/ck/ - Food & Cooking

when i saw this thread

Not quite kitchen work but:
>Just after college
>Work at coffee shop so I can get money handling experience for clerical work for a basic bitch government job
>High power lawyer boss babe walks in
>Asks me for "the usual"
>IDK what that is
>She's offended that IDK what that is
>She never comes back
>Co-workers are pissed at me because she tipped really well
>MFW she was like my 3rd customer on my first day of my first food service job

Are cooks in a kitchen as degenerate as media makes them look?

>>17665250
I'm interested in this thread only because the people who become "chefs" already have had a very hard life. Almost all of them are felons with substance abuse problems. Most of them have mental health issues and none of them are rocket scientists. "Chefs" are the true lowest class people in the world. I would rather be an assistant prostitute.

>>17665327
>money handling experience
lolwhat?

>>17665346
*assistant TO the prostitute

-That time every single customer wanted the exact same thing on the menu and we were sold out at noon o'clock.
-That time I had to drive to work at 11 PM through a monsoon because they couldn't handle the flood (of customers). It was 4 people who wanted a pasta - sauce was warm au bain Marie and pasta was preboiled, needed just a 1 minute dip in boiling water.
-That time I didn't need to be paid because I didn't work.
-That last week of every month with no money for vegetables because the 50 yo owner's 30yo "gf" needs a new Delvaux.
-Being hired to improve the menu, having to work with the same menu/recipes of the owner, except now it's better because X is doing it. Having to explain to friends-customers what's going on.
-The opposite: new owners take over a popular place, want it to be fine dining. We create an in season menu with caviar, hop shoots, dentelles, the works. People kept showing up for tomatoes in January and afternoon waffles with pints, because that's what they did before. An absolute disaster.

The absolute worst nights are the ones where there are no customers and I can't do what I love doing.

>>17665327
>gimme the usual...
>OVERRULED!

>17
>running the kitchen by myself at an italian restaurant at a hotel
>food and beverage director comes in exactly at closing time with his entire fucking family
>have to cook for my boss, his fat wife, and his kids when I already had the kitchen cleaned and 98% shut down
They ate a lot of snot and spit for dinner. Italian food is excellent at masking body fluid.

>>17665350
It's a surprisingly common requirement for a lot of stuff, I guess because they want to weed out retards who think they can steal from the till.

>line cook comes in doped out of his mind
>cops get called
>have to taze the guy because he won't put the knife down
But then again i've never worked a 24/hr place and I hear that shit is normal at those hellhouses so maybe i'm just a greenhorn.

>>17665327
>>17665409
>sir, im not just some random college student, I worked at a coffee shop for 9 months
>son, thats the can-do attitude this DMV needs, youre hired

>>17665430
You still there? Is it a waffle house type place or what

>>17665339
Yes

>>17665250
>NOOOO you can't use Soyjaks unironically!!!

>>17665454
>DMV
Actually yes. I may not have big dreams but I pay the taxes, I pay the bills and I pay the mortgage.

>>17665346
You should read one of Bourdains books about working in restaurants, youd be pulling your hair out. He fetishizes kitchen workers in the most eye-rolling ways imaginable, calling them pirate crews and equating them to hardened military vets and shit. I honestly miss working in kitchens because I like the energy and the opportunity to learn techniques on someone elses dime, but damn if back of the house people arent the grimiest, conniving, unreliable bunch of people on the planet. Not always the brightest bunch either, I knew a dude who drove an hour (one way) to work at a pancake house for $12/hour.

>>17665457
Nah, this was a few years ago and it was a Texas Roadhouse.

>>17665494
I called it? Thats hilarious. Im not shitting on your job, its just a funny requirement.

>>17665505
Where the fuck is there a 24hr Texas Roadhouse? Id kill to live near one

>>17665514
I said i've never worked at a 24/hr place anon. Never would either.

>>17665346
foh hands typed this post

>>17665454
yes
have you met anyone under the age of 20
i wouldnt trust most of them with carrying an empty paper bag

>>17665356
kek

>>17665339
More so than you can believe.

>>17665327
do yuropoors really?

>>17665527
>the rubber cased imac
>the phenotype
>the little smirk

>>17665498
guy fieri told me that guy did most of his cooking with a spoon

>>17665510
Yeah I totally get that, I also thought it was ridiculous that an entry level job would require about a year of experience working a fucking cash register. Most clerical jobs don't even require a degree, just the experience. I'd think my time in college was wasted if a degree wasn't expected in my family.

>>17665550
>High power law boss babe
>anyone other than a cringerican coming up with that despicable phrase

>>17665527
Wow he's literally me

>catering kitchen for uni
>around 600 students fed 3 meals per day
>4 cooks per shift
>no prep cook
>one sous per shift
>night sous chef got hired after a 15 year break from the industry, doesn't have a clue what he's doing
>dishwashers are all spoiled retard students who hardly show up
>gm is constantly cutting hours and making the sous chefs prep an entire days good
>executive chef is still giving us brand new recipes to put on the menu with no warning or time to prep it
it was a great job when I got hired but we lost a vital employee every 3 months and couldn't replace them. it's advertised as a scratch kitchen but there aren't enough employees to pull that off. supervisors make $25 an hour in a state with $7.25 minimum wage. college was located in a bumfuck meth town and no new hire lasted more than a couple weeks. corporate safety bullshit out the ass, team meetings in the most crucial time of the shift. I gave them a two month notice and the executive chef start to choke up. leaving that place was the best decision of my life

>>17665366
>The absolute worst nights are the ones where there are no customers and I can't do what I love doing.
Get angry at 'unreasonable' allergy requests, take out your stress pressure on your coworkers, take far too many cigarette breaks only to take an alcohol break the moment the door of your flat closes behind you at 2am?

>>17665250
>>17665250
as opposed to it being metaphorically the sign at the pie shop?

>>17665792
>>dishwashers are all spoiled retard students who hardly show up
yup, this was working at a college dining hall
ive had to dishwash before. how fucking hard is it to put in earbuds and listen to music and just do the fucking dishes for a while.
they act like they need to take a mental health day once a week

>>17665820
>Being proud of how little he thinks
Yep. This guy is back of house.

>>17665825
nope! i worked at a dining hall in college, but afterward, i worked at an upscale but understaffed thai restaurant. i managed the entire FOH. sometimes, dishwashers just didn't show up, so i had to do the fucking dishes

>>17665843
Again, so proud of doing dishes. And you went to college? Lol.

>>17665594
>year experience to work an entry level job
small time. In my country, they want engineers with 10 years of experience to work minimum wage, and when they can't get that, they hire smelly fucking indians that hop ship to work for less.

>>17665853
???
i am clearly unhappy that i had to do the dishes when the dishwasher didnt show up, as it wasnt my job (foh). are you retarded?

>>17665792
What the fuck man are you me? I'll never understand why they decided to choke us out when things were already slowly going from bad to worse.

>>17665339
It's much worse, but in a way that makes it wholesome because there's no walking on eggshells, you're not gonna offend anyone in a kitchen and if you do they'll let you know

>first night at a new kitchen as chef de partie
>head chef gathers us all round and tells us about a new recipe we're going to demo for a cream based sauce
>asks if we have any questions
>I jokingly raise my hand and ask if he has any recipes for a cream cringe sauce
>HC says he doesn't understand
>I explain that cringe is the opposite of based
>he still doesn't get it
>I spend the next 5 minutes awkwardly explaining in front of the whole kitchen staff
>HC stares blankly at me and says "The hiring manager warned me you were a bit of a spastic"

>My nickname ever since has been Spastic and even though I get my head down and shut the fuck up these days, it doesn't look like it'll change

>>17665792
lol that's nothing. in my uni, all the chefs were former felons.

>>17665820
>new dishwasher has visible ssri brain fog
>barely speaks, is slow and always in the way
>watches me throw a hot sheet tray on the dish cart
>watches and hears the steam come up from the dish under it
>grabs it with his bare fucking hands
>cries his eyes out
>retard manager comes in and babies the shit out of him
>sends him home with a gallon of milk for some reason
>gm comes in the next day and says we can't put hot stuff on the dish cart anymore
>have to relegate a giant chunk of our workspace for hot dishes
>dishwashers keep getting burned cause we run out of space and can't put the hot dishes anywhere else and they assume everything is cold
god that place was full of fucking retards
>>17665917
I had my best friend on the line with me and that was the only thing keeping me half sane most of the time. so it could've been you
>>17665958
the corp we worked for wouldn't hire felons. probably explained the lack of work ethic

>>17666050
Why did no one think to just shout "HOT PAN" or some shit?

Where I worked, if someone even came within 5 feet of another person, they had to declare their presence

>>17666067
we did that too I forgot to mention it. goes to show how little attention he was paying

>>17666073
Fair point lad. That sounds like a grade A corn fed retard

>>17665250
>dinner party of 30
>had all the orders prepped ahead, nothing on the menu
>fresh butterflied trout filets and steaks
>sent out a whole filet for each portion
>run out
>call chef, he says we should have extra
>oh
>half a butterfly was the intended portion so I had served everyone double
>the guy who was paying for it all ended up getting a piece of fish cooked from frozen like 30 minutes after everyone else got their plates

whoops. always keep a box of frozen fish around bros.

>>17666105
I would've gotten raped if I did that at my last job

>>17665356
You win today

>>17666122
Worst part was the owner was doing expo that night for the first time ever, in order to make sure the party went well. The color of his face showed how infuriated he was with us, but kept his cool while speaking like no one I've ever worked with before. When he told me that I better have a cooked piece of fish in the window in the next 10 minutes I knew what to do.

>>17666050
You sound like a retard
I bet you're one of those morons thst throws your knives in the dish sink too

>>17665339
I worked a middle-high end steakhouse for a few years and the cooking staff had to have been one of the worst, most degenerate group of subhumans you can possibly imagine. All of them were notorious drug addicts and alcoholics and basically lived paycheck to paycheck, immediately blowing the whole thing on coke and clubbing the moment they received it. Most of them were constantly in and out of trouble with drug dealers, debt collectors, pimps looking for money, etc etc.

I've worked rural construction, as a millwright at a grain silo, and as a salesperson who had conferences in Vegas every year. No group of co-workers partied nearly as hard, or were even close to the levels of outright insano in the braino degeneracy than the kitchen staff from that steakhouse.

>>17665250
>server at overnight diner
>black people chimping out and causing problems every night

>>17666180
I worked in resteraunt from 18 until my mid 20s, I was so confused when I transitioned to an office job and no one wanted to smash 20 beers and do coke after work on a Tuesday. You finish at 530, youve got a solid 6 hours to get fucked up AND still get 8 hours sleep. Do non-hospo cunts really?

Wtf is that a Google Plus post?

>dinner rush
>neck tattoo dishie is blasting rap music
>Juice WRLD
>"look at my bank account, look at the cash amount"
>that hook repeats a million times while he scrubs pans I burned shit in for $11/hr
>on his way out he warns everyone that the local coke has fentanyl in it

I can cook some things but I have a long way to go to reach the level of the guys in the dish pit.

>>17666166
>Projection

>>17666195
I went to one of the most notorious party schools in the entire country and that didn't even make me half as alcoholic as working the kitchen of a diner for 5 years

>>17665339
yes because being on coke/speed/meth/whatever is the only way to be able to make 1000 different meals in 15 minutes because the clients dont like to wait
I take around 1 hour even for simple dishes at home

>>17666166
the dish room was down the hall, far from the kitchen. the carts had handles on them so there was no need to even touch a pan unless it was stacked poorly. suck my dick

>>17666255
>one of the most notorious party schools in the entire country
everyone says this about every school that exists

>>17666262
I've been on both ends of this so I take it back. Didn't see on the other post that you said hot pan etc so I'm going to go with the dishie deserved it. However, I will NOT suck on your penis, sir

>>17665944
kek, I would have held back my laugh during the meeting but told you afterwards the joke was so cringe it was funny

>>17666271
Yeah but people in high school literally laughed when I told them where I was going.
>Getting a degree in chemistry at Radford ?
>Guess you really want to make drugs
I ended up partying too much and not finishing the degree

>>17666271
>haha we told Todd to drink three beers and he did it, the absolute madman!

>>17666274
it would be cool if you did

>>17665820
Dishwashing is a soul sucking experience. It's not bad if you only have to do it every once in awhile, but when that's your full time gig every day you want to kill yourself.

>>17666348
depends on the atmosphere. at a corpo place with dozens of rules and codes and forced breaks, that's going to be soul-sucking. at a local place where you get to eat with the cooks, drink as long as you don't get drunk, chat with servers, that's a lot more enjoyable

>>17666355
I guess so. But you're still an adult man washing other people's dishes for a living. I don't know how anyone can do that. You're literally the bottom-tier trash of society.

>>17666372
Not everyone aspires to be a novelist or a musician. Sometimes a man can find peace and contentment in scrubbing dishes.

>>17666390
Good luck being able to afford even a 1 bedroom apartment on a dishie salary. I don't care what kind of man you are, you're going to regret your life choices when you still need a roommate at 30 years old.

>>17666372
I bet you prep the sink for your bull to do dishes too

>>17666399
I don't hold anything against you for striving for something better, man. It's about finding your own happiness in the end.

>>17665525
well yeah but thats not saying alot cause paper bags are like 10 cents a pop nowadays

>>17665346
Most people that fit this and call themselves "chef's" are line cooks or shift leads/managers that need to consider themselves more than they actually are to cope with the fact they've gone nowhere with their career for the past 5-10+ years. This is 99% of the people that like to talk about their experience on the internet to self serve that same type of validation. There no more a chef than a McDonald's manager is. All the actual chef's I've worked under are pretty respectable workaholics and actually put a lot of care into their shit. That word isn't gatekept at all anymore and it's pretty fucking lame.

>>17665350
some jobs wont hire you unless you can prove that you've regularly handled large amounts of money in previous jobs.
t.buddy works at the local casino and had to get qualifications proving that he was safe/trustworthy to handle ~1million in cash on the daily.

>>17666432
Chef is a title that used to command respect. I'd be pissed if I worked my ass off to earn that title and some retard who flips burgers is going around also calling himself a chef.

>>17665525
actually this
there's a reason that tradies shit on apprentices so much

>>17665792
>be living in a dorm while at uni
>food we're given is literal slop
>owner of the dorm is a cheapskate, so he fires the chefs and promises 50% off the rent to anyone who wants to cook
>naturally the 3 chinese exchange students instantly sign up because they're the jews of asia
>all they serve is microwaved chicken drumsticks and plain white microwaved rice with soy sauce drizzled on
>friday night was the only night that they served something different
>ground beef, boiled with powdered gravy mix added to it
>with some frozen peas for garnish
>the ground beef smelled like a nasty fart
>actually tasted good though
>mfw your farts the next day would smell exactly the same as the freshly-cooked ground beef

>>17666372
>get mad, i hate you for being the building block of the society i expect to be able to enjoy constantly, why won't you get mad
Just by your sour tone I can tell that your lot is worse for you than his is for him

>>17666465
>rice
>with soy sauce drizzled on
I'm calling bullshit

>>17666465
>volunteer cooks
that actually sounds pretty wholesome

>>17665454
>>17665494
>>17665510
As a fellow local government employee I can assure you the applicant pool is atrocious and the ability to count and not steal is a very high standard to meet indeed.

>>17665792
>dishwashers are a bunch of fags
I know that feel bro.
I've taken to violently throwing shit at the dishpit if I pull it off a clean stack and it's dirty.

>>17665944
Based and cringe are reddditfugee terms

>>17666601
That's not very based OR redpilled of you, anon

>>17665250
I've never been a chef, but I did have one throw a hot pan at me once because the PM shift did absolutely nothing, and we were packed from 9am on.

>>17665524
FOH hands shake incessantly from repetitive strain injuries, substance abuse issues and withdrawal.

>>17665944
You are, and forever shall be Spastic. It will follow you to different restaurants if yours has had a reasonable turnover of staff, or if management works with other restaurants in the area.

>>17665327
You should have just given her some basic thing. If she complains just gaslight her into thinking that's her usual

>>17666599
The job's shit as it is without your tantrums. Talk to the dishwasher, or just fire him.

>>17666628
>>17665524
>>17665346
I have absolutely no problem with people having mental health issues, substance abuse problems, etc.
I'm as shaky as the rest of them.
What actually bothers me is when someone tries to argue that they didn't actually screw up the order.
Like holy shit it's not a personal insult to you, just remake the motherfucker. Don't give me that bullshit, I'm holding it in my hand, I'm looking at it, and it's wrong.
I fuck up orders too, and when I do I toss the bitch and remake it.
>oh well I'm sure I put the XYZ on it
>really, then DID THE FUCKING GREMLIN STEAL IT WHEN IT WAS IN THE OVEN
There's few things that actually get under my skin in the kitchen, but that's one of them.

>>17665944
Hello, cream department?
You're gonna want to see this

>>17666654
It took me a really long time - like leaving the industry for a couple years and only coming back in a really loose contract (mostly catering) kind of way - to not get upset over that exact thing. Now it's "This wasn't right. Let's remake it." "But..." "It's fine, it's just food, but let's get this one out as ordered." "But I..." "You didn't. It's ok. Shit happens."
I try so hard not to be like the people that make me walk away.

>>17666677
kekd and checkd

>>17666651
It's not honest mistakes that bother me.
There's a difference between 'woops, that bit of crud got overlooked' and 'lol fuck it who cares'.
Like one time I was trying to plate an order. I pulled a plate off the stack, it had a speck on it. Shit, even I'd have missed that spec, no problem, i'll pull another plate.
That one didn't even get rinsed, there's still old gross sauce on it.
What the fuck, okay, another plate, etc.
I went through literally every single plate like that, and they were all fucking dirty.
That's more than just overlooking one little spec on one plate. Nigga that was ALL the plates.

>>17666739
Okay. You clean the dishes then.

>>17666739
Replace the cunt, no point in braking plates in the pit over someone who will give as few shits as possible on his way out.

>>17666739
But you taught him to be lazy

>>17666779
I did.
My order was 8 minutes late because of it.
>>17666783
Would if I could. Unfortunately, the dishpit bitch in question also happens to be one of my best delivery navigators.

The situation has improved since then, though. I'm not personally mad at them or anything. Maybe they were having life stuff or whatever.

>>17665527
OHNO

>>17666677
lmao

>>17666551
>volunteer
>making half your rent
pick one.

>>17665339
Ya we're pretty shitty. Kitchen just closed and I'm smoking a j having a rum

>>17665339
You have no fucking idea.
I'm the squarest dude in the kitchen I work at, and that's saying a lot.

>>17665250
>officetards having the whole place to themselves for a christmas party and open bar
This shift definitely cemented how much I fucking hate normalfaggots

>>17667014
>open bar
The two worst words in the English language if you're working.

>>17667014
still butthurt from being the party onahole?

>>17667042
The ugly secretaries were doing that job just fine in the shitter

>>17666183
It's ok, anon, you're in a safe space now. They weren't black people, they were niggers.

>>17666677
kek

>>17667050
*canadians

>>17667047
It's amazing what a bit of coke can do for a woman's self esteem

>>17666105
How do you not count proteins before making the dishes? Oh wait youre a cook, so thinking was never your strength

>>17665527
>this is the guy that replies to your post with a soyjack

>>17665527
me on the right

>>17665944
this is the guy on the internet insulting you with image macros

>>17666372
why would you shit on another dude for enjoying his work however humble?

when the "exec" dumped a 22L cambro of cold water on me from the second story """as a joke""" and then asked why I clocked out instead of scrubbing the inside of the oven

nigga

>>17665339
Worse. I quit fine dining because I ended up drinking a fifth of vodka every night.

>>17665346
I was a college student with a full ride scholarship and an internship lined up with a US ambassador until I tried to kill myself, and ended up spending the time between then and now as a chef.

So I guess you're not wrong, really.

>>17666654
maybe you grabbed the wrong plate foh scum
>n-no I put the order in 15 minutes after it was ordered because I was doing key bumps in the bathroom
>guest expected his food 3 minutes ago HURRY UP HURRY UP
>grab the wrong plate
>blame boh to the guest
>blame boh to boh

>>17665339
Cooks are the biggest degenerates out there. They're all drug addicted scum

>>17666050
>be new salad/cold line bitch
>stand next to grill/head line for ??? reason
>grill boi gets pissed at himself for making something wrong
>goes to angrily slam the pan in his hand into the 6" pan for hot dishes
>actually whips a skillet of hot oil across the kitchen
>burns the outside off my brand new shoes and burns my toes second degree
if your kitchen doesn't have a place to put hot pans you work in a shitnigger joint

This thread is pretty demoralizing.
>t. in chef trade school

>>17668378
Get out while you still can

>>17665250
I was a line cook for only a short time but I had so many horrible experiences
>had to cook over 20 steaks all at once in addition to a bunch of other dishes
>some guy literally pissed himself because of how drunk he was, and me and the waitresses had to clean it up
>spent all day preparing entrees for a booked group only to have all of them order sometthing else
>coworker quit with 0 warning and I had to handle a huge rush all by myself
I got paid well as a line cook cuz I worked for a successful golf resort but it was still one of the most stressful jobs I've ever worked

>>17665527
bros... you told me it was the other side that looked like this.

>>17665327
>tipping at a coffee shop
Wat

>>17665550
>yuropoor
Sorry to tell you but I'm American and this happened in America. I'll even hit you with another story.
>Person asks for egg salad sandwich with extra mayo
>I pull out a bun and apply mayo
>She gets mad that I'm applying mayo to her extra mayo egg salad sandwich
>Make her a regular egg salad sandwich
>She pays and leaves after bitching at my manager

>>17668447
You tip everywhere in the US, see above.

>>17665944
Fake story, but enjoyable still

>>17665792
When I worked as a student in a uni kitchen I washed the dishes and that sucked. But apparently the laundry jobs just involved putting laundry in and turning on the load, nothing else for the rest of the shift. So I took all of those jobs. Then they changed it so when you were done with laundry, you had to help wash dishes, so I quit on the spot. My friends told me for entire weeks after that there were no clean aprons kek

>>17667050
No difference, retard.

>>17665498

Bourdain just romanticised his repeated deliberate self sabotage to get back at his parents for not letting him smoke weed in the house

>>17669402
Look at the faggy armchair psychologist over here. Bet you never even read Kitchen Confidential. He's pitiable for different reasons.

>>17669514
He just wanted to be punk and real, but also write about it.

>>17665339
I got shitfaced my first day as an underage dishbitch. Chef just kept filling quart containers with beer "for cooking"

>>17665527
I'd ask for a transfer before I got pump up kick'd

>>17666411
You’re happy being an addict at 30 with a roommate making 11/hour? Get a real job you fucking loser.

>>17670877
how many kids have plopped out of you?

never. unhappy cooks make unhappy food.
any place that can't mitigate stress in the kitchen shouldn't be allowed to serve food

>>17665527
>that smirk

I will defend this man to my death no matter what he may do in life.

>>17672547
in a perfect world

>>17665250
>s0ijacks are now a normie meme

>>17673105
>>17672547
There's a reason "Utopia" means "Nowhere", Anons.

Off the top of my head? I remember some clearly homeless dude bitching the staff at the pizza joint I worked at for insulting the refined palette of his imaginary wife. And yes, the staff confirmed to me afterwards that the wife he was so defensive over did not actually exist. Apparently he tried to 'bring her along' before but I thankfully missed that nutty ass shit.

>>17665339
My best friend was a line cook and he was the most put together guy working there. He would show up high on mushrooms, blast Ween music and smoke wax on his breaks. For a pretty decent restaurant too.

>>17665250
One and only 20 hour shift.
>Work in an "American" steakhouse (England)
>Therefore we give a shit about superb owl
>Open until 4am
>Rota'd on for it and the 8am open
>Busy day as normal
>Then when everyone's closing down HC says to everyone else to just pack up and go, the 1 person per section that's doing the SB will clean down.
>Only saving grace was reduced menu
>Finished cleaning around half 2
>Standing around after that.

>Rota'd on for 12pm start next day.
I was used to 16 hour shifts back to back at that point but this one did me in. Ended up staying there for a few months more (after 4 years there) and moved on.

>>17665250

I’m thinking about going to culinary and/or working in a kitchen. I don’t care about degeneracy as long as people are functional at work

>>17665339
I don't know where the fuck you people are working, but I literally work in a huge casino and all my coworkers are 50+ year old Mexican women who have been here for 40 years and haven't had a drop of alcohol outside of a church in their lives.

The servers are straight laced and normal people who drink two beers and are completely satisfied by that.

The bartenders are the only ones who are anything close to what I've seen described, but even then they're just lame ass 30 year olds stuck in their jobs.

My last job was a tiny restaurant with three other people and even then, we'd barely get drunk or drink together.

>>17666601
based

The worst night I had in the kitchen was actually after I got home from the kitchen. It was when I was a dumbass 16 year old working in a pizza place, and made a pizza for myself, and somehow gave myself food poisoning because I was like I said, a dumb ass. I still wonder how many other people I gave food poisoning that night. Pepperoni coming back up through your nose is no bueno

>>17665327
>Over inflated sense of importance
>Do women really?
Oh yeah they do

>>17665327
>You were supposed to recognise this person
>They didn't recognise you

GG, fragile lawyer

>>17665498
Bourdain was not a good cook

>>17672876
He's def a bro

>>17666456
Probably because tradies are braindead drug addicted bogans that don't realise they're the ones training the apprentices, so if the apprentice is shit its a reflection on you.

>>17673494
Sounds very, very based. Did he stop?

>>17665250
Pie shop?

>>17665250
Not as a chef but one summer when I worked in a pool canteen I fucked with the Icee machine too much and ended up creating an Icee fountain all over myself, my (not at the time) wife, and the other three people in the canteen right in the middle of lunch rush that was only solved by pulling the CO2 lines for it and the fountain drinks.

>>17673162
>now

>>17673573
Functional? I wouldn’t really count on it most places.

>>17666677
jej'd and witnessed

>>17666348
When I was just starting college still living at home I continued my highschool career of dishwashing but at a different restaurant. I just popped my earbuds in and listened to books. Staff was 90% Filipinos and the two mid 30s 5'4 overweight cooks tried to bully me for some odd reason. My first reading of Mein Kampf was in that shitty restaurant, through those shitty earbuds. It's not that bad when you have the right mindset, I didn't mind. Got fired the next week because the cooks didn't like me.

>>17665454
yes.

>>17666183
>I get off work at midnight at my current job. >There is a Waffle House on the way home.
>I strolled in there one time at half past midnight and there was a wild pack negros exiting the House of Waffles.
>Two dozens urban youth in my country bumpkin town.
>I waited in my car for 5 mins until they finally stopped chucking and jiving around the parking lot.
>I walked into the place and they completely wrecked it.
>Every single seat had trash, every place had a plate with half eaten food, waste paper all over the place.
>I look at the woman on the line and she sighs and says "You know how teenage boys are."
>I reply "Yeah, teenagers..."

Just quit my restaurant job, bros. What do I do now?

>>17665527

>>17665339
Depends on the age group of your area and the quality expected by the restaurant.
Your local diner, is going to be a Pandemonium-esque cesspit, no matter what.
But a place that expects more lucidity from its chefs and needs to keep appearances. Or a place staffed mainly by older people. Are both going to be less so.

>>17677071
Get another one.

>>17677283
Never again. I'd rather be dead.

>>17677279
>Or a place staffed mainly by older people. Are both going to be less so.
this isnt always true cause you will run into some "lifers" in the older age range, guys that have been drinking all day for their whole damn lives and can't get a job anywhere else. it's sad but those guys are still a lot of fun and usually better workers than people like >>17676992

>>17665527
i think the funniest part of this is that hes doing this WHILE LOOKING AT HIS MACBOOK
i couldnt fault him if he was just bored n doodling some silly shit, but the man is intent on making this a masterpiece and that just awakens every single bully need in my body

>>17676115
I don't like being yelled at for other people's fuck ups.

>>17666372
Do you get mad at janitors too.

>canada day, working at a little place that was very indie, almost greasy spoon but a little more put together
>get in at 6:30 am, prep heavy for brunch, start in on as much as i can to make crossover easy
>brunch is a complete shitshow, servers all over the place fucking things up, me and my cold side guy keep everything together as well as possible, record breaking sales
>crossover approaches, guy running the night shows up
>he's half cut because a new brewery had just opened nearby and he went to check it out like a fucking nigger
>tell him to go sit down and have a couple coffees before he gets anywhere near the kitchen, he does, goes upstairs to get changed, passes out in the office
>its now 4:30, he's still basically fucking wasted, its still fucking busy, theres a bunch of prep happening on the fly
>dude is in the kitchen, drops a bowl with 3 orders of wings in it that needed to be gone
>lose my shit on him, send him home, get the dishwasher to call everyone who's off/used to work with us
>one guy is a saint and comes in to fill
>work a nightmare dinner service, nearly get assaulted by a patron, cops are involved
>get out at 2:30 am
slept 18 hours after that
horrible fucking time and it makes me mad every time i recall it

>>17665550
I can tell you it's american because they use the word "tipping"

>>17665250
Imagine the boomers face when they see that image.

>>17665527
>zoomers dont know

>>17666232
How much did he have in his bank?

>>17665494
I too live the simple life of a government employee. Having no work on federal holidays is nice.

>>17678713

>>17666372
Someone's gotta do those jobs. Not everyone can be a useless "consultant" whose job is literally nothing and contributes jack shit

>>17665527
He's based as fuck what are you retards on about
>draws what he wants
>pays no mind to the roasties
>forces them to watch
He's living rent-free in their minds and probably doesn't even realize because he's too busy being whatever the fuck he feels like
He's basically drawing them to themselves. The fact they don't see it is just proving him right

>>17665339
We used to be 5 deep in the bathroom railing lines of heroin off the back of the toilet. You tell me.

>>17679059
You could've just said "I look like that"

>>17679076
I wish I was as carefree as this dude
I'm posting this shit in my telegram memepage right away. Fuck I can say that guy is my favorite jew right after Bobby Fischer and that dude who catfished ladies on tinder for 10 million usd.

>>17679083
>>17679076
>>17679059
I don't know why but I lost my shit to this fucking kek

>>17679059
it doesn't count as "living rent-free" when you're going out of your way to make people think of you

>>17679100
whatever tranny fuck off

>>17679106
>tranny out of nowhere
now THAT's rent-free.

>>17679106
Sorry but how did you know? Like honestly? What gave it away?

>>17679113
your huge chin ofc

>>17679120
Fuck you.

This thread is fucking killing me

>>17665494
If you're proud of paying taxes you're on the wrong board.

>>17665250
I switched from being an RN to being a linecook about half a year ago. I love my new job and I can't think of a single bad day I've had there.
I've had some extremely busy days. Last night was very high-pressure for example.
At the end, though, it's just food. If people have to way 10 minutes longer than usual for service it won't kill them. Unlike in the ICU.
Plus we have a very skilled and pleasant head waitress who's amazing at keeping people entertained if there's a wait or buttering them up a little if need be. She doesn't have to do it a lot because we're a pretty efficient kitchen, but it's good to have her for it.

Every single employee of ours is a former drug abuser and we're all clean now apart from the occasional glass of wine etc.
I don't get the impression that anyone is even overdoing that.

I've been on /ck/ for years and I've heard stories from my coworkers from other restaurants and I've clearly been extremely lucky with where I ended up.

>>17665820
>>17665843
>>17665853
I make all the cold dishes in our place. Starters and desserts mostly.
That usually leaves some time in between while people are having the meat and potatoes (which is done by the other person in the kitchen) so I usually go in the dishpit and catch up on that. Then I do the rest of it after I finish the desserts.
We haven't bothered having an actual dishwasher since December as far as I can remember.
It's not about being proud of being able to do the dishes. It's about disdain for people who can't even manage something as simple as that.

The guy you're replying to is a retard.

>be me dutch 23
>work at a prestigious, well reviewed grand café/restaurant as a waiter to pay rent during study
>one day 3 cooks call in sick due to covid
>chef asks me to help in the kitchen
>i have no culinary training
>6 years /ck/ veteran
>channel my inner ramsay and chop faster and better than i ever have
>chef asks me to become part time cook
Felt really good, but im not gonna work at that intensity for the whole day, so I declined. We became friends tho

>>17665375
>ORDER IN THE (food) COURT!

>>17665339
One time a cook I was with screamed that the expo is a retard infront of a bunch of guests

Fucked the new dish pit girl last month. Went to my normally scheduled doctor's appointment and was diagnosed with HSV1.

>>17679201
What a weird profession change

>>17665250
Do they sell edamame pies?

>>17666779
Sounds like the guy who was paid to clean the dishes didn't do it.
What the fuck makes you want to defend him?

>>17679441
Symptoms or nah?

>>17679454
I always enjoyed cooking at home a lot and I was extremely burnt out on nursing, in no small part due to how we were required to act during the pandemic.
I just walked into a local restaurant and asked if they could use me to chop onions or whatever and they took me in.
I don't mean to brag, but they keep telling me I'm better than any actual culinary students they've had one. Probably just because I'm older and most used to working and using my head.
Plus, as I said, I don't get panicky just because I have a lot of tickets because I'm used to a job where people fucking die if I fuck up.

It's comfy, but very obviously not typical of the profession.

>>17665250
I burnt the nuggies. My mom didn't let me be chef for a whole month after. :(

>>17665527
my god... he's LITERALLY me

>>17668378
do not work in catering/hospitality
cook at home as often as possible, avoiding eating out

>>17665250
Either the time the methhead tried to stab me because he hadn't slept in a week and thought I was helping the shadow people spy on him, or the time another methhead's boyfriend tried to jump me because I told her to shut the fuck up about her employee meal until the rush was over.

>>17679131
he cute

>>17666651
Dishwashing is easy as fuck and my favourite job in the kitchen BECAUSE it’s so fucking easy and all the dishbitches are so fucking hapless that when I can wash the plates and they come out spotless I can just do that rather than prepping or cleaning or even cooking if the night is slow enough.

I don’t give a fuck if you get the plates out really fast, if I’m just gonna be sending them straight back. Send them out clean, an extra minute of scrubbing a hard stain is preferable to waiting for it to be cleaned again.

>>17665339
I sat next to a line cook on the bus on the way back from college every day, he had tattoos and smelled like cigarette smoke all the time. Judging by half the shit he told me, every restaurant in the country is run by the devil and staffed by pirates and immigrant slaves

>>17665250
I would try the pies.

>>17665250
>be me
>just now
>put tortilla with chips and cheese in the microwave
>eat half of it
>get on 4chan

probably my worst night in the kitchen

>Second week on the job
>Notice that one of the other dishwashers has his pants down and is jerking off with one hand while stacking plates with the other
>Older dishwasher tells me “oh that’s just Tug-It Ted.” I had to ask him to repeat the nickname twice before I understood that he was saying “Tug It”
>Later found out that Theodore had been working there for five fucking years. My family took me out to dinner four years ago before I got the job

>>17681313
Tug It Ted seems based to me.

>>17681313
a little extra sauce from Tug-It Ted

>>17665339
>Be me
>Working security at big casino, post for that night was just guarding door near bus stop.
>main duty of that post was to just tell homeless people to fuck off.
>homeless looking man comes out of elevator. Fucked up shoes, raggedy shirt, pants look crusty as fuck.
>Guy starts up a conversation with me, meanwhile he’s digging for cigarette butts in trash.
>Ask him to kindly continue walking.
>Shows me his employee badge
>He’s a Line cook at Denny’s in the casino and he’s just waiting for the bus.
>Drinks half drunken soda from trash and smokes crushed up Cig butt from ash tray.

Cooks need to be paid more man.

>>17681352
I want to believe

>>17679754
That's an interesting one. I've had a paramedic working as a line cook in my kitchen. Gave him a thicc bonus when he saved a dumbass guest who didn't tell about their allergy as well as not noticing a huge-ass allergen alert

>>17681313
>Tug-It Ted

>>17675946
Wore, apparently he was a raging SJW with a white guilt complex

>>17665339
If you're a convicted felon and/or drug addict, being a cook or construction worker are your best shots at legitimate income.

>>17682772
>he was a raging SJW with a white guilt complex
basically a requirement to being a celebrity

>>17679754
I'd imagine the pay these days is actually somewhat compensatory because nobody wants to work either.

>>17665250
>sous chef nodding out on H, nearly drops his head in the fryer
>head chef spills an entire plate of jambalaya in expo prep (ruined)
>catch wino with his lips around the cooking wine spout (don't snitch bc short staffed)
>wino dumping oil, slips and spills hot oil on cool cook (should've snitched)
>head chef gets fired on saturday morn, no warning and no replacement for the night shift
>sous chef decides we're hosing the floors down every night, drains cant cope, end up sweeping water into drains every night for two weeks (ended up breaking a prep cooler lmao)
>new kitchen manager, power goes to head, demands we scrub stainless every night instead of once a week (in our down season, cunt)
>dish machine breaks on night of 200+ banquet, 60+ in restaurant, scrubbing dishes till 2 a.m.
>underage bozo begs for a shift drink, gets shift drinks taken away for everyone (forever hated)
>greedy banquet servers always picking at buffet returns, greediest topples a cart of shrimp and mashed potatoes by opening the chafing dish while its moving
>FOH being FOH (every night)
>constant retarded changes from ownership that make our lives worse

>>17665525
my first job that entailed "handling money" they gave me like close to $10k to take to the bank to deposit on my very second day
the intrusive thought of just driving away crossed my mind desu

>>17684207
Loose cash? Seems silly, I work with checks for anything over $100.

>>17684241
it was a weeks worth of deposits that should have been taken nightly

>>17684105
Sounds like hell.

>>17668462
That's not true. While yes Americans tip is expected in many places but anywhere that you're ordering at a counter to go and not being waited on a tip is not expected. To-go orders from restaurants and orders from cafes (unless you have table service at a cafe) are not tipping orders unless someone is just being generous.

>>17665250
Not really any specific day, but post-covid it became unbearable for me because of staff shortages to the point where there were a number of days I'd be working solo trying to do all the food, take it out to impatient customers and wash all the dishes in a kitchen that realistically needed a minimum of 3 people. Ended up quitting after 2 managers quit the place in the space of a couple months and I realised I was being fucking stupid for sticking around.

I feel bad for chefs and waitresses when people complain over nonsense. I rarely complain and if I do there has to be a good reason. Once I waited a hour for my food and they paid for the whole meal after me only asking “hey, can you check in my food it’s been a hour”. I’m never rude but I’ll leave a shit tip if the service is awful. Recently had shitty food at a restaurant and when the waiter asked how it was I responded “it’s pretty overcooked”. I personally like my chicken overcooked so I told him I would eat it but the girlfriend was disappointed. He got visibly upset and but didn’t say anything. He acted like I called his wife a fat cow. Millennials are too sensitive. I can’t imagine them running restaurants. I’ve worked in customer service and it was hell. I’m too retarded to pretend to care when drama queens are complaining to me. I'm too dumb to fake sincere emotions so I would just blankly stare at them until they fucked off. God bless you food industry workers.

>>17684332
four years worth of shit nights in one post, I had fantastic times too. Mostly communication problems from ownership->management->staff, saw a lot of stupid reforms and new directions, most people there had a general ambivalence or apathy to it all. And people who got fat and lazy in whatever position they had.

>>17665339
I was just a dishwasher and I would have the waitress bring me beers all night. Then I would keep drinking after we closed the kitchen. Then I'd drive home drunk.

Paid like shit(even without me spending money on drinks) but it was fun.

>>17684553
That isn't unique to the industry. For example, I take getting drunk on the job as a requirement from this clown show of a company I work for. And it's real estate.

>>17665498
> I knew a dude who drove an hour (one way) to work at a pancake house for $12/hour.
I know a guy that does the same thing. Has worked there for 12 years and just cleans dishes. His nickname growing up was "fuckup"

>>17665402
What kind of satisfaction does it give you to contaminate their food? They never know you did it so they dont suffer. You got pissed because youd have rather left early... you still had to do your job and you didnt bother the customers...
I guess I will never understand this type of cook any better than he can forgive customers for showing up to eat after he decides he would rather not serve them.

>>17667987
Insecurity

>>17665250
Closest I'd say to being my worst shift was being horribly sleep deprived one day, which led me to sending a knife tip through the bottom of my thumb
Weirdly I didn't feel any pain at first but I realized I was bleeding all over a customers cheesesteak which prompted the kitchen to close for a bit to make sure I didn't bleed over anything else which was made all the worse because it was rush hours
Nothing really came up of it, but I felt like a retard

>>17677071
Get a real job you fucking loser.
Most food service would be better off killing themselves. Drug addicted brain dead fuck-ups.

>>17665250
i went in to work on mother's day because the restaurant was busy and had way too many bookings / covers and needed me.
my grandfather was ill in hospital and i was going to take that day off to go and see him.
he died during that shift

i got fired a week later for no reason

>>17679309
Right but what do you get paid to do work children can do? You can make 20+ to just drive a truck and get your cdl in 2 weeks.
You’ve dedicated your adult life to mediocrity and making The same wage you did 10 years ago. I would be filled with shame if I was cooking food and washing dishes for a living.

>>17686993
it was an 11 hour shift btw

>>17673573
if you like being shouted at
if you like being sworn at
if you like being constantly busy and on your feet for 11 hours straight
if you like having people constantly judging you
if you like being around people with egos the size of planets
if you like childish high-school tier social scenes
if you like being around people working a career with one of the highest cocaine uses per capita
if you like never being appreciated
if you like childish drama

then work in a kitchen you will love it

>>17687022
u sound like a teenage dishwasher

>>17687557
You sound like a fucking FOH bitchboy.

>>17687557
Go roll some silverware lmao

>>17687022
The first half is true

The second half only applies to entry level work.

You got to drop the ego and drama attitude to even make a tryout anywhere worth working at.

>>17687696
shhh i need you to remake the calamari it was too rubbery last time

>>17686766
he looks like a different person