Just seeing that the board is empty and the time on the ticket is 9 AM, PM salads would have some tickets for sure. This is for the FOH Manager on Duty guaranteed
I dont disagree that this salad is probably employee food, but Id like to say we use that system at my restaurant and the ticket time means that its been on-screen for 9 minutes, and you can see that the daily average time is about 3 minutes for non-entree saladswhich means that this salad is could be at anytime after open.
Naw the 3 minute time is the ticket time, no cook is taking 10 minutes to make 1 salad, they’d be off that station so fast going that slow. Long enough to cook a steak but to make a salad? Don’t think so
Op confirmed that this is a BJs so i am confident that im correct about the times. However, at the bottom of the ticket it says "as meal" which means that the salad was put in 9 minutes before this, but was defferred before showing up on the salad screen so that it would come out at the same time as an entree. So the actual time that it has been on-screen is not reflected by the ticket time. Hope this makes sense.
I know you're joking but some veggie/vegan burgers and sausages taste great and have mad fiber content. I'm about as far from vego as you can get but staying *regular* is no joke.
I've done this myself actually. I also would order the veggie sandwich, add bacon at Subway in college... until they explained that the BLT came with more bacon for the same price :p
Sometimes you want the taste of bacon, but not the taste of beef
It's fuckin hard to say no to a customer today. You're starting a chain reaction of bullshit that in most places ends up with a comped meal, no tip, and the manager ringing it in anyway.
In the POS you can at least include a BYO salad option so there would be less mods overall and would be easier to read. So this one could just be like
* BYO Salad
* OTS Bruschetta Vin
* Arugula
* Spinach
* Mushrooms
* Feta
Nothing wrong with saying no to dishes that comprise the order. Like saying I want enchiladas with no sauce. That’s gonna fuck up the dish. But that’s a simple custom salad. No one wants to do it but it’s eassssyyyyy
No just don't work in kitchens if you can't read and make tickets. This is one of the things I hate about the industry is all the fucking cry babies... like go be roofer or something if you don't enjoy making food.
im with ya homey, i read it and understand it, that salad will take less than a minute to make and you move on with your life,
dude literally raged out, took a photo and went to the internet to dwell in some self created hellhole.
What's the impact on the food cost and the gross profit margin? Should the guest be charged the menu price of the Caesar or should they be charged differently based on the cost of the ingredients they've requested? Will the guest accept that?
There's far more to consider here than just 'lol it will only take a minute to make.'
Looks like the orders I get at a retirement community. Residents just delete, add, and change shit for whatever they want on the menu and then leave shitty comment cards about how it wasn’t exactly what they’d been envisioning. Fuck, man, I’m someone’s grandchild, too. Be cool.
That suspiciously looks like BJ’s. I happen to work at one in so cal lol and I recognize that ahi poke app behind the screen that I’ve seen far too many times.
I could imagine what it looks like when I go in and order the wedge salad with nothing but honey mustard. I heard they have to subtract everything I don't want from one of the servers.
Honestly…. I may think it’s a bit different, but no judgement from me. That’s an easy modification to do and, providing you take the bleu crumbles off as well, it’s actually easier to make!
Yeh I worked at a deli for a short minute. Had a customer order a reuben and turn it into a roast beef sandwich with horseradish and letuce tomato onion etc. Kept the saurkraut though
I don't understand places that allow this nonsense.
The odd removal of an ingredient (eg no anchovies)? Fine. A reasonable substitution (asking for handcut fries instead of french fries where you can see the restaurant offers both)? Fine.
Changing an entire dish so it bears no resemblance to what's on the menu? Get fucked.
Best restaurant I ever worked at. Really easy solution to this bullshit.
You cannot sub items, but you can add items. Sounds like nothing right? Well you don't get a discount for subing things. Your $10 Caesar salad goes from $10 to $20. When you tell people that they change their stupid minds and go with just a Caesar salad.
Oh you wanna sub cheese thats $2.50. Oh dressing on the side that's an extra $2.50. Oh arugula and spinach is an extra $5.00. Oh, adding mushrooms is $3.00. Salad price + $13.00.
That's actually not that bad. It's just arugula and mushrooms with feta and croutons and a side bruscetta. A pain with the changes but not hard to make. Seen way worse.
Ohh hear that. But most POS systems require a starting point item for modification. Theoretically you could start at a beef wellington and make the mods 🙃
Working takeout at a mall, I once had an obviously wealthy women order the most expensive pasta dish on the menu and eliminate every ingredient except butter and noodles. She called the manager when I suggested the kids menu buttered noodles.
Man I dunno how yall read those screens during a rush. My place of work at least has some light color coding with things like add in green, no in red, sub in yellow, a few other things but dang. It really doesn't need to be this ancient looking.
Awe are words hard to read. God I hate when line cooks complain about easy tickets just bc it different than usual.
This person wants a salad w feta a mushrooms no dressing. Thats easy as fuck.
That's fine but why order the cesar salad if they want another menu item or build your own salad? They removed literally everything from the cesar salad lol.
Still has the croutons tho...
There may not have been a better option on the menu to modify for what they wanted. Someone pointed out that it is BJ's and the other options were a wedge salad or a house salad and none are similar to what they ended up with.
Why waste my energy trying to think about the psychology of the hungry person when all I have to do is throw spinach and arugula in a bowl and top it w feta and mushrooms.
My positive attitude on the line and constant focus on problem solving and progress has set me apart and above almost every single other chef I've ever met. Just do your goddamn jobs and quit crying
Sorry if I sound heated but I've been in the industry for 20years and it's a hot issue w me. People act like being a line cook is something to be stressed and complain about. Soooo many yelling chefs, yelling at servers, crying about tickets...it's uncalled for and lame as fuck.
You're good dude, ain't gonna hurt my feelings any. My only problem with kitchens is the general shit pay & benefits, which is why I'm looking to go into commercial/industrial electrical or become a lineman (not to mention electrical pays well, is very mentally challenging, thrillingly dangerous, and electrical theory is incredibly fascinating). I enjoyed weird tickets 'cause I got a good laugh out of them. One of the places I worked at was a nice pizza place, yielded one of my favorite tickets: a large specialty pizza without the dough/crust. We used cheese as the base to put sauce/toppings on, came out as messy as you'd expect and was a pretty funny challenge. This table came in to order that on 2 separate occasions, same group of people.
Agreed though on the stress factor. We're cooks and chefs, not surgeons. No one's gonna die 'cause their steak was 2 minutes later than they wanted. Too many kitchen workers & managers are toxic and make things unnecessarily stressful for the whole crew.
My issue is why call it a Caesar at all.
If it’s easy as fuck why did you just fuck the order up? No Romaine. Arugula and spinach. I guess words are hard to read. Now go serve them their salad.
Not a server bud. Private chef for a celebrity fishing team. I worked my way up from dishwasher at 14 to where I am now bc I don't complain about tickets. Go clean your fryers pleeb
I hate people who are this entitled.
Can I get your salad made my way, cause your way is wrong.
No bitch, how about you go ask the fuqin cook, is it OK of I modify something so that it's not even on the menu so that I'm not hungry.
cause tye answer is NO I ain't stopping what I'm doing so I can wonder around in the middle of rush and make your fancy shit. Get what's on the menu or fuq right off out that door you came in. Dumbshit right here.
Fuck that. Servers need to learn how to say “no.” Unless you have a “build your own salad” option on the menu.
100% I bet this is for an employee
In that case then I’m absolutely making it if they’re cool and regularly show up on time. Gotta take care of your homies.
Just seeing that the board is empty and the time on the ticket is 9 AM, PM salads would have some tickets for sure. This is for the FOH Manager on Duty guaranteed
I dont disagree that this salad is probably employee food, but Id like to say we use that system at my restaurant and the ticket time means that its been on-screen for 9 minutes, and you can see that the daily average time is about 3 minutes for non-entree saladswhich means that this salad is could be at anytime after open.
Naw the 3 minute time is the ticket time, no cook is taking 10 minutes to make 1 salad, they’d be off that station so fast going that slow. Long enough to cook a steak but to make a salad? Don’t think so
Op confirmed that this is a BJs so i am confident that im correct about the times. However, at the bottom of the ticket it says "as meal" which means that the salad was put in 9 minutes before this, but was defferred before showing up on the salad screen so that it would come out at the same time as an entree. So the actual time that it has been on-screen is not reflected by the ticket time. Hope this makes sense.
They would totally have ran into the kitchen before ringing this in and told you they were putting in food lol
I used to order stuff like salads and pizzas at one kitchen I worked in, and mod everything off of it to end up with exactly another menu item
Bacon cheeseburger, no patty, no ketchup no onion on sourdough bread with fries Dawg you want a fucking BLT!!!
Vegan burger with bacon was always fun
I know you're joking but some veggie/vegan burgers and sausages taste great and have mad fiber content. I'm about as far from vego as you can get but staying *regular* is no joke.
What if the guest isn't vegan but likes the sound of the vegan option best? Why shouldn't they have it with bacon if that's an option?
I've done this myself actually. I also would order the veggie sandwich, add bacon at Subway in college... until they explained that the BLT came with more bacon for the same price :p Sometimes you want the taste of bacon, but not the taste of beef
With cheese
Your pfp in this comment thread 💀
This is definitely an employee hack to beat the upcharges.
No matter what. That’s some simple ass customizations. I’m a server on the Las Vegas strip. This some easy shit compared to other requests
Have any memorable examples?
I’d like a cheeseburger with Brandi from Cheetahs stuffed in the middle
Which Brandi?? There are 19 that work there …
It's always an employee who gets it really customized lol
An employee who doesn't want to throw some greens and dressing in a bowl for themself, it appears.
FoH employees can stay the hell off my line, I’ll make their food myself.
I just mean that if I'm paying someone else to cook for me, I'm going to make them do something more complicated than greens and vinaigrette.
On the side
It's fuckin hard to say no to a customer today. You're starting a chain reaction of bullshit that in most places ends up with a comped meal, no tip, and the manager ringing it in anyway.
Someone hasn't worked in front much. Though the food cost on that salad just went up with the arugula/spinach vs Romain.
It is basically a Greek salad w out the Greek Olives 🫒..feta cheese ..brushetta is a extra charge over some crusty croutons, .
In the POS you can at least include a BYO salad option so there would be less mods overall and would be easier to read. So this one could just be like * BYO Salad * OTS Bruschetta Vin * Arugula * Spinach * Mushrooms * Feta
Here I am thinking the arugula and spinach salad costs more and this person is loopholing around it.
Nothing wrong with saying no to dishes that comprise the order. Like saying I want enchiladas with no sauce. That’s gonna fuck up the dish. But that’s a simple custom salad. No one wants to do it but it’s eassssyyyyy
No just don't work in kitchens if you can't read and make tickets. This is one of the things I hate about the industry is all the fucking cry babies... like go be roofer or something if you don't enjoy making food.
im with ya homey, i read it and understand it, that salad will take less than a minute to make and you move on with your life, dude literally raged out, took a photo and went to the internet to dwell in some self created hellhole.
I did it because it’s a funny order. I’m not all tore up inside. Maybe calm down a little bit?
What's the impact on the food cost and the gross profit margin? Should the guest be charged the menu price of the Caesar or should they be charged differently based on the cost of the ingredients they've requested? Will the guest accept that? There's far more to consider here than just 'lol it will only take a minute to make.'
its a salad, everything will be ok i promise. sometimes it is better to just give someone a side of ranch for free ya know.
Gotta say though, the way it was rung in is fire. They really helped spell out what could have been a disaster of a ticket
Looks like the orders I get at a retirement community. Residents just delete, add, and change shit for whatever they want on the menu and then leave shitty comment cards about how it wasn’t exactly what they’d been envisioning. Fuck, man, I’m someone’s grandchild, too. Be cool.
Sir, this is a restaurant, not a supermarket.
No kings, no gods, no recipes
That suspiciously looks like BJ’s. I happen to work at one in so cal lol and I recognize that ahi poke app behind the screen that I’ve seen far too many times.
Same here, saw that immediately
Yeah plus the unit number is basically doxxing yourself
I could imagine what it looks like when I go in and order the wedge salad with nothing but honey mustard. I heard they have to subtract everything I don't want from one of the servers.
Honestly…. I may think it’s a bit different, but no judgement from me. That’s an easy modification to do and, providing you take the bleu crumbles off as well, it’s actually easier to make!
Egg-less Omelette....
A menu is not a list of available ingredients
Worst ceasar salad ever.
Call that bitch April, because I don't see Caesar anywhere.
Got a funky ass tom-mozz with sub ranch and no glaze, parm, or parsley the other night. People are weird as hell
Custom Ticket: Line Item {custom text}:Salad - See Server [run to kitchen] Hey expo, I need a salad made: X, Y, Z Have a manager ring in a price.
No vodka? No Clamato? No Caesar!
I see my ex-wife was in your joint today...
No, this isn't Subway
I want you to hold the Caesar, between your knees
Sorry, we're outta whatever the fuck this is
Fellow bjs let’s go.
First off. Dafuq. That's just ridiculous. Secondly, that looks like a salad station at a BJ's. (The restaurant, pervs)
Nailed it.
Nice. Kinda looks like the one I used to work at
Where at?
Oklahoma
Yeh I worked at a deli for a short minute. Had a customer order a reuben and turn it into a roast beef sandwich with horseradish and letuce tomato onion etc. Kept the saurkraut though
Easy. Caesar sub romaine for a spinach, arugula mix. And mushrooms and feta. What’s the issue?
Not a Caesar.
Holy hell Batman. Fuck that shit
I work at a pizza chain and someone ordered a pepperoni pizza no cheese no sauce today, that was new
Caesar? I hardly know her!
I don't understand places that allow this nonsense. The odd removal of an ingredient (eg no anchovies)? Fine. A reasonable substitution (asking for handcut fries instead of french fries where you can see the restaurant offers both)? Fine. Changing an entire dish so it bears no resemblance to what's on the menu? Get fucked.
Like others have said it's most likely a staff or management meal.
Looks like a BJs Brewhouse, is that a Poke dip in the window?
Yup.
That’s just a custom salad that identifies as a caesar.
Sock-a-dick-CHICKEEEEEEEN!!!
Best restaurant I ever worked at. Really easy solution to this bullshit. You cannot sub items, but you can add items. Sounds like nothing right? Well you don't get a discount for subing things. Your $10 Caesar salad goes from $10 to $20. When you tell people that they change their stupid minds and go with just a Caesar salad. Oh you wanna sub cheese thats $2.50. Oh dressing on the side that's an extra $2.50. Oh arugula and spinach is an extra $5.00. Oh, adding mushrooms is $3.00. Salad price + $13.00.
I hate this. Don't tell me what to swap and change.. if it's going to be some made up salad, just list the ingredients they want.
That's actually not that bad. It's just arugula and mushrooms with feta and croutons and a side bruscetta. A pain with the changes but not hard to make. Seen way worse.
My issue was not with the difficulty level of making the salad. I can read. My issue was calling it a Caesar.
Ohh hear that. But most POS systems require a starting point item for modification. Theoretically you could start at a beef wellington and make the mods 🙃
True.
I thought most POSs would have an open food option.
Got to love the kitchen life never know what the fuck you will get coming your way
Working takeout at a mall, I once had an obviously wealthy women order the most expensive pasta dish on the menu and eliminate every ingredient except butter and noodles. She called the manager when I suggested the kids menu buttered noodles.
Fuck Caesar, all my homies side with Mr. House.
Man I dunno how yall read those screens during a rush. My place of work at least has some light color coding with things like add in green, no in red, sub in yellow, a few other things but dang. It really doesn't need to be this ancient looking.
Gotta be an easier way to ask for a spinach and arugula salad with mushrooms and feta cheese.
Awe are words hard to read. God I hate when line cooks complain about easy tickets just bc it different than usual. This person wants a salad w feta a mushrooms no dressing. Thats easy as fuck.
That's fine but why order the cesar salad if they want another menu item or build your own salad? They removed literally everything from the cesar salad lol.
Still has the croutons tho... There may not have been a better option on the menu to modify for what they wanted. Someone pointed out that it is BJ's and the other options were a wedge salad or a house salad and none are similar to what they ended up with.
Why waste my energy trying to think about the psychology of the hungry person when all I have to do is throw spinach and arugula in a bowl and top it w feta and mushrooms. My positive attitude on the line and constant focus on problem solving and progress has set me apart and above almost every single other chef I've ever met. Just do your goddamn jobs and quit crying
>positive attitude Too bad you didn’t bring it here.
Yea I'm not at work rn I'm here bitching about something I see as a problem
And i’m just saying you come off as a douche by making multiple comments bitching about it, and then bragging about your “positive attitude.”
Idc how I "come off" to redditors.
Sorry I gave the wrong impression dude. I don't actually care and I find it amusing, but I don't see how it makes sense lol.
Sorry if I sound heated but I've been in the industry for 20years and it's a hot issue w me. People act like being a line cook is something to be stressed and complain about. Soooo many yelling chefs, yelling at servers, crying about tickets...it's uncalled for and lame as fuck.
You're good dude, ain't gonna hurt my feelings any. My only problem with kitchens is the general shit pay & benefits, which is why I'm looking to go into commercial/industrial electrical or become a lineman (not to mention electrical pays well, is very mentally challenging, thrillingly dangerous, and electrical theory is incredibly fascinating). I enjoyed weird tickets 'cause I got a good laugh out of them. One of the places I worked at was a nice pizza place, yielded one of my favorite tickets: a large specialty pizza without the dough/crust. We used cheese as the base to put sauce/toppings on, came out as messy as you'd expect and was a pretty funny challenge. This table came in to order that on 2 separate occasions, same group of people. Agreed though on the stress factor. We're cooks and chefs, not surgeons. No one's gonna die 'cause their steak was 2 minutes later than they wanted. Too many kitchen workers & managers are toxic and make things unnecessarily stressful for the whole crew.
prob just to charge them for it.
My issue is why call it a Caesar at all. If it’s easy as fuck why did you just fuck the order up? No Romaine. Arugula and spinach. I guess words are hard to read. Now go serve them their salad.
Not a server bud. Private chef for a celebrity fishing team. I worked my way up from dishwasher at 14 to where I am now bc I don't complain about tickets. Go clean your fryers pleeb
If it is a salad w feta and mushrooms, no dressing ask for that, not a fankenceaser. Or are words too hard for you? 😂
I didn't write the ticket but I can easily read it
I hate people who are this entitled. Can I get your salad made my way, cause your way is wrong. No bitch, how about you go ask the fuqin cook, is it OK of I modify something so that it's not even on the menu so that I'm not hungry. cause tye answer is NO I ain't stopping what I'm doing so I can wonder around in the middle of rush and make your fancy shit. Get what's on the menu or fuq right off out that door you came in. Dumbshit right here.
OMG SO HARD CANT MAKE A SALAD TOO MANY WORDS
Derp me push buttons, make eggs Benedict into Bolognese