/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14728973]

Behind, sharp

[Anonymous No.14729004]

CORNER

[Anonymous No.14729014]

>two 8-tops and a 12-top

[Anonymous No.14729029]

>group of four walk in five minutes before close
>"just caught you guys haha!"

[Anonymous No.14729044]

>>14729029
Tell your manager to place a time after which the kitchen no longer takes new tables.

[Anonymous No.14729045]

>>14728973
>>14729004
>>14729014
>>14729029
It's kinda fun spending a bunch of time around you faggots listening to this shit while I never had to do anything. Event planning/marketing was fun.

[Anonymous No.14729058]

>>14729045
You're the equivalent of a house nigga hanging out with the field niggas.

[Anonymous No.14729064]

>>14729045
>Event planning
How many dicks do you take in the ass per week?

[Anonymous No.14729747]

>>14729064
About 8 meters

[Anonymous No.14729940]

You guys need better jobs.
Coooking jobs are never high margin, provide no future.
I've worked professionally at some 5 star place, still not a job worth working forever
It's a trap build. Don't main cooking jobs.

[Anonymous No.14729948]

>>14729940
i don't solo main cooking jobs. i'm in school and the hours work out.

[Anonymous No.14729966]

>>14729948
What are you going to school for?

[Anonymous No.14729972]

>HOT SOUP

[Anonymous No.14729971]

>"hey, can you do me a favor?"

[Anonymous No.14729975]

>>14729966
mask marketing and social spacing

[Anonymous No.14730017]

>two ribs on the fly chef

[Anonymous No.14730027]

two butternut squash soups, scallop app, shrimp app, quail special HEARD

[Anonymous No.14730102]

AYYEEEE YOU LIKE-A DA SAUCE???

[Anonymous No.14730256]

ATRAS ATRAS!

[Anonymous No.14730451]

HOT PANS HOT PANS BEHIND BEHIND GET THE FUCK OUTTA THE WAY

[Anonymous No.14730468]

If anyone wants a funny joke to use at work.
>behind...... GUN
is pretty fun.

[Anonymous No.14730469]

WE GOT CHARLIE ALL OVER THIS AREA GODAMMIT!

[Anonymous No.14730480]

THE FUCKING HEALTH INSPECTOR IS HERE WHERE ARE THE HACCIP SHEETS?!

[Anonymous No.14730485]

I prefer work environments where people are attuned enough to one another that basic things like this don't need to be announced. I don't know whether it's possible in a kitchen, but I hope for the sake of people doing that shitty set of jobs it is.

[Anonymous No.14730487]

>>14730468
>cc loses his shit but doesn't ask the manager to fire you because you're less shit than most new hires
Good times.

[Anonymous No.14730506]

>>14730485
When I was cooking we just said
>back back
but I’ll never know if that was just regional to the buttfuck midwest place I was at at the time.

[Anonymous No.14730509]

>>14729044
I'd just tell them that like over half the menu is unavailable at that point

[Anonymous No.14730617]

>close at 1100
>clean area
>getting ready to leave
>hear ticket ticker go off at 1059

name a worse fucking feeling

[Anonymous No.14730697]

>>14730506
I say
>right behind right behind
in a quiet voice.

[Anonymous No.14730704]

>>14730485
there is no greater comradery than you can experience than being on the line with your team. The only comparable thing I could think of is professional sports. Shit is formality, and communication is king, everyone knows, everyone still says, it's about efficiency. You're actually out of you're league here, if that's what you think of the industry.

[Anonymous No.14730775]

>>14730617
don't work in restaurants anymore, but anytime i hear that ticket printing sound it gives me a minor panic shock

[Anonymous No.14730793]

>>14730617
I've been told some of the gig economy machines can spout out a ticket a few minutes after closing passes too, I imagine the feeling is worse

[Anonymous No.14730805]

>>14730704
Nope. I'm guessing this is a quote from some charlatan douchebag. I've worked in multiple environments where the basics don't need to be vocalised.

[Anonymous No.14730876]

>>14729044
They already do that everywhere - it's the closing time.

[Anonymous No.14730977]

>>14730805
It's not basics, it's safety.
Don't be a dickhead. You probably worked in multiple environments with slow chefs and shit food.

[Anonymous No.14731138]

>customer comes in before closing
>"Haha sorry I just HATE to be that person haha but..."
YOU'RE NOT FUCKING SORRY BECAUSE YOU CAME IN ANYWAY
FUCK YOU STOP LYING TO ME

[Anonymous No.14731299]

>>14731138
Never worked with food but I don't get the anger. You're open, aren't you? Okay you might have to stay 30 minutes longer but you're still getting paid.

[Anonymous No.14731306]

>>14731299
>you're still getting paid
haha

[Anonymous No.14731312]

>>14731138
I usually just get to-go if it's close to closing time. Then again, I usually just get togo anyways.

[Anonymous No.14731315]

>>14730617
>it's an employee's dinner

[Anonymous No.14731321]

>>14731299
This is what I thought. If you have a deadline for taking orders then state it on the fucking door, otherwise if it says you're open until 10 then I'm gonna order something to take away at 10 to 10.

[Anonymous No.14731340]

Hot stuff coming through

[Anonymous No.14731341]

HOT BEHIND

[Anonymous No.14731390]

>>14731341
>"Thanks, yours isn't too bad yourself"

[Anonymous No.14731402]

>>14731321
Then expect it to be shit because we'll have already cleaned down and be ready to leave.

[Anonymous No.14731404]

>>14731402
You sounds like a little babby. Maybe if you paid attention in school you would t still be working at a 'quick service' restaurant at 34. You fucking loser. I hope you're next girlfriend cheats on you.

[Anonymous No.14731415]

>>14731404
You're right. Sorry. I hope she does too and lets me watch this time.

[Anonymous No.14731417]

>>14730102
HE LIKE DA SAUCE

[Anonymous No.14731418]

>>14731404
Lol wrong on all counts

[Anonymous No.14731428]

>>14729004
what does that mean?

[Anonymous No.14731683]

>>14730876
Most places here close the kitchen half an hour before closing time.

[Anonymous No.14731738]

>>14731428
You might be retarded

[Anonymous No.14731777]

>table of 6 comes in about 5 - 10 minutes before close
>chef rages because he wanted to leave early like all of us
>end up having to cook pork bellies amd steaks at fucking close time
>food goes out, we get back to cleaning while chef has a line
>waitress comes in 10 mins later
>asks us what drinks we want because that table is paying for them
>turns out the table heard chef raging and felt like twats
>got 4 rounds off them and a tenners tip each for all of us
We forgave them for it of course, they also thought we shut an hour later which was part of the confusion.

[Anonymous No.14731918]

>>14730485
its basic safety retard, like if you're walking behind someone who is focusing on something to let them know, or carrying a bunch of shit around a corner so you don't collide. better to build good habits than cut corners

[Anonymous No.14732035]

>>14730485
It depends on how busy your place got, we only really did that when it was busy because there were 10 servers moving in and out of a small area trying to ring in orders, run food, etc. It's impossibo to ooeaye wihout soibg shit like this on a busy saturday night. The layout in your place if work could have been different too.

[Anonymous No.14732058]

>>14728973
>when the kitchen manager is illegal and rides you like a rented mule so you call ice on them and they're arrested as you're getting off shift

[Anonymous No.14732090]

>>14728973
>Take hot fryer basket to the arm
"Why! Dude. There are two things that went wrong here. 1: You have no reason to be crossing the aisle with your baskets, because things like this happen, and you're getting oil all over the place. Things come out of the fryers into the bowls on the table beside it. 2: Whenever you're moving something hazardous, you have to be watching where you're going with it, and you have to let people know. 'Across: hot' would have been perfect in this situation."

>Having a smoke after the shift... I don't bother changing until I get home. Kid comes out, sees the welts on my forearm. Starts apologizing, almost crying.
"Dude... Shit happens. Nobody died and you learned something. It's just another handful of scars." ... "Are you ok?"... "Nah man, I work in a kitchen. I'm pretty fucking far from ok. You want to get a beer?"

And that's when I realized that I needed out before I turned into some grizzled kitchen vet. I don't smoke anymore. I don't drink and drive anymore... but I could still probably hack off a foot without anaesthetic at this point, and I can deal with screaming assholes with saintly patience, and eviscerate with complete serenity.

[Anonymous No.14732109]

>>14731683
Then that's the closing time for the kitchen. I've worked at places where I had time to close up, clean up, go home and shower, come back and have a few beers... It used to piss me off when the newbs would whine about someone coming in just before cut off. That's why cut off is now. It's not to get us out early, it's to ensure that we're ready for tomorrow by the time this place is locked up. These people aren't keeping you late, you're just used to leaving early.

[Anonymous No.14732168]

>scream “SHAAAARPPPP” as loud as I can anytime the chance comes up
>when other people say it, say “Thanks, I know I am”
>”Butter? I hardly know her”
>throw knives across the kitchen to see if they would stick in the wall
>press the panic robbery button to get my bosses attention
>when someone’s carrying milk, comment on their, “jugs”

[Anonymous No.14732207]

>>14732168
I would have sabotaged your station in really weak and childish ways every single shift.

[Anonymous No.14732265]

>all of these posts
God I don't mind working FOH or BOH anymore.

[Anonymous No.14732310]

>>14730485
Yeah everyone knows where I am when I'm on a forklift at work, but I still don't want to fucking run anyone over so I honk at ever blind spot and corner. Ur a moran

[Anonymous No.14732316]

>>14731738
No, I don't think so

[Anonymous No.14732640]

God damn this thread reminds me why I'm glad I don't work in the food industry anymore, but at the same time I miss the comfy nights I used to have with my old co workers, at least until this>>14729029 >>14730617 >>14731138 happens. Fuck. Just thinking about many many times this has happened is making me mad.

[Anonymous No.14732735]

>>14731390
kek

[Anonymous No.14732856]

>>14731299
>Never worked with food but I don't get the anger. You're open, aren't you?
Faggots like you honestly deserve to have flecks of shit end up in their food

[Anonymous No.14732880]

>>14729044
Manager here. The owner's friens come in all the time last 10 minutes. I've been explicitly told I'd be fired if I did something like this.

Yes, I do hate myself and my life.

[Anonymous No.14732893]

>>14730485
>literally running around with boiling oil is part of the job description

Ah, the fondue restaurant was interesting. Also this guy has never worked at a busy restaurant.

[Anonymous No.14732902]

>>14732880
By who, them or the owner?
If it's the former, fuck em.

[Anonymous No.14732906]

>>14731299
>still getting paid
A last minute table can drop your hourly for the night by more than a dollar. Also, late tables tip 9% less on average, I kept a spreadsheet of all my tips.

[Anonymous No.14732911]

>>14732906
>keeps a spreadsheet on tips but doesn't report tips as income

Can't wait for you fuckers to all be replaced by robots.

[Anonymous No.14732932]

>>14732902
Latter. Shoulda just moved on, but wanted out of restaurants entirely, not to just join a new one.

[Anonymous No.14732937]

>>14732880
I had to put a sign up in once place I helped manage - "The kitchen stops taking orders at 11:00, but your shift goes to 01:00 like everyone else here. Don't whine about having to work a full shift, or your hours will be cut."

The amount of times I'd have to fill in on the line, or FOH, or behind the bar, and then have to do my own job overnight. I didn't get tips, and I didn't overtime (although I did take days off in lieu of - my own demands). To have the best-paid kitchen staff in the city bitch about having to stay for a full shift... and even then, half-ass it, and try leave at midnight anyway, and hamstring the lunch rush. Irritating, and a waste of pulled straws.

[Anonymous No.14732941]

>>14732932
I feel that, what sucks about that is you can't report them to some higher up for abuse of power.
I would just walk out in the middle of a shift once you get something better, good luck to you man.

[Anonymous No.14732955]

>>14731777
That’s bretty cool but definitely rare

[Anonymous No.14732981]

>>14732937
yeah I never got why so many people wanted to truncate their own shifts as if working less than full time would make hospitality workers' lives any better.

[Anonymous No.14733378]

>>14731299
>Never worked food
Exactly retard so you don't understand why this is an infamia

[Anonymous No.14733384]

>>14731777
This is like seeing a fucking unicorn god damn

[Anonymous No.14733398]

>>14732168
This is bait but you still deserve to be beaten with soap in a sock

[Anonymous No.14733401]

TIME ON TICKET 54

[Anonymous No.14733422]

>>14731390
legitimate kek

[Anonymous No.14733424]

>>14728973

>AH OUI CHEF
>calling dibs on hot chicks at certain tables as your next ex wife
>all the inside jokes and acceptable workplace racism

I was front of house but still, best and worst job I ever had was working in a busy restaurant with a solid crew of scumbags.

[Anonymous No.14733441]

HOW LONG FOR THE FUCKING TICKET WERE AT THIRTY MINUTES. TICKETS ARE BACKING UP. Youre working on 62? Stop STOP. I want 54 plated in 30 seconds. Put 8 patties on the grill. We got mor tables Put another 32 on. FRIES FRIES FRIES. Sarah dropped the plate of Chicken tendies I NEED A REFIRE

[Anonymous No.14733458]

STAB YOUR TICKETS FRONT OF HOUSE

[Anonymous No.14733482]

How the fuck McD employes not go insane at the fryer beeping all day long?

[Anonymous No.14733489]

I was hated for making everyone work extra hard being a fast dish washer. The lady next to me was afraid of me for some reason, I think she just wanted me out because I was making her work extra hard being that she's prep. Anyways, the day I left that place I told my manager to find another dishwasher and clocked out forever. Fuck that place.

[Anonymous No.14733497]

>be last night, middle of the rush
>close to 30 tickets in the window
>to-go order for two mac and cheeses comes in
>move the ticket all the way to the end and just let it hang, thinking, "I can knock out two mac and cheese in less than two minutes. I'll forget about them until they show up and a server asks if they're ready, then tell them it will be three minutes"
>20 minutes later the chef, who is helping out FoH, comes over to the window
>"where the fuck are those two mac and cheeses? he's been waiting here this whole time!"

[Anonymous No.14733498]

>>14731315

if its a customer i won't throw a fit but if its front of house i'll tell em "nope ur getting a salad" until they learn to put their dinners in atleast 30 mins before close

[Anonymous No.14733508]

>>14733482
Beeping is nothing compared to a ticket machine going off while standing under an industrial hood vent for 10 hours.

[Anonymous No.14733515]

>>14732640
Never worked food but sounds like my military time. You fucking hate it and would rather chop your dick off then go back, but also you miss it in a weird way

[Anonymous No.14733522]

>dish bitch at an open-flame meat place
>every night after close the guy on the hearth would bring back an iron griddle that had been sitting in the fire for >10 hours
>he'd just scream "LIFE CHANGER COMING THROUGH" and slam it down in the sink in a cloud of steam
Was pretty funny, though I think we almost killed a server one time.

[Anonymous No.14733540]

>>14732911

[Anonymous No.14733548]

>>14731428
You say it before you go around a blind corner. The idea is that if someone is around the corner, they'll know you're walking past and won't turn around with a boiling pot or something

[Anonymous No.14733854]

>saying behind
>not crashing pans together like cymbals after sneaking up on someone

[Anonymous No.14734051]

Hot behind

[Anonymous No.14734058]

>>14729966
biomedical engineering

[Anonymous No.14734368]

>>14732911
Tips don't count as income, there gifts

[Anonymous No.14734434]

>>14728973
>second day dishboy
>breakfast place, grease in everything
>Im drifting around corners in my sneakers
>head prep guy behind me carrying a bin of biscuits
"Invest in some non-slips!"
>ordered them that night
God Bless me being retarded

[Anonymous No.14734667]

>>14732911
I'm that guy. I reported the tips. And when rona shut us down I didn't take unemployment because I didn't really need it.

[Anonymous No.14734687]

>>14732937
Guy you replied to here. We're perpetually understaffed so I can't fire anyone ever. I'm all over the damn restaurant on every shift doing jobs that aren't mine. What's hourly in your kitchen? Ours is $11-12.

[Anonymous No.14734726]

>>14734434
fuck man, not having non slips is legit dangerous
one time I was carrying two open gallon containers of fresh brewed tea (around 180 F) to the back (whoever brewed them didn't bring the lids and I had to move fast to make counter space up front for other shit) and I had normal shoes and slipped and narrowly avoided hitting my head on the sink and somehow fell straight down on my ass and kept the containers level without spilling
I could have gotten a concussion or burned myself really badly but had insane luck and this was just in a cafe

[Anonymous No.14734727]

>>14734434
FYI Walmart's knockoff shoes for crews is A little less comfortable but 95% as non-slip.

[Anonymous No.14734753]

>>14734434
>>14734726
>be me naive 17yo
>first job, breakfast / lunch cafe dish person
>1st day manager tells me story about how the last kid wasnt wearing non slips, slid on a patch of water in front of the soup thermalizer, hit his head on the corner of it, fucking died instantly
>go to shoestore
>dont know what im fuckin doing or looking for
>ask some employee
"hey are these non slip shoes?"
>guys eyes are glazed over
>absolute white trash mongoloid
"uuuhhhh yup"
>buy them
>they're not
>almost fall and eat shit at work every week for the rest of my time working there

[Anonymous No.14734760]

>>14734687
I quit about a year ago - got offered a pretty good daily to go on tour, filling in for a recently fired member of a regular winter-weekend 6top, and the GM wouldn't even bump me up $1/h.

We were doing $15/h to train with a $14 minimum wage. It was a really tight ship with pretty fantastic margins and a generally alright vibe. Our lead grill guy was making as much as I was when he started trying to weasel out early four nights a week... and he wouldn't take the 8-5 dayshift.

When people started being shitty, I'd hire a newbie. If the old person quit, I could usually get the new guy up to speed in a month. If they went part time, we were good for a bit - we could totally afford an extra half person. If they stuck around and new guy sucked, I had three months to figure it out.

[Anonymous No.14734787]

>>14734726
>>14734753
>fucking died instantly
jesus I didn't realize how lucky I was
glad you're ok too anon

[Anonymous No.14734800]

>>14734787
glad to be outta there and moving soon, u stay frosty anon

[Anonymous No.14734819]

>>14734753
you're actually fucking retarded

[Anonymous No.14734847]

>>14734800
checked stay safe as well anon

[Anonymous No.14734897]

>>14729029
>>14731138
with all due respect to the kitchen and waitstaff I really don't understand this. if you are open you should be able to serve me. What's the point of being "open" if you're going to get mad about doing business? American hospitality industry is a strange thing. From tipping culture to politics around what time you should be coming in to eat.
>whoops came in too late when you said you are open
>whoops didn't tip enough even though tipping is "voluntary"

[Anonymous No.14734924]

>>14731138
So what is the "acceptable" time frame to come in? 30 minutes before close? an hour?
I sometimes go to a place 30 minutes before close and get the feeling I'm being rushed out the door.

>>14731402
>already cleaned down and be ready to leave
Before the place even closes? Do people really expect everyone to be mindful of when it's polite to come in and eat? Not trying to shit on restaurant workers because I know it's hard work I just don't understand.

[Anonymous No.14734932]

God bless narrow FOH walkways, got to grind against some prime ass lugging glass trays from the dish pit

[Anonymous No.14734992]

>>14734897
It's because when you make comments like "Oh I'm SOOOO sorry I came in haha I know you guys are about to close I HATE being that person but I'm coming in anyway" it makes you look like a huge faggot and it makes everyone hate you.
If you're genuinely nice the workers will pick up on that and not be to pissed at you, but don't make it into a fucking joke because none of us will find it funny. Ever.
>>14734924
It's going to happen with most places regardless because usually those people have worked a 6-8 hour shift minimum and want to go home.
Personally any time before 10 minutes till closing is perfectly fair to me.

[Anonymous No.14735077]

>order 2 minutes til close
>only want chips

[Anonymous No.14735261]

>>14731402
Why not just tell them the kitchen is closed then? If I'm allowed to order then don't get pissed when you have to make my food.

[Anonymous No.14735315]

>cut finger on a broken plate
>first question asked: “were you wearing a cut glove?”
How about you fuck off?

[Anonymous No.14735356]

BURGERS, TO THE LINE

[Anonymous No.14735378]

>>14735315
well were you??

[Anonymous No.14735385]

>>14735378
No but I used to fill them with Quinoa so the next time someone decided to be a nerd and use one, they’d get it all over their hands

[Anonymous No.14735388]

>>14735385
so not only are you an idiot, you're an asshole.

[Anonymous No.14735694]

When I use to work at a Chipotle I had to chew out one of our new grill guys out hard for turning corners holding the knife and cutting board pointing out in front of him. That's about the stupidest thing I saw in my 3 years working there, my store was well ran as far as food and safety goes. I did also have to yell at the other grill guys for not spending the extra quarter second to grab meats I prepped in first in first out order but that's about the worst of it. Don't recall any point we had to throw away meat because it sat in the back unused.

[Anonymous No.14735860]

>>14733522
This shit had me crying

[Anonymous No.14735940]

>that one waiter that asks you which dish is which every fucking time they come back
It can't just be me, right? The front of house at my restaurant are complete fucking retards

[Anonymous No.14736246]

>>14729029
Here's an idea chief: Close 5 minutes earlier if you're too lazy to work a whole shift.

[Anonymous No.14736340]

>>14730485
>Work as dish washer.
>Forget to say behind once.
>knell down behind line picking up pans.
>Chef turns around real quick trips over me
>Manages to just catch himself before face planting into the grill
>MFW still best dishwasher and they won't fire me.

[Anonymous No.14736375]

>>14731299
here's your (you) fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.14736383]

>>14734051
Servers are all sluts, anon

[Anonymous No.14736397]

>>14735388
Shutup nerd

[Anonymous No.14736401]

>>14735694
Did you ever have any cases of food poisoning tied back to your store? I remember Chipotle having some sort of trouble with that a while back

[Anonymous No.14736404]

>>14729940
You’re a retard, execute chefs and cooperate chefs ( casual fine dining) can make upwards of 100000 k with no degree just time and effort.

[Anonymous No.14736423]

>>14734726
I literally wear non slips in the kitchen everyday and have never slipped because I’m paying attention

[Anonymous No.14736496]

>>14731777
>Bunch of american tourists show up 2 min before deadline for orders
>Do a silent "God fucking damn it!" in my head
>Decide to give them a grand treatment anyway as the kitchen and tables could be cleaned once they had their orders
>They stay two hours after final closing time
>Tipped me nearly an entire days wage (proper wage; tips are not deducted from the pay in country)
Felt bretty good, and they were fun as fuck.

[Anonymous No.14736543]

>>14736401
I was working there when the big e-coli outbreak happened, nothing happened at my location. It's really sad as my location was one of a few doing a special in house cooking program for the shredded meats and beans. They were way better than the commissary kitchen stuff the other stores got. They stopped doing it because they wanted to have as few raw meats in house. Unless somethings changed since I left about 3 years ago chicken is the only raw meat they have.
I still miss my free food when working, 5 days a week eating most of my food for free was nice on the budget.

[Anonymous No.14736598]

>>14735940
all foh are retards, it's why they're foh

[Anonymous No.14736647]

>jewish customers come in
>they feel the need to make sure every single fucking thing they so much as look at is kosher
>will always complain about something and get flustered if its not made for free
CAN YOU FUCKING HOOK NOSED PENNY PINCHING OVEN DODGING KIKES JUST NOT BE INSUFFERABLE STEREOTYPES FOR FIVE GODDAMN MINUTES
JUST EAT YOUR FUCKING SALAD

[Anonymous No.14736715]

>>14732090

[Anonymous No.14737183]

>>14733489
>>14736340
pro dishwashers how do you do it, what's your system? i always dread having to do dishes after cooking at home and i feel like i'm not being as efficient as i can be

[Anonymous No.14737194]

>>14729747
Redpill me on these nipples. What happened to him?

[Anonymous No.14737268]

>>14734058
Yo me too

[Anonymous No.14737302]

>>14737183
First tip: buy pic related.

[Anonymous No.14737367]

>>14737302

lol wut? wearing gloves is for nancies.

>>14737183

you need to wash dishes as you use them at home. washing dishes in a commercial kitchen is so brainlessly easy that you could probably train a monkey to do it; as long as the machine is running, that's as fast as you can work.

[Anonymous No.14737375]

>>14732058

this is the most unequivocally based thing mine eyes have ever gazed upon.

>be shithead kids
>me and friends get kicked out of party
>call cops on party
>sit across the street and watch everybody get arrested

feels so fucking GOOD, lads

[Anonymous No.14737428]

>>14737367
>lol wut? wearing gloves is for nancies.
Naw, having fucked up hands from the chemicals is not pleasant. Any minor cuts seeping chemicals into your open wounds isn't fun. Call me a faggot all you want, but at least my hands look like hands, and my shift is easier because of them.
>Hot
Thanks! But it doesn't matter because the rubber insulation the gloves are made of resists heat, and the grip is firm enough you can hold 30 lbs of wet aluminum caked with boiling cheeze whiz because your gloves are serious.
>washing dishes in a commercial kitchen is so brainlessly easy that you could probably train a monkey to do it; as long as the machine is running, that's as fast as you can work.
I can tell you haven't had a real dishwashing job in your life if you think a commercial dish-washing system consists of "machines." As much as you want to push this faggot automation meme, the reality is there is no electronic gadget that can do the job of a competent dishwasher, in a real commercial kitchen.

[Anonymous No.14737441]

>>14732856
>>14733378
>>14736375
dont care wagie, serve me my spaghetti. IM HUNGRY

[Anonymous No.14737454]

>>14730480
why the fuck do they care so much about HACCP logs when everyone knows fully goddamn well we fake everything on it?

[Anonymous No.14737481]

Working in the “food industry” is such a fucking joke. It’s hilarious how you act all proud and jaded at the same time like you’re veterans of some old fucking war. You retards should get special food service veteran status and welfare for your brave service.

[Anonymous No.14737492]

>>14737481
You haven't worked a hard day in your life.

[Anonymous No.14737784]

>>14736647
>i'm sorry, but this lettuce doesn't look kosher, are you sure there aren't bacon bits in this caesar?
>w-what do you mean i have to PAY for a replacement dish?! this is an outrage!

[Anonymous No.14737828]

>>14731777
>get mad because you have to do your job
fucking wagies...you people are the worst

[Anonymous No.14737873]

>>14737428

lolno. i actually like washing dishes, sometimes id send the dishwasher home early after service so i could zone out and do some mindless work before putting in orders and shit

>dunking hands in water constantly, gloves get full of disgusting dish water
>cant dry hands
>hands get wrinkly and fucking gross

no thanks. also, which dangerous chemicals are you constantly using where it's an issue? yeah, glove up if you're using degreaser, but no chemical in a standard multi-quat sink is by any means dangerous. i'd literally laugh at and make fun of anybody i saw wearing elbow length rubber gloves; suck it up, you fucking nancy.

[Anonymous No.14737895]

>>14737873

and to add..

>scrape food if servers are lazy
>rinse with sprayer
>scrub pans with scrubby
>hot pan? spray with water and wait three minutes
>put pans/plates in dishwasher
>run dishwasher
>put clean dishes away while dishwasher runs

wow dude, so fucking difficult. lmao. it's THE EASIEST job ever, it just take the willingness to do it but it is brainlessly retarded easy.

[Anonymous No.14738138]

>>14737183
Get one of these.

The only thing I learned about washing dishes when I was a dish washer that's applicable at home is to keep your shit organised. Oh and use a real fucking scourer or green pad and not some awful detergent dispenser with a sponge on the end. The really really useful lesson I learned at home and it's do less dishes more often instead of giving yourself a shitty job to do later.

[Anonymous No.14738147]

>>14737183
clean as you go
after each task and before you start the next tidy your station and get the sink emptied

[Anonymous No.14738183]

>>14728973
>>14729014
>>14729029
>>14730617
>>14731138
you all understand the collective pain.

[Anonymous No.14738190]

SWINGING HOT ON YOUR RIGHT
*looks at screen*
FRIES ARE DOWN, MINUTE THIRTY
*throws plate in window*
LONG TIME, TABLE 54, UP NOW!

[Anonymous No.14738213]

>>14730617
>>14729029
>>14730775
I don't understand. Isn't it a given the staff stays 15-30min after closing?
If you really want to be uptight just give their orders to go

[Anonymous No.14738228]

>>14738213
>staff stays 15-30 after closing

As a line cook, we are fucking lucky if we get out in the same hour after close. There's so much cleaning, prep, and setup on the closing shift that we usually get out around an hour to two hours after close, all depending on who you close with and how busy it was during the dinner shift. If you're exhausted, you'll get out later, if not too busy, everyone will generally close quicker.

My restaurant closes at 10 so we usually get out at 11:20-11:40 on average

[Anonymous No.14738315]

>>14737895
While that does sum up just about every individual aspect of the job, I think it depends a lot on the place. A lot of the guys I've worked with end up quitting after a day or two because they aren't used to doing 100+ covers in a shift by themselves and can't keep up, partly because they ranged from borderline to full blown retarded and partly because there isn't much space to stack things. Pre-corona I usually did prep shifts and my god do I miss them, now it's all dishes all day for me except for emergency mid-service prep. Nothing like going away and spending ten minutes portioning some fish on a saturday night and coming back to find that the servers have thrown shit everywhere and the sinks are piled sky high.

The worst part of being a dishwasher though is definitely telling people you are a dishwasher, with the back pain coming in second place.

[Anonymous No.14738561]

>>14737428
Anon wtf
Used to work at biggest catering company in city, literal 10k people events. We had gigantic industrial dishroom. Worked as washer there.

It was nothing but giant soaking machines, giant chemical vats and giant 2 story tall dishwashers.

There is no way in hell someone could wash dishes even close to as quickly or as sanitary as the machines could. Hell the soaking vats alone could clean off more crusted on burnt food than a single person. I don't think you've ever been around industrial washers before. Those beasts can clean literal TONS, like 8 feet tall pallets of dirty dishes cleaned and sanitized in a hour

[Anonymous No.14738616]

>>14737428
tell me how im supposed to even Think about picking up shot glasses with those faggy gloves when we're thirty deep on all sides and kenny at well 5 just ordered a fat round for the boys
t barback aka dishwasher the sequel

[Anonymous No.14738893]

>>14736340
>>14737183
My advice is to use a scrubby fill on sink with soapy water another with plain water and to try and clean your pans while they are still hot.

[Anonymous No.14738934]

>>14738616
its for the DISHwasher not some pansy ass bar bitch that has a GLASSwasher you fucking absolute mongoloid

[Anonymous No.14738941]

>how long on X?
>uhhh... what X?
>are you fucking kidding me?
sorry chef im hungover

[Anonymous No.14738944]

>>14738934
Gloves are for Nancy Bois anon.

[Anonymous No.14738947]

>>14738941
lol we had this one guy in my kitchen who would always show up drunk. He quit a week before Corona lockdown started. On his last day he bought 5 bottles of the cheapest vodka. I miss that guy oddly enough he's better than the person hired to replace him

[Anonymous No.14739035]

>>14728973
>"hey anon I know reservations are hard to get at your place and people normally do it months in advance and I know saturday is your busiest day but can you get me and gf a seat for 7:30 :))))) thanks. Also she wants the tasting menu to be made entirely vegan :)))) luv u anon youre the best. We're getting that friends and family discount still right?"

[Anonymous No.14739044]

>>14731299
You mind if I ask what you do for work, anon?

>>14731138
this is the same person that will order a tasting menu or like 3-4 courses a la carte and take their sweet ass time with it too.

>>14732911
I feel like you're someone who doesn't respect food, and I find that really disappointing.

[Anonymous No.14739051]

>>14737481
What do you do for work, anon?


>>14737454
good way to make money off of us bro. My friend worked at one place that paid the inspector 50k so they would keep their A rating.

[Anonymous No.14739087]

>>14738213
cooks stay about an hour to an hour and a half past closing. When I was a sous I would stay 2-3 hrs past closing sometimes during menu changes or when the health inspector was due to come.

>>14733424
our go to at my job is all the guys would see a hot chick come in for a kitchen tour (we did off the menu courses in our kitchen where guests could watch us work while one of the pastry cooks made their course to order.)

When a hot person came in for a KT the chef or one of the sous' would shout "ORDER FIRE EGGPLANT" and those who agreed would shout "OUI"

we get celebs pretty regularly and one day we got a celeb that everyone was so sure was going to get an order fire eggplant, but when she shows up for the KT everyone is shocked to discover the woman is HUGE. like hot, but AMAZONIAN BRUH. definitely over 6 ft, curvy as hell. Like a giantess. And everyone is dead quiet besides the cooking obviously. But then from the back we hear a prep cook and he says, just loud enough for the cooks to hear

"I'd order fire that eggplant"

He nearly got sent home early for the comment but desu? worth it.

[Anonymous No.14739487]

>>14739087
>"I'd order fire that eggplant"
Absolutely based horny prep cook
Also bonus points if she was black for getting a moulinyan joke in there

[Anonymous No.14739507]

>>14739487
here's a spoiler for who she might be
>I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU! WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU

[Anonymous No.14739524]

>>14739507
Ayyyyy

Kitchen jobs are great for this type of shit it makes me miss them and the squad I worked with even though I was, and allah forgive me for uttering these words, front of house

[Anonymous No.14739527]

>>14728973
>heard

[Anonymous No.14739563]

>>14737481
Because when you work a hectic job in sub-ideal conditions a spirit of comradery exists between the men like you find only in combat maybe, or on a pro ball club in the heat of the pennant drive.

Where as (you), having sucked dick for pocket change your entire life, will never know such a feeling.

[Anonymous No.14739570]

>>14739524
Just join BOH, anon! the money is shit and the hours are long and you'll develop a smoking/caffeine/possible alcohol addiction but it's super fun and worth it i swear

[Anonymous No.14739587]

>>14739507
How the fuck did he not think Rhianna isn’t the most gorgeous woman alive, some fucking people I swear

[Anonymous No.14739595]

>>14739587
>Rhianna
silly billy

[Anonymous No.14739620]

>>14739570
I'm handsome and can't cook for shit, my place is up front. Also so I can send my boys on the line drinks and get a round ready for when its closing time.

[Anonymous No.14739629]

>>14739620
.....random question but do you live in BK/are you looking for any gigs rn?

[Anonymous No.14739647]

>>14739629
Nah homie I'm from Canada but thank you for asking.

[Anonymous No.14739674]

>>14739647
rip. me and this other chef I worked with when we worked at this 3 star place just started a pop up meal thing with cocktail pairings and we just fired our cocktail guy so I've been lowkey asking around here and there.

Obviously this is a stupid place to ask, but like, here's to trying

[Anonymous No.14739693]

>>14739674
Good help is hard to find my man, best of luck to your venture hopefully you find someone who seems as cool as I do on the internet.

[Anonymous No.14739722]

>>14728973
>work at delivery place
>someone calls right at 10
>tell manager "I GOT IT!"
>immediately after picking up the phone "Thank you for calling *blah blah blah* but we're closed!"

>"Oh....Sorry...*hangs up*"

Best feeling in the world.

[Anonymous No.14739753]

>>14728973
>work at restaurant
>not a waitress so I don't feel their anger
>8 PM
>20+ indians come in taking up a third of the entire restaurant
>order 15 pizzas plus sides when we only have 2 waitresses on staff
>spend nearly 90 minutes talking loudly and smelling up the entire restaurant with the odor of BO, cheap deodorant, and curry
>bill is around 170$
>they tipped 3$

And it was at this point which our manager began enforcing a 15% gratuity payment to the waitresses if you order more than 50$ on dine-in. Seriously, I never had any problems with Indians until after working in the food service industry. Now they are the literal worst.

[Anonymous No.14739765]

>>14728973
>work at restaurant
>not a waitress so I don't feel their anger
>8 PM
>20+ indians come in taking up a third of the entire restaurant
>order 15 pizzas plus sides when we only have 2 waitresses on staff
>spend nearly 90 minutes talking loudly and smelling up the entire restaurant with the odor of BO, cheap deodorant, and curry
>bill is around 170$
>they tipped 3$
>didn't even eat 5 of the pizzas
>they also ordered weird fucking toppings on them like pineapple jalapeno and spinach so nobody wanted to take them home

And it was at this point which our manager began enforcing a 15% gratuity payment to the waitresses if you order more than 50$ on dine-in. Seriously, I never had any problems with Indians until after working in the food service industry. Now they are the literal worst.

[Anonymous No.14739776]

>>14737367
>basic personal protection is for nancies

You're the guy who goes into welding, doesn't use sunscreen, and dies of skin cancer at 45

If you want to be suicidal go ahead but keep your idiocy to yourself

[Anonymous No.14739809]

>>14739776
>You're the guy who goes into welding, doesn't use sunscreen, and dies of skin cancer at 45

Links between skin cancer and welding are tenuous at best. The rate of exposure isn't prolonged enough for there it to be consistent and large risk factor.

[Anonymous No.14739819]

>>14739776
>You're the guy who goes into welding, doesn't use sunscreen, and dies of skin cancer at 45

Links between skin cancer and welding are tenuous at best. The rate of exposure isn't prolonged enough for it to be a consistent and large risk factor.

[Anonymous No.14739871]

>>14738616
>kenny at well 5 just ordered a fat round for the boys
based Kenny

[Anonymous No.14739916]

>>14739507
?
tyra banks

[Anonymous No.14739925]

>>14738616
Kenny being absolutely based, what a bro

[Anonymous No.14740032]

I miss working in kitchens

[Anonymous No.14740074]

>>14739916
yep you got it dude

[Anonymous No.14740323]

>>14739722
I have to literally lock the door at the end of the night so retarded customers don't wander in.
We'll even have all the lights except the ones in the kitchen flipped off and some retards will still think we're open.
Feels great watching them pull on the door in vain though.

[Anonymous No.14740327]

>>14739765
I would have never thought that it would make me racist towards them at all when I first started but now I absolutely hate all except the most obviously Americanized ones on principle.

[Anonymous No.14740381]

>>14734897
The last 10/15 minutes are for people coming in for their pickups they've called ahead for while we clean up for tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.14740390]

For those of you who work in the USA, do you have health insurance?

[Anonymous No.14740392]

>>14739776

Please tell me the name of the chemical thats gonna kill you if you wash dishes without gloves. I said you should glove up for degreaser or other caustic chemicals but for soap and fucking water while scrubbing pots and pans?

Nigga please. Grow a fucking pair.

[Anonymous No.14740393]

>>14739765
Same thing happened to us when a huge family of canadians came in 15 minutes before closing. This was when I was still in the back washing dishes and before I was working on the pizza line.
Manager was a real bro and helped the line make their 10 large pizzas. He also let me leave before the huge family left.
I could only imagine them staying there 2 hours after closing just to clean.

[Anonymous No.14740402]

>>14737367
I always made my dishwashers wear gloves. The amount of shit servers thatll leave broken glass by the dishpit is astounding. I'm not tryna be down a dishwasher because they thought they were too cool for gloves

[Anonymous No.14740406]

>>14731315
>You know you're making your own food?
>Ya. I know.

[Anonymous No.14740422]

>>14732640
How many restaurants did you worked in where u actually enjoyed the people? I worked in nearly 20 and only enjoyed 2 of them (another for a few months until the boss went turbo autism about Donald Trump).

[Anonymous No.14740447]

>>14740402

>gloves fill with dirty dish water

Youre a sadist. Id take my chances with glass any day

[Anonymous No.14740453]

>>14734051
>spend years cooking and never slam one
>switch to foh and fuck one a year later.

[Anonymous No.14740458]

>>14740447
first of all the smart ones know to keep their hands relatively dry by wrapping up the end of the glove w duct tape

second, have you like. never washed dishes in a professional kitchen before?

>>14734051
>shitting where you eat

[Anonymous No.14740461]

>>14740458
Where am I supposed to shit?

[Anonymous No.14740470]

>>14740461
don't get me wrong dude, I've been there, but it very rarely ends up like....good, you know?

as a cook I've dated my chef and a line cook. Both times we thought things were going to be perfect forever and then we ended up working at different restaurants and shit hit the fan.

Nowadays I avoid dating coworkers like the plague.

That being said, another person I worked with started dating her sous years ago, and now they're getting married, so it does occasionally work out.

[Anonymous No.14740495]

>>14740461
that being said
Shit on dating apps bro. I get it, dating people you can ~relate~ to sounds nice, but trust me, 89% of the time it sucks dicks.

[Anonymous No.14740498]

>>14738190
My ktown nigga

[Anonymous No.14740503]

>>14740390

whats going on here is the beetle acid

[Anonymous No.14740555]

>>14728973
>aiiii Carnal you gittin any pooooosay tonight ?

[Anonymous No.14740600]

>>14728973
>>14729004
HEARD

[Anonymous No.14740613]

>>14730617
>dead from 4 pm to 8:40 pm
>MAXIMUM OVERPREP ENGAGED
>close at 9
>28 covers ring in from 8:45 to 9:10

[Anonymous No.14740617]

>>14738228
ABC my dude. Always Be Closing.

[Anonymous No.14740627]

>>14733441
FLY ON 54, 40 BURGERS ALL DAY, FRIES DOWN, REFIRE TENDIES HEARD

[Anonymous No.14740629]

>>14733401
IN MY HAND CHEF

[Anonymous No.14740649]

>>14737367
>wearing gloves is for nancies
It's rare, even for this site, that a post oozes insecurity as much as this one does.

[Anonymous No.14740660]

>wagies getting mad thread

hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha
fucking wagecucks

[Anonymous No.14740662]

>>14740660
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.14740664]

>>14737375
Nah, you and your friends are just fags.

[Anonymous No.14740669]

>>14740662
more like /biz/

wagie XD

[Anonymous No.14740710]

>>14740453
>work as garde manger at this one place
>end up fucking a waitress AFTER I had already left
>we never even spoke to each other when I was working there

[Anonymous No.14740720]

>>14740710
based garmo

[Anonymous No.14740834]

>>14740458

Yes, many times. Youre talking out of your ass, never have i ever seen anybody do that. Besides, electrical tape? Lol that doesnt stick to skin, buddy.

>>14740664

Nah im thinking it was pretty based

[Anonymous No.14740837]

>>14740834

>reading comprehension

Regardless. Do you know how hot and uncomfortable thatd be? As long as you never wipe the bottom of the sink with your hands im not sure how youd cut yourself on broken glass

[Anonymous No.14740853]

>>14736496
>and I proudly STAND UP

[Anonymous No.14740857]

>>14730451
HOT BEHIND, HOT BEHIND COMING THROUGH

[Anonymous No.14740872]

>>14737481
I've seen multiple combat vets resign citing stress and poor management.

[Anonymous No.14740886]

>>14736423
Based and safety/awareness pilled
You're gonna make it

[Anonymous No.14740983]

>>14739487
THICCCCC

[Anonymous No.14741138]

>>14739563
>working in a kitchen is like experiencing military combat

[Anonymous No.14741238]

>>14740503
its the bomber beetle if i remember correctly. check out the frog video on youtube. frog tries to eat that thing and the bomber beetle just goes BOOM

[Anonymous No.14741732]

>>14731428
You say it when you go through anything that is two way but only fits on person through and its a blind entry
DOOR
CORNER

[Anonymous No.14741736]

>that manager that always says "right behind you sir" every time he walks past you
>he walks by every five or so minutes

[Anonymous No.14741770]

>>14737194
gyno maybe?

[Anonymous No.14741771]

>>14728973
>shift almost over
>"hey anon, can you hold down the fort? i gotta go outside and smoke a cigarette"
>manager outside for 20 mins

[Anonymous No.14741781]

>>14731777
damn thats nice
also digits

[Anonymous No.14741799]

>>14732168
simply eric

[Anonymous No.14741947]

>walk quietly behind someone
>whisper in their ear, "behind"

[Anonymous No.14741985]

>>14737194
Some guys just have that.
My brother has massive puffy nipples like that.

[Anonymous No.14742001]

>>14728973
We always started new guys on fry station cuz it was easiest. I used to teach new lads they had to "temp" the fry oil by very quickly dipping their fingers in it, it's easy to do without hurting yourself, but it's not good for fuck all. Every now and again make up some bullshit about the calimari and ask them to "temp" the oil to keep them at it. Then ask them to do so when the owner or manager was watching and watch them get screamed at by an angry Italian man. Good times.

[Anonymous No.14742048]

>>14742001
Thinking back I remembered this lesbian server, Tayla, we were all in a lull after a huge rush, so we're chilling and silently restocking and Tayla is just hanging back with us for a second and says "Yea, you know I get it, if I was a guy I would totally sword fight with other dudes too."

Wuttehfuk.png

We had to explain to her that guys do not do that and she was fucking incredulous! She wholeheartedly believed that was just a normal adolescent thing to do.

>What do you mean!? Girls play at kissing and do make up at sleep overs, why wouldn't guys sword fight?!
>because that's most guys aren't gay!
>it's not gay to sword fight!

I remain adamant that sword fighting is pretty gay.

[Anonymous No.14742105]

>>14737183
get the machine. soak, rinse sanitize. bring nips and weed and drug out in the pit

[Anonymous No.14742224]

>getting paid to cook when we have to eat for free at home not included buying/making the food
I dunno why you lot take this shit just to work in one of the worst industries in the world/history.
Oh right umm funny orders
>one nigger nigger and two wigger wrapped in a box cunt

[Anonymous No.14742234]

>>14736404
>You’re a retard, execute chefs and cooperate chefs ( casual fine dining) can make upwards of 100000 k with no degree just time and effort.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA this is the lie you fuckwhads still perpetuate alongside this 1.5m distancing shit killing hospo forever? K

[Anonymous No.14742244]

>>14742048
I never did it but I could see sword fighting as normal pre adolescent behavior. Kids do really weird shit before they fully understand what sex is.

[Anonymous No.14742863]

>>14742048
>>14742244

[Anonymous No.14742946]

>>14731138
>>14730617
>>14729029
>place closes at 9 PM
>it's now 9:05 PM
>cleaning tables in the dining room
>hear a loud rattling noise
>look up
>there's somebody vigorously shaking the front door, desperately trying to get in
>he sees me looking at him, demands to be let in
>"no, bro, we're closed, read the sign"
>he starts fucking fuming with anger
>gives the door one last hard yank and then storms back to his car
Why do these dumb retards think that I'm going to open the place up specifically for them? We're closed, faggots, fuck off. It's unbelievable how frequent this is.

[Anonymous No.14742996]

>>14731299
You've eaten spit/boogers/etc. I guarantee it.

[Anonymous No.14743013]

>work as a server in Canada
>make as much money as I did working full time as a financial advisor, all while working 1/3rd of the hours

Feels good man, FUCK wage slaves

[Anonymous No.14743104]

>>14740649

Have you ever washed dishes, bro? Gloves are an impedance to being able to do the job. Rubber gloves on porcelain is slippery, its hot as fuck, and they fill with water.

All because you dont wanna touch the icky, waterlogged food. Textbook definition of being a fuckin nancy.

[Anonymous No.14743146]

HANDS! I NEED HANDS!

[Anonymous No.14743191]

>>14740381
the place I worked at "shut down" service half hour before service closed. The place was still open for an hour after that, mainly to people still talking or ordering drinks. Nice place.

[Anonymous No.14743307]

>>14743104
One time during a particularly fucky Friday dinner rush the grease trap got backed up. I told the guy
>open it up, reach in and tear the clog out, you're fucking drowning in dishes and we need pans, get fucking to it!
>that's gross! Call a plumber or something!

So I had our fry guy take over saute station for a bit, took of the chef coat, crawled under the dish pit and went shoulder deep in saliva, rot and grease to get the bitch going. Slapped the pussy on the back with my gross hand and told him to get to back to work.
Thankfully we had a shower on site and I got cleaned up and back to my station in 15 mins

[Anonymous No.14743626]

>>14743307
I've never had to do that, sounds horrible. For me I have to wear gloves because my hands are shit and crack up and get irritated from chemicals, not the food that bothers me. I've sometimes been known to eat the food from customers plates when I've been drunk.

[Anonymous No.14743644]

>>14743626
Why do you all keep talking about chemicals? I only ever used soap and water when I was a dishwasher.
The only time I used degreaser was when I was cleaning hood vents

[Anonymous No.14743665]

>>14743644
It's the soap that irritates my hands, I should have said that instead of chemicals really. Like I said my hands are shit, and wearing gloves is less of a headache than having knuckles that keep bleeding everywhere and need bandaging all the time.

[Anonymous No.14743717]

>>14740390
Only the chef de cuisine, MAYBE sous if it's a high end join like le bernardin or some shit

[Anonymous No.14743728]

>>14743013
The mewing meme is a ruse

[Anonymous No.14743763]

>>14743728
What the fuck is mewing?

[Anonymous No.14743805]

>>14743763
To catch a Mew in Pokemon Red/Blue

[Anonymous No.14743877]

>>14740600
When I first started out as a barback I wasn't familiar with the jargon and replied "okay". The head bartender stopped and asked me to repeat what I said. Thank fuck I was actively listening and picked up quickly.

[Anonymous No.14743900]

How are you guys handling working in the industry during Covid? It's been a really weird adjustment as a server/bartender but the money isn't terrible. I'm in philly so we just started indoor dining but my manager refuses to do it immediately which is fine by me

[Anonymous No.14744279]

>>14741736
the higher ups who don't understand the lingo but try to fit in saying weird shit out of context to "fit in" with the bros is insanely cringe and actually makes us hate them more

[Anonymous No.14744300]

>>14743307

yeah join the club, bro. ive been shoulder deep in a clogged drain more than once.

>but muh gloves

fuck that. coat off, get it done, shirt off, wash thoroughly, coat on, back to cooking, wait for the skin on that arm and hand to die. that's the kinda shit that your staff respects you for. if you aren't willing to do the nasty shit then how could you expect somebody else to?

[Anonymous No.14744488]

>>14743900
It's bad, not a burger but there are still restrictions here the work almost no existent (banquet dining). I worked part time and the hours are almost down to 20% with a paycut and the dole is starting to look more and more attractive although I hope I can find something else before that.

[Anonymous No.14744496]

>>14728973
goddamn it stop YELLING i cant hear my racist podcast

[Anonymous No.14744500]

>>14729029
Sorry, we don't serve your kind here

[Anonymous No.14744560]

>>14743900
I got a food truck. We do neighborhoods, craft breweries, and set up shop in front of businesses of some of our friends and customers when we had a restaurant 6 years ago.

[Anonymous No.14744571]

>>14744560
Add to this. It's just me and the chef now. No servers so I'm pretty much it for cooking and taking cash.

[Anonymous No.14744612]

>>14738228
>>14739087

so you're admitting that you do stay later than close anyways and you STILL bitch when a customer has the audacity to come in before closing time? I've worked in restaurants too and I hate that it's an industry where everyone hates their job so much that they bitch and moan this much about doing thier job. just fucking quit if it's makes you that mad to have to work there instead of this passive aggressive shit on the customer. It's not the customers fault for patronizing you when you're open, every other fucking business deals with this in a mature way but restaurants. If I go into a super market 5 minutes before they close I don't get a bunch of pouty faces.

[Anonymous No.14744728]

>>14744612
>If I go into a super market 5 minutes before they close I don't get a bunch of pouty faces
Because they're customer facing. You'd bitch if they gave you a look or muttered under their breath because they're about to close. In reality they'll bitch about you after they close or in the stockroom/warehouse. Besides some usually announce they're going to close and they'll usher you to the tills at close time. In the kitchen, you could spend up to half an our or more cooking food, which creates more cleanup work after. Forgot to add retail workers will also bitch because they need to reface the aisles.

[Anonymous No.14744795]

>>14740390
HA good joke

[Anonymous No.14744813]

>>14739507
Tyra is fucking hot as hell shot many loads to her when I stole my mom's victoria secret magazines. She knew I was doing it too so I had to wait until earl in the morning, sneak out and remove them from the trash without waking anyoine up

[Anonymous No.14744818]

>>14739487
>>14740983
https://foodblogposts.blogspot.com/2020/09/ckoomer-xix.html

[Anonymous No.14744829]

>>14744612

This anons right. If your restaurant isnt retarded they stop seating 15-30 mins before you close so the final order is in by closing time. Not hard, dudes.

The best part is when sanctimonious line cooks bitch and moan and then still cook the food anyway. LOL, just do your fucking job you bunch of crybabies.

>t. cooked for ten years, managed for roughly four

Cooks are the most entitled crybabies on the planet

[Anonymous No.14744897]

>>14744829
My only issue while cooking was that we never got tipped out. Tons of cooks will bitch and moan "Oh our job is way harder than front of the house wah wah" which I think is bullshit, the two jobs are equally difficult but in different ways. Yet still, I went home with $160 for the nights work on a 10 hour shift, and our worst server went home with 300 for 8 hours. It does sting a bit, hard to lie about that

[Anonymous No.14744916]

>>14744897

We are on the same page, friend. Place before last we incorporated a service charge and all cooks were on salary, servers grumbled a bit but fell in line.

The reason servers make so much is because they have to eat a totally different kind of shit that the average retard guest serves to them. And they have to take the heat if we fuck something up. But yes, the disparity is unfair.

[Anonymous No.14745069]

>>14744916
Servers have it easier retard. Being a server means 99/100 times you are a kiss ass. So considering the fact they have already little self esteem to begin with, its easier for them to suck it up and just be nice most of the time. Servers walk in. literally walk around and write shit down; At its most basic level any one with a 100 iq could do it moderately okay. The same cannot be said about kitchen work. Yea sure people can cook food but almost certainly the will fall behind faster than some one who is better/smarter. I have met some of the most stupid people who are servers who do okay. Not so much for cooks. Now bump it up and servers will rarely have to all do closing work. So they rotate who cleans what and who stays. Not to mention their closing is easier than the kitchen. And they have a lot less prep work.
If one chef is slacking it will always come back on the crew in obscure ways. If a server is slacking oh well the cooks will have to fix it and other servers will not really feel the burn from the other server but most of the time feel vexed at the kitchen for sucking.

[Anonymous No.14745088]

>>14744897
this is the true tragedy of the tipping system. a cute dumb Stacey makes 3 times what the person who actaully MAKES the food gets for just moving the plate. People actually go out of culinary schools and take serving jobs instead of cooking because of the generous tip money vs. a meager wage in the back of the house. cooks should make equal money if not more than the servers.

[Anonymous No.14745104]

>>14745069

I know more than you, anon. I have cooked in nicer restaurants, worked more titled positions than you, and did it longer than you have been doing it. Have you ever served? Have you ever had to diffuse an unhappy table? Have you ever had to explain to somebody why their food was fucked up or wrong when they're paying top dollar?

No, you haven't. You have a limited amount of awareness because of your limited experience. It's just food, it's not like you're out there curing cancer. Your shitty "us vs. them" mentality will get you nowhere, and that's how i know you don't work anyplace worth mentioning.

Yes, servers are entitled and aloof, but if it's so easy and they make sOoOoOo much money for doing basically nothing, why is your stupid ass slaving away over a stove in the back for pennies?

[Anonymous No.14745120]

>>14745088

a good server is a salesman. They push product, and they upcharge upcharge upcharge. They're a necessary evil; like i said, i feel BoH should be cut in on tips, no argument there.

It just shows you have no idea what it means to be a good server and how draining it is to be fucking NICE to ungrateful faggots all evening long.

Shit, I took the pay cut to not have to deal with people and because i took pride in cooking food. It's a trade off, and i'm cool with making less than FoH as long as it's a tip based system, but break us kitchen fags off a little piece of the pie and i think morale would unanimously go up.

[Anonymous No.14745124]

>>14745104
restaurants can work without servers, that's how fast casual places work, but they can't work without cooks. It's also a totally discriminatory profession where being young/attractive is 90% of the job. Fuck servers.

[Anonymous No.14745175]

>>14728973
>Behind, sharp
who the fuck just runs around the kitchen holding his knife like a musketeer? youre supposed to stick the blade on your leg if you walk around with a knife this is basic kitchen security.

[Anonymous No.14745217]

>>14745104
You are actually a faggot. I have done both neck yourself you uppity smarmy cunt. I do it because its convenient and easy. I can still recognize retarded dichotomies when I see them.

[Anonymous No.14745399]

>all these faggot line cooks bitching about an order coming in near closing time while literally everybody else will be staying longer than them
shut the fuck up retards, FOH has to stay another superfluous hour while you faggots get to finish your work in peace

[Anonymous No.14745410]

>>14728973
stinky

[Anonymous No.14745575]

>>14745120
>>14745104
>>14745069
>>14745217

Can we at least all agree to say fuck off to places that make servers subtract their tips from their hourly wage? That shit is fucking vile. They're outsourcing the payment of their employee literally just because they can.

[Anonymous No.14745711]

>>14740503
Bombardier beetle, can trigger a chemical reaction that sprays boiling caustic gas/liquid out of it's ass

[Anonymous No.14747288]

>>14745120
>how draining it is to be fucking NICE to ungrateful faggots all evening long
You're just weak minded, you can't even keep your muscles correct can you?
>>14745711
Thanks for teaching me something new friend

[Anonymous No.14747846]

I have no idea what to do with my life and I kind of romanticize being good at cooking. I'm sheltered and useless and have never worked with my hands
Am I gonna end up killing myself if I go into the food industry? Should I try being a dishwasher first and see how things go from there?

[Anonymous No.14748189]

>>14745711
How much do you figure we need to make them evacuate before they're edible?

[Anonymous No.14748207]

>>14747846
It's a toxic group of egotistic drunks and drug addicts. Basically people that don't fit in anywhere else. I did it to get by in college because I was smoking weed and they didn't test. I don't know how far you'll have to go to actually be cooking something that you want to. Most places will run you through from the fryer/salads to eventually flattop/grill/saute when you're good enough. From there, people move up to supervisor, then to sous or AKM, then Chef/KM. It takes years and you'll learn quickly that romantics get shaken out and the guy creating the menu for the best place in town is an angry drunk who makes delicious food out of spite for everyone around him.

It's more fun to not climb the ladder. I made a career change to more skilled manual labor and put my CS degree to use making websites.

[Anonymous No.14748270]

>>14748207
>Basically people that don't fit in anywhere else.
Considering my other options are being a NEET or working in retail, I guess it wouldn't be too hard to fit in anyway. The only thing I'd have trouble adjusting to is the pace since I'm not energetic.
>romantics get shaken out
Because they end up disillusioned/bitter? It's that bad?

[Anonymous No.14748274]

>>14745124

Ive spent the last six years in fine dining so its not a relevant comparison. If im dropping $100 or more on a meal, im gonna spend 2-3 hours there and i expect the server to suck me off for the entire three hours. Not anything ridiculous, but expecting to have my questions answered, expecting the server to be charming/personable as well as knowledgeable, expecting GOOD service like being around when i need them and fucking off the rest of the time, little things lime having my napkin folded when income back from the bathroom or never having to ask for a refill on water.

Those restaurants absolutely cannot function without a good FoH and a good FoH/BoH relationship.

>>14745217

Just because you waited tables to trash people at your local chippy because yiure clearly a piece of trash, that doesnt mean you know what youre talking about.

People with shitty attitudes dont get far in the industry unless theyre an absolute rockstar and can get away with being a shithead. In your case, youre just a loser with a bad attitude.

Its 9:55 and i walked in and i am HUNGRY. Oh, your station is wrapped? Thats your fault, dumbass. Cook my food, and it better be right, or youll make it again. :)

>>14745575

>places make servers do that

Its federal law lol. Tips are taxable wages; and boo-hoo, they dont need the extra mkney on top of their $25-$50/hr theyre already making.

[Anonymous No.14749667]

My friend recently open a restaurant and the cook did meth, weed and alcohol just to cook meals? Is that bad?, I told him I never hire someone that did meth but he told me he didn't care what he did unless he didn't cook

[Anonymous No.14749688]

>>14749667

>OH NO NO NONONOOOO

monetary discrepancies from books/real life incoming in 3..2..1..

[Anonymous No.14750131]

>>14749688
Actually the other cook before him steal the hotdogs bums and sauces and hamburger meat, recently the cook sperg out because he didn't wanted to make a burger after the closing time

[Anonymous No.14750154]

>>14741947
I prefer

>Walk quietly behind some
>Belt out BEHIND like I'm a drill Sergeant

Makes the chef jump everytime

[Anonymous No.14750293]

>>14745120
this man spittin he spittin
i served for 7 years, everything from dave and busters clones to brewpubs to hole in the wall sushi joints where all hot food is made by illegals to fine dining farm to fork restaurants that get mogged constantly by state workers and opera goers. i eventually got so tired of these fags and of foh drama in general that i took a fat pay cut too to not fucking serve. granted i didnt go to boh, but ive been barbacking for the last two years and its so freeing. fuck serving

[Anonymous No.14750297]

I'd rather eat my feet alive than work anywhere near a kitchen other than my own at home.

[Anonymous No.14750502]

>>14742234
One of my best friends makes money hand over fist as a head chef at a nice hotel, and he's a severely autistic high school dropout.
Nobody gives a shit about social distancing except bugmen, geriatrics, and Jews.

[Anonymous No.14750523]

>>14744818
Imagine saving /ck/ posts on a blog

[Anonymous No.14750525]

I have a really weird career in service but washing dishes was the most cathartic to me.
Started out as a line cook at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, ended up doing well enough to be promoted and found myself training a shitload of their managers as they were expanding nationwide. Alamo was nuts, instead of seating 8-tops and 12-tops, we would seat 200 person theaters 4 at a time and suddenly be serving 800 hungry drunk assholes. Good times.

Then I decided to take it easy and go into specialty coffee, making upwards of $16/hour with tips to do one job and be snarky, which I was good at.
Then I helped open a coffee shop/bar, then moved to another """""""coffee pub"""""""" just as I decided to school and get a real career.

I've been a line cook, manager, bartender, barista, dishwasher, busser, expo, everything but an actual table server.
All it takes to do dishes is to jump in and fuck the pit up; develop a system and attack it like a fucking crack addict. It is YOUR fucking domain, and the shitfuck bussers better respect it.
Now I'm back to barista work, making ~$20/hour on the weekends. Took the MCAT, got a 516, and am applying to med school this year. Get out of service, it's a fucking chore and you work way harder than you get paid for.
/blogpost

[Anonymous No.14750527]

>>14739765
>>14740327
Indians are God-awful people. The more I deal with them, the more I'm convinced they're just stupid, brown-skinned Jews.

[Anonymous No.14750612]

>>14736496
I've heard tipping is offensive some places overseas, what cunt are you from anon?

[Anonymous No.14750620]

>>14737828
People like you should be flogged.

[Anonymous No.14750790]

>>14750502
Based

[Anonymous No.14750831]

SHROOM DOWN !
CHICKEN UP!
CAN YOU DROP A HOT DOG!
HOW MANY PATTIES DO I DROP!!!!
WE NEED HELP ON THE LINE!

[Anonymous No.14751225]

my fucking roommate says this even though he's not at work

[Anonymous No.14751232]

>>14734368
don't tell that to the IRS, or you gonna git audited.

[Anonymous No.14751346]

>>14729029
Misery upon you.

[Anonymous No.14751375]

>work slow as fuck
>manager somehow likes me the most because he thinks I'm reliable
>coworkers get giga-mad when we have a rush
>keep telling them that I'm still getting paid the same wage regardless of how hard I bust ass
>they don't listen and keep speeding through orders

And I still keep an equal share of the tip, stay mad.

[Anonymous No.14751471]

>>14751225
I say "corner" when I'm at the supermarket sometimes. That shit just sticks with you, and it's effective.

[Anonymous No.14752403]

>>14730485
You could have the best camaraderie in tge world and you should still dilligently call those things. Everyone in tgere is focused on what they're doing and moving fast. All it takes is for someone to turn around at the wrong moment and there could be a serious injury. Sure 99% of the time it might not be necessary but you do it anyway for the 1% where it is.

>>14730617
I only get mad at this if it's one of those special times where been dead for the past hour and then you get a new table at literally tge last minute. It's still fine, just painful. And you just know they're the ones who are going to order a bunch of courses and take their time, too. Again, that's fine, we are open, just delays us getting out by an hour or two. Not like we'd be going home right away anyway though, everywhere I've worked the close is super detailed and goes well past the end of service, like 90min+

[Anonymous No.14752501]

>>14740458
imagine working in the restaurant biz and not fucking all of your coworkers. it's the only thing that makes this job tolerable, the social aspect

[Anonymous No.14752660]

>>14729044

>go to literally any legit fine dining establishment in the world
>book a table 10 minutes before closing
>surprise! the actual closing is an hour after that time because they're closing the dining room to new guests and finishing all existing orders

Anyone who works in a restaurant *not* run like this, you have my pity. You deserve better.

[Anonymous No.14752675]

>>14752501
Sucks when the only girls that you work with have bfs. It was like 75:25 male female at my restaurant

[Anonymous No.14752872]

>>14752660
I used to work at maestro's ocean club in scottsdale and mexicans would stay all freaking night and we were not allowed to ask them to leave

[Anonymous No.14752991]

>can't finish my lengthy or amusing story to my co-worker because customers keep walking in/talking over us while we're chatting

[Anonymous No.14753067]

>>14752991

[Anonymous No.14753070]

>>14736543
wasnt the e-coli and any other disease traced back to the lettuce and inadequately cleaned veggies? and not... meat?

[Anonymous No.14753107]

>>14730027
>two nut soup, scallapp and shrimp, pidgeon on the fly
oui chef