/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16560475]

What is it about the food service industry that attracts such disgusting degenerates and lowlifes?

[Anonymous No.16560484]

>>16560475
no barrier to entry

[Anonymous No.16560486]

>ew, poor people are icky and I'm a huge faggot
just say what you're thinking, anon.

[Anonymous No.16560489]

>>16560486
Accurate statement

[Anonymous No.16560490]

>>16560475

everyone eats, and the general human condition is far worse off than most people on the mongolion basket weaving form think

[Anonymous No.16560498]

>>16560484
Basically this. Restaurants are always looking for people, and people who work in restaurants tend to move around a lot and lie on their resume, but managers don't care enough to check references because they usually just need another pair of hands. FoH are a bunch of entitled, manipulative cunts, while BoH are basically perpetually burnt out masochists who literally don't have the time or energy to even think about how to get out of the vicious cycle that is their existence.

[Anonymous No.16560513]

>>16560486
I am not a huge faggot.

[Anonymous No.16560595]

>>16560475
They are impulsive people with low self worth who are willing to settle for much less than they should be getting.

[Anonymous No.16560605]

low pay, will literally hire anyone. that's it, if they payed higher and expected more training then the restaurants would be nice places to work, but then probably 50% of restaurants wouldn't exist.

[Anonymous No.16560659]

>>16560486
fpbp

[Anonymous No.16560686]

I was a line cook for about 2 years and was very tempted to start smoking or lose myself to drugs, I wondered why when I joined, line cooks would be coming and going every so often. I even helped train one and it seemed like he wasn't cut out for it, some scrawny nerd who never listened to me, undercooked a dish and got yelled at by the manager

[Anonymous No.16560695]

>>16560686
forgot to mention that he also stopped showing up a week later, assumed he quit

[Anonymous No.16560701]

>>16560686
not cut out to be a minimum wagie for the rest of his life?

[Anonymous No.16560706]

>>16560686

if you're going to lose yourself to drugs stick to heroin, everything else is literal tease

[Anonymous No.16560709]

>>16560475
No skills, background check, or real green card required. Shitty jobs attract these sorts of folks.

[Anonymous No.16560750]

>>16560498
The best description of small kitchen work I have heard yet.

[Anonymous No.16560755]

>>16560475
How are you any better?

[Anonymous No.16560757]

>>16560490
This. Most people are absolute trash and should unironically be killed.

[Anonymous No.16560767]

>>16560757
Nice edgy reddit opinion

[Anonymous No.16560820]

>>16560513
This is exactly what a huge faggot would say.

[Anonymous No.16560980]

>>16560486
poor people are absolutely disgusting though
only a poor person would argue otherwise
they're ugly, unclean, smell disgusting, and are fucking idiots

[Anonymous No.16560994]

>>16560706
based and brownpilled

[Anonymous No.16561900]

>>16560980
See, there is a difference between a poor person and a fucking degenerate slob. Though the poor people who take care of themselves don't tend to stay poor for long.

[Anonymous No.16561963]

>>16560475
Because it fucking sucks and the only people who do it are people who can't do any better job.

[Anonymous No.16561965]

>>16560475
Poor people suck

[Anonymous No.16561967]

>>16560475
Mexicans are really awful aren't they? They're really awful low tier people but I'm glad they agreed to come here to be serfs.

[Anonymous No.16562105]

>>16560486
poor people ARE icky. this is just completely true. i've had some great friends who were poor but in general they're rats (mostly the ethnic ones. white poor people are okay) and i don't mind voting for shit that fucks them up
t. richfag

[Anonymous No.16562178]

Where's the thermos full of black coffee and a robusto cigar?

[Anonymous No.16562210]

I do it for the crabmeat

[Anonymous No.16562212]

>>16560475
Low effort, low risk, unskilled labor.

[Anonymous No.16562231]

>>16560486
sure. fuck poor people they can die in a fire. I'd say just shoot them but the bullets are worth more than their lives.

[Anonymous No.16562242]

>>16560757
including yourself

[Anonymous No.16562252]

Here, take these cut resistant gloves so you don't cut yourself in this thread :)

[Anonymous No.16562352]

>>16560498
Accurate

[Anonymous No.16562377]

I fucking hate the attitude waitresses have with the cooking staff.
>"Uhhh yeah, the table that ordered the massive quantity of food is getting upset it isn't ready yet :( you guys really need to hurry up :((( No, I'm not going to help I'm just going to stand here and relay complaints like a useless cunt :((((("
They act all whinny and helpless, and like they run the whole show at the same time. I'm busting my balls off so you can slowly walk around and deliver food

[Anonymous No.16562802]

>>16562377
to be fair they can't exactly help, anyone unfamiliar in the kitchen is just going to get in the way and slow shit down unless you give them some simple out of the way prep job

[Anonymous No.16562854]

>>16560475
To start, prisons train many of their inmates in cooking and give them the required education to pass the tests for it.

Other than that, it is the type of job where you need functionally no intelligence other than verbal intelligence. Front of house at best has to know how to run a register and become friends with people in an instant.

t. bartender, serious alcoholic

[Anonymous No.16562869]

it doesnt, it turns regular people into degenerates through the nature of the job

[Anonymous No.16562879]

Worked food service industry when I was in college to pay for gas money. Worst job I ever had, it motivated me to finish college and get my degree so I wouldn't be stuck doing that kind of labor for the rest of my life.
I guess to some people the job breaks their spirit before they can escape.

[Anonymous No.16562903]

Ex-waiter here. I was a pretty good kid when I got into the industry. The problem is that the work is a socially and physically draining dead end job. No matter how much you enjoy the people you work with you will hate dealing with them and your customers day after day. Turn over rates are high, but the issue is really the waiters that stick around for 5+ years. They are so jaded and cynical from the mundane cycle. You either let it suck the life out of you or join in with them. I started going out drinking with these people every night which caused me to pick up an awful drinking habit and got into using drugs with them too. It took me a long time to straighten myself out, but when I did none of the workers liked me any more because I was trying to better myself while they were left in their cycle of shit. Luckily the memeflu shut down my restaurant for a little while which gave me a good excuse to leave the industry for ever.

TLDR; yes, the job is open for anyone, but the real problem is what this mundane, draining job does turns those into who stick around.

[Anonymous No.16562907]

Smoking cigs IS EXPENSIVE HOLY FUCK

[Anonymous No.16562910]

>>16562903
*what this mundane, draining job turns those into who stick around.

[Anonymous No.16563252]

>>16562903
I feel like I know you. Illinois?

[Anonymous No.16563262]

kitchens in my state dont background check for some reason
probably cuz the work sucks and even a murderer can cook a steak

[An Grateful American No.16563267]

>>16563252
Nope, just a story as old as time. Tell your co-worker an Anon is glad he straightened himself out though.

[Anonymous No.16563268]

>>16562105
100% you're a disgusting piece of shit. you're a fucking human, i've seen people from all walks of like equally as vile and disgusting

[Anonymous No.16563312]

>>16562212
>low risk
Yep, those sharp knives, pots and pans full of scalding oil, greasy floors are all perfectly safe to be around. Definitely a low risk environment.

[Anonymous No.16563489]

>>16563312
safer than construction, extracting natural resources, or any kind of work with heavy machinery

[Anonymous No.16564324]

>>16560498
>don't have the time or energy to even think about how to get out of the vicious cycle that is their existence
this sounds about right, I had a fledgling drinking problem when I finished college and have been stuck in kitchens ever since and am now a full blown alcoholic. between work and getting drunk to forget about work I don't really have the time to sort my life out. there is also the problem that not many other industries tolerate being drunk on the job so I need to sober up before I can quit but I can't sober up until I quit. there is also the risk of quitting with the intent to sober up but then not actually sobering up and just being an unemployed alcoholic until I run out of money and get another kitchen job. the only way out is to die.

[Anonymous No.16564330]

>>16560486
>being poor = being a degenerate

Fuck you faggot, I grew up poor but I was always clean and never a disgusting addict

[Anonymous No.16564340]

>>16560475
>What is it about the food service industry that attracts such disgusting degenerates and lowlifes?

Cuz it's a fucking low skill/no skill job that you don't even need to speak english to qualify for?

[Anonymous No.16564368]

>>16564330
>ew, addicts are icky-wicky and I'm a huge baby faggot
just say what you mean, anon

[Anonymous No.16564374]

>>16564368
>addict brain baby babble

No, what I mean is drug dealers should be fucking executed and addicts should be put in corrective labor camps like in East Asia and I can’t wait till Comrade Winnie the Pooh sends in the tanks to liberate us from you lumpenprole scum.

[Anonymous No.16564407]

>>16564374
I was saying you sound like a baby. maybe 24 years old max. now I think you're probably like 19, maybe even underage.

[Anonymous No.16564412]

Kitchen Confidential by Bourdain is a good book btw

[Anonymous No.16564421]

>>16564412
maybe if you wish to do most of your cooking with a spoon and a bic lighter

[Anonymous No.16564430]

>>16564421
There's far more about his work and the people around him than his drug usage.

[Anonymous No.16564447]

>>16564421
based NPC stealing lines from other people

[Anonymous No.16564484]

It's a shitty, exploitative, hot, low paying, dirty, not respected job with no barriers to entry. It sucks because there are people like me, who genuinely love cooking, and treat it like a genuine art and profession, but even the fancy places staff mostly junkies and felons who couldn't do anything else

[Anonymous No.16564554]

>>16564374
>t. father was an addict

[Anonymous No.16564562]

>>16564324
Sounds suicidally comfy.

[Anonymous No.16564575]

>>16564374
lmao stfu chang

[Anonymous No.16564604]

>>16564554
if his father was an addict hed have a needle in his arm too

[Anonymous No.16564642]

>>16564407
>still thinks drugs are cool
>im an adult, I swear guys!

Nice projection, thinking drugs are cool past your early 20’s just tells everyone you’re a burnt out loser

[Anonymous No.16564847]

>>16560706
based and mr.brownstone pilled

[Anonymous No.16564852]

>>16560605
sounds like a win for all

[Anonymous No.16564855]

>>16560757
no they should be working in the lower aprts of our soicety, doing the menial tasks that good people shouldnt have to reduce themselves to, such as working in food service

[Anonymous No.16564866]

>>16563252
im afraid this story is much more common than some guy in illinois

[Anonymous No.16564873]

>>16560980

i wish ck had country flags on posts like int because i bet you live in moldova. not everyone lives in a potato patch who isn't rich

[Anonymous No.16565027]

>>16564368
wow you're not an addict. Congrats on doing the bare minimum

[Anonymous No.16565037]

>>16560706
>heroin
no thanks, i dont wanna spend money to throw up and have a nap

[Anonymous No.16565043]

>>16564855
if you rely on others for your food then dont call yourself a functioning person, let alone a good person

[Anonymous No.16565053]

>>16563312
>throws fish into smoking hot pan from 4 feet away because hes scared of burns
>gets burned because hes retarded
>"this place is so dangerous"

[Anonymous No.16565291]

>>16560475
No drug test
No background check
No prior experience needed
Low pay
No insurance
Fucked hours
You can come into work high/drunk and no one cares

I'm a degenerate. I've worked with these people, partied with these people, and love these people. I'm not insulting or throwing mud at these people, but to deny the truth here is stupid.

Anyone that says that kitchens aren't filled with ~50% of these people have no idea what theyre talking about, and has never worked in a kitchen before.

[Anonymous No.16566314]

Meth heads and heroin junkies should always be discriminated against, if you're stupid enough to get addicted to those drugs you deserve to be treated like you are less than human

[Anonymous No.16566843]

>>16566314
they are not less than human. also what does this have to do with the thread.

nigger

[Anonymous No.16566847]

>>16566843
I've seen dozens of stories here about line cooks being meth or heroin addicts.
And they are less than human, junkies don't deserve anything from society where actual people live.

[Anonymous No.16566854]

>>16566847
no one deserves anything bro that doesn't mean they are not human

[Anonymous No.16568021]

>>16565043
get a load of this fag

[Anonymous No.16568150]

>>16560486
Poverty is immoral. Poor people are disgusting.

[Anonymous No.16568162]

>>16564421
S A V A G E
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[Anonymous No.16568171]

just one and a half years until i quit my job as a line cook for internships at proper companies

[Anonymous No.16568205]

>>16560980
You're describing a literal homeless person.

[Anonymous No.16568830]

>>16562212

>unskilled

you literally just proved your entire restaurant experience is at a golden corral. i pity you anon. maybe one day you'll eat at an actual restaurant and realize it takes a lot of skill to make good food.

[Anonymous No.16569005]

>>16560475
It's very hard to do foodservice work without turning into a degenerate. You work basically the opposite hours of polite society, in a hectic environment with a bunch of people who have problems, to put it mildly. You get off work late and you're still keyed up from the rush so a lot of people turn to booze or drugs to relax. There's a lot of fucking and feuding going on between the staff. The foodservice industry is neverland, a bunch of grown adults acting like high schoolers.

[Anonymous No.16569019]

I graduated uni in Eastern Europe and my degree isn’t recognized in Canada so I have been applying for all kinds of jobs so I can start to save up for a down payment for a house in Europe.
I have been avoiding any kind of food related positions mostly because it’s hectic and low pay. Looks like I made the right choice, anyone here actually enjoy working at a restaurant?

[Anonymous No.16569029]

>>16560475
It's cheap and affordable The more popular brands use multiple tricks to get people to buy and the chemical composition is enough that a person becomes easily attracted Those with addictive personalities may be more likely to buy fast food and the general population is susceptible to advertising The vast majority of people all over the world spend a decent sum of their money on restaurants and pre-made food

[Anonymous No.16569056]

>>16569019

i enjoy my job as a cook but i work in fine dining. i hate being in casual because its exactly what people here describe. fine dining and upscale are way more competitive and even though the substance abuse problems are there in the kitchen when im in a fine dining place everyone there is autistic as hell and deeply passionate about their job. if you really enjoy food being in a fine dining kitchen is like being a sports team or in the military. its a ton of bullshit and aggro alpha crap you have to deal with but there is an extreme comeraderie and the best place to be if you are serious about cooking. 90% of kitchens are bullshit but when you get into fine dining then its a completely different game. its a very focused artform with a cut throat social aspect thats good for competitive and passionate people.

[Anonymous No.16569395]

>be dishwasher years back
>snobby waitress starts thinking she can bring back her silverware way late because shes lazy
>into the trash it goes
>silverware casualties get high enough management notices
>shrug and say I clocked out and never saw her bring them shit in
>they think she was either hiding or throwing the silverware away because late and lazy
>manager has the hots for her so just tells her to be more timely
>problem resolves itself though they are still under the impression there is a ton of dirty silverware hidden somewhere
>mfw

only non-shit job in restaurant work is dish pit. Might be looked down on but every other job comes with so much more bullshit, will burn you out or turn you towards drink or drugs.

[Anonymous No.16569424]

>>16562377
>I'm busting my balls off so you can slowly walk around and deliver food
You act like servers don't think the exact same thing. FOH/BOH are both difficult if the restaurant is worth a shit, business is good, and the employee gives a damn.

[Anonymous No.16569431]

It's a dead-end job for people who attend bright enough to scam some benefits.

[Anonymous No.16569447]

>>16560475
BoH were always doing drugs and hitting on underaged girls. Wasn't uncommon for one not to show up for 2 days and then reappear out of their mind on heroine. FoH has always been sluts with self esteem issues and guys who were frat boys. Having worked both, I preferred FoH because at least then I could ignore BoH talking about drug running something up from Florida that weekend. FoH also made more with tips and I was often assigned there to be the defacto "please go tell those Indian/Middle Eastern guys to leave for harassing the staff" guy

[Anonymous No.16569453]

>>16569395
can you work dishes and still have sex with other staff and do drugs with them?

[Anonymous No.16569454]

>>16569453
No. Dish guys are often the weirdos no one talks to. Most of the restaurants I worked at literally gave the job to some outside hiring company for mentally disabled people.

[Anonymous No.16569499]

>>16564324
Literally just go lock yourself in your apartment for a month. Like lock yourself in in such a way that you need to call someone to get you out, like a padlock on the outside. That way you can't get alcohol, and instead you'll have a psychotic breakdown and eventually be cured of your addiction. That or replace with weed.

[Anonymous No.16569503]

>>16565043
How's the corn harvest coming along?

[Anonymous No.16569507]

>>16569019
>my degree isn't recognized
By who, the government? Just put it in your resume and send it out

[Anonymous No.16569517]

>>16562210
Tell me more about the imitation crab meat stockpile

[Anonymous No.16569522]

>>16569453
i was a dishie that did drugs with the boys and girls behind the bar but thats cus i was white and they were the only other ones in the restaurant that also spoke english, but sadly no sex ;_;

[Anonymous No.16569528]

>>16564412
>watch
>bracelet
Is he really a cook?

[Anonymous No.16569531]

>>16569019
>degree isn’t recognized
unless its a protected or union job (gov, medical, police, something where they check ect) literally just lie

[Anonymous No.16569532]

the whole industry preys upon people with low self-esteem and slowly turns them into narcissists. everyone talks about how they want to get out but they are sluts for punishment and the cheap thrill behind the rush.

[Anonymous No.16569894]

>>16564324
As a former alcoholic and line cook; save money, quit your job, go back to your parents house if you can and go to rehab

[Anonymous No.16569907]

>not getting out when the coof opened the door

[Anonymous No.16569908]

>>16560475
can only speak as foh but its because the younger workers are there to just make some money and think theyre destined for better things and think their youth can be spent a little recklessly while the older fuckers have resigned themselves into a life os meaninglessness and are jaded so they try to live younger than they are and pretend like the young kids like them for who they are. the young workesrs tell themselves they will never be working this life when theyre that age but thats what normally happens fuck get me out bros.

[Anonymous No.16570082]

>>16564324

[Anonymous No.16570103]

>>16560475
I'm sure an economic historian could explain why until the cows come home, but clawing your way through food service to the highest rank possible has always been the last chance for the absolute losers of society to have anything resembling a decent job/wage. This economic fact is also one of the many reasons why you should never, ever go into food service as a "dream career".

[Anonymous No.16570110]

>>16562210
>>16569517
saw your post on craigslist but i'm all set. thank you though

[Anonymous No.16570112]

>>16560475
i used to work front of house for a while when i graduated. i drunk iced coffees and i vaped.

based lifestyle. fucked more bitches in those 4 months than i did in 3 years at college.

[Anonymous No.16570124]

>>16569908
>be 16 yo dishwasher
>see early 30s line cook
>clearly hates life and his job
>constantly making suicide jokes
i thought id never be like him

[Anonymous No.16570145]

>>16569908
dark observation with a lot of truth to it. there is always an element of the cook [even chef's] psyche that no matter how good the job is, fuck this place he wants out.

however, i don't think the cooks/chefs are 'pretending' they are younger than they are always. the chefs and cooks i met, from late 20's to early 50's - they were always in comparably much better physical health than most normies at desk jobs. no back problems, no mobility issues, spring in their step, able to wake up early and sleep late. yeah, sometimes the things they wore might be a bit out of place, but they were often pretty fit - an occupational necessity.

i never worked with any fat cooks or chefs personally.

[Anonymous No.16570793]

>>16570124
I'm already like him

[Anonymous No.16570817]

>>16569517
You'll know when it happens

[Anonymous No.16570821]

>>16560475
>What is it about the food service industry that attracts such disgusting degenerates and lowlifes?
What attracted me was the free nooners with your mum in the mens room.

[Anonymous No.16570877]

>>16563252
IL here, town?

[Anonymous No.16570914]

>>16570082
scott?

[Anonymous No.16570927]

>>16562252
OW anon, these cut resistant gloves didn't help at all when I stabbed my hand! :(

[Anonymous No.16570966]

Any books about working in a kitchen besides that Bourdain one?

[Anonymous No.16570972]

>>16564604
room temperature iq take

[Anonymous No.16571135]

>>16570914
yes! very based observational anon
>captcha: W2G0W

[Anonymous No.16571502]

>>16571135
thanks. I'm working on my face recognition skills. Soon I'll be able to move up to object permanence :)

[Anonymous No.16571654]

>>16560475
Can confirm, I was a line cook and I'm a disgusting lowlife degenerate. We'd be four deep in the employee bathroom railing lines of heroin off the back of the toilet. Playing grab ass with the underage salad girl in the walk in. Good times.

[Anonymous No.16572235]

>>16565291
This, used to show up drunk every shift and no one cared as long as I could get the job done.

[Anonymous No.16572245]

>>16560686
Did you get out anon?

[Anonymous No.16572278]

>>16560484
>>16560498
I get the impression this is a US problem because after highschool you're qualified for jack shit, though. Kitchen help and shit? Yeah, that's the bottom-of-the-barrel position people without any education apply for, but if you want to be a cook or chef you need to have prior experience or finished culinary school.

[Anonymous No.16573782]

>>16571502
:)

[Anonymous No.16573912]

>>16560486
>>ew, poor people are icky and I'm a huge faggot

[Anonymous No.16573941]

>>16573912
most pathetic mindset imaginable, get help

[Anonymous No.16573944]

>>16573941
chapo check

[Anonymous No.16573963]

>>16572278
having a highschool degree means nothing, yes. you could be a dropout or have a GED and just never mention it and get all the exact same jobs someone with a HS diploma could get. no one really cares about your degree or GPA except for a select few very specific jobs that the vast majority of people will never be applying for.

being accredited in academics mostly only matters to people in the academic field or people applying for further academic study. in a practical sense.

[Anonymous No.16573968]

>>16573944
are you talking about chap trap house? what's wrong with you?

[Anonymous No.16573978]

>>16573968
dilate

[Anonymous No.16574051]

>>16569005
This describes factory life, also. I bet all blue collar jobs are like this.

[Anonymous No.16574256]

>>16569056
Yeah my sister dated waiter at nicest restaurant in my city. And you could perceive ever so slightly my family (quite well off) looked down on him for his career. And I still resent this greatly. He worked harder than any of them and came off as far more cultured and gentlemanly outside work than these corporate people because he was actually in a position where he had to impress the upper class instead of just bullshitting with them all the time.

Good cooks and servers are not able to get by and live off bullshitting they have to be consistent and skilled. They also have a degree of freedom and mobility many better paid professionals never will.

[Anonymous No.16575698]

>>16564324
Try “smart” construction jobs, low voltage and ‘spensive decor lighting is my recommendation. Basic bitch “programming”, cable running, non-persistent work areas. Almost mandatory to smoke pot at this co as a tech, almost mandatory to drink heavily as a salesbro. 1 of our branch managers is a long time waitron and one of my new hires was an illegal Canadian forced into Mexican food work for fiveish years till he got the proper gubmint papers. If you’re willing to sweat and only deal with one to two rich assholes per day, leave food service. Install fancy lights and overcharge boomers, don’t feed drunks.

[Anonymous No.16575708]

>>16560486
I put everyone who smugly replied to this post on my list

[Anonymous No.16575753]

>>16560706
definitely the best drug but all 100% fake these days, even pills. the only real way is to get a legit prescription for a good opiate like dilaudid or opana, or find an actual good vendor on the darknet. most street heroin these days contains no heroin, and fentanyl is a trash drug with no euphoria or legs and abysmal withdrawals