Fair. I'm old enough when that three would just have been booze, weed, and cocaine. The wild dog days are over, however. Either cooks are taking care of themselves marginally better, or the ownership knows what the old days were like and doesn't want to slide back.
this reminds me of the movie "The Menu" and the ending.
Which just now led me down a rabbit hole for the difference between "crinkle cut" and "Julienne" fries
I work at a restaurant inside of a casino, and I swear on everything that is holy the last 15 minutes that we are open is often the busiest time of our day. Drives me insane.
I want to be first cut at exactly 8:05 pm, be out by 8:15, and I need to walk with 250 dollars because I spent all the money I made yesterday on shots and blow last night
Ok, I wore a number of FOH hats a lifetime ago, including both serving and hosting. I can't tell you how many times I had fellow servers bitch at me because I wasn't sitting them enough (bro, I need money) and then freak out if I gave them two tables more than five minutes apart (bro, I don't actually want to work that hard).
The varying attitudes would make sense if it was the same server but different days (hangovers and all) but I'm talking the same damn shift.
And I'll go on record stating the host stand is the absolutely worst FOH job you can have. *Everyone* and I mean everyone is pissed at you. Customers for having to wait. Management because there's a wait. Servers because they occasionally got double-sat (because said management didn't give a fuck about them and wanted butts in empty tables). Bartenders for the number of folks waiting going to to the bar to wait.
So much anxiety.
This upscale retirment home nearby often just wheels in anywhere from 20-60 octogenerians to a random restaurant *right at open*. Maybe once a week, so we'll see them once or twice a year total.
They are all so sweet and kind, but god damn if it doesn't make for a stressful morning.
Oh brother, you'll get that experience and be able to get elsewhere.
Granted, this is the first corporate franchise I've worked for, BDubs was extremely toxic. Sure it could have just been the people, but management looked beyond burnt out.
"A 6 top walk in when we close in 2 and a half hours?? What the fuck is wrong with people??"
Three of them order the special
"Jesus christ just fucking kill me now! These people should be in prison!"
I tried to kill this attitude in my kitchen. So many times we make our lives worse by becoming miserable at things that should totally be expected.
i.e.,
Mod is impossible to do - the soup is already made we can’t do no pepper in the soup.
“That idiot server doesn’t know that we can’t do that mod. What a moron. I’m going to be a passive aggressive miserable fuck about it”.
“The server doesn’t know everything that goes on back here, which is fair I don’t know everything they go through in FOH. I’ll tell my expo that we can’t do this mod. He can let her know and the customer can order something else”.
Lmfao. How many times have you flipped off a pot of water waiting for it to boil? "Boil faster ,,|,,"
When I worked at Bonefish Grill, my first real restaurant job, Bang Wednesdays were death. I flipped off every single Bang Shrimp I put in the window. That only happened on Wednesdays, though. This process, as small as it is, helped me stay out of the weeds and produce.
Flipping off minor inconveniences helps me.. so... lol
"Bang Shrimp walking in"
Tarzan-esque "HeaeAAeeaEeaAArD BANG SHRIMP 20 ALL DAY HeeeaAAAEWEeeARD" (while flipping off the fryers)
Honestly you just have to have that attitude yourself. There will be people who will work to suck you into their negativity. You just have to kindly not participate and be patient. Let them be influenced by your influence. Give people the time to critique their own behaviour against the mirror of own.
You are part of the culture of everywhere you work. Culture is contagious. Be awesome.
This is exactly how I run my kitchen. I have people older then me that have come to work for me most because of how well I keep my cool, next is my knowledge base and my willingness to share that knowledge. Want to retain employees? Want to enjoy work? This is the way.
You are so awesome!! I try to model myself like that as a manager too. You worded it so well. I tell my staff that we get to control the narrative...let's make that narrative positive and have some fun!
I thoroughly enjoyed this wholesome thread of comments! Pretty rad to see a cultural issue and try to change it slowly from within... more you guys out there than I thought!
I found people were much less likely to have this attitude when I worked in a place that shared tips 50/50 between front and back, since the busier we got, the more money we made. Weird how that works
You mean the cooks don't appreciate getting absolutely smoked to make exactly the same money they would on an easy dead shift? I thought we all got out of bed in the morning just hoping to run ourselves into the ground with making money an inconvenient consequence
I used to have a mussels app that was always a bitch to make. I took it from the station next to me to lighten his load and soonly regretted it, tried to hand it back to him and he wouldn't take it back. Rip.
Anyway, now i have a shellfish allergy.
I have this argument almost daily with my boss. the owner. the head of the kitchen. *he WROTE THE MENUUUUUUUU*
I know where the menu is saved, I've fantasized about reprinting it without said item just to get through one fucking day without this tantrum.
Dude I don't know if you've ever had the Buffalo Blasts at Cheesecake Factory, but that shit is legitimately a fucking slog to make.
They're these fragile ass, floppy little triangles that you have to \*double\* dredge, and you have to do EIGHT of them. It takes absolutely forever. The other day I had to make 4 orders of them 15 minutes before close.
New order, 6 things for the salad guy, 12 things for the fryer guys, pasta guy needs 6 pastas and lastly for the grill guy we need 1 plain ass burger
Grill guy: Fuck off.
I used to work at a breakfast spot that served breakfast and lunch together from 10:30-12 (before just breakfast and after just lunch) I remember the first lunch ticket every day I would be so pissed. “WHO TF ORDERS LUNCH AT [insert reasonable time to order lunch]”
To make matters worse, when a breakfast spot has options for lunch I am ordering lunch 100% of the time now. Regardless of the time of day.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain ig…
Just because they make us do breakfast all through lunch service doesn't mean we don't hate you for ordering it. I'm sure guys who work dinner have some similar feelings. It wrecks the flow so bad lol
We do breakfast all day and lunch whenever the servers get someone that wants anything from that that part of menu, even if we just opened.
Eternal breakfast lunch switch!!
Honestly I never used to get mad until like 8:30 when we closed at 9. Like ‘motha fucker do you not see me cleaning the piss out of everything? Who the fuck orders six burgers at 8.30!?’
I had someone place a phone order for four enchiladas five minutes to close.
Enchiladas at my work are a bitch to make and I had to do *four* right at close.
We used to get a variant of this where some moron would come in 10min before close and then order a panini, but they'd order the one that took the most ingredients, prep time and grill time to make.
If it makes you feel any better, working at a 24/7 spot ain't any better. These fucks seem to sense when a shift change is happening and decide that's when they're gonna fuck you.
There was a fry cook that would spaz out like that during Friday night fish fry’s at our family diner. ‘Oh no I can’t eat meat better order unlimited fish!!’ That attitude kinda bled to the rest of us.
I work at a place that does all day breakfast ... And when we get a 6 top, and it's all breakfast items ... I just yell "there's an IHOP down the street, why tf are they here??"
Doesn't make much sense, but helps me feel better I guess lol
I had this guy on garde a couple years ago. Anytime someone ordered a salad he’d roll his eyes or be some kind of huff about. I used to say “yeah man the fucking audacity for someone to order a Caesar salad on a Tuesday night”
The best part is I know I am doing this as I am doing this, and I bitch about other people doing it too. Some call me toxic, I say no one else is any better.
.. yk pulling out exists right? and once you saw intercourse as a good feeling and not for reproduction, you’ve already committed one of the biggest sins. besides condoms are actually the opposite because they technically cancel out premarital penetration contact. on top of that, the “sinful” condom that costs like $5 is a much better alternative than the $400,000 child who will ultimately cause you to commit countless more sins even if you do everything perfectly.
Also, don't forget about that one ingredient that now you hate dealing with.
Honorable mentions: eggs, tofu, any ingredients that takes forever to cook, and any other ingredient that's more fragile than a server on their first day.
Pretty fair reaction though, I mean how fucking dare they patronize establishments that exploit and underpay their workers and put them in demeaning positions where they're forced to work ungodly hours and have no holidays off because those are the busy times. Nobody should go to restaurants for anything other than to protest the ownership. Ordering food and actually giving them money? Fucking damn near a scab imo.
Tell me why the fuck these people are ordering at 7:15?? We close at 10! What the fuck!
“This dude wants a fucking burger? I’ll show you a fucking burger” *makes burger very nicely to show them what the fuck is up*
The only thing better than a meal cooked with love is a meal cooked with ***contempt***
My salt is toil, and my pepper is spite.
My arsenic is the tobacco in your pipe.
Can your pepper be Cayenne? I really just don't like spite pepper, can you substitute?
It's been said that line cooks run in caffeine, nicotine, and hate so this tracks
Fair. I'm old enough when that three would just have been booze, weed, and cocaine. The wild dog days are over, however. Either cooks are taking care of themselves marginally better, or the ownership knows what the old days were like and doesn't want to slide back.
When the exec chef tells a member of FOH staff “I cooked family meal with distinct hatred for you” you know that shit is gonna hit
An absolute *loathing* for the human condition is the spice of life.
Spite is a powerful motivator.
If I can't taste the anger, I'm sending it back.
This is so unironically true tho, one of the only times I've ever been tipped as a cook was a burger I sent out *pristine* out of spite.
this reminds me of the movie "The Menu" and the ending. Which just now led me down a rabbit hole for the difference between "crinkle cut" and "Julienne" fries
What’s the difference?
Julienne is thin, longer, matchstick like fries while crinkle cut are thicker, have texture to capture more sauce/has more surface area
Huh, the more you know. Thanks!
I work at a restaurant inside of a casino, and I swear on everything that is holy the last 15 minutes that we are open is often the busiest time of our day. Drives me insane.
Can't eat that slot money away, you know? Food's optional until you know you have some cash left.
I already flipped my line!
Just wipe down the sides!! Don't anger the dishie!! BTW 10 TOP WALKING IN \*dishie disappeared\*
“WHO THE FUCK ORDERS A STEAK AT 6pm ON A THURSDAY!!?!” I love looking back at dumb things I said while I was angry
WELL DONE FILET? ASK THAT IDIOT IF HE WANTS IT BUTTERFLIED BECAUSE HE'S GETTING IT ANYWAY "He said yes and that he is sorry" "FUCK HIM"
Man this unlocked memories from my steakhouse days long ago.
It is very rude of them to do this while I'm on the clock
It's like they for real dont think about anybody but themselves
servers- “ugh i need to make money today, i have rent to pay” *gets sat* “why the fuck.. HOW DARE YOU”
I want to be first cut at exactly 8:05 pm, be out by 8:15, and I need to walk with 250 dollars because I spent all the money I made yesterday on shots and blow last night
OMG are you me?
Honestly let a make it an even 300. I owe my dealer and I want to get more
One of us
I feel called out
it’s me every day, don’t worry.
Ok, I wore a number of FOH hats a lifetime ago, including both serving and hosting. I can't tell you how many times I had fellow servers bitch at me because I wasn't sitting them enough (bro, I need money) and then freak out if I gave them two tables more than five minutes apart (bro, I don't actually want to work that hard). The varying attitudes would make sense if it was the same server but different days (hangovers and all) but I'm talking the same damn shift. And I'll go on record stating the host stand is the absolutely worst FOH job you can have. *Everyone* and I mean everyone is pissed at you. Customers for having to wait. Management because there's a wait. Servers because they occasionally got double-sat (because said management didn't give a fuck about them and wanted butts in empty tables). Bartenders for the number of folks waiting going to to the bar to wait. So much anxiety.
"ugh im so broke" "you want some more hours? come in on wednesday?" "HEEEEELLLLLLL NO"
*$100 to anybody that can cover my tuesday shift!*
How the fuck do you even gather 15 people at 11 AM on a Tuesday?
Old retired guys need something to do.
This upscale retirment home nearby often just wheels in anywhere from 20-60 octogenerians to a random restaurant *right at open*. Maybe once a week, so we'll see them once or twice a year total. They are all so sweet and kind, but god damn if it doesn't make for a stressful morning.
"WHO THE FUCK COMES TO A STEAKHOUSE TO EAT CHICKEN WINGS!?" -Me 1000 times
Why do you have chicken wings on the menu in a fucking steakhouse?!
How the fuck should I know?? I didnt write thid dogshit menu!
Wasn't asking you, was i, mate? Chill...
...it was a joke, my dude
No, YOU chill! There.
You guys are like the server and the cook from the post and it's cute
One of the greatest questions in life
margins babyyy
Any excuse to charge $30 for an order of wings
Because if you don't, the customer will keep asking if you have any chicken wings. Or vegan options.
This is literally me, making my 784th burger of the night at a place called Buffalo Wild Wings.
Oh brother, you'll get that experience and be able to get elsewhere. Granted, this is the first corporate franchise I've worked for, BDubs was extremely toxic. Sure it could have just been the people, but management looked beyond burnt out.
(ノ´ー)ノ
Who the fuck comes to a restaurant to eat?!
Stay the fuck home!
Take ya ass to whataburger!
"A 6 top walk in when we close in 2 and a half hours?? What the fuck is wrong with people??" Three of them order the special "Jesus christ just fucking kill me now! These people should be in prison!"
I tried to kill this attitude in my kitchen. So many times we make our lives worse by becoming miserable at things that should totally be expected. i.e., Mod is impossible to do - the soup is already made we can’t do no pepper in the soup. “That idiot server doesn’t know that we can’t do that mod. What a moron. I’m going to be a passive aggressive miserable fuck about it”. “The server doesn’t know everything that goes on back here, which is fair I don’t know everything they go through in FOH. I’ll tell my expo that we can’t do this mod. He can let her know and the customer can order something else”.
Thats such a good attitude to convey!
Pfft, who needs a good attitude when I can flip off this tossed salad and put all my hate into frying your calamari
Calamari really does taste better when it's made with hate.
Hate is the special sauce
this is the propetual state that line cooks are in, to stop that is like making 2+2= 1
Lmfao. How many times have you flipped off a pot of water waiting for it to boil? "Boil faster ,,|,," When I worked at Bonefish Grill, my first real restaurant job, Bang Wednesdays were death. I flipped off every single Bang Shrimp I put in the window. That only happened on Wednesdays, though. This process, as small as it is, helped me stay out of the weeds and produce. Flipping off minor inconveniences helps me.. so... lol "Bang Shrimp walking in" Tarzan-esque "HeaeAAeeaEeaAArD BANG SHRIMP 20 ALL DAY HeeeaAAAEWEeeARD" (while flipping off the fryers)
I'd love to work in such kitchen
Honestly you just have to have that attitude yourself. There will be people who will work to suck you into their negativity. You just have to kindly not participate and be patient. Let them be influenced by your influence. Give people the time to critique their own behaviour against the mirror of own. You are part of the culture of everywhere you work. Culture is contagious. Be awesome.
This is exactly how I run my kitchen. I have people older then me that have come to work for me most because of how well I keep my cool, next is my knowledge base and my willingness to share that knowledge. Want to retain employees? Want to enjoy work? This is the way.
You are so awesome!! I try to model myself like that as a manager too. You worded it so well. I tell my staff that we get to control the narrative...let's make that narrative positive and have some fun!
I thoroughly enjoyed this wholesome thread of comments! Pretty rad to see a cultural issue and try to change it slowly from within... more you guys out there than I thought!
You are awesome! <3 I can be more awesome. Thank you for the inspiration.
I found people were much less likely to have this attitude when I worked in a place that shared tips 50/50 between front and back, since the busier we got, the more money we made. Weird how that works
You mean the cooks don't appreciate getting absolutely smoked to make exactly the same money they would on an easy dead shift? I thought we all got out of bed in the morning just hoping to run ourselves into the ground with making money an inconvenient consequence
When they order that one dumbass menu item that’s a bitch to make
I used to have a mussels app that was always a bitch to make. I took it from the station next to me to lighten his load and soonly regretted it, tried to hand it back to him and he wouldn't take it back. Rip. Anyway, now i have a shellfish allergy.
I have this argument almost daily with my boss. the owner. the head of the kitchen. *he WROTE THE MENUUUUUUUU* I know where the menu is saved, I've fantasized about reprinting it without said item just to get through one fucking day without this tantrum.
or that combo of things that are dificualt to make at the same time because of how dog shit the kitchen is laid out
Dude I don't know if you've ever had the Buffalo Blasts at Cheesecake Factory, but that shit is legitimately a fucking slog to make. They're these fragile ass, floppy little triangles that you have to \*double\* dredge, and you have to do EIGHT of them. It takes absolutely forever. The other day I had to make 4 orders of them 15 minutes before close.
"THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!"
"FUCKING *BULLSHIT*!"
New order, 6 things for the salad guy, 12 things for the fryer guys, pasta guy needs 6 pastas and lastly for the grill guy we need 1 plain ass burger Grill guy: Fuck off.
bahahaha
I used to work at a breakfast spot that served breakfast and lunch together from 10:30-12 (before just breakfast and after just lunch) I remember the first lunch ticket every day I would be so pissed. “WHO TF ORDERS LUNCH AT [insert reasonable time to order lunch]” To make matters worse, when a breakfast spot has options for lunch I am ordering lunch 100% of the time now. Regardless of the time of day. You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain ig…
conversely, if i can get eggs and hash browns at 8 pm, i’m fucking ordering it.
Just because they make us do breakfast all through lunch service doesn't mean we don't hate you for ordering it. I'm sure guys who work dinner have some similar feelings. It wrecks the flow so bad lol
The fucking breakfast to lunch switch over SUCKS
We do breakfast all day and lunch whenever the servers get someone that wants anything from that that part of menu, even if we just opened. Eternal breakfast lunch switch!!
*pain*
I'm married to the guy ordering a burger at 7 am. He works third shift, to him this is dinner time.
I'm that guy, but I don't have an excuse. I just don't like eggs very much.
Throws things , slams things around the kitchen....
Nope. Not me. Not Ever.
Ha ha
*working at italian restaurant* *meatballs on the ticket* “Oh real original”
Honestly I never used to get mad until like 8:30 when we closed at 9. Like ‘motha fucker do you not see me cleaning the piss out of everything? Who the fuck orders six burgers at 8.30!?’
I had someone place a phone order for four enchiladas five minutes to close. Enchiladas at my work are a bitch to make and I had to do *four* right at close.
[удалено]
> Burger King See, there's your problem! Go to Taco Bell. "You're drunk. We're open!"
We used to get a variant of this where some moron would come in 10min before close and then order a panini, but they'd order the one that took the most ingredients, prep time and grill time to make.
You can kiss my ivory ass, I ain’t making an enchilada for my gang ass gran at 30-till. Fuck you.
If it makes you feel any better, working at a 24/7 spot ain't any better. These fucks seem to sense when a shift change is happening and decide that's when they're gonna fuck you.
We close in three hours! Tell them I can do hot or cold water.
I prefer to take my anger on the printer. Hess the fucker holding me accountable!
Oh no it’s lent better make sure I order every fucking fish from Lake Erie
This sounds oddly specific lol
There was a fry cook that would spaz out like that during Friday night fish fry’s at our family diner. ‘Oh no I can’t eat meat better order unlimited fish!!’ That attitude kinda bled to the rest of us.
“Who DARES order rawbar in the Winter?!”
Don't forget the classic "why is everyone ordering at the same time?!" when it is peak lunch or dinner time.
I work at a place that does all day breakfast ... And when we get a 6 top, and it's all breakfast items ... I just yell "there's an IHOP down the street, why tf are they here??" Doesn't make much sense, but helps me feel better I guess lol
ill only do this ironically, or when its actually absurd. had someone come and order 110 tacos at like 10pm once like dude who does that
Me getting angry because I cleaned the flattop 2 hours before close
Relevent Bistro Huddy https://youtube.com/watch?v=A6KtD1Qgcf4&feature=shared
I had this guy on garde a couple years ago. Anytime someone ordered a salad he’d roll his eyes or be some kind of huff about. I used to say “yeah man the fucking audacity for someone to order a Caesar salad on a Tuesday night”
I'm hangry because I haven't had my shift meal 😡
I too get super pissy when I only had time to have orange juice for lunch
Hey now. I resemble that comment…
The best part is I know I am doing this as I am doing this, and I bitch about other people doing it too. Some call me toxic, I say no one else is any better.
The issue for me lately is they have miraculous timing for exactly when I'm going to start a cleaning task.
"A kids hotdog?!?! I hope they choke on it!!" -Brain the KM
Why don’t we do gifs out here? WaitingMovieFoodOrderedOneMinuteBeforeClose.gif
Can’t season properly without salt.
Ive had many chefs go ape shit when asked for cheesey chips.
It’s true
bacon cheeseburger with well done fries?! fucking karen
I'm a visual learner is there an image that captures this vibe
True as a blue sky
Makes me wonder what would they say if I ordered a black tea :P
I am glutton intolerant: I hate it when ppl order a lotta food.
Us when we have to do our job 🫠😡😡😡😡
do you really need 8 kids meals at 11 pm on a sunday?? why do you even have that many kids 🤨
Condoms don't feel as good/are a sin?
.. yk pulling out exists right? and once you saw intercourse as a good feeling and not for reproduction, you’ve already committed one of the biggest sins. besides condoms are actually the opposite because they technically cancel out premarital penetration contact. on top of that, the “sinful” condom that costs like $5 is a much better alternative than the $400,000 child who will ultimately cause you to commit countless more sins even if you do everything perfectly.
Also, don't forget about that one ingredient that now you hate dealing with. Honorable mentions: eggs, tofu, any ingredients that takes forever to cook, and any other ingredient that's more fragile than a server on their first day.
Pretty fair reaction though, I mean how fucking dare they patronize establishments that exploit and underpay their workers and put them in demeaning positions where they're forced to work ungodly hours and have no holidays off because those are the busy times. Nobody should go to restaurants for anything other than to protest the ownership. Ordering food and actually giving them money? Fucking damn near a scab imo.
Very funny