/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11869659]

Do YOU work in a kitchen anon? Are your coworkers lazy pieces of garbage? Share those stories friendo.
Pic related. I'm the only one who works nights and this is how the day cook leaves the sink. Shes the general manager of the place so I can't do shit about it. This happens 5 nights a week, every week.

[Anonymous No.11869664]

>>11869659
I'm a goy btw, don't know if that matters

[Anonymous No.11869667]

>>11869659
Disgusting. Where do you work?

[Anonymous No.11869685]

>>11869659
That's quite normal.. and.. after all, that what's you're being paid for.
Get to work, son.

[Anonymous No.11869711]

>>11869664
I love goys! they are pretty alright!

[Anonymous No.11869718]

>>11869659
>and this is how the day cook leaves the sink
>>11869685
this

reminds me of the piece of shit i worked with at little caesars. He didn't do half the work that the others did up front, but would complain if there were dishes waiting for him when he arrived for shift. Dishes are so easy. I used to finish big piles of them in no time.

[Anonymous No.11869937]

>pizza joint, busy night
>close at 10 (weekday) dishwasher has a shit ton of dishes, almost all of our day to day stuff
>guy is known to be slow as hell, also known idiot
>turns to me as I'm doing my closing stuff
>"man, I could do these fucking dishes if my guy could come thru and drop me a bag"
>wut
>"Imma call my coke guy"
>dishwasher sits on phone for an hour, waiting for his guy
>All the while, saying, "man, once my guy gets here, I'm gonna bust these dishes out"
>at this point, I'm pretty much done, but I'm also hanging around to milk hours and see how this plays out
>it's like 11:50 when this coke guy gets here. Almost everyone is gone but me, dish, and a cook.
>he buys the coke, snorts a line in the parking lot
>realizes he doesn't want to do the dishes and leaves with his coke guy

This is the moment I realized the service industry wasn't for me

[Anonymous No.11869967]

>>11869937
>Wait to see how it plays out
>he just leaves
kek

[Anonymous No.11869971]

>>11869659
That's fucking nothing for not having a day time dish bitch. Why the fuck would you expect the GM to do those dishes before dinner service?

[Anonymous No.11869991]

>>11869659
>applies for job
>job title: "dish washer"
>comes in and there are unwashed dishes
>gets mad and posts on anime/ugly white person forum

You'll never do line, saute, or even prep. It's not hard but you don't have what it takes.

[Anonymous No.11870010]

>>11869971
Because fuck you for making me jump into a busy dinner rush (THAT HAPPENS AT THE SAME TIME EVERY NIGHT, GUYS) already dick deep in shit. You need silver? Blow me, I need glasses and soup bowls.

[Anonymous No.11870020]

>>11869937
You know you work in a shitty place when the cook isn't also the coke guy

[Anonymous No.11870026]

>>11870010
Everything in the OP pic is prep shit that isn't needed during the dinner rush, and that's like 5 minutes worth of work. What the fuck are you even talking about? I go in for the dinner rush and every single fucking spatula, pair of tongs, and fucking saute pan is usually piled up in dish and the dishwasher usually comes in an hour after me so I'm doing dishes while making sure my station is stocked and also getting tickets.

[Anonymous No.11870342]

I used to work at my cousin's sports bar (did every position in the entire place but waiter) as a busser, dishwasher, and prep cook. They weren't lazy, they'd help out when they can nearing the main event of a big fight or last 4-5mins of a game when people stopped ordering and waitstaff would try to bring in all the dishes before all of them had to rush to get their bills to the tables.

The only thing I hated of one of the cooks would be when he would just throw a shitload of cheddar cheese onto a burger in a pan for order then leave the pan under the grill so leftover cheese and grease would cool and harden. But everyone was pretty cool, people get mad sometimes but that's everywhere.

[Anonymous No.11870385]

I've worked in a few kitchens. The one thing I learned is that if the "head" waitress and the owner are 'friends", get out of there. I think that's nearly everywhere, though. Seen many real solid workers fired because the head waitress didn't like them.

[Anonymous No.11870388]

>>11869659
>tfw your kitchen is so small that you physically have to share all the work.

[Anonymous No.11870427]

The worst job I ever had was being a dishwasher for ihop that just opened. Chaos from clock in to clock out. Never ending dirty dishes, the cooks not cleaning their own shit. I never wanted to shoot up a room full of people as much as I did working there for two weeks.

[Anonymous No.11870485]

>>11869659
>working kitchen shift
>sink has three sections
>managers tell us to toss the dirty dishes in the center for them to get rinsed before moving them to the detergent side to get scrubbed
>people repeatedly toss their filthy fucking dishes in my detergent side so now all the dishes that were soaking in the soap are now swimming in wet food chunks and soda water

[Anonymous No.11870869]

>>11870485
That's easy. Your manager is a fucking retard. You either go with the dirty dishes to the right or the left, not in the middle.

[Anonymous No.11871129]

>>11870026
yah 5 minutes for someone who is also living with autism. that's one load of dishes if you do it right, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.11871245]

I fucking hate this industry and I'm going to sell weed instead

[Anonymous No.11871262]

>>11869659
looks fine to me
former cici's pizza employee

[Anonymous No.11871403]

>faux sushi joint
>mexican girl takes of her filthy disgusting shoes
>takes them to the dishwashing sink
>sprays them off all over the dishes piled up in there
>say 'what the fuck are you doing, that's disgusting'
>she says she doesn't want her car to stink

>different girl does the same thing a few weeks later
>her excuse is that she's seen worse

[Anonymous No.11871409]

>>11871403
Thanks, I'm never eating at a restaurant again

[Anonymous No.11871420]

wow, 2, count em TWO, loads of dishes. Come back when your fucktarded head chef gives the only other dishwasher MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND OFF SO SHE CAN PLAYING DISC GOLF ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME so i have to be the only dishwashed on one of our busies weekend of the year

[Anonymous No.11871434]

>that one guy who plays the diabetes card
Fick you

[Anonymous No.11871456]

>>11870869
This. You set up your workflow so that it goes in one smooth straight line, why would you start in the middle of the three sinks? That's fucking stupid.

>>11869659
>Do YOU work in a kitchen anon?
Yes.

>Are your coworkers lazy pieces of garbage?
Absolutely not. Nobody lazy would make it past their stage, and if they somehow snuck by and got hired, they'd be gone within a few shifts. Our standards are way too high and our services way too busy for anyone who's not working their ass off 100% of the time to hack it.

[Anonymous No.11871457]

>>11871409

>>11871403
>Same faux sushi restaurant
>3 feet across giant steel bowl for mixing rice with the sushi vinegar is placed on a giant stand
>employees used to scrape their rice caked shoes off on the frame of the stand
>management found out and freaked, and its now a fire-able offense

The people there are the worst. Might be leaving soon though.

>1st day there as a dishwasher
>hotshot fry cook drops a spatula before service
>picks it up and uses it instead of handing it to me
>see this often with most of the cooks
>accept that every time I eat there I will simply be training my immune system to survive the boubonic plague

I've got a wonderful couple more things to say about some restaurants I worked at.
>texmex place that is most likely a partial money laundering situation
>recently had a brand new place built for it
>grand opening brings in stupid amounts of customers despite mediocre to poor reviews
>fat fuck is a veteran dishwasher of that place
>doesnt scrub anything
>only wets the dishes a bit before shoving them into the washer
>loads everything too close together
>all dishes come out of the washer with a fine layer of bean dip over everything
>nobody seems to care and the cooks just ladle everything onto the plate to cover up all the old food
>thinks I'm an asshole for wanting to eat off of clean dishes

Another guy wouldn't even wet the dishes. Wouldn't scrape off the full helpings of beans or rice and would just put the half full dishes into the dishwasher.
>hey bro there's beans all over these dishes
>no bro it's ok they're clean
Same dude once dropped a pan on the floor and just put it back into a stack of pans.
I keep seeing stuff like this. Every kind of dish, takeout container, everything has been in contact with the floor and then with something that people will be eating.

Beware.

[Anonymous No.11871479]

>>11869659
thats like 20 minutes of work max. depending on when your night shift starts you might even have downtime before service so its either clean this or find work like cleaning a fucking wall or something. quit bitching and do your job

[Anonymous No.11871499]

>>11869659
>be dishwasher
>see OP image
>be unsure as to what image means

Do you have a dishwasher at your restaurant? I don't understand. Are you the dishwasher?

[Anonymous No.11871500]

>>11869659
Just do your fucking job. I'm sure others have plenty of shit to criticize you for.

[Anonymous No.11871543]

>>11871499
Looks like dirty dishes left over from the midday shift.

[Anonymous No.11871994]

>>11869659
>2 minutes washing containers and lids
>20 minutes washing squeeze bottle

[Anonymous No.11872312]

[Anonymous No.11872354]

>>11872312
Is that in a laboratory or something? Everything normal is there, but it doesn't look like any kitchen dish I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.11872367]

>everyone does their job because we’re all professionals
>chef vetted everyone pretty thoroughly
>no such thing as “not my job”
>chef frequently hops in dish pit of dish dog is in the weeds

Feels nice man

[Anonymous No.11872391]

>>11869659
Currently a dishwasher.
Grab some steel wool, detergent and your hose.
Do the dishes.
That should take you ten minutes, TOPS.
They won't have generated that many dirty dishes in that timeframe.

Crazy how that works.
It's almost like it's your job to wash dishes.

[Anonymous No.11872414]

>>11872367
Now that's some good shit.
Always nice when anyone in the kitchen can call to anyone else for backup, and everyone can hold down each other's forts.

Wholesome kitchen thread, make it happen

[Anonymous No.11872417]

>used to work in food service
> quit and get a job at kroger instead
>infinitely less work and approximately the same pay
>basically nothing expected of you
yeah you don't get to learn any cool skills but if you're just someone who's kicking the shit and isn't really doing anything with their life at the moment it's the place to be

[Anonymous No.11873553]

Used to work the industry. Servers and customers think they are the second coming of Christ. Pussy ass prima Donna sheltered fags.

[Anonymous No.11875080]

>>11872367
Do you work for me?

Seriously though, I do dishes all the time. It's not that bad a task. I also take Saturday night closes. It's shitty and dull but my guys need a break too.