Restaurant work stories thread

[Anonymous No.17855780]

ITT: people who have worked in a restaurant before share their experiences, ill start:

>line cook
>got out of college last year, planning on culinary school
>work in small town italian place, not that busy except on weekends
>plebbittard dishwasher wont shut the fuck up about "ingredient cubes"
>we get frozen ingredients in the shape of a cube
>this motherfucker wont stop taking pictures to post on plebbit and laugh his ass off to
>everyone is barely tolerating him and his redditspeech (i assume he also posts to r/memes or some shit)
>manager wont fire him cuz "hes better with a knife than you guys"

ive been working with this retard for a few months and i thought he would get tired of it. but no, no matter how much i or the others make clear we dont like him or find him funny, he wont stop.

how do i kill him and hide his body

[Anonymous No.17855786]

>>17855780
if youre wondering why i said the dishwasher was good with a knife, its a small town and we have employee shortages so sometimes dishwashers double up as cooks and vice versa

[Anonymous No.17855797]

>>17855780
>hes better with a knife
>how do i kill him
You don't. Sounds like he'll get you first.

[Anonymous No.17855803]

I worked at a Korean BBQ as a dishwasher. We soak the grill pans overnight and scrub it off the next day in a gigantic pot. One day I spilled the pot with the scum water on me, manager gave me a new shirt and I smelt like BBQ for the rest of the day

[Anonymous No.17855810]

>>17855797
ill bring a gun

on another note, i noticed that customers complain more about their food being too salty or greasy when this guy is cooking

[Anonymous No.17855819]

>>17855810
If you're bringing a gun, then continue your larp on /k/ not the fucking cooking board.

[Anonymous No.17855839]

>>17855780
back in your cage, wagie

[Anonymous No.17855909]

>>17855780
based ingredient cube appreciator

[Anonymous No.17855987]

Once my boss bought a pizza place and told the cooks they could no longer drink during their shifts.
This policy lasted less than a week after every cook told him that they were going to keep their tequila and if he didn’t like it he could get new cooks.

[Anonymous No.17856039]

>>17855780
>dishwasher is a little annoying but shows up to work and cleans/cooks well enough to not get fired, already putting him into the top 1% of dishwashers
>autistic line cook lacks social skills and is unable to befriend anyone, so posts about it on anonymous chinese cartoon forum

maybe you should just focus on your tickets, prep boy

[Anonymous No.17856081]

>>17855780
it's a good lesson to learn now how far you can get in life when the boss likes you

[Anonymous No.17856157]

>>17855780
>Night prep cook calls in sick (actually stoned af)
>only one cook in shift but should be fine, not a high season
4am call
>MY FINGER IS IN MEATGRINDERRRRRRRRAAAAAA HELP
>dumb fuck decided to help push stuck thing with a finger and rightfully machine ate it
Remember kids, if it works 99 times, you WILL get screwed on that 1% in the worst moment possible. That leads to my own personal fuck up
>came a bit earlier than usual, put on my whites and checks,
>starting usual morning routine
>steal some coffee from 20l guest coffee filter (working in a big chain hotel), in go 36% pastry creme
>making myself a sammich, making fresh cuts using slicer, chef bartender behind says hi, asking to make a sammich for him as well
>turn my head FOR A BLOODY SECOND to say hi to the guy whilst keeping slicing ham back and forth
>hear a fast BZZT
>OH DOG WHAT DONE
>right hand index finger looks like a pot overflowing with boiling custard but it's my blood instead
>quickly grab a paper towel, two gloves, h2o2, skin glue, do a makeshift bandage, clean everything, finish sammiches, go on a break with bartender
Of course, bandage didn't hold, threw away maybe 10 of gloves filled with blood-soaked papertowels.

[Anonymous No.17856844]

>>17855780
honestly, man...Op. You sound like a total fag.
You did not complain about his work ethic.
The problem is you.
He seems rad as fuck. The actual problem is you and your shitty attitude. Go get a office job, you are not made for this industry.

[Anonymous No.17856847]

>>17855780
Sounds like you should get better with your knife "cook"

[Anonymous No.17857401]

>>17855987
I can't do this job without drinking

[Anonymous No.17857440]

>work in pizzeria
>get shit on 80 hours a week for 7 years
>quit and drop out of society for 2 years so far

[Anonymous No.17857445]

If you work in a restaurant fuck you

[Anonymous No.17857455]

>it's another prep cook doesn't understand english episode

[Anonymous No.17857721]

>>17856157
I worked in a deli and those slicers are scary. I had a coworker who got a bad cut once many years ago who still relives that moment in his dreams.

[Anonymous No.17857910]

>>17855780

[Anonymous No.17857945]

>>17857445
Working in a restaurant is awesome.
Sure, it's not for everybody, I'll give you that.

[Anonymous No.17857954]

>be cook at a pizza joint
>the dough goes in pans with lids and are stacked up
>that's it. That's the entirety of the dough prep process. Nothing to it.
>orders come in, need another stack from the walk-in
>get the lid off the the first one in the stack, it's empty
>well, everyone accidentally forgets to put the dough in a pan every now and then
>grab the next one, empty
>next one, empty
The whole stack was nothing but empty oiled pans.
Like, how do you even fuck up that procedure THAT bad?
The guy who'd done it was a zoomer that didn't really want to be working in a kitchen to begin with, and he was new, and a complete dipshit. To this day I don't know if that was laziness or incompetence. If it was laziness why'd he go to all the trouble of oiling the pans? If it was incompetence, how the shit does that guy not drown in the shower?

[Anonymous No.17858205]

>>17855780
>new summer job as dishwasher
>start prepping and learning restaurant
>salad guy doesn't talk much, so try making a joke about the frozen cube ingredients
>he takes it really seriously, tries to explain something about them
>I just kinda wished I had more stuff to cut because it's more fun
>go out with coworkers later, they bitch about work, salad guy brought up often
>for some reason he references "reddit" a lot when he gets flustered
>boss said tomorrow he wants me on the line
>I become salad guy
>old salad guy starts saying reddit a lot under his breath, slightly columbine
>couple months pass, now covering as shift lead pretty often
>old salad guy - now hardly dishguy - quits and says he's going to culinary school
>leave restaurant two weeks later on good terms and go back to actual school
>sometimes wonder if he ever finished culinary school and became salad guy again

[Anonymous No.17858429]

>be me, line cook
>in Canada
>servers make minimum wage and we make barely over minimum wage
>yet on a busy night where everyone, especially the kitchen, works really hard they can expect to take home over $200 in cash while we get basically nothing (I get about $500 a month tip out) despite starting 2 hours later than we do and leaving while we clean the disgusting kitchen for another 1.5 hours
>this is considered normal for some reason even though it's impossible to find kitchen staff while front of house can have a "hiring fair" and get 30 applicants
>most of the people I work with are from India or the Phillipines
Really makes me seethe.

[Anonymous No.17858578]

>>17855780
got molested by the head cook (i am a man and so was the cook)when i was working in a kitchen at 14

[Anonymous No.17858582]

>>17858578
>neither one of you died
then you liked it faggot

[Anonymous No.17859013]

>be me
>never work in fast food or any restaurant
>work as aircraft mechanic
>work in IT
>invest money
>retire early at 52
buy whatever I want
cook good food for fun

[Anonymous No.17859018]

>>17855780
i used to work at pizzahut as a teen, we would each take a turn at farting on the pizzas before they went out to the buffet stands or in a box, funny part was when we received compliments on our pizza and service and tried not to laugh in the process, good times

[Anonymous No.17859023]

>>17855810
You sound like a massive whiny faggot.

[Anonymous No.17859030]

>>17856039
So much this. OP is once again a faggot

[Anonymous No.17859048]

>>17858205
Kek

[Anonymous No.17859054]

> run of the mill Italian restaurant in a small town
>it bleeds money but its basically to launder dodgy cash by the serb owner
>hire a bunch of retards to thrown shit sauce and cheese on pasta and make garlic bread etc
>monkeys could do this shit
>all the retards argue like school girls and bitch about each other not liking the right internet memes
>ohwell

[Anonymous No.17859061]

>>17855780
Post cubes faggot

[Anonymous No.17859729]

>>17858429
This is why I don't feel bad when the servers complain about accidentally touching my hot pans over at dish.

[Anonymous No.17859738]

>>17857945
>Working in a restaurant is awesome.
delusional

[Anonymous No.17860191]

>>17855780

>be 16yo dishie
>Fred Durst looking line cook always fucking with me
>Throws a dirty steel wool sponge at me
>It lands in the deep fryer
>He pulls it out, no one else saw
>We look at each other for a second, then get back to work like nothing happened

Fred Durst never fucked with me again. Sometimes he would make me cheese fries.

[Anonymous No.17860214]

>>17857440
Are you that one YouTuber who quit the pizzeria to travel with his waifu and upload 3+ hour video essays on video games?

[Anonymous No.17860228]

>>17855780
https://teddit.net/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/rnzerx/how_about_a_25lb_raspberry_cube/ ?

https://teddit.net/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/qpiuzz/behold_chicken_cube/ ?

[Anonymous No.17860236]

>>17860228
The only problem I see is the chicken cube in the sink.

[Anonymous No.17860238]

>>17855780
>thing i want to do restaurants as a career
>get a job as a line cook in a family friend's restaurants
>see the degenerate types of people who go into the field
>decide to go into accounting instead

[Anonymous No.17860262]

>>17860236
I was asking if one of them were OP's coworkers.

[Anonymous No.17860266]

>>17855780
When I was a server there was a cook I picked on because I think he was mildly retarded.
I told him my name was Papadopoulos because he couldn’t pronounce it and it sounded funny when he tried.
So I told him if he can’t say it right, then just call me by my nickname “Niggle”. His retard speech impediment made it sound like he was saying “Nigger”.
I also had a game where I’d see how many loogies I could spit on his back before he’d notice and start yelling.
Holy shit that was fun times.

[Anonymous No.17860273]

>be a white boy and manage to get job as dishwasher in a Filipino place to pay for school
>tall Filipino cook likes to call me bob saget because I am tall white and awkward looking
>constantly giving me shit about everything
>kind of annoying but I just roll with it because a job is a job and I’m getting the work done
>cook comes in drunk on the job one too many times and gets unceremoniously axed
>6 years later I’m done with school and work in a tech job
>stop at local McDonald’s for lunch one day
>place order, then glance at the kitchen
>tall Filipino cook is mopping the floor at the back of the kitchen
>eyes meet briefly, then he looks away and noticeably avoids eye contact
>chuckle to myself inwardly
I still look like bob saget though

[Anonymous No.17860287]

>>17860273
>I still look like bob saget though
Decomposing?

[Anonymous No.17860516]

>>17858429
Yep. If you aren't making double what the chef is hourly, you should consider switching restaurants as FOH. My friend made 60k working around 30 hours a week last year. I always wonder if this is different at really upscale level - not like hotel larping but like 300+ to sit down in the chair places but never met anyone that really did that so figured it would just be even more stress for the same hours and wages. I hope more cooks and chef's quit and more restaurants close.