/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12608647
>Do you miss any of it?
The drugs

My parents ran a diner which I worked in for most of my teen years. I now graduated uni and have a desk job.

I feel bad for my folks though since they're old now and still work like 80 hours a week while I slack off working from home.

>>12608647
Barista for 10 years. Left because I was overlooked for store manager too many times. Now I got a cushy corporate job for a security company.
I miss the free coffee, working while completely shitfaced and banging college student coworkers.

>>12608647
I got fired from two different jobs for punching people and now I'm unemployed lmao

I used to be a dishwasher, a line cook and somehow later I became one of the pastry chefs.

I am now a PhD student and don't do shit but still drink although I don't have fun. Better pay and that's saying something

>>12608647
Bitch probably got weed smoke in her eyes. I like her boots.

I don't miss shit except for the free food

>>12608689
Get them on Kitchen Nightmares, that sounds like a great story and they'd get a publicity boost, free makeover, and menu designed by Gordon

>tfw can't escape
>tfw hate this job and hated the last job and really hated the one before that
>tfw start applying to jobs yesterday
>tfw applying to more industry slavery
Why do I like this stupid industry?

>>12608647
I used to be a delivery driver every summer while I was in college if that counts. Now I'm a mechanical engineer.

>>12608729
You weren't overlooked. You just weren't good at your job.

>>12608803
I was a dishwasher then became an accountant and then got fired for autism and now neeting the fuck out of this bitch

>>12610703
He thought being a drunk shitbag was worthy of promotion

>>12610694
my dad has worked construction for 35-40 years. people who are capable of doing laborious work are just masochists. ever since i worked construction for him, the few jobs ive had after, none compared to the satisfaction i get from being a cook now because when i leave work im soaked head to toe in sweat and even though i have literally nothing to do except play video games when i get home, im relieved and look forward to it and get to take that much needed shower after work and feel accomplished. i didnt get that feeling at my last job doing maintenance or customer service before that. i just felt like a robot

>>12610703
Naw, I rocked.

>>12610745

>steals coffee
>has sex with co-workers
>shows up to work drunk

yeah, you rocked

>>12608647
I was garde manger (prep and apps) for a while, then sous-chef with none of the steps in between... stepped over to fast food because it was less hours for more pay, then got out of it almost completely. I do AV tech work these days, filling in with the occasional bit of catering for a few restaurateurs I know. Much better working for myself and mostly cooking for myself.

>>12610768
I didn’t steal coffee. We got a free pound a week plus anything that expired.

>>12608647
HNNNNGGGGGGG imagine how SWEATY her FEET are in those boots

>>12610728
I love this industry and always have, and always will. I love the magic of watching a dozen servers, assistants, bartenders, etc weaving in and out through a busy dining room like a choreographed dance, watching the cooks work together and listen to their calls while plates show up in the window: I need four fries and six biscuits all day, can I get a dish pickup, hands in the window!

However, I grew up in Illinois. Even the crappy chain restaurants there were run relatively well, tight ship, everything worked. If you didn't show up and turn it out, you got fired.
Now I live in Indiana and every job I've had here, even in upscale places with expensive imported wines - everything sucks. No integrity. No responsibility. No beautiful choreography. I don't know what it is that makes every restaurant in this state a total shit when just 150 miles away you can get better service at an Olive Garden.

>>12610745
and yet your bossman made the conscious decision to let somebody less competent to run his business for him.

I've never done a day of honest work in my life. I'm in my late 20s. How'zit going wagies?

>>12610798
pretty good... define honest work. Do you do dishonest work, or are you always an empty carton of milk away from a late-term C-section?

>>12610782
Exactly. That’s why I left.

>>12610804
>define honest work
Something you get paid for, doesn't involve illegal activities, and that you have actual passion for. I can manage 2 of those but never all 3 at once.

>>12608647

>Who here escaped the food industry life?
Hello

>What did you do and what do you do now?
I used to work in the kitchen for a famous Italian food chain, and now I work as a coordinator for a state university,

>Do you miss any of it?
I miss the work ethic and sink-or-swim attitude of working in a kitchen, the lack of coddling and emphasis on personal accountability. It's something I think I'll take with me to any job.

Now I manage over 40 employees at my current job, mostly young college students. You can almost always tell who has worked in a kitchen because they do their jobs quick and well and aren't fucking retarded. It's hard to describe, but there's a realness about them.

Thanks for reading my blog.

>>12608647
I worked in food for almost a decade. Started doing summers at state fair slop booths when I was like 15. Then working in restaurants bussing tables, then waiting tables in college.

Got a useless meme degree. Continued waiting tables until I was about 26. Started looking for a way out. Grandparent encouraged me to join the navy.
Did so. Went to OCS, commissioned as an officer. Currently in flight school.

Feels like I escaped the fate of the older waiters I worked with. Beaten down, overworked, poor, shivering alcoholics.
The only things I miss are the people I worked with and the grimy camaraderie / fast money party lifestyle. But that's not sustainable, once you get past mid twenties it ages you very quickly.

Aviation is better.

>>12610745
why would you promote someone who's stellar at their job into a position where they might not be as good? Better to promote the schmuck who has managerial qualities.
If you want to be promoted, don't be so good at your current job that you're hard to replace.

>>12608647
apu no!

>>12611197
That's weird, because I worked in four kitchens part time while at uni and accountability was basically non-existent, especially compared to the exacting accountability I've faced after graduating and finding a real job. In most jobs the people in charge want to blame everything on you, which is nothing like what I experienced in kitchens.

>>12608647
Not a kitchen but I worked at a Togo's (basically a better quality Subway) in early college. It was attached to a Baskin Robbins too, as both are under Dunkin Donuts brand.
Learned really basic knife skills, meat slicing, making sandwiches, and making shakes. It wasn't much but it got me into cooking at home more at least. Now that I'm graduated i'm in accounting. I liked my boss cuz he was a pervy asian dude who was funny but couldn't hire decent people to save his life. Some of my coworkers were cool too, but some were downright terrible, like snapping at you for no reason or outright stealing tips because they believed they did a better job. Ended up being the manager before leaving for internships.

>>12608647
>let me get super dressed up for this publicity shoot where I'm supposed to look super humble
>let me get into a super fake acting pose to display my sadness
>let me take a shot that only makes sense in context and to everybody else just looks like I'm sad at a fucking fence

>>12610727
Wait, it isn't?

>>12613304
what the fuck, I just noticed this. why is everyone in white and weird hats?

>>12613353
White supremacy

>>12613368
>liberals
>wearing white

checks out

>>12613304
What, is that AOC?

>>12613402
Yeah, it's just a publicity stunt to show how (((woke))) she is

>>12613304
>let me take a shot that only makes sense in context and to everybody else just looks like I'm sad at a fucking fence
I mean, that's what she is.
She's in an empty lot for a photoshoot.
There's no poor little illegal immigrant children on the other side of that fence. Or anywhere near where she is.

>>12613407
She's a fucking retard. And not the, "Trump's a dummy," hit pieces on the news. Even when the media is covering for her, she's legitimately doing something retarded.
>THEY'RE FORCED TO DRINK TOILET WATER!
>Umm, actually there are separate potable water lines, and you didn't even attend the congressional tour that the border security put on for you

>>12613353
keeps you cooler

>>12613353
Pedos paying tribute to the vatican

>>12613402
I hate that slut with every fiber of my being. Fake photo shoot with no immigrants.

>>12613408
Good thing all her voters are poor brown women who don't care about stupid things like reality

>>12613416
I hate her too, but if your goal is to find wrongdoing, of course you’re not going to attend a visit set up by the people you’re trying to bust. It’s why restaurants can’t schedule when the health inspector comes.

I just to work at Dunkin Donuts during my high school years. Obviously it wasn't full time but I had a decent amount of fun working with the morning crew
>morning customers are cheery because we recognize them
>morning crew does their job
>morning crew also had a sense of humor
>holidays were dead as fuck so even more fucking around (they had munchin fights behind the counter regularly)
If I had the opportunity to work in a similar environment... I'd still probably pass it up but ONLY because of the pay (I make twice what I used to).

>>12608647
>tfw you earn more in a week with your job in Hazmat then you did in a month working in the food industry.

>>12613443
That neglects the fact that she could just show up and investigate herself, there's no excuse.
>I didn't do thing, but I have wrong opinion about thing

>>12613468
>hazmat
Eww what a gay ass job wtf anon you should've stayed with line cook you get paid much more

>>12613480
what are you talking about. you sound like you legit believe the fox news/pol shit that is made up about her. the photoshoot was dumb as hell though

>>12613490
The sad part is that Fox is the most truthful news organization.

That's fucked up.

>>12613503
Not anymore they have gone full on leftist retard

>>12613503
They’ve been betraying Trump recently, though. I think they may be compromised.

>>12613517
Well, good thing I listen to talk radio ;^3

>>12613523
Fox during the elections was pretty anti Trump

>>12613503
They're just as shady as anyone else

>>12613557
They're all propaganda wings now, but at least Fox News (not the talk shows) isn't as hardline as the AP wire, and tends to break news every once and a while instead of brush it under the rug.

All national outlets are garbage.

I used to be a faggot serving coffee. The pay is a lot better but I'm getting tired of moving around and fucking (or trying to fuck) random girls in the small towns that I stay in

>>12613484
Hazmat is obviously a euphemism for "line cook at Arby's"

>>12613596
Your comment would be 1000% better if you added "but now I'm just a faggot" at the end.

>>12613556
Not really. They just gave him equal airtime as his rivals. They have to look impartial, but they were on the TrumpTrain long before anyone else. This recent disloyalty may just be to boost ratings (people love drama) but I’m worried they may be compromised. We’ll see in the coming months.

>>12613663
In the Trump v. Clinton debates everyone expected the Fox-led debate to be the one where Fox asks Trump easy questions and kill Hillary but it was the exact opposite. I still remember people's disappointment.

>>12613517
>tucker carlson and sean hannity - the leftists
You magatards have lost whatever shreds of credibility you never had in the first place.

>>12613704
Every debate is rigged. Remember when the moderator "corrected," Romney with the, "No ur rong," when in fact she was 100% infactual? Our mainstream media is Goebbels leftist.