow as fuck

>>8167915
he was just jealous when he learned he wasn't the only gay one in the kitchen

>>8166816
How many cooks does it take to change a lightbulb?
1 to change it, and 4 to tell them "how they used to do it" at the last place they worked.

>>8166816
Complain all you want about FoH, we make three times what you do. We don't give a shit.

kitchen staff are almost always sub human non whites that could be replaced by actual monkeys if there was a big enough hair net

>>8167519
this

>kitchen retard fucks up order
>tell his to remake it
>"omg i already made that"
>ends up making it again but correctly like a good little cuck once he realizes refusing to fix his mistake will cost him his job

>>8167915
You got up in his personal space, and he didn't think any of you would be professional enough to knock it off if he asked. He probably figured he'd get shittalked or bullied for it. in b4 someone says "can't handle the bantz," insult me all you want but keep your fucking hands off. #1 reason I won't work in a kitchen any more, because I told people to keep their hands off and they didn't think I was serious.

>>8167891
dish washing is easy as fuck, if you cant go that well you might actually be retarded

>>8167891
>dishwasher complaining he doesn't get respect
You're a fucking dishwasher.

>>8167915
>Line cooks calling themselves "Chef"
There is so much wrong with people who allow/encourage this.

I bet you're all fucking mexican too.
Or entitled millennials who think they deserve everything they want if they just believe.

Glad i wised up and finished college. BoH is fucking cancer and full of self centered shitheads and mexicans/niggers depending on your geographical location.

You're all a bunch of fucking drama queens and none of you are as good as you think you are.

Sincerely,
Someone who wasted 14 years of his life in BoH across different states and positions.

Get fucked the whole lot of you. You all deserve what you get and this hive mentality where you faggots think you should be appreciated when you don't deserve it is a huge reason there is such a high turnover rate for your jobs.

Also, don't fucking think you fucking whores and fags/manwhore wannabes at FoH are any better.

You're not.

Everyone gets along at my work place, too much h8 in this thread.(cook of 11 years)

>>8168169
if you think everyone get along at a job chances are you are they guy everyone talks shit about behind their back for being lazy, stupid, slow, useless, or a combination of those

>>8168169
This, at the end of the shift everyome heads to the bar afterwards. Grudges are left at work and once you have some sort of friendly relationship with the chefs/foh everyone has fun

>>8166816
I worked night shift BOH making sandwiches when i was in community college. Was a pretty good time
BOH was bro as fuck tho

>>8168153
I'm a Chef at McDonalds and I demand respect. It's hard work slaving away making the slop you guys love.

>>8168171

nope, im a good cook and a good person :)

>work in kitchen staff
>2 kitchen staff and 4 serves and 2 managers also servers
>my co worker goes on break
>alone, pissed off they're all staring at me to go faster
>manage to do everything during a rush
>head manager bitches at me their time is too high
>2nd manager walks in to help right after rush ends
These fucking ass holes also try to make me do everything for half an hour as well. still work there I could complain for hours.

>>8166816

>loser general

got it

>>8167519
kek

>'why wasn't it on the docket?'
>it was

>>8168223
>It's hard work

jesus christ

why do I tip the server and not the chef

>>8167891
this. i started working at a restaurant when i was 17, my first position was dishwasher. now (year later) i work the dinner side
>people still shit on me
>tfw

>>8168153
Pretty hit the nail on the head there. It's like a high school type of work place. FOH drama, BOH jocks.

>>8168223
God i hope this is bait. You'd get you ass roasted in a real high end kitchen... "Where's the microwave?!"... "Where's the ring to cook the eggs?!"

>>8168336
Cooks make a higher hourly, and if you ever worked as a server, they hardly deserve minimum, they're just apes that bitch and moan about their job... day after day... the same complaints. Being a high end server requires refinement, and having several timers in your head to provide consistent and pleasurable service. If you've never had real service experience, i'd love to drop you in the biggest section in a premier steakhouse. You would be so deep in the weeds you'd cry.

>>8168365
I'm guessing you're pretty shit at your job if that's the case. You earn respect by performing, not solely by tenure. If even the new hires give you shit, you're bad at your job.

>work foh
>get along with everyone
>massive tips even on moderate evenings
why do you guys do this to yourselves? boh seems stressful as fuck

Who here Mother's Day BOH veterans? How many tally marks you got?

Did you guys watch "Chef"

>>8168145
i've never worked in a kitchen but when i worked in warehouses i knew not to fuck with people that always had box cutters on them. why would you fuck around in a box full of fire, hot water, and knives? some guys, man..

Chefs are generally fucking intolerable.

Please chef, tell me how many hours you work again, you've only mentioned it about 235236 times in the last 3 minutes.

Seriously, why are chefs so proud that they work long hours? Its pathetic and boring, and not really something to boast about.

>>8168153
You sound upset.

>>8167891
yeah, I approached dishes as "actually clean the things thoroughly"

I was wrong

>>8168153
what the fuck are you on about you bitter old fuck

quit shitting up the thread

>>8166816
>ITT
>everyone is mad as fuck
Sounds about right

>>8169832

Holy shit I never knew how fucking psycho people get on mothers day, But I have to say I hate prom night more.

>>8168145
Honestly I have nothing but respect for the dude and I thought I had made that clear. Just kind of sad that he didnt tell me he was upset by it.

>>8168153
I mean there isnt a single mexican that works here and this is an actual fine dining restaurant and I prep literally everything that goes on my set from absolute scratch. So eat a dick.

>>8168135
you wouldn't know it reading the tip threads, in those threads you guys are poverty sticken, and constantly disgruntled about having to do your jobs properly, now that I think about it, that's how most of you are in real life too

>>8167891
I would appreciate it if the dishwashers where I worked at actually cleaned the dishes to a respectable level. Grime, leftover soap dried up on it with greasy ass containers they all sit on. One dishwasher though is a total bro.

Asshole pastry chef here. Inb4 100 (You)s from line cooks who get jelly because I make 3x what they do and my job appears to be easy as fuck to them. Had a wedding for 300 people this week postponed due to Hurricane Matthew, so now I have this huge fucking cake, hundreds of sugar cookies and nothing to do with any of it. If I could just be a shithead and freeze it all until they reschedule but I think I'll just bill them for the ingredients and time and take the loss.

>baker at bakery with cafe/resturant in the front
>one of the perks is free drink at start of shift which FOH makes/delivers since we're busy as fuck
>working on giant batch of cake
>pastry chef shows up and asks if I wanted a coffee since she was ordering one too
>say sure
>she goes to FOH
>comes back
>"I told a server our orders and she said 'they were closed'."
>"Wait what?"
>"So then I made it explicitly clear why I was there but she said that 'it wasn't something they do'."
>FOH manager comes through 30 minutes later
>wonders why we haven't ordered any drinks because we usually do and offers to get an order started
>we say coffee would be great
>5 minutes later
>FOH manager walks past
>then the exact server who told pastry chef that it "wasn't something they do" walks in and sheepishly delivers our coffee

The pastry chef had a shit eating grin the whole time.

The fact that this place is a bakery first and foremost before a restaurant/cafe is a blessing desu

>>8168127
I laughed,
>accurately describes the first week of training I had with different people training me each day

How come Americans have such shit customer service culture?
Every time I go to an Arab restaurant this neat, clean guy in a suit and a big mustache comes up to me and asks politely but friendly what I would like, he brings literally all the appetizers by himself in one go by placing them from his hand all the way to his shoulder, He can remove ALL the dishes from a table of at least 6 people all in one go without even using a tray.

>>8166816

>mfw working as a dishwasher and some son of a bitch burnt 3 large pots of Bachamel sauce in a row.

>mfw head chef shit canned his ass and gave me his share of the tips.

I couldn't wash the stink off me for a few days.

>>8171784
People born out of capitalism understand that tips should be earned and not expected.

>>8171784
People born and raised outside of capitalist countries understand that tips should be earned and not expected.

>>8169832

Mother's Day is pretty bad, but Christmas morning was easily the worse day to work in my experience. Did a 5 to 5 shift at a hotel. It wasn't so much the volume that was stressful, it was the servers who were absolutely off the fucking wall at the kitchen.

When I was done, it was cold as fuck and getting dark and I was waiting to get a ride. Went to go to the in house bar for a drink when the lead hostess told me they wouldn't be serving me and I had to go wait outside.

What a bitch.

Dishwashers deserve respect. Especially in a shitty restaurant that backs up dishs so when you come in you are working non stop till dinner rush so management can save a few bucks. Dinner rush is non stop. Always moving. Never mind if you are a bus boy type deal in a busy place. Trash. Dish buckets. Gotta get beer. Food from the fridges if the cooks need something. Never standing around. If your a server and you start bitching, I wanna punch you in the face. Do not come into the kitchen where the heart of the place is and day jack shit. You serve food with your hands. You walk and ask people shit and make ten times as much even tho I work ten times harder.

>>8171401

You don't make 3x what a cook does

>>8167891
You literally got fired and replaced by Rhandy Lahey

>>8168171
Who cares, everyone shit talkes everyone at restaraunt jobs. It's basically middle school 2.0

foh, bringing a plate to a table. rough times

>>8170163
>>8171390
Where I've worked, you either clean dishes until they look kind of clean, or you're too slow and going to get fired.

I assume every place except places that use paper plates are like this.

>>8166816
I was a plongeur at a country club restaurant with somewhat high strung culinary ambitions from 15-17. I tried my best as it was my first real physical job, which earned me the respect of the chef whom was hated by everyone else and who hated everyone else in turn. He would be permanently in a fit of rage and he could only become more enraged when things did not go his way. He basically shouted every sentence, if he even formed sentences and didn't just shout words and insults at people.

The best evenings were the golf tournaments, which hosted a 4 or 5 course dinner for 200 people simultaneously, but there were only 220 or maybe 250 sets of cutlery and dishes, so I had to clean 200 sets in between 2nd and 3rd course and the rest of the kitchen crew couldn't start serving before I was finished. The chef would be at his greatest level of rage on tournament nights, when pans got wings. It was not rare for him to just throw pans straight from the range somewhere in the crude direction of the dishwasher's station. I witnessed multiple servers being fired on the spot, which was always fun. In the end, I earned the respect of the chef, which included the privilege of being insulted less and him giving me especially prepared food for the breaks, which he only made for himself normally, whilst the rest of the staff had to eat the dogshit he made as cheaply as possible (he was also co-owner of the the restaurant concession). Needless to say, the staff didn't really like me for that and after the chef had a major breakdown and took multiple weeks off, I left because they were bamboozling me.

>want to work BOH
>too much of a bitch to handle the stress

>>8171879
Yeah, you have no idea what you're talking about. I'd love to drop you into a dinner rush with a massive section and watch you break into tears.

>>8171846
If you're good at being a server and can handle high volume it's incredibly easy to make 3x the mongoloids salary. Keep bitching.

>>8168076
>cheese and broccoli soup dishes
>FASTER ANON FASTER HURRY UP!
Well why don't you come over here and help me if you think this can be done faster?

>>8172322
He's on the line because he already put in the time, and can do it faster than you. He's not going to stop doing his job because you're a fucking autist with slow burnout hands.

>>8171846
I know, but for some reason a lot of people think I do.

>>8172311
Read the post he replied to and reconsider who the mongoloid is here.

>>8166816
op what restaurant kitchen is this? it looks familiar to me

>>8172652
a fucking super dirty ass one.

>>8169832
I didn't leave the line for about 7 hours. Not even to piss.

>>8172333
>implying dishwashers ever actually end up working in the kitchen

>implying I'm a loser dishwasher like you

>>8168333
>falling for the bait

>>8172745
fuck, thats your average brunch for me if I open the breakfast station.

>>8172752
>4 years a line cook

>3 years head chef

>Now in my last semester to become the fuck that gets to boss your ass around

> Last 3 years being a server, working 20 hours a week, making twice you make

>You not understanding how typical restaurant hierarchies move along with minimal turnover

My sides are beyond an earthy orbit. Can't wait to boss your pitiful ass around and decide what your pitiful salary is. 6 more months kiddo. That's also after i re-up my certification at École de Cuisine Alain Ducasse in Paris. Second time through, since the last time i went was in 2008.