/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11195775
Had a guest order a crepes Fitzgerald (cheese-filled crepes topped with a seasonal fruit butter sauce flambéed table-side, usually serves as a breakfast course or a dessert) with a type prep ***meat allergy***
***extreme***
***no meat***

But like okay extreme meat allergy aside on a fucking order of crepes and fruit coming off a station stocked with nothing but produce and cream, crepes are made primarily of animal byproducts and cheese is made of cow tit juice idk man fuck your extreme meat allergy

>>11195852
Even if meat allergy were a real thing (and I'm really doubting it is), I'm pretty sure you could just specify vegetarian / vegan and get the same lack of meat.
>>11195775
>we will expand our menu and stop cooking anything from meat or seafood
Maybe I'm stupid like that customer, but what does that even mean? Why would you stop cooking from meat and seafood because you expanded your menu? I don't understand how those two things relate. Is there not enough time to do both the new menu items and the meat and seafood cooking?

>>11195775
My girlfriends family has a lot of literal retards, the ones who aren't, really aren't that smart either.

When I lived with them the first thing I did was get all the electrical cords off the bathroom floor before someone got killed by them.

It was a nightmare shopping with them, they'd get 400 bucks in food stamps and spend it all at once.

>>11195775
>Hi I'd like this steak medium, with no pink at all inside
>mfw

>>11195896
The only meat allergies I remember hearing about were related to tick bites, and specifically red meat only. I'm sure there are more, you can develop weird immune responses to literally anything

>>11195896
Too much shit to worry about
I work at a grill in a grocery store too and there's already so much stuff I have to prep for my own menu items. Some guy always brings over like 5 steaks or a whole fish for me to cook when I already have a bunch of burgers and tacos on the grill or some old spanish lady that wants her two 1.5 pound steaks well done and ready in 10 mintues.

>middle-aged woman comes in
>has a very high pitched squeaky voice
>almost cartoonish but what ever
>old woman complains about it
>starts saying there are rules against having a voice like that
>looks at me like I am suppose to do something about it
My bad

>>11195852
i tell people i have a "severe allergy" when actually i have "extreme intolerance"
it's not life threatening but if i consume the offending ingredient i will promptly need to lie down in the fetal position for the next 2.5+ hours, rising only to puke and shit my brains out
"allergy" is just easier to convey to the proletariat

>>11195852
I wouldn't really be bothered by anyone being extra careful if they do in fact have an extreme allergy, or think they do. There are some real retards in kitchens after all, I've seen some cross contamination.

>Work in restaurant that primarily serves grilled meat
>All advertising is about meat
>Meat is in name of restaurant
>Customers get to watch said meat being grilled
>"Why don't you have more vegan options?"

>>11195939
Interestingly the first one I found looking into this topic suggests people with this allergy could still eat *human meat*.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy
>Alpha-gal allergy, also known as meat allergy or mammalian meat allergy (MMA),[1] is a reaction to galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose (alpha-gal), whereby the body is overloaded with immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies on contact with the carbohydrate.[2] The alpha-gal molecule is found in all mammals apart from Old World monkeys and the apes, which include humans.

>>11195955
>puke and shit my brains out
Why does that not count as an allergy?

>>11195969
Allergies induce a histamine reaction, not being able to digest things is an intolerance. Anon will shit his brains out but not go into anaphylactic shock.

>>11195955
>>11195969
Never mind, I guess "allergy" is specific to an immune system response like with bee stings and "intolerance" is for GI problems. Although inflammatory bowel disease is considered an autoimmune disease so I would think there's some overlap in mechanism between immune system problems with the intestines getting inflamed and immune system problems with allergic reactions.

>>11195940
>>11195775
What grocery stores has a kitchen where customers bring food for you to cook? I've never heard of that and I live in burgerville the laziest place on the planet.

>>11195986
A lot of them. Most meat sections at grocery stores are like that. You buy meat and take it to the person working the meat section and they'll cook it for you.

>>11195986
I'm not op but I work in a Whole Foods.
It's not a bad service since we don't have a grill fee.

>>11195966
I worked in a chain restaurant and it was absolutely disgusting, I'll see cooks grab raw, thawed burger patties with their bare hands, take the spatula, press down the patty, then continue to work on salads; nachos; whatever without putting on gloves or washing their hands. I quit that place after a week because I didn't fit in with the "fuck the customers, I work too hard to care about them" atmosphere.
>Don't have any customer stories because I just kind of tune out their stupidity at this point

>>11195994
>>11195996
That is the saddest thing I've ever heard
The best part about cooking meat is doing it yourself and seasoning it/cooking it the way you want

>>11195966
Reminds me of the time I was working at a Panera Bread and I had a family walk out because our only gluten free options were a salad without croutons and a soup without croutons. Like it's fucking Panera BREAD what do you expect?

>>11195994
>>11195996
sounds nice

>>11196006
It's not sad. People like eating meat and not everyone likes cooking. You might as well think it's sad that people bought meat from a store instead of operating their own farm and slaughterhouse.

>>11196006
They don't care about that stuff. They don't even know how to cook the shit. I had a guy with his family come in and bring me some nice steaks. The fuckin guy thought it would take 2 minutes each side to cook a 1.5 inch thick steak to medium.

>>11196019
You buy meat from a store because it's impractical as hell to go out and butcher an animal for your food. You go to restaurants because you don't want to cook and someone will cook for you. You don't buy food from a grocery store to turn around and have them cook it for you just because you're so lazy that you can't spend 15-20 minutes cooking it

>>11196038
How is using a grocery store for cooked food worse than using a restaurant for cooked food? I don't get it.

>>11196052
Because that's entire point of a restaurant whereas a grocery store is where you go to get food to take home? Why would I want someone at the grocery store to cook my meat that probably will need to be reheated(which makes its quality lesser) when I get home when I could just cook it at home and avoid reheating it?

>>11196052
He likes tipping waiters and watching tv at places other than home

>>11196077
Just eat at whole foods

>>11196078
That's a lot of projection there m8
I'm not the one defending getting my food cooked at a grocery store

>>11196077
>Why would I want someone at the grocery store to cook my meat
Then don't. lol. Obviously some people were willing to pay for it.

>>11196090
>I'm not the one defending getting my food cooked at a grocery store
I like how you say that like it's some weird unheard of thing. What backwater flyover region are you from?

>>11195775
>I wanted to help him out
That was nice of you anon, hope some good karma comes your way. What kind of grocery store cooks things for people? That sounds bizarre to me

>>11195996
What region are you in? I work in the North Atlantic and none of our stores offer this service, it's extremely bizarre.

>>11196108
Is this some unknown weird regional thing happening here, I've never heard of a grocery store cooking food people have bought form them

>>11196108
It is some weird unheard of thing
If anything, getting my food cooked in a grocery store sounds like some backwater flyover crap.

>>11196128
Midwest. I hear most stores have phased it out and ours is one of the only ones left in our region. When I first got moved to the grill I heard we were losing 8k a week here.

Basically OP works at a nigger store for EBT money.

>buy uncooked produce with your EBT
>We'll cook it for you for little to no cost

If I had a nickel for every chimpy that used this trick I would be able to eat as good as them.

>>11196187
That makes sense I guess, you're in an odd region. My home store is INK Block in Boston but I move around the region a lot for OTS crap and I've never heard of this type of service lol

>>11196211
How is that a "trick?" I'm pretty sure there's no rule that says EBT can only be used to purchase uncooked meat.

>>11196295
>I've never heard of this type of service lol
Whole Foods has cook to order. You've never heard of Whole Foods?

>>11196108
>I like how you say that like it's some weird unheard of thing.
Germany

>customer picks up rotisserie chicken
>turns it upside down to read the label
>spills chicken juice on the floor
>repeats this 7 times

>>11196535
>lol Americans hate sex on TV and can't legally drink until they're 21
>Getting your food cooked WHILE IN the supermarket? reeeeeeeee

>>11195775
Newsflash:

You are the brainlet here, anon. Aluminum foil gives off toxic byproduct when heated. Causes alzheimers disease.

>>11196364
EBT cannot be used to purchase hot food items, which would include cooked meat

t. Cashier

>>11196535
>Germany
The original flyover

>>11196595
American here. I've seen this with fish in Asian grocery stores. It's pretty great. No reeeeeing here.

>>11196364
Actually there is a rule that you can't use EBT cards on cooked food.
t. used to work at a Papa Murphy's who took EBT money because of that specific loophole

>middle aged woman with "i want to speak to the manager" haircut orders standard margarita
>bartender fucks up the order and makes it a grande top shelf
>literally no difference other than its bigger and doesn't have shit tequila
>tell her about the mix-up and let her know there will be no extra charge
>"i dont want it, this isnt what i ordered"
>tell her its literally just a better version of what she ordered
>she starts getting mad
>"no! I didnt order THIS, I ordered the NORMAL margarita"
>let her know that it will be a few more minutes since the barkeep is swamped
>doesnt care, orders me to get her a normal margarita
>ends up leaving like a dollar as a tip

Just take the free shit you entitled cunt.

>>11196634
I hope you learnt the lesson here: don't tell her in the first place. Do you think she would have noticed the difference?

>>11196364
You're not supposed to be able to use EBT on anything cooked. This keeps nogs and trailer trash from spending it on eating out.Some areas are more or less strict in how they enforce that.
Next state over won't allow hoagies or pre-made salads at all. My state will as long as the sandwich has nothing heated on it(chicken strips , toasted bread, etc)

>>11196634
This is why I refuse to give free shit to people if we fuck up. They never appreciate it and snap at you like that lady did
>guy shows up at wrong store to pickup his online order
>takes order from counter without talking to an employee or confirming it was in fact his order
>Tfw I spent half an hour on the phone trying to explain to this blithering idiot he can't have a refund for an order he didn't make especially when his actual order wasn't even placed at my store

>>11195775
>can i have a gluten free ham and cheese toastie
>tell them the ham is grain fed pork
>just a normal ham and cheese toastie then

>>11196609
kek

how good is publix in terms of deli/bakery quality

>>11196658
and in CA you use it at Popeyes

>>11196108
Bruh i live in Tacoma, WA and i have never heard of that shit. And i side with the other shitposter. What kind of dildo buys a steak, gets it cooked and eats it at the grocery store? I want to cook my steak in a weber kettle, while drinking piss beer and listening to trucker metal

>>11196755
>What kind of dildo buys a steak, gets it cooked and eats it at the grocery store?
The kind that doesn't feel the need to act cool and hip on an image board

Thank god I havent had to deal woth the general public in many many years

>>11196372
Off the Prep menu yes, not off of shit bought from the meat and seafood teams. You can't just up and buy some Salmon and walk it over to the Prep department and expect them to have time to cook it for you. They're busy cooking shit for the lunch rush or the dinner rush.

>>11196965
https://media.wholefoodsmarket.com/news/whole-foods-market-to-open-regions-flagship-and-largest-whole-foods-ma
> Seafood Department
>A "Custom Catch" program where shoppers select any available seafood and customize with marinades or seasonings. Team members will cook to order: charbroil, bake, steam, deep fry, sauté, or smoked with an in-store seafood smoker.

>>11195775
That is privileged information. You should not be posting it here, NPC

>>11195852
Have you ever made crepes? They're primarily wheat, often with egg and/or milk, but not always.

>>11195998
every customer service job has that atmosphere because customers are all unironic piece of shit boomers and foreigners

>>11195986
I agree, it sounds neat, but this is just bizarre.

>>11196684
>thinking pork contains gluten because it's fed grain


this board i swear

>>11197986
i just hate gluten toasties because the cheese slices are larger than the bread slices.

>>11196125
Not so. A lot of seafood grocers offer that, especially if they have a small restaurant inside.

>>11196604
>gives off toxic byproducts

...like?

>>11196634
There are several reasons why she wouldn't want that one, why would you keep pushing it? Just get it remade. Seriously, I can see why you only got a dollar tip.

>>11198084
>There are several reasons why she wouldn't want that one
yes?
>inb4 she didn't want a large drink - just don't drink it all bitch
>she didn't trust him - fuck you bitch
>she wanted to drink cheap spirits - what the fuck bitch?

>>11198077
Like aluminum you dolt

>>11198122
aluminium is nontoxic

>>11197964
It's bizarre people keep posting about this somehow being bizarre. I grew up in New Jersey and grocery stores definitely had meat and seafood departments with cook to order service. Same with when I later moved to Massachusetts (had a sushi chef at the local supermarket too).

>>11198134
It absolutely isn’t when ingested or inhaled over time. It’s linked to Alzheimer’s among other things. It’s been shown to leech into foods even when they’re not heated.

>>11198149
>It’s linked to Alzheimer’s among other things
Yeah, and scabs are linked to cuts. "Linked" doesn't mean shit.

The fact is that aluminum is one of the most common elements on this planet. It's everywhere. We use it for all sorts of things, and yet we don't see any health problems because of it. Claiming aluminum is toxic is about as silly as saying that nitrogen is.

>> It’s been shown to leech into foods even when they’re not heated.
That's nice. Has anyone show it actually DOES anything? No.

>>11198158
not him but it builds up in your system and high aluminum content is indeed a direct cause of mental problems if your body can't eliminate it properly due to old age or renal problems

>>11198203
>high aluminum content is indeed a direct cause of mental problems
Care to be more specific?
Can you provide a citation?

...because the only thing I have read is that someone found aluminum in Alzheimer's lesions, but had no idea what it was doing there. Presence has nothing to do with cause, unless you think that scabs cause cuts or that white blood cells cause infections.

Given how incredibly common aluminum is in our environment it seems unlikely that it is toxic to humans, and it seems even more unlikely that it could do so without us knowing about. Hell, even workers in aluminum foundries or machine shops don't show unusual health symptoms despite having FAR higher exposure than normal people. Compare that to, say, Asbestos workers or cigarette smokers where there is an obvious correlation with exposure.

Stop with the paranoia and produce the proof.

>>11195775
better than him being a brainlet that thinks foil, especially heated, is a direct cause of Alzheimer's

>>11196108
I've never heard of it and I dont live in a flyover.
t. Texas fag.

>>11196684
is anyone else sick of this whole gluten meme?

>>11196755
What's trucker metal? Pantera? Godsmack?

>Go to local vegan restaurant/shop
>Their lunch menu isn't that great (it's either utterly bland, or drowned in garlic and pepper), but the whole grain bread and other baked goods are fucking delicious
>Grab two loaves of banana bread and walk to the cashier
>Some fat old bitches nearby are talking loudly about how they're basically going to live forever because they became gluten-free vegans
>While scarfing down a plate of fried seitan each

>>11198218
>aluminium poisoning may lead to mainly three disorders: aluminium-induced bone disease, microcytic anemia and neurological dysfunction (encephalopathy). Such conditions are more prominently observed in people with chronic renal failure and especially in people on haemodialysis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_toxicity_in_people_on_dialysis#cite_ref-1

>>11198495
>is anyone else sick of this whole gluten meme?
Yeah, I don't know why we don't just outlaw bread altogether, it's a shit filler "food" meant to take the place of meat during times when people couldn't afford proper meals.

>>11195775
>Work at a diner/grill in a grocery store
OP"s title
>Customers lacking brain cells
I stopped reading right there. Realized OP was just some low-tier brainless manlet. Probably an omega working at a shit tier job. His opinions are not the opinions of Alphas as myself.

>>11196021
This is one of the weirdest things I have ever heard of in my life. Does the man have no shame? You can literally youtube this shit for an hour, take some notes, cook some OK steaks, and be hero of the night for your family. But no, instead he brings his FAMILY to some rando (no offense) to cook it FOR him. To me that just seems baseline emasculating.

>>11199432
>hero of the night for your family
>Buying cooked food is emasculating
What the fuck? You have some seriously messed up self-esteem issues going on here. Most guys don't feel like their masculinity is being attacked just because a service employee prepared some food for them. Do you feel like less of a man when the janitor empties out your office trash can too?

>>11199432
Also you meant "borderline," not "baseline."

>>11195967
>Monkeys
Boy do I have a Brazilian specialty for you

>>11195996

OP here, I'm also at Whole Foods. They actually completely changed the venue so we're behind a wall and people order through a kiosk. They even got rid of our grill and replaced it with a big flat top. Management was considering keeping the free meat/seafood cooking service cause customers were absolutely outraged by the change but it would have been way too chaotic; customer tried to get us to still do it by either screaming at us from the pick-up counter or straight up walking into the venue.

>>11196211

It's actually the opposite at my store. It's in this super expensive area with lots of high rise living and shopping in a major city. It's a lot of stay at home moms, shoppers, and business people. We even had this regular who was kind of noteworthy. The only person I ever remember seeing pay with EBT was an employee, and we were all sickened by her. She would always but at least one steak a day, and there was one day she bought three steaks, the last of which costing $20. She was really rude, too. Luckily she was fired a while ago.

>>11196187

Midwest? What city? I work in the flagship store of the Midwest. Spooky

>some dirty looking ~16 year old comes in
>he is wearing a piece of rope for a belt
>his backpack is open
>he has a belt in it
>asks to use the bathroom
>tell him its for customers only
>he starts yelling that he is a customer and leaves
>walks down the street swearing at the top of his lungs
>comes back and apologizes and asks to use the washroom
>tell him no
>starts swearing and leaves again

Dumb kid didn't realize he had a belt in his backpack the whole time.

>>11199747
Sounds like he was going to go shoot up in the bathroom.
>dirty
>backpack already open
>belt at the ready
Did he have a can or bottle of water?

>>11195939
A coworker's wife suffers from Lupus and can't eat red meat.

>>11195896
It is. Look up the lone star tick. Ticks are fucking assholes.

>>11196560
Stop putting labels on the bottom then dumb dumb

>>11199747
>>11199762
^This. He had the belt sticking out yet wasn't using it for his pants not because he was too stupid to know he had a belt but because he was going to use it as a tourniquet in the restroom.

>>11199747
Have you had no experience with how drugs work?

>>11196658
Not the anon you were responding to but, that policy should be revisited. Yes, EBT should not be used on eating out but why shouldn't it be use at a grocery store on rotisserie chickens or any of the other 'ready to go' meals? They are not that expensive and would be a time/energy saver for someone who might be (ironically) trying to support their family while working at a fast food chain.

>>11199803
they put it on the bottom because that makes it easier to scan at the till without spilling shit everywhere

if you want to read the label, instead of tilting the packaging, hold it up

>>11195775
Which country do you live in? I've never heard of a store that will cook your meat for you. That sounds awesome.

>>11199865
He said he's American. I'm still amazed at how many people are responding to this like it's unusual. It's such an obvious idea to have a chef working at your grocery store to do cook to order, don't know why so many of you are in regions that don't do this.

>>11199817
Have you had no experience with how jokes work?

>>11199877

To be fair, I had never heard of such a thing until I moved to Chicago from New Orleans. There was one fairly large Whole Foods there that could have potentially fit a diner, but I think people there just wouldn't be interested. There isn't really a culture of hanging out in grocery stores there.

>>11195775
>customers lacking brain cells
work in retail pharmacy
you'd swear customers WITH braincells are non-existent.

I worked in a bar/bottle shop for a year so I have a few stories up my sleeve, but this one happened to me recently when I was at another bar/bottle shop as a customer.

>woman comes in asking for a wine that is "dry and not too expensive"
>bartender "well most wine is dry so..."
>eventually just finds her the cheapest pinot grigio in the shop
>she asks him three fucking times if the wine is dry as he's ringing her up
>eventually when she goes to leave I say to the bartend sarcastically, "now, are you sure you didn't give her sauterns?"
>oh wait, she can't figure out how to get out the front door and she needs help

Jesus Christ, have these people not had a bottle of wine for 30 years? Not even shitty bottle shops sell that much sweet wine anymore.

>>11199956

I feel like I'm that person whenever I order wine at our bar. I would never order this way at a regular bar, but I'm comfortable enough with my coworkers to order "the cheapest red." I could bother looking like I'm not scum and asking what they had in stock that day but I have 0 palate and probably wouldn't be able to tell them apart anyways. The only thing I can taste is when the wine is so awful it's undrinkable.

>>11200003
Why order red wine if you don't want to drink it?
Wouldn't you then consider ordering white wine, sweet long drink or just cognac with ice? Just something that tastes better.

>>11200003
I think you misunderstand me, I'm not having a go at her because she bought a cheap wine. Maybe she didn't have much money or she doesn't have an appreciation for fine wine, and that's fine.

It's more that I thought it was insulting to the bartender and the establishment (which in my opinion is the best wine bar in my city) that she had to ask so many times about something that everyone working in the industry should easily know. To be fair she probably hadn't been there before but the place looks so well designed that it's very unlikely to be run by idiots.

>>11200020

Ah, OK. I thought the stab was partially cause she had abysmal knowledge of wine. I get that. Sometimes we get those people that are never satisfied with our answer though we answer confidently, so we'll end up just printing out the paper listing the ingredients for the product and giving it to the customer just to shut them up. I think the stupidest thing I had to do that for was to prove there was no gluten in our rotisserie chicken. I would not be surprised if you got a fair amount of questions about your wine containing gluten. Whatever, eat what you want and it's not at all a problem to accommodate, but there is no way all these people have celiac disease and some of their misunderstandings of what is gluten free is head-scratching.

>very difficult regular comes in and asks for a full case of tomatoes from one of my coworkers
>get called to the front because the cashiers don't know how to ring it up
>look at the box, it's 4×5 which according to the print says 40 tomatoes
>tell them we'll weigh the smallest tomato and just multiply the cost by that and input it manually
>cashiers are in agreement, customer freaks out saying she doesn't want to get charged for more product than she actually purchased
>makes cashier weigh up the tomatoes in groups of 10 or so
>ends up paying $6 more than what we offered her

Fucking dumbass.

>>11200070
Yeah I don't have much patience for active retardation. Asking stupid questions because you know nothing is fine but when you make some silly assumption like 'gluten is bad', you're a big retard.

>>11200109

Wow, that's really frustrating. I don't like to be spiteful, but it's almost like it was worth the extra effort to have her pay more.

>>11200111

I had one case where the gluten-misunderstanding-person-situation was reversed. In 99% of situations, it's someone asking if something that would so obviously not contain gluten does. This time, an order came through for a regular old hamburger. This being Whole Foods, the kiosks have huge options for anything containing bread asking "GLUTEN FREE BREAD?" which you must respond yes or no to in order for the order to go though. It also prominently lists the ingredients, one of the first ones being "SESAME SEED BUN." I finish it up, take it out to the woman, and she just stares at the big, fluffy sesame seed bun. "Is that gluten free?"

>>11200142
It really was. I was just watching the poor cashier trying to fit all these tomatoes onto the tiny ass cash register scale without rolling anything over. I don't know what this woman's problem is. She's always mad about something when she shows up. And she speaks with a moderately thick accent so it's hard to communicate.

>>11195922
If youre still here id love to hear more stories. Im drunk and can provide nudes

>>11200172

It's so weird how some customers come in like that and they think you're absolutely hellbent on ripping them off. They come into the store like they're going to war against all the employees who might even pickpocket them if they don't tightly clench their purses or wallets. It seems that if you're a thick-skinned cashier, though, you could get some great stories. Some of the shit I hear people saying to cashiers while standing behind them in insane. I had to help cashier a few times and I got a woman who told me the mob was shooting her with electric pulse x-rays through their cellphones. It was not funny at the time, cause I wanted to get rid of her, but the guy behind her started fucking with her and saying "Yeah, me too!" and goading more rambling out of her. Pretty funny now.

>>11200199
My dude. Like seriously, I'm usually trying to help people out. I work for a company that encourages us to four products a day PER EMPLOYEE. I'm not trying to swindle anyone. Like just yesterday this woman asked me the price of collards since someone knocked the sign down. I didn't feel like walking to the front for a price check so I told her to just tell the cashier I gave it to her for 99¢. She was so insistent on knowing the actual price she ended up getting it for 1.49. I don't understand these people.

>woman who told me the mob was shooting her with electric pulse x-rays through their cellphones

Reminds me of this old guy who was asking one of the cashiers if it was true we had a secret network of tunnels underneath the store. The cashier was looking tired and like he'd been through too much shit that day so he told the guy he didn't know what he was talking about and the dude just walked away looking so upset.

>>11200231
*encourages us to sample

>>11200231

I laughed at that tunnels thing. When you think about it when it's not happening to you, it would seem like the funniest thing to do to probe that person and goad them on, but when you actually encounter someone like that you know they're instantly insane and one little nibble into their lore will lead to a never-ending spew of bullshit.

From what I gather, you're in produce? My fiancee is as well - the biggest complaint I hear about it "WHERE IS THIS?!" while standing directly in front of the item.Seems mild but annoying. Also there's a regular that tries to call in his shopping to produce very frequently, hoping it will be gathered for him by the time he gets there, even though the store has Instacart.

>customer starts an argument with my chef who went to culinary school and has years of experience
>"We've been in the restaurant industry for a while, that's not supposed to be like that etc"
>my chef's face when

>>11200293
Yeah. Used to be assistant produce manager for Weis but that company's a big ol' shitfuck so I went elsewhere to be a senior clerk for a few dollars more.

Honestly, people missing things right in front of them doesn't bother me at all. My new thing is people grabbing from the bottom or middle of a neatly stacked pile of avocados, tomatoes, really just anything round and watching the whole thing collapse in front of them. Although over time that's become less of a frustration and more of a kink, honestly.

The whole Instacart thing is really frustrating. We have this one Instacart shopper who has to ask the location of practically everything and half of it is items we don't even carry. I don't know if they're on a time crunch or what. I had never even heard of the app until I started my new job.

>>11200328
It's not really a story until you say what "that" is.

>>11200328

What was it about?

>>11198963
>yeah! I sure showed him!

>>11200335
>>11200338
I can't remember specifically but the main point is random ass customers thinking they're hot shit or something.
That and ones that send something back five times for five different reasons, like their pallet is SOOOO refined and sophisticated.

>>11200332

I would hear about kids dropping a bunch of shit on the floor rather than adults spilling it, which would be OK if the adults fessed up to their kids being unruly and not just pretending like nothing happened and walking away.

I am very grateful for the wall I am behind and the protection it grants me from Instacart people. Some are totally fine and polite, but some are ruder than any customer in the store. If I ever need to grab something off the shelf we're out of in the back, there is a super high chance I will be cornered by one. One I had three come up to me at once even though I was wearing a chef's coat and all the grocery people wear aprons. The absolute worst is when they won't even make an effort to speak to you. They open their phones, shove them in your face, and wordlessly point to the product they want. No thanks, of course, if you can tell them where it is.

>>11199558
UMA DELICIA

>>11198720
Orange Goblin, Electric Wizard, Elder... But Pantera and Godsmack have a couple songs i would consider truckerish. I wouldnt call it a “genre” so much. I was just smoking, grilling and drinking piss beer listening to said bands and deemed it as trucker metal. Just fat, chunky music that makes you think of some fat, pissed off, chainsmoking trucker dude with missing teeth. The literal epitome of self-depreciation. Probably eats nothing but hot pockets and this results in horrible farts, and every time he always leans to the side so his ass cheeks slap for extra decibels. Motherfuckin trucker metal.

>>11200355
OH WAIT I REMEMBER
Someone sent back shrimp claiming you couldn't serve shrimp uncooked/raw

>>11200371
I certainly wouldn't eat raw shrimp at home
How do you kill the bacteria?

>>11200355

I'm such a pussy I almost never send anything back. On Valentine's Day we went to this fairly high end restaurant in New Orleans. We got a seat on the balcony, which is a coveted seat, but it was also dark as fuck. We finished a bottle of wine before the entrees came but I was like "Eh don't worry about it, this is a popular restaurant and it's gonna absolutely slammed today." My fish finally came and it was overcooked, but I was also wondering "Where is the skin?" I tried the garnish, which in the dark appeared to be some dark greens, but mixed into it were the pieces of the burnt, flaked off pieces of the fish skin. I ate it all since I was hungry and it's not like it was appalling but definitely not worth the $40 or whatever it cost. I just wanted to leave and go out drinking. I don't know what happened but it was reservation only so I feel with the amount of covers they saw they had, perhaps management could have done more to aid the chefs?

>>11200356
I'm almost certain a man told his kids to knock over a bottle of olive oil because I was dicking around in the back looking for his cilantro.

Now admittedly I should've been more mature, but my coworker who sets the wet wall has a tendency of skipping over items that are still sitting on the pallet and this man was giving me hell for it so I really wasn't feeling inclined to be quick about it. I had run into this guy before and he was really rude, and another one of my friends at work had told me this guy freaked out at him because someone swapped the location of the cilantro and Italian parsley. Like, bro. If it's cilantro it'll smell. I'm sorry our wet wall guy is making some mistakes but come on. You're an adult.

>>11200385
.......Wash it?
People eat raw shrimp all the time dude
And we wouldn't serve something that could be contaminated

>>11200391
I thought you can only eat meat safely if its hard for bacteria to enter inside the muscle like beef and tuna.

>>11200386
>management aiding the chefs
Since when

>>11200393
Idk the specifics but I've eaten raw shrimp multiple times with my family
I would assume there's some kind of chemical
>eating raw beef
>difficult to enter the muscle
Uhhhhh what? I'm no health inspector but I'm pretty sure that's not contamination works
Could be wrong

>>11200388

Something similar happened to me today. I was so lucky I was doing prep instead of cooking this order. This woman ordered a pancake and decided it was too flaccid. She made this show up delicately picking it up with her long fake nails to demonstrate this. Granted it wasn't the perfect picture of a pancake but it was fine. My coworker made another one while the woman bitched at someone else about the pancake. He yelled from the flat top, "YEAH, I DIDN'T MAKE THIS BATTER. I CAN MAKE A NEW ONE BUT IT WILL TAKE 40 MINUTES." I look at him like "wtf?" and he shot me this angry glare like, alright, he's gonna give her the passive aggressive treatment. She didn't like the second one either so he violently threw them into the trash in front of her and sweetly said "I am so sorry about that! Take your side orders of bacon for free. I didn't make that batch of pancake batter but I will leave such an angry note to the one who did :)" We served the same batter the rest of the day and no one complained

>>11200407

I don't know, I've never worked in a real restaurant, though I guess I can say the same where I work that I have never ever seen a manager help cook and if someone calls off I'm usually left alone. I thought in a high end place it might be different.

>>11200418
>too flaccid
Alright, call me a casual but as far as I'm concerned, as long as it's not burnt or the interior is literally batter, a pancake's a pancake and I'm happy to eat it.

>>11200421
I've got a sous chef who basically abuses me cause he refuses to work any station other than expo
Last night I was running between pizza, salads/deserts and dish
Occasionally he'll throw a salad together but it's mostly me and the servers trying to help me keep up

>>11200434

I wish you could see the way she held it up with her fake nails as if she was absolutely revolted, like picking up a dead rat by its tail. Pretty infuriating. I was surprised my coworker didn't get mega pissed cause he's a super agro dude. Instead he decided to make a bunch of pancakes for himself, mark them as sample/spoil, and eat them.

>>11200445
This is just me but how is a pancake supposed to be not floppy?
One time my boss said my pizza was floppy too but literally every pizza I've ever eaten is at least a little floppy

>>11200436

OK I am low tier as fuck, can barely call myself a line cook, but I get that so much. I remember running three stations at once - going between a chopped-to-order salad station and a shuck-it-for-you-now station. That was normal, but someone had left sushi since they were sick so it left this 2 hour period of this woman who spoke NO english running sushi and could barely make rolls. She could not take customers' orders so I'd have to run there, take the order, and set up the rolls with the ingredients in them in front of her and make a rolling and cutting motion and put some boards in front of her so she understood what to do. Also one day I was doing the oyster/salad thing and our only shucker broke. I pleaded, "Can we please shut it down?!" They gave me the choice between a flimsy vegetable peeler and an ice cream scoop to shuck with.

>>11200461

Maybe he should've thrown it in the deep frying and seen how firm it got after that. That dude loves to throw random shit in the fryer. I've seen him put raw pancake batter in which was a failed experiment, but what about a whole deep fried pancake? I work with him tomorrow. Maybe we can create the metaphysical "firm" pancake.

>>11200470
>a vegetable peeler or an ice cream scoop
>won't shut down the fucking station
>woman who barely speaks English
You're not low tier, I've never had to deal with that shit
I'm still pretty new myself been working there for a year, so I guess anything I have to complain about is likely leagues behind

>>11196108
Hi there, I'm a travelling technician who not only has spent plenty of time in the vast majority of US states but I've also circumnavigated the fucking globe. I can say I have never in my life seen a grocery store that cooks whatever the fuck you haul in. Stop projecting your hyper regionalized buttfuck ass system as being "modern and worldly" when it apply to fucking literally nowhere else. Go choke down another avocado you hipster fuccboi

>>11195775
lol he ain't dumb, he was alluding to the fact that foil/alluminum leeches chemicals

your store just offered a quick meal the way his paranoid mind wanted

>>11198752
https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phs/phs.asp?id=1076&tid=34
>Oral exposure to aluminum is usually not harmful. Some studies show that people exposed to high levels of aluminum may develop Alzheimer's disease, but other studies have not found this to be true. ... The kidney disease causes less aluminum to be removed from the body in the urine

>it's another "the customer is always right" customer
I hate these people. They are actually the dumbest people I've ever met and think that they have the right to step on anyone they consider below them. It could be a junkie and they'd still look down on you because you work a register.

>>11195775
My sister likes to talk up her "seasoned" cast iron which she scrubs vigorously with dishwashing liquid after each use.

>>11196006
you may find this hard to believe but not everyone enjoys cooking and would rather do something else with their time.

>>11196077
>whereas a grocery store is where you go to get food to take home?
In this case it isn't.

I have never been to one of these places but I have a hunch this is going to be the best price/quality ratio you'll get dining out.

>>11199705
Chicago

>>11199767
Its never Lupus

>>11195852
I mean it is true that afyer a number of years being vegan you are actually 'allergic' to meat in the sense that eating it can make you sick (it takes like 7 years of being hardcore vegan and is reversable it has to do with gut bacteria ahd meat being kinda hard to digest and it's not vegetarians just strict vegans) but they wouldn't be ordering crepes then

>>11196006
I can kinda see the practicality if it if you don't own a grill or if it's something fried maybe. I nearly burned down my apartment frying pig ears once because the knob to my stoves range is loose I learned. I won't pot fry shit again either a fryer or I won't make it, I also don't hsve a grill or a patio to put or use one so if I want grilled steak I either have you drive to a park to cook dinner like some spic family or havevthe grocery store do it

>>11198090
>Some people have specific tastes that aren't in line with the general public's idea of quality
I mean offer it at no charge but if ahead says ahead wants what she ordered get it is it your first day or some shit? From her perspective you fucked up and now have the audacity to get mad at her because you fucked up a simple drink order

>>11198934
Not him but I have a psycho vegan chick on my Facebook that is literally campaigning to make eating meat illegal.
The propaganda videos she posts are hilarious and fake too. "Farmers are so evil, they mistreat their cattle" as the video shows dudes in skinny jeans and hoodies kicking cows.

Iunno about you guys but I grew up in the country and never met any farmers that wear skinny jeans and hoodies.

>>11198934
Until we combined them to create sandwiches and humanity got a little closer to God
>That leftover turkey sandwich the day after Thanksgiving

>>11195986
i honestly didn't know it was a thing, but it's pretty popular in the hood, because you can basically use your food stamps for a hot meal

>>11197922
this would be pretty great, if only to get better smoked salmon.

>>11200710

Which store? I;m at Lincoln Park

>>11198934
That's not really true. If I have access to large quantities of meat I still end up craving vegetables, bread, and dairy after eating a lot of meat. Bread is only "filler" if you're combining white flour and water, but whole wheat bread made with milk is fairly nutritious. Moreso if you mix grains, add nuts and seeds, or anything else you can mix into it like cheese to make it even more nutritious.

>>11200199
Not food related but I used to look after the computers in a public library and this old woman told me, WHILE TYPING AWAY ON THE COMPUTER, how you 'should never use keyboards' because the government can shoot electric darts out of them to give you tendonitis.

>>11200909

Through multiple stories chronicling totally insane people, it is sadly expected now.

>>11200794
You think that undercover investigative footage is a vegan hoax because you've never seen a farmer in a hoodie and tight jeans? That is almost flat-Earther tier reasoning.

>>11200142
Devil's Advocate here: I've got celiac and sometimes I do double check when the store seems to have their own bun that isn't the generic Udi's that I recognize. There always could have been a mixup or the waiter could have misheard me. One time I said "no bun" and they somehow heard "low carb" which came with a bun.

>>11196019
Not really. I like cooking meat but not eating it. I'll normally cook a steak purely as a challenge, then toss it in the garbage.

>>11200385
Acidic citrus like in a Crudo or ceviche it doesn't need to be strong or alot the main thing is that the shellfish is fresh. Bay scallops (thd tiny pea sized ones) cam be eaten straight without any acidic component as is but they can't be frozen from halfway across the world. I livevin TX so I would eat gulf shrimp raw but not tiger shrimp (most US shrimp come from India or Thailand) since the gulf can be caught day of or day before whereas the tiger shrimp was probably caught and frozen months ago

>>11195775
people like to think that superstitions stopped forming at the dawn of the 20th century, but they didn't, new ones form and spread all the time
microwaves are a common focus
never heard of foil being a subject, but it kind of makes sense given it has only one reason for existing as far as most people are concerned and they'd never see thin bendy metal otherwise

>>11195966
they're just trying to feel like they're useful and "agitating"

>>11199747
this is masterful, the plebs responding don't even know

>>11198158
>if you get a cut you will get a scab
>if you are exposed to aluminium you will get Alzheimer's
Although I agree with the general point of what you were trying to say that was fucking stupid.

>>11200470
>can barely call myself a line cook

Yeah, based on the rest of what you're describing, you're an all-around firefighter. You might as well have a personal financial stakehold in the place from what I can tell.

>>11200000

>work at pizza shop, deliveries
>customer gets quoted 45 minutes to an hour for their delivery (our out the door time is long af and we were slammed)
>customer calls the store at 35 minutes asking where her order was
>tell her she was quoted 45 minutes to an hour
>she replies "oh" and hangs up

>>11198724
>fried seitan
>???
>Google search "seitan"
>it's shmeat
>vegans named their meat substitute after the lord of darkness

>>11196108
I've lived all over Florida, getting food cooked at a grocery store seems absolutely weird. Maybe they'll steam your shrimp or crab legs but I've never heard of grocery stores cooking steak.

>>11198084
t. autist

>>11201127
> it has only one reason for existing as far as most people are concerned
Which is?

>>11201422
For making robot themed Halloween costumes.

>>11200109
Preventing electrical interference

>>11200568
>I can say I have never in my life seen a grocery store that cooks whatever the fuck you haul in.
See:
>>11197922
https://media.wholefoodsmarket.com/news/whole-foods-market-to-open-regions-flagship-and-largest-whole-foods-ma
> Seafood Department
>A "Custom Catch" program where shoppers select any available seafood and customize with marinades or seasonings. Team members will cook to order: charbroil, bake, steam, deep fry, sauté, or smoked with an in-store seafood smoker.

>>11200568
>whatever the fuck you haul in
Also you don't think we're talking about bringing in food from outside the store, do you? To clarify this is grocery stores that offer cook to order for their own meat or seafood departments.

>>11201538
Infetterence*

>>11195928
I've thought about how much suffering it must be to be a chef at a nice restaurant and have someone order a 60+$ steak medium or well. that's the kind of hell I wouldnt wish on anyone

>>11201622
No, it's a few items of seafood they will cook. It's no different than ordering to go food from red lobster

>>11201701
>it's a few items of seafood
https://media.wholefoodsmarket.com/news/whole-foods-market-to-open-regions-flagship-and-largest-whole-foods-ma
>select any available seafood

>>11201701
Also we already established Whole Foods is exactly the store OP was working at that offered this service:
>>11199659
>OP here, I'm also at Whole Foods.
>free meat/seafood cooking service
>customer tried to get us to still do it by either screaming at us from the pick-up counter or straight up walking into the venue.

>>11201246
I deliver pizzas and I can't tell you how often people complain when I show up early. Generally they're quoted 30-45 minutes, sometimes when I get there within 25-35 minutes they aren't home or won't answer the door or are in a meeting or whatever. So I have to wait a bit. Every time this happens they say "I was told 45 minutes!" No bitch we said 30-45 and I got here in 32. It's actually crazy to me how consistently people bend the truth like that to make themselves seem like a victim.

>>11201705

>select any available seafood

Just like a restaurant

>>11201717
>It's actually crazy to me how consistently people bend the truth like that to make themselves seem like a victim.
There have been a lot of psychology studies on memory being less reliable than people believe and more like a story made up unconsciously after the fact based on a couple abstract pieces of trivia than like a high fidelity video recording. Meaning they might not be lying, they could just be convinced they remember being told something they were never really told.

>>11201740
Not sure what your point is here. Yes, meat and seafood departments at grocery stores where they offer full service cooking of any items in those departments is similar to a restaurant in that both places sell you cooked food.

>>11201756
What is your point? This is just a restaurant inside a grocery store. Hardly a novel concept

>>11196125
Any pics of her feet?

>>11201749
That's an interesting point. And to clarify I don't mind waiting, it's just a little irritating when they imply I did something wrong by being too fast.

>>11195775
>can i get the vegetarian risotto/soup?
>sure
>but can you use meat stock to give it more flavour?
>s-sure

obviously with the risotto it's not a problem to make but when people ask for the vegetarian option but with a hint of meat it's a little weird.

>>11201717
This happened to me once but I scheduled delivery for 4PM instead of just picking ASAP and he showed up at 3:50

>>11195928
Ha, that one is a universal favorite in the "BOH stories" threads on kitchenknifeforums.com and cheftalk.com

>>11196634
>bartender fucks up the order
here is the problem, not the customer

>>11202005
maybe they just want to cut down on cholesterol or something but don't give a fuck about actual meat itself
but yeah, it's weird

>>11201931
What the fuck are you talking about?
Nobody called it a novel concept. You replied to our conversation about cook to order service at grocery stores and said this:
>>11201701
>No, it's a few items of seafood they will cook. It's no different than ordering to go food from red lobster
Which is wrong, what we're talking about isn't limited to "a few items," per this:
>>11201705
>https://media.wholefoodsmarket.com/news/whole-foods-market-to-open-regions-flagship-and-largest-whole-foods-ma
>select any available seafood
And now you're pretending like you didn't even say that and were only arguing grocery stores with full service meat or seafood departments are like restaurants since both sell cooked food. Which isn't a point at all, hence why I'm asking what your point is. Are you all caught up now? Do you remember what you were trying to say here?

>>11195954
>not calling the voice police

>>11202005
"vegetarian" meals aren't only for vegeterians

>>11196606
Except in places that allow it for homeless and disabled, elderly (California).

>>11195775
>that's because foil is metal, and your microwave is an electronic
A+ explanation

>>11199747
quality

>>11196606
What if you're just being nice and cooking the items they bought for free?

>>11201422
wrapping leftovers, at least in my experience

>>11201705
>>11201740
>select all seafood
fuck you captcha, I already bought a pass

>>11195775
>your microwave is an electronic

>>11201717
they feel like they assumed the worst case scenario and it somehow came out even worse, because they didn't really think about what would be worse, just the usual "grrr they take too long"

>>11196609
DO IT AGAIN, BOMBER HARRIS

Reminder that Dresden deserved every bomb dropped on it.

Can I do opposites?

>be late 90s
>close to 4th of July
>Simpsons episode about 'illegal fireworks' comes out
>go into a Quik-E-Mart across the street with few friends
>Tell our retarded 21 year old friend to ask him for fireworks
>he asks
>gets told no
>he says 'I KNOW YOU HAVE FUCKING FIREWORKS'
>the cashier knows we like to fuck around with this retard
>ends up calling his father to come pick him up

Still makes me laugh, 20 years later

>>11201246
Oh no, the customer misremembered something and you corrected her and she accepted it. Did she forget to say sorry or something?

>>11198724
>Some fat old bitches nearby are talking loudly about how they're basically going to live forever because they became gluten-free vegans
>While scarfing down a plate of fried seitan each

Got a strong sense of schadenfreude from that one. If only they knew how wrong they were...

>>11198934
Bread is actually derivative of an old word for meat

>>11196052
>>11196080
I worked at While Foods for a while. Everything in the case is cooked, but has an expiration date almost a week past the cook date. The hot bar is made fresh daily (aside from the trays saved from the night before, but if you’re getting hot bar at 10:00 am, you’re a degenerate).
Anything in the case is OLD AS FUCK, unless you specifically ask.

>>11203156
*Whole Foods, fuck me running backwards.

>>11196136
The stores around here don't do most stuff but will steam a live lobster for you for free. 6.99 a lb can't beat it.

>>11203158
>fuck me running backwards
You came to the right website.

>>11198149
I think you should also stop wearing deodorant if you're so concerned about aluminum build up

>>11201291
did you happen to read what it's made out of?

>>11195775
>Oh, that's because foil is metal, and your microwave is an electronic

You utter utter brainlet.

>>11196108

Completely unheard of here in Norway.

>>11200172
>thick accent
((()))?

>>11195852
Well, there is that one tick disease that makes you allergic to red meat...

>>11195896
>Even if meat allergy were a real thing (and I'm really doubting it is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy
Primarily affects people who are attacked by Lone-Star Ticks

>>11203900
And they thought people were going to roll a steak into their crepe?

>>11195775
>worked at a place that sold churros long ago
>they were called "double twisted churros"
>the guy asked where his second churro was when he paid for one
>ask him wtf he's talking about he
>he replies "it's DOUBLE twisted churros"

>>11196634
>take a smaller glass
>fill it with the drink you made earlier
>pour the rest away
>"here's your normal margarita ma'am"

>>11200683
Yeah, like harass retail workers when they are trying to do their job

>>11204215
Cooking in that case is their job.

>>11204075
>take a smaller glass
>fill it with the drink you made earlier
>drink the rest
>"here's your normal margarita ma'am"

>>11203325
Not him, but mainly wheat protein aka gluten.

>>11199558
Old world monkeys, not Brazilian shit tier monkeys

>>11204227
Which was stated. Harassment is a separate chore for you to do isn't it

>>11204519
It's not harassment if you're voluntarily accepting money in exchange for being there to do exactly what they're asking for.

>>11203156

Yeah chef's case is really gross. There is some truly awful tasting food there, like this tex-mex gnocchi mixture that tastes straight out of a bag or the ever-present cold, overcooked chicken breasts. All of the meatloaf selections are vile as well. There are still some abominations on the hot bar, though. We recently got these kimchi cakes that look like latkes. It felt like chewing dry rubber and they had no flavor at all.

>>11198934
Yea FUCK poor people

>>11195955
Alfredo is one of my favorite foods but if I eat it I will have mudbutt the rest of the night and the next morning.

>>11200880
>That's not really true.
It's absolutely true. Bread is what poor people have used historically to take up space because they can't spare that much meat.

>>11200231
I worked for a big ISP that many of us probably have and they offered a computer program that would "fix" your PC of all types of problems from spyware to just being slow. I remember then demonstrating it to us one day because they wanted us to start selling it to people (150 bucks). They ran it on a freshly made virtual machine and the program found like 1900 instances of spyware and shit. I quit the next couple days. I didnt sign on to sell actual malware to people

>>11204667
It's more of a fuck you to poor people to force them to eat bread.

>>11204713

Kinda reminds me of Cutco. I remember being a teenager looking for a job and ending up in a Cutco hiring session. It was a couple of hours of them demonstrating supposedly amazing products to teens, wowing them with tricks like cutting up a penny with scissors. While I was there, my parents were looking up the company and figured it kind of a pyramid scam exploiting young naive people, and came to pull me out of the "interview." Years later, I remember visiting my dad's house and seeing a new set of Cutco knives. I tried using them and they were so awfully dull. I asked them if he sharpened them and he said yes, and I believe him cause he's a good cook, so if that was true those knives were utter shit and that company is absolutely cynical for luring young teens into selling these things for commission only. I have heard of older people making some money selling their products, but how good of a salesman is an awkward, pimply teen gonna be? I'd like to hear likewise if anyone enjoys their products,

>>11204712
This is why I don't put beans in my chili, not because I don't like them or I give a fuck about what people think is "real" chili, but because poor people can't afford to use as much meat as me.

>>11204545
It is harassment when you verbally or physically attack someone for doing exactly what you asked them them to do

>>11204861
you're supposed to send them in to get sharpened since they have those faux serrations that will get fucked up if you use a normal sharpener on them lol

>>11195775

>own beachside food place
>intentionally short order, only serving a few roast cuts of meat, roast vegetables, fries and salads, everything prepared fresh
>in to get some paperwork done, mostly signing fresh stuff from the suppliers
>some normal looking middle aged woman with two kids is kicking up a fuss, how she has to wait while a worker is preparing her salad, peeling and cleaning the vegetables
>"I want to talk to your manager"
>"I'm right here"
>starts giving me shit, how I dont like a manager
>"Ma'am, I'm the owner of the place, did you not see me with the suppliers"
>whines how it takes too long to prepare stuff and why dont we have a freezer and we must be stalling intentionally
>absolutely dumbfounded
>"Ma'am, the food is prepared right before you, you can see the guys unloading the crates and our employee cleaning them as they come, these carrots and kohlrabs were in the ground three hours ago, it takes five minutes of preparation for you to not have to eat yesterdays refrigerated stuff
>"THEY DONT FEEL FRESH TO ME, YOU MUST BE LYING"
>"Alright, you dont want our food, you dont like our food, you havent paid yet, please leave"
>"I WONT LEAVE UNTIL I GET MY FOOD"
>starts loudly yelling, even drops the "I want my money back" line despite have not paid a cent yet, kids crying, general shitstorm
>"Ma'am, I'm calling the police"
>"YOU ARE RUDE! YOU MUST NOT BE THE REAL OWNER!"
>runs out, almost dragging the kids on the floor, still yelling to us from the outside as they are walking away

I honestly dont get the thought process of these fucking people. They are too busy to wait 5 minutes but will gladly stick around for 20 minutes to argue. Maybe she was trying to fish for free food or something?

>>11199956
to be fair, the fact that she kept asking if it was dry and asked for an inexpensive bottle suggest to me she needed a "dry wine" for a recipe, and she doesnt normally buy wine

>>11203294
Lots of people do opt for aluminium free deodorant. What's your point?

>>11205708
ok so, any time someone does some shit like that, stop trying to apply reason or logic to them or figure out thier thought process;
They are not acting reasonably or logically, they are acting based on underlying psychological patterns and paradigms that they picked up when they were a kid. i do this, you do this, idiots do this a lot.

when people get emotional they fire up the engine of their subconscious and it runs on the same tracks it has run on for years; they usually have one method to deal with every emotion and situation, hardwired into their brains, and they follow it as sure as a train on tracks.
She wasn't trying to do anything logical or clever like get free food. she simply had emotional problems and a specific subconscious predisposition towards being an insane bitch.

>>11195775
I'll have uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

>>11204309
we're slowly learning from the jews, people, bravo.

>>11206057
Is the general consensus we still can't euthanize people like this? At least lobotomize.

You mean there's nothing in this whole world that could snap them out of their emotional loop de loop once they start going? Short of knocking them out that is. I've encountered emotional people before but they generally don't press on to a higher and higher degree until literal exhaustion calms them down. At least not adults without severe autism. I can understand that I do similar things too but not to this degree, that's fucking terrifying.

>>11200328
That doesn't mean much. I knew a "chef" who overcooked all his chicken to this disgusting dry tasteless mess. Somehow I can make perfectly juicy chix at home and not have pink in the center, but this bastard thinks anything less than cooked to leather is gonna give you salmonella. I'm convinced all "culinary school" must teach is how to plate microgreens and faggy sauces around so you have a leaf bukakke on top of your food.

>>11203931
it's to emphasize that the retards like you in the kitchen take care not to cross contaminate with meat products the restaurant also serves

>>11198249
>Texas
>not a flyover

>>11195775
Are you in Missouri?

>>11208430
It's not land locked, idiot. They also have one-way flights to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

>>11198249
>texas
>not flyover
Include me in the screenshot

>>11195998
Such is life. All customers are shitty and cooks use it to justify being shitty to customers and the cycle repeats. The only way to be above is to be the positive change. Or fuck everything and live off grid.

>>11196648
I make a habit of informing customers if their order got upsized in any way.

This happens a lot at the pizza place I work at when people order small pizzas. One way or another, we almost always have mediums, and small dough is annoying to work with.

But I always tell them "it came out big" or some bs, so they know that's not the regular size, so if they get the correct size next time, they don't freak out.

>>11208594
congrats you have an airport

>>11208594
yeah I'm sure Iowa City has international flights too

coast on some polluted gulf isn't what makes a place not flyover

>>11205266

Guess my dad fucked up his own shit then

>>11208495

No, Chicago

>>11195775
>Work at a diner/grill in a grocery store where we will cook anything purchased at the meat or seafood department for free
What the fuck, that sounds amazing. Wish there was a place to do that in my shithole country.

>>11208897

From the responses in this thread, it doesn't even seem like a nation-wide thing here. Seems like a lot of people familiar with the concept are in the Midwest. I am disappointed that my store got rid of it; it really was a good deal for the customer and it was fun to get to cook different things other than hamburgers. Once a woman brought us a bunch of mussels for her to cook in some wine. It was really slow and she was nice so we hooked her up with some nice seasonings that she otherwise would've had to pay for. She really appreciated it. Also one time this guy wanted a Coney Island dog and one of us looked up the recipe for the chili that goes on it and we made it mostly from scratch for him, which was fun for all of us.

Our ordering system allows people to put in their names. Surprisingly few people abuse it, but this daring young boy decided to drop this one on us. A copy of the ticket still hangs in the back.

>>11196560
get pranked BRO

>>11203103
Thanks for proving his point

>>11197963
Wow you must constantly work some shit nigger jobs if you can't pull in any good customers.

>>11199700
Wait, I assumed EBT was a benefit for people who are looking for work, but not currently working. Wtf is the free money for then? I'm not a Burgah.

>>11200612
I think the moral of the story is to not consume aluminum if you're an old fuck

>>11202005
I understand your point, but for example, I like curries for the sauce and spice mixture as well as nice basmati. Meat is meat which I know the taste of, so unless I'm prepping meat in some special way, I usually prefer curries without meat pieces. I don't put meat on homemade pizzas for the same reasons.

>>11208594
And Australia

>>11208971
My inner faggot unironically thought it was pretty sweet that you got to do that. Have you tried discussing if they can bring it back or something?

>>11209032
>no meat
>avocado
>memelord
Goddamn anon, frame that.

>>11201690
This happens to me constantly. Someone ordered kobe beef fucking well done. A fucking $60 pad thai with ruined meat.

>>11201046
It's obvious from the description they are not farmers but stupid fucking kids
Get real, retard

>>11204861
ugh as soon as I graduated cutco sent me a letter asking me to apply, I almost fell for it because that thikc 20$ an hour or whatever it was was enticing. instead I ended up cooking breakfast at a gas station for half of that with a few burn scars as a nice bonus
although I mean at least this way I don't have to deal with entering people's houses with knives right

>>11195775
>Be me
>Work at a bar/grill as a cook
>Have grill behind the bar in the open so customers can see food being made
>Have at least 4 or 5 tickets up to be cooked
>Old man comes by the grill
>"Sir, my wife and i have been waiting for 30 minutes for our food, what the fuck?"
>Sir, Im one man cooking as fast as I can, I can only cook so much food at one time. I have a small grill and one deep fryer. Please be patient.
>He storms off back to where Im assuming his table is out of sight
>Send off an order and look at the next few tickets
>First ticket is for some chicken sandwiches, next ticket is for 4 perch plates
>Throw chicken on grill, takes ~8 min to cook
>Bread and throw perch and fries in deep fryer. Perch takes ~1 minute to cook, fries take ~2 min.
>Plate and serve the perch and fries
>Old man comes back by the grill area
>"What the fuck cook, why did that table get their food before me? I ordered before them!"
>Sir, did you order 2 chicken sandwiches?
>"Yes"
>Explain to him about cook times and how I sometimes work ahead of a ticket or two if I can to get food out faster
>"Thats wrong! You should be making the food in the order you get the tickets! Are you stupid?!?"
>I point to the grill and show him his chicken was on the grill and explain how the deep fryer was open and how much faster perch cooks compared to chicken. Explain how he would be waiting the same amount of time regardless.
>"Well whats been taking so god damn long for the food?"
>Ask him politely to walk around the bar to where you can see the grill and tickets hanging up
>Have at least 6 tickets hanging up and more in the printer
>Point to the tickets
>This is why sir, please be patient
>"Fuck you!" He storms off
>Plate and serve chicken sandwiches
>Nobody at the designated table
>They walked out

Well, I guess these chicken sandwiches are my dinner tonight. That customer was somewhat of a regular, but have not seen him since.

>>11196006
those poor, sad people. eating hot meals cooked for free. I'm shaking

>>11199432
yeah, once a man has another man cook his wife a steak you might as well throw her to Jamal

>>11210471
>40+ minutes for a chicken sandwich

I'd walk out, too.

>>11210477
It's not free college boy they probably paid $20 for that soypatty

>>11210471
are you or he black?

>>11210558
Obviously not, the cook can do math and planning in his head and the customer didn't rape or murder the cook or destroy the restaurant

>Go to Burger King
>Have a coupon for 2 whoppers, 2 drinks, 2 fries for $8
>Tell the lady I have a coupon for such and such
>"Pull up please"
>Get to the window
>"Okay that'll be $11.XX"
>"Wait the coupon was for $8"
>"Oh I know but we have a better deal without the coupon"
>"But it costs $2 more"
>"Okay let me get the manager"
>Manager comes to the window
>"CAN I HELP YOU SIR"
>"Yeah I just want to use a coupon"
>"BUT IT'LL BE CHEAPER WITH OUR OWN DEAL SIR"
>"Why don't you just ring it up with the coupon like I asked?"
>She gives me stink eye
>Takes coupon and rings it up
>"OH WOW LOOK IT IS CHEAPER HAHA"

>>11210471
>30 minutes
>For 2 chicken sandwiches
I would've fucking left too. Your restaurant is trash.

>work at local pizza shop
>get "how many slices are in a large?" question on the phone a lot
>the mexican cooks just cut it into squares, bite size
>explain this, its not even squares, but are bite size, tell size of pizza in inches
>NO HOW MANY SLICES ARE IN IT
>13
>oh ok

>becomes a running joke to say "13" when asked how many slices are in a pizza
>never got questioned about that dumb answer even once, nobody complained

>>11210607
this has somehow happened to me multiple times.
>ok thatll be (3 dollars more expensive than whats printed on coupon)
>uh....can I not use this coupon?
>they look at me like im retarded
>after a 2 minute conversation it gets rung up, but it requires managers help and its confusing.
>coupon price + 6% sales tax
why is this such a problem?

>>11210471
Customers not understanding cook times are infuriating.
>Woman orders two grilled sandwiches
>Woman after her orders a couple of mixed veggie salads
>Salads come out first
>First woman complains after receiving her sandwiches in just under five minutes
>30 year old woman bitches like a child because it's "not fair"
Also got yelled at by an old cunt who didn't understand that people that call ahead get their food first even if they were behind you in line to pay for their finished food. No, I'm not taking their order apart to give you some so you don't have to wait 3 minutes.

>>11201291
seitan has existed for over one thousand years, it's not "shmeat", and it wasn't recently named. Thanks for being a flyover retard though.

>>11199450
I'm just saying there's some certain basic tasks you should be able to perform as a useful human being, and cooking a steak is one of them. It's not rocket science.

I'm perfectly willing to admit that some other guys probably don't give a shit about an opportunity to cook for their famalam, but that would give me pride, and I'd teach my kids how to do the same. It's more about practicing and passing down self reliant skillsets.

>>11210471
>>11210922

I've had customers ask about their food the second they order it. I guess they don't expect that we cook stuff from raw.
>Order comes in for a blackened salmon
>Woman walks into the venue, asking where her salmon is
>I have a raw filet in my hand, covering it with cajun spice
>Expo screen says order has been live for 45 seconds

>>11202396
They don't allow it in California either. Only specific restaurants can opt in and it is very few of them that so.
t. Former homeless in CA

>>11210133

The way they changed the venue, it would pretty much be impossible. It used to operate like a tiny restaurant, with the cooks and kitchen visible and a server taking orders at a bar-style counter. Since we had a server, people could give them the meat they wanted cooked and tell them how they wanted it cooked. It was also possible to make a bunch of substitutions on regular menu items. Now we are behind a wall, not visible to customers, and they have to order through kiosks. It sucks cause not only is it impossible for them to give us stuff to cook (unless we had someone standing out there fielding orders which we aren't staffed to do anymore), but they can't make small substitutions that are very reasonable. For instance, we serve a turkey sandwich that comes on foccacia. If people don't want that the ticket will just say "no bread" and they can't specify which bread they want. That leads us to shouting their name trying to find them and see which bread they want. It just makes it a pain in the ass for everyone. The worst part too is the kiosks stop working quite frequently so we'll have to send one person out to take orders while the other cooks alone. Fuckin Amazon

>>11201098
I can't at all determine if you're kidding or not

>>11201046
"UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIVE FOOTAGE" HAHAHAAAA

>>11205708
>They are too busy to wait 5 minutes but will gladly stick around for 20 minutes to argue.

lol
>working at resale store liteerally next to fast food places and restaurants
>once a day someone comes in and asks to use our private bathroom then complains for the 40 seconds it would have taken them to walk to the nearest one and piss

>>11210528
It was stated in the post I had tickets up and was cooking other shit. The table was waiting their turn.
>>11210558
Nope
>>11210625
Read the post. Its a bar. Not a restaraunt. One cook, one small grill, one deep fryer, with orders ahead.

>>11214323
>It was stated in the post I had tickets up and was cooking other shit
Boo hoo. Any restaurant that takes nearly an hour to make a sandwich of all things is not worth anyone's time.

>>11195966
>>"Why don't you have more vegan options?"
>mfw I once asked for a meat option at a vegan salad station
The guy at the counter was visibly shook lmao.

>>11214462
Do you not have any reading comprehension? Its stated in the post its NOT a restaraunt. Its a bar. One person cooks on a grill that can maybe fit 8 burgers on it at once, and one deep fryer with 2 baskets. When there are a few tickets up, who ever ordered in the middle of service is going to have to wait. Everything is cooked to order. Its not like a mcdonalds where your wait time is supposed to be less than 5 minutes.

>>11215202
>restaraunt
It's only the food and cooking board I guess....

>>11215234
So when you cook at home, do you call your house a restaraunt?

>grill has a chipotle ripoff section
>boomers come in
>dont look at menu
>'I want a ____ burrito'
>'what do you want on it'
>'uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh'
>mfw it takes them 10 minutes to figure out they want a burrito with just chicken on it, completely plain
Why are boomers so brain dead? Every single one that comes in is trouble. Either they forgot what food is or they just want to start shit.

>>11210471
This is why I always go in order, unless its a big steak or something. I tell some of these fuckers that it'll be 40+ mins for a grilled cheese. If they get pissy I tell them to go find a manager and fuck off.

>>11215257
>restaraunt
Kek
Retard

>>11212158
I get this shit every single day
People bring me steaks 2 pound steaks and say shit like, "I want this well done, Ill be back in 5 minutes."

>>11215517

>>11212188
That sounds decent. My grill is usually just staffed by me so I have to do every single job, cashier, cook, server, dishwasher etc.
Plus the thing is open so I get customers that lean over the railing or stand almost inside the kitchen to stare or yell at me.

>>11200794
Literally every young farmer I've met wears that outfit. Uk here though

>>11215501
Boomers are brain dead because they played contact sports as children and the concussions are really catching up to them now. I've learned to just pity them.

>>11213769
Fucking hated it when customers demanded to use the employee bathroom when I worked in retail. As far as I know the back stock room isn't insured in the same way the sales floor is, so if a customer hurt themselves while going to the toilet they could potentially have grounds to sue I think?

>>11215202
>its NOT a restaraunt. Its a bar.

So the food is shitty on top of taking entirely too long to make, and your profit model is making everyone get bored out of their minds waiting for a simple fucking sandwich so that they buy more booze.
This is plainly unacceptable and you're an asshole for defending this.

>>11210607
>>11210663
This is exactly why I don't use physical coupons.

>>11205946
This.
>Do something you are not used to, and probably nervous about fucking up
>Double check so you're reassured

Either a recipe or someone else probably asked for wine that was "dry and not too expensive"

>>11215535

Fuck that sounds nerve-racking. How do you even take breaks?