/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Used to work at a "soul food" beetus dump a few years back and I saw a lot of shit when the after-church crowd stampeded in every Sunday.

>Party of 8 comes in
>Two old people, two middle-aged people, two teenagers, and two small children
>They reposition their table and chairs so the old man can sit at the head of the table in his electric wheelchair
>Dude is fat as fuck - easily 300--400 lbs - and missing a leg
>Bring out a basket of rolls and cornbread y'all and take their drink orders
>The king of the family looks up at me from his electric throne as he grabs a piece of cornbread
>"You can tell how good cornbread is by the way it crumbles, see."
>Watch in apathy as this man's swollen hand that barely resembles that of a human's crushes the cornbread in his grasp
>He grinds the piece of cornbread in his hand to make the biggest mess he possibly can
>mfw cleaning this mess while his kin encourage him with shit like "Wow Pawpaw this must be some good cornbread"
>Geriatric beetus king lets out a sigh/grunt
>"This cornbread ain't that good"
>The entire family eats rolls instead

When customers don't tip well I penis the food.

>recently quit job as bagel baker
>give them literally two months notice
>tell boss on last day that I would be willing to come back and work random one-off shifts every once in a while if they have absolutely no one else (shop can't operate without a baker)
>clarify that I cannot work the rest of the year because I have tons of schoolwork to do
>go in a couple days later to get my tips
>"Hey anon, remember when you said you'd be willing to work a shift every once in a while?"
>"Yeah..."
>"Well how about next Saturday? We have no one else."

Felt like a dick when I told them no, but seriously, what the fuck

>>6039477
>>He grinds the piece of cornbread in his hand to make the biggest mess he possibly can

I went ot high school with that guy. We use to call him "Grabby."

Line cook over at this fine dining Italian place in NYC

were doing this event tomorrow that goes until 1 AM, so I'm bringing massive amounts of candy and red bull for me and my chefbros and some of the cooler runners

I'm so pumped but also a little nervous!

Any advice on getting started in the food industry?

I've got a decent job, but I dream of working in a kitchen. Is culinary school the only way?

>>6039487
How does that work exactly?

>>6040083
most people in the food industry didn't go to culinary school, they started off as a dishwasher or prep bitch. but if you want to work in nice restaurants it's a good idea to go

going to culinary school shows a prospective employer you are serious about cooking as a career and not just a desperate person looking for a job

but if you honestly have a good job and want to work in a kitchen you are fucking insane

>>6039856
>line cook
>NYC
I've always been curious, where can a low or mid level food industry person afford to live in NYC?

I'm an assistant pastry chef atm and I've wanted to move there because there are so many great restaurants. I'm just worried I'll end up homeless.

>>6040159
Lol bruh I'm only 19 so I live with my family in jersey but I plan to move once my friend comes back from college so we can share the rent

work at red rooster, has like roast chicken and stuff for fast food, it's alright, can only think of one funny story
>guy comes through the drive through in a tradie-mobile
>uhhh can i get an ultimate zinger meal
>umm that's kfc, this is red rooster
>oh shit it is, uhhh i'll get a rooster roll instead then
>we all were headsets so we can hear the order and make it before it's put into the PoS
>everyone just starts laughing

>It's Saturday.
>This means brunch.
>My new position has landed me in exclusive charge of brunch. This means I come in at 530, see what the night crew fucked up on their close, then delegate prep duties before dialing in the line cooks.
>All is well at 830, half an hour before service. >All three deliveries come in at the same time, no big deal, as I've organized everything.
>930 rolls around, get a request for an item not on the menu, but featured on a food network show about the goddamn restaurant.
>Say "yes."
>All other servers begin ringing up the same item without asking
>lose my shit after ten or so of these.
>Have a conversation with a server along the lines of "Don't give me attitude. Are we going to have a problem now? Just do your fucking job."
>Check phone.
>Episode of show featuring said item aired last night, orders completely put sauce cook in the weeds.
>Fuck Servers, and Fuck Guy Fieri.
>We have to do it again tomorrow, and I'm just putting those items on the menu, perpared to get completely fucked.

>>6040083
I have line cooks who've gone to school, and line cooks who have not. The ones who have not tend to be better, more dedicated, and just plain nastier when it comes to service, the sort of people I want on my line when we get crushed. I never went to cooking school personally, and don't see much need for it if you can function on a station during service.

>>6039538

Go do your homework you pecker

>>6040092
not him but i'd imagine it has something to do with his penis touching the food

>>6040609
this dude again!

how's work been? anything cool happen recently?

>>6041042
Hi friend! Good to know I'm becoming a regular haha

Just had truffle day a while back, chef decided to throw on some 40 minute sous vide eggs to the menu to go with some white truffles

Right now one of our awesome sous chefs is trying to see if we can make truffle infused rice puffs out of the rice we use to store our truffles in

Also kind of basking in the fact that chef chose only me and one other line cook to work this huge fancy ass event with a bunch of well renowned chefs

In the mean time I'm testing some of my own weird ass recipes and I managed I make this sea salt dark chocolate truffle that's covered in my own foie gras cotton candy

It's bizarre but it's so cool!

How are you?

>Work set up at big restaurant
>set up banquets/parties/other special events
>work as whatever else they need me to sometimes
>banquet servers are fucking lazy fucks who've been there for 20 years and don't know how to properly set up a room
>always whining about having to set up when we're busy
>managers don't tell them shit unless unless my team's not there
I fucking hate this place bros. But it pays well. What do.

>>6041078
>sea salt dark chocolate truffle that's covered in my own foie gras cotton candy
How do you make foie gras cotton candy? Just foie paste mixed in to your sugar syrup?

I'm simultaneously grossed out and intrigued

>>6041096
I did it a few ways

The easiest way is rendering the fat and mixing it with a caramelized sugar and then spinning it by hand!

You get this kinda silly fatty sweet foie taste. It's awesome and it works so well with the crunchy salt and dark chocolate

>>6041096
I wonder if he somehow emulsifies the sugar in with the liquid fat then lets it crystallize while spinning.

Still pretty damned crazy.

>>6041108
>he

>>6041106
Is this something you're working on on your own, or with the restaurant?

>>6041037
>not him but i'd imagine it has something to do with his penis touching the food

Yes, but the food will have already been consumed when the waiter/waitress discovers there is no tip forthcoming.

This is why I've never sent food back to the kitchen to be redone when at a restaurant, (not that I've had many bad meals) as _that's_ when they can fuck with your food.

Here's a story but true. My bro was food and beverage director at the Atlanta Hilton and I was there for his wedding which for some strange reason he wanted there...

Before the wedding there's a rehersal, so before that my cousin and I decided to get a meal, I ordered some fucking weinerschitzel or whatever that kraut stuff is called, I cut it open and found a big ass curly hair in it. I brought up to the waiter and he was like guess where that came from and pointed to the nigger chef.

Now if I reported that to my bro was was the director of all of that I could have gotten them all fired. But I'm a mellow God, I never told him about that. I didn't eat that and never ate there again.

Luckily I got in an out of that place quickly. I love my bro but that marriage with him didn't last, maybe a few years, she was a real bitch.

I wouldn't cause problems like that for my bro's wedding. And as I said, I didn't eat anything, it was right where I first cut into the thing so saw it immediately.

I and my grandad who faught the sneak attacks japs are very alike in that, if their is a hair in the food, it'll come to us and we'll find it... HOORAH!

Better than a wife or girlfriend getting it!

A lot of people want to see pic related, but never again!

>>6041225
next time they come in obviously, thats why I would never not tip at a place I want to come back to

>>6041255
what the fuck?
> never not tip
so you always tip

>>6041251
Opps forgot the plot there remembering shit...

My cousin and I still tipped the waiter because his remark was funny as fuck and we all cracked up at the nigger chef.

Plus it would look fucked if the bro of the F&B Director didn't tip. I think we smoked a joint afterwards and hit up the vending machine.

Sometimes it's good to be diplomatic.

>>6041288
Yeah dude. Double negatives aren't that hard to comprehend

>>6040159
I live in Bed-Stuy with three roommates. It's do-able but have some money saved up. Like several thousand, just in case. And move here with your bare essentials. Don't bring your Xbox and a TV and a floor lamp and a desk lamp etc.

>work at a shitty chain bbq restaurant
>technically line cook, but we do everything there, because
>place hires a shitty barely-English speaking dude that doesn't absorb any information we give him ever
>powerful power soaker generally has a problem with bowls and angles, often soaks floor
>go to grab some platters or whatever because asking him gets blank stares
>puts a big bowl in just as I'm leaving the dish area
>get fucking drenched
>some stupid server standing in my way
>dish guy just stares at me for ten seconds, then turns off the machine

I don't know what I did to deserve this.

>Spend 2 hours breading chicken.
>I fucking hate breading shit, its monotonous as fuck, super fucking messy, and it takes forever.
>As I finish up breading, the dishwasher who is a nice guy but is shit at everything he does says he will wrap it for me and before I can say that I'll do it myself, he grabs the hotel pan full of chicken WITH FUCKING 1 HAND and drops its everywhere.

Holy shit was I fucking pissed. 2 hours of work and a shit load of chicken down the drain. Chef yelled at him for dropping it and at me for letting him do it even though he took the pan before I could even say no. I fucking hate working with idiots.

Why the fuck do waiters even exist in the 21st century? FFS, I just want some good prepared food by a licensed chef; I don't need someone to brown-nose me for an hour in exchange for five dollars. I'm perfectly capable of picking up my order and walking it back to my table.

>>6041429
it doesnt have to be messy.
3 stainless steel bowls, 2 spiders
bowl one flour, cornstarch, whatever
bowl two egg wash, buttermilk, whatever
bowl three flour mix, cornmeal, panko, whatever

put in bowl 1 toss, remove with spider 1 and shake to remove excess, dump in bowl 2, spider 2 remove and drain, into bowl 3, toss remove.

super quick, multiple pieces at a time, clean workstation

>>6040642
Bloody legend. Good shit.

>>6041444

I think tipping is retarded but if you don't know the answer to this question then so are you.

>>6039342

Just out of curiosity say someone wanted to ask for a waiter or waitresses number or if they would like to go out on a date, are they allowed to respond in kind or give out their phone number? Also what would be the best approach to asking just a question without seeming creepy?

>>6041753
Of course they can, it's generally applauded.

>>6041746
He may not know about tipping. But he certainly knows about tripping. Check them.

>>6041251
>>6041297
die

>>6041251
What? a pube?

How much did your bro make a year at that joint, also?

>>6040626
How much longer til yours shut down?

>>6041106
Kinda sounds like dipping my hand into a deli's trash bin and eating what I got. But so are a lot of these kinds of experiments

>>6041398
Ha I worked at burger King as a cashier. I occasionally did dishes to be nice because if the kitchen isn't happy then no one is happy. But I only ever did dishes when no one was around because I was never trained and that fucking nozzle is like 1000 times stronger than any hose or sink you have I'm your home, so I always got wet using it. Prob should have asked for help but I was never trained ever in anything so I didn't give a fuck

>>6039342
>line cook at a fine dining restarant
>first ever job
>start off as salad punk but watch other stations and start picking shit up, after about a month I get moved to position where I catually cook shit instead of artfully just arranging greens, cheese and fruit while bullshitting with the runners
>pretty great crew at this time, one intern leaves
>sides/hot aps chick, kind of an airhead but she held it down, I train to cover her stations
>new intern comes in to pick up salads
>going to local college for restarant management
>fucking autistic weirdo with no experience
>corrects exec chef on the pronunciation of meuniere on her first fucking day
>divulges her entire personal life to me her first day of training on salads
>self proclaimed "fixer"
>currently has a "husband" and "daughter" who are the man she is currently fixing and his 7-year-old by his junkie ex girlfiend
>talks about them all by their firstnames as If I know them or give a fuck
>gets smug satisfaction out of the fact that "daughter's" junkie broke-ass convict birth mom has to pay child support to her and her "husband"
>"because she is too retarded to hold down a job at walmart haha"
>only works three days a week
>incompetent even after a month on the line because she is always calling off last minute
>last week
>my first day off after working 13 straight days and getting fucking loaded after every shift
>fuck yes time to regenerate some brain tissue
>get a text from an unknown number
>hey it's anon from work can you pick up my shift I am running a 101 fever
>fucking throw my phone into pile of laundry and go back to bed

Found out from chef the next day that she didn't find anyone to take her shift so she just didn't show up so chef said "well then come in tomorrow to make up your hours," to which she responeded "I can't, I have plans with my mom."

It is absolutely mind-blowing that she is still with us. I'll post more stories.

>>6042218
Please do

>>6042218

If I ever came close to pulling shit like that I would honestly be afraid to go back to the kitchen

>show up after being a spastic cunt two days in a row
>'I feel like working again, teehee"

no man, no. couldn't do it.

>>6042218
>>6042221
Alright then

>second time training her, she had been training on salads for a good week by this point
>still doesn't know how to do shit
>"okay so put the bread at about two o'clock like this, and then lay your bleu across it pointing in at the greens, drizzle your honey, blah blah blah"
>just stands there staring
>okay here just take a plate now and build one just like it
>makes a fucking mess
>placement wonky as fuck, dressings everywhere, just an unattractive fucking salad, forgets like 4 ingredients
>fuck it she'll figure it out I'm done with this shit
>notice she's wearing a finger cot
>"so anon, d'you cut yourself"
>no, she had shut her finger in one of the coolers
>about an hour later begins whining about her finger hurting
>insists on keeping it elevated
>attempting to make salads with one hand with her other hand raised over her head in a salute to being a histrionic nutball
>I end up picking everything up while she sits and whines with her hand in a quart container full of ice
>finally decides she has had enough
>calls her dad who drives two hours into the city to pick her up from work and drive her to urgent care six blocks away
>exec chef comes down to check on the line
>"where's the new chick?"
>oh she had to go to the ER or something. Anyway, she left.
>"oh no, what happened? did she cut herself?"
>no she slammed her finger in the cheese drawer yesterday.

They prescribed her some ibuprofen. She took off work the next day

>>6042119
A lot of experiments turn out like that but this one was pretty good. Dark chocolate, sea salt and foie gras are known for being a good combo though

>>6040642
why wouldn't you have something on the menu that was featured on tv? Someone had to know about he restaurant being featured, that's a pretty big deal.

>working at retaurant
>NYT reviewed, great cocktail bar, fine food with modern styling
>big event that night
>mayor coming in, need to prep all the shit for the dinner
>chef slices scallops the size of baseballs
>have been marinating overnight in lime for this
>busybusybusybusy
>"anon, we need sheet trays, clean out the walkin"
>"gee not much in here" *grabgrabgrab*
>45 minutes later....
>WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY SCALLOPS ANON?!!??!
>uhh uhhu uhhhuh
>they better not be in the trash god dammit

>chef walks me over to the washer trash and watches as i dig through to find scallops

Turns out that I threw away the sheet trays with all the scallops because I thought they were just parchment paper, fuck me, right?

>chef screams at me so loud I can feel the force of his voice

>leave, never call back for hours, never speak of it
>don't return for 2 years until he no logner works there

>come into a new job at an upscale restaurant as dishwasher boy
>food is good, people are friendly, family environment, but everything's disorganized
>"soft opening" a.k.a. we have to get our shit together but we don't know what to do
>come in once a week, all of the glasses are still in their trays, piled up
>absolutely no room to move
>"trained" by a 19 year old guy who clearly doesn't give a fuck about anything
>first night of heavy dinner load
>i'm in the front washing the floor while 7 chick servers chit chat and eat
>i'm the only one cleaning the dining area
>old lady owner comes to the front to yell at me
>lazy servers say i'm "flicking dust around"
>the entire place looks filthy
>huge areas of sticky mixed drink spills all over floor in bar area
>I'm the one cleaning it
>get yelled at by old lady owner who has no idea just how fucking filthy every single thing that comes through my station is
>these are ethnic people so they have no sense that if it's really a soft opening, I should be given the chance to clean the caked on black gunk on the chef's fucking slicer, etc..
>I came in an hour early that night at the last minute, got called in
So this week, I was supposed to go in, supposed to be there last night. "Sorry, we've filled your spot for tonight, we have so many new people to train." A family restaurant wants to have the family whipping boy do everything, be yelled at, and jerked around. I needed that money from last night. So fuck them, I'm going into another kitchen this week, they can suck my dick.

yeah i don't make truffles or shit but i got called a retard for forgetting to warm a woman's banana bread at starbucks during our busiest time (60 transactions/half hour)

>>6042281
None of us watch the show, so when it airs we find out about it the next day when we get crushed. We're pretty neighborhoody, so people come to brunch expecting brunch items. Our stations are all slammed with brunch items so we have no room for the items from the show.

>>6039487
>customer leaves shitty tip, and leaves
>get anal angry
>shove dick up some dish that was on line to be put out
>ha, that'll show them
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>>6043507
lol does anyone see when this guy as a hater or see him as a hater and should stay away from him lol?

and remember loser women might leech off of peoples popularity too but then again i dont know

>>6042218
>self proclaimed "fixer"
She's not a very good contract killer if she tells everyone that within hours of meeting them.

>>6041453
Thanks, used this at work today and it worked great!

>>6043507
>taking that man's post seriously

I'm in my fourth week at a caferteria-style place. I'm basically a lunch lady, but I'm still having a blast. There's never a dull moment and there's always something to do. The time flies by.

Any tips for someone new to the whole show?

>>6044460
work your ass off and pay attention. make notes when you get home every night. keep a small notebook on you and do lots of independent study

>>6044465
I started there before we opened for the winter season, I stayed late several times and came in on my day off too.
I told the Chef that I'd be willing to cover for anyone on my off days and that I'd be glad to stay late.

I want to get better, but what kind of notes? just general recipe notes?

I've got one but to make a long story short. Let's just say that when you offer your co workers pain numbing substances to help ease their pain be aware of the whole "Word spreads around" motif. I had worked at 6 different fast food joints within my area and it became such a problem for me that I had former colleagues from other restaurants harass me at my "Current" jobs to score some pain pills from me. Sad part is I made money off the whole charade and it was pretty scary to see some people come back like zombies hugely dependent on their needs for Oxy even if they didn't feel any pain.

And before you ask, I was involved in a car accident that landed me in the hospital that required surgery to which I was given prescriptions for pain meds ranging from ibuprofen 800mg to MS Contin (Briefly)

>two years ago
>working at Buffalo Wild Wings as a waiter
>9 top of shitty teenagers
>they all order appetizers
>they finish their food and I'm gathering their baskets
>I'm reaching for the last basket and one of them grabs it and places it on the floor like he expects me to pick it up off the floor. All the while looking me in the eye the whole time
>mfw

I loved the job because it was free food constantly, the tips were good, and my coworkers were college sluts so it's the most I've gotten laid in my entire life. But holy fucking shit I hated working with shitty guests. I guess that's any food service job though

>>6044471
anything you think of, things you learned ideas you had whatever.

Come in early and stay late anyway. Off the clock of course

>>6044501
I wake up early and carpool with my sous-chef, the baker, and a few other guy from work since we all live at employee housing. I like to stay late when I can but I usually leave whenever they do, unless we have a lot of prep that needs to be done. I'll stay late and just take the bus then.
I left my car back in Texas because I don't like driving on Ice.

I'm going to pick up a notebook tomorrow at one of my coworkers suggestion to copy all the recipies down in it, so when I need to make something I'm not scrambling around looking for it, I'll use it for various notes too.

>>6039487
Take it out on your shitty boss for not paying you enough and not on paying customers. Chances are you work at stove dump with dirt cheap disgusting food, so it's not like your customers can afford to tip you

>>6044486
>I loved the job because it was free food constantly, the tips were good
this is literally the only reason why I still haven't quit. I get to eat free sushi and get paid a handsome amount in tips

>>6044486
Fucking teenagers. I had a group maje a huge fucking mess, sauce everywhere, bones on the floor, the works. Turned around and got my manager, he made them clean it up.
Naturally I didn't get a tip, but it was fucking glorious watching the self-entitled fucks whining about cleaning it up while the security guy watched to make sure they didn't walk off.

>get new guy at the kitchen
>his first job ever, he's quiet and a bit withdrawn, socially awkward and mumbles
>he has poor time management skills, he's frying stuff and then standing infront of it babysitting the food for about four minutes until it's done while he should be doing other things like getting some more ingredients to back up or run dishes or start plating
>earlier when he first started working, I tried to show him the ropes by teaching him how to do things like plate food, cut produce, clean his workstation and look for things to do and backup
>he's very sluggish and fat, takes him ten minutes to do something it takes me two minutes to do, forgets alot of simple things like how to clean up even after working for a month
>end up having to drop what I'm doing at another station to help with a laughably easy order
>constantly have to remind him to do a certain thing
I don't want to be a ramsay dick to him and yell at him but he has to learn. I admit that I was slow for the first couple of weeks but there's no energy in the guy.

Line cook here, who ever is on grill makes food for everone in between rushes. Our only "breaks" consist of us taking said food to our station and eating it in like 30 seconds, I swear some of these guys don't even look like they chew.

>>6044559
You still chew?

>>6044559
>be helper for the person on the grill
>be done with a shitton of orders
>tfw bowls of small extras pieces of shrimp, steak,filet mignons and chicken
>tfw have time to slowly eat it and drink water

>>6044559
>>6044566
>tfw pastry chef

>>6044572
if you can get away with eating, what do you like to get? And would be it be safe to say literally every kitchen has people eating stuff?

>Bakers
>>6044575
Gotta test that food for quality control man.

>>6044575
>>6044577
Pretty much every kitchen has people eating somewhere.

I actually am a fuck so I eat a lot. I trade the kitchen staff things like brownie/bread pudding scraps for delicious bbq steak and custom built meat filled sandwiches. I also can't keep myself from eating some fruits when I'm finishing stuff(or using fruits at all) and I always eat the cheesecake scraps, always. We bake ours in a hotel pan for some reason so the ends are always stupid, but it makes a nicer sized slice than the huge ones from the cake pans. It's fun and I love to eat, would hate being on the line all the time though, I'm generally only on during weekend evenings to plate since I do it better than the foreigners we have.

>>6044582
Our baker always brings out ends for people to snack on. I'll always make her things when she asks, and It's not uncommon to see our sous getting a salad or something for her too.

>>6044582
>tfw have all the ingredients available at my particular workspace in the kitchen compared to other workers
>tfw don't have to trade anything if I want a specific thing save for the occasional bartenders, not for alcohol though

>>6044591
I pretty much have all my stuff at my workspace, I just love to trade since they will make my food immediately and I will definitely get too fat if I ate it all myself all the time.

>used to work at a bar/pub kind of deal
>busy not too busy, morning shifts were able to be soloed except for friday, and saturday
>I used to have semi-long hair
>this one fucking server would give me shit for it all the time
>say fuck it and decide to get a haircut
>next day at work, she comes running at me yelling about finding a hair in the food and how she warned me and all that crap about it
>just start laughing my ass off at her
>she's wondering why I'm laughing instead of worrying about the guest
>show her my complete lack of hair and tell her to get the fuck out of her with her lying ass
>leaves me alone the rest of the week
Man that job was fun as shit but stressful because it was [spoiler]right underneath a stripclub[/spoiler
Which was cool but the strippers were able to order food and I'd have to run around and upstairs to deliver it to them. Doesn't seem so bad but think of it like this
>Stripper 1 orders wings
>run up and deliver it
>go back into the kitchen and have a new order for Stripper 2
> run up and repeat the process
Worst memory was it happened like 5 times in a row with all of actual customer tickets on top of it

>>6044582
>to plate since I do it better than the foreigners we have.

I've been a baker/pastry chef for 12 years and I actually prefer to work under somebody rather than try and get retards to try and plate my desserts correctly. I've had 3 head pastry chef jobs and all of them made me want to fall on my knife because the people under me are so horribly incompetent. I'm now upset just thinking about it. I've seen my desserts raped so many times that I would honestly like to see the human race exterminated.

>>6042264
I would murder her right there. You have saintly patience anon.

>>6042264
I don't get why chefs don't fire those people... I've left jobs specifically because the chef wouldn't fire that guy.

>>6043072
Gotta say, that's pretty fuckin' retarded.

>work at a food and drink establishment
>serve warm food cold
>expect not to be called a retard

>>6044615
I've been in similar situations to your running food to the strippers...

Are they paying for it? Because in my case they weren't, and I would make them wait 15 or 20 minutes while I busted out the real orders. At that point, all 5 stripper tickets would have been in, and I'd make one run.

context:
>worked illegally in shitty fish and chip shop
>all staff underpaid
>have a cool chef, who taught me lots of things
>used to run the whole kiosk by himself
>boss is an asshole, who expects us to open and close in less then 20 min.
>shop is moderately sized, two floors.

story:
>the boss ordered us to change the frying oil only once every 3 weeks
>by the end of it, the oil is brown and hardens to a thick tar like paste
>occasionally we would throw in leftovers from boxes to refill
>chef orders me to scoop out the unmelted crap out of the "refreshed" oil, gives plastic scoop
>assume its a thermoplastic thing or something
>finish and notice that the scoop is transparent, and a drop of melted plastic dropping into the oil
>it was 5 minutes to opening
>couldn't change the oil, boss would have raped us
>it was a very depressing day, having to serve poison to chainsmokers

>>6040083
i'm starting as kitchen porter, i've been working for about a month so far and i've already made a few things

none of the chefs (including the owner) have been to culinary school

>tfw catering
>busy season
>everybody's overworked and pissed off already
>4 more weeks of straight bookings

Help me /ck/

>be me
>work at shitty sportsbar
>chef is an alcoholic
>unbearable asshole when hes sober
>leaves the kitchen and two interns to me to get loaded and watch the game
>notices that i'm capable of running shit alone in the kitchen
>starts drinking earlier, more, working less
>do his work on top of mine
>start doing little plates for the runners
>start adding seasonal items to the menue
>chef notices that im slowly taking over
>get fired for smoking the reefas at work

>>6044452
People at my work penis food constantly.

>>6046822
Why do you still work there and why haven't you reported all of them yet?

>>6046843
Because shitty customers deserve what's coming to them.
Rude condescending prick jobs get penised grub.

>>6039487
YOU SON OF A WHORE!!!
SACRILEGE!
YOU ARE THE REASON WHY RESTAURANTS CLOSE!

Would working at a KFC as a "kitchen manager" for a year be acceptable experience to be a kitchen assistant aka cut veggies and shit at a decent restaurant?

>Decide to work at a country club one summer in high school
>This won't be so bad, right?
>$10/hr for a high school kid seems pretty good
>Work as bar back. Basically bussing dishes, wiping off tables, drink orders, for small bar area
>Get yelled at every day for not being able to serve them alcohol (Had to ask bartenders for anything alcoholic)
>Quit after a month and a half
>Idk how you guys do it guys

Would it be poor form to jump the counter and ram my dick into the cute girls mouth who works at my local wendys?

>>6041106
>>6041108
Hiveminding anons

>>6046883
No restaurant was ever shut down from food penising.
No one cares and no one can prove it.

>>6041444
Not everyone is like you anon, also, there's the whole Hospitality thing. Trained professional waiters and Maitre D wouldn't do this kind of shit to you or anyone, but not everyone is trained with proper etiquette.

>>6046917

>work at as a Barnes and Noble cafe barista
>we serve Starbucks products but not all of them
>can only serve what Starbucks legally allows us to
>it's in a college campus, so it's extremely rare to have a asshole customer, since it's mainly college kids who understand the pain of minimum wage (yes we get paid less than Starbucks baristas)
>constantly hit about 900-1000 dollars per day which is extremely good considering we're a small cafe that doesn't even take up much room
>in one of the smallest campuses
>never once received any recognition for working by myself and like one dude the entire fucking day and hitting a good 900 dollars anyway by pure effort and pushing deals through, asking them if they want a venti size drink instead of a tall/grande
>constantly get passive-aggressive remarks from my boss if I close in the evening in the morning, saying I didn't wipe good enough or I didn't mop well enough or whatever
>in spite the fact I wiped everything down 3 fucking times, made sure the oven was off and ready for cleaning in the morning (it's too hot to clean during the night, so openers clean it)
>do everything the official task sheet says
>do this entirely by myself without any other co-workers to help me because none of them want to close
>even if I fucking do everything perfectly
>my boss just says nothing and goes on her fucking day
>never once ever gotten a compliment
>not even a good job
>my boss works in the bookstore
>constantly hear her be friendly with the bookstore, let them get away with shit
>when she goes over to the cafe, often passive aggressively says certain shit is dirty or whatever after we just had a huge rush and barely had any time to clean up

I know it's my fucking job, but come the fuck on. Just say thanks or any fucking thing other than a fucking criticism. It's fucking infuriating when nothing I can do is good enough.

>>6046964
it called leaving, and watch the cafe burn down without you, seriously stop being a whiny bitch, you have two choices get bossed around and complain on a malaysian cutlery government propaganda site, or man/woman up and take charge.

>>6046964
Time to start pocketing some of those "upsells."

>>6046970

Actually, I had given my two weeks notice.

I will be instead working at a Mom & Pop Tabletop game store that my friend referred me to. I basically have to run campaigns and shit for players and stuff which is something I did during the summer at the same store, which I enjoyed a lot but couldn't stay because didn't have a car and had to rely on a ride. Now I have my own car, I can go work there a lot easier.


The only thing I feel bad for is my cafe manager (not store manager, she's the one that doesn't compliment for shit), she actually does help a lot and is fair in everything she does.

>visting friends in Alaska for a summer while in college
>hoping to get part time work for the summer, main reason I went
>get hired at local ice cream place, a place both my friends had temp worked
>and by "get hired" I mean the day I walked in for an interview at their stand location and someone had quit and they needed someone to start work immediately
>scooping icecream while in nice clothes, okay, whatever, job is good?
>get moved to main location two days later
>owners cannot agree on shit when training me
>Dude owner: super micromanager: always weigh the scoop of icecream, each one HAS to be 2 oz
>Chick owner: more easy going/actual food work experience: Oh, weight doesn't matter - it looks too empty, make it full!
>same shit with coffee making - one would say to serve coffee one way, the other a different way
>have to buy shirts to wear at work - still got money docked from my pay even though I used friends old shirts with owners' permission
>trying my best.jpg
>not even a week later Dude Owner tells me to pack up because "I don't have what it takes"
>ChIck Owner gives me month's pay anyway

I'll admit, it was my first (and thus far only) food service job, and maybe I'm just a dumbass. But I would never know when I was doing anything "right" because every task even down to mopping the floor, the two owners couldn't agree on how I was supposed to do it.

>>6039539
Oh god I can just imagine having that thing pointed at me. I'd freeze up, take a quick glance behind me...

"who, me?"
"Yeah you"

>I'm a manager at Whataburger
>breakfast served from 11pm to 11am
>lady comes in through drivethru at 2pm and orders a sausage biscuit
>"sorry ma'am we can't sell breakfast at this time."
>"but it's for mah son, he really wants one"
>"sorry, ma'am."
>"it's just one biscuit!"
>"sorry ma'am try coming back tomorrow morning"
>hear kid start to cry
>"he's upset now, thanks a lot!"
>drives into parking lot, goes into dining room and demands to speak to the general manager.
>have a 15 minute discussion on how we are strictly prohibited from selling breakfast items after 11am. If the computer rings up a breakfast order, the person that the register is assigned to will be fired.
>bitch still thinks we're full of shit, says she's never eating at another Whataburger again

I once went to a BBQ restaurant in London and ordered the assorted wings plate with some pulled pork and some other texan deliverance fen people shit. Me and my friend shared a platter of that, and all of it was hand food.
I asked the waitress kindly, "hey, can I have some latex/vinyl gloves to eat them wings?" she started laughing and passed it off as a joke and I told her I was dead serious. She said that was not possible. Fair enough, whatever, pretty low key place and I ask another server to bring me the bill, this douchy scrawny american cockwrangler comes there looking skinny as fuck with a smug aura off "oh I can't be bothered to be here" wearing his fucking tank top, armpit hair blowing in the wind, and then I notice it, THEN I FUCKING NOTICE IT.

12.5% service charge? NO FUCKING WAY.
I call him back and ask him, "uuuh whaaat the fuck is this?" "oh did you not like the service?" "well no, not really, the food was good and the beer as well, but that arrogant waitress there didn't give me latex gloves to eat my food and you look like you'd rather watch a video montage of the decline of your grandmothers mental well being because of her senile dementia rather than at least pretend to care about your job" So the scrawny american cali surfer bro stoner brah comes back, throws the plate with the bill on my table without looking me in the eye. I pay and leave, happy.

oh and I work in a restaurant as well

>>6047015
why would they be fired?

>>6047015
>If the computer rings up a breakfast order, the person that the register is assigned to will be fired

lol what?

What kind of autistic CEO proclaimed breakfast items will never be sold under any circumstances after 11am on the dot?

>tfw commis in a 3 michelin star restaurant
>restaurant is in a hotel (arab/russian oligarchs will send back plates for no good reason because they have no palate, and you'll have to do it all over again)
>tfw chef is a colder, more neurotic version of Gordon Ramsey

I want to get off this wild ride, /ck/.

Even the psycho chef is tired of having to insert truffles and foie gras in 95% of the menu.

>>6047022
they auto-tip themselves?

>>6047030
Not the CEO but our GM. He's crazy like that.

>>6047036
apparently it was specified on the menu somewhere but I'd rather fuck my brother than pay those shitheads. If you want tips in London have a fucking jar!

>>6047031
Where's the restaraunt located?

>>6047030
At McDonalds the grill and setup in the back is completely different during breakfast time.
I imagine its not in the company's interest to have other peoples food being slowed down and the grill reconfigured for someone that should have gotten there earlier.

You would also have to have someone go to the back and open a fresh bag of whatever is needed. You may have noticed that sometimes breakfast ends early or late because they want to use up all the opened breakfast stuff.

>>6047042
russian and arabs is prolly london based

>>6047042

Paris.

>>6047015
Another story
>just started working at Whataburger
>working earlybird shift (10pm-8am)
>rush of oilfield workers every morning at 3am
>most leave at 3:30 am but occasionally there are a few stragglers
>at Whataburger we walk out done in orders to customers tables with a check back tray that has napkins and ketchup.
>have to walk out an order to two really fat gross looking blobs in oilfield coveralls.
>last customers in the dining room.
>walk up to table and realize that one is watching porn on his iPhone.
>Place tray with his food on table, leave check back tray. Try not to make eye contact and go back into kitchen.
>guys stare at me while they eat their food. Creepy as fuck.

>>6047049
How's life in Paris? I live in New York. Never been to Paris yet

>>6047058
your a grill i assume

I bet working late shit at any fast food place would be like that

>>6047061

I really like it.
I suppose it's like NYC, but with culture. And shittier people.
And a lot less jews.

>>6046984
>>6046964
I know this feeling brother.
and this is pretty much it.>>6046970
>Working for Mid-Tier Knock off of Subways with flair
>Didn't realize how bad it really was
>Part time job becomes full time
>Spending 60-70 hours each week closing and opening
>Getting shit from District Manager who didn't teach me jack shit when I got hire
>Employees are no help and often less inclined to work
>literally doing everything and spending hours past closing to make the store look pretty
>District Manager always comes in and says store looks like a hot mess
Hell I even painted one night to help cover up unsightly damaged walls from crayon and other miscellaneous markings that scrubbing couldn't do.
>When I did a "Good Job" get sarcastic compliment

In regards to the cleaning it wasn't even one of those Military Inspections "You Missed a Spot, therefore everything is wrong" remarks. It was I hate you and resent everything about you, therefore this store is dirty. Which is weird considering I brought the store's restaurant health rating from a meager 90.2 to a 97.9. I could have gotten a 98 had my district manager actually done his job and had our little water leakage problem fixed following a hurricane. Plus those sarcastic remarks were unnecessary. If you don't want to tell me I did a good job then save it because I'd rather hear nothing than hear (With bated breath) "Wow, You didn't your [fucking] job for once".

So happy I left food service after that for a desk job at AT&T. Its slighty better and I don't have to tell with too many customers or a dick of a manager. Funny thing is after I left some of the other employees started to leave, not because of me but surprise surprise. They had to work!!
It still operational but its not a smooth and they found another poor innocent soul to replace me with.

>>6044629
Yeah, that's pretty much what it is and trying to explain it is impossible. I opted to do it myself since I feel the same way, how fucking hard is it? How?

Watching them try to torch sugar for creme brulee is like watching a slow car crash.

>>6047058
I have so many stories from Whataburger.
>there was a short time where the local high school kids would order a cone from McDonald's and crush it in the drive thru employees hand.
>I guess they thought we had cones too and would order an ice cream and go straight to the window before we could tell that we only serve shakes.
>all drinks are served in styrofoam cups.
>I was still a regular employee and was working drive thru.
>guy sees shake and seems confused at first.
>I hand him his shake, he grips my hand and tries to make the cup burst
>doesn't burst
>shake my head and say "dude, what're you doing?"
>his buddies start to laugh he yells at them to shut the fuck up and drives off
>he comes back later in the week with his parents and I ask him if he wants a shake.

>>6047097
Why is that Texas chain even open so late?

>>6047083

"Today, your assignment will be to reproduce this rather simple cake from Emmanuel Ryon".

daily reminder never to become a pastry chef

>>6047110
I don't know why. It's open 24/7 and like any place we get so many crazies during the night

>>6047115
My god..... that looks magnificent

>>6047135

It takes some kind of autistic superpowers to achieve this sort of perfectionism.

This is undoable for 99.9% of pastry chefs.

Another Whataburger story
>lady orders kids justaburger meal
>"it comes with mustard and pickles is that okay?"
>"that's fine. Whatever."
>hand lady her order, little girl in front passenger seat.
>kid opens burger
>"I don't like mustard or pickles!!"
>cries
>lady slaps kid across the mouth
>"goddamit you're so fucking spoiled!"
>I'm horrified and offer to remake the burger how the little girl wants it but the lady screams "no, she's just being a brat!"
>drives off without the rest of her order.
I see kids get treated like shit all the damn time it's heartbreaking. I've reported incidents in the past but out small town cops never look into it.

>>6047152
Snitch ass nigga

>>6047115
>>6047145

Other than getting the thin piped chocolate right those don't look very hard to duplicate. I think 99.9% is an exaggeration. But I've been making pulled sugar flowers and show pieces and a plethora of chocolate garnishes since I was 15. My parents thought I was gay until I married my wife.

I really prefer restaurant style plated desserts with multiple components though. I wouldn't be all that good at making desserts like that and I wouldn't be very happy having to make them.

>>6047152
Kids need to learn to eat what theyre given.
Im in my first year of college and so many people want specific things off of sandwiches. So many people dont like lettuce or any greens on them, other people still refuse to eat veges or something else stupid.

>>6047203

Pierre Hermé's pastries look pedestrian next to Ryon's.

You're vastly overestimating your abilities.

Not even Sadaharu Aoki, a well-renowned pastry autist, has dishes that look so good.

Pic semi-unrelated, just to show it's layered on the inside too.

Quit job at a casino gig that would let me experiment with decent equipment and ingredients.

Bad side is it's a buffet so the dish had to hold under a heat lamp for 5hours, cheap and should be able to make enough for the herds of brachiosauruses in the poverty stricken hellhole the casino was in.

Should've stayed there, doe. Slow AF most of the days and bitchin' fucking benefits.

>>6047218
>You're vastly overestimating your abilities.
You don't know who I am.

Those desserts do look excellent, but what is hard to duplicate about them? They just require some time. Please keep in mind I'm only talking about those 2 pics you posted.

I don't think I'm good enough to work for the guy, but it isn't as difficult to duplicate a dessert as you seem to be implying.

>>6047218
>pastry autist
>kek

>>6047239

Aside from the aesthetic perfection, there is the perfectly balance of taste (acidity, sweetness, variety of ingredients) and the just right mix of textures between different creams, mousses, and the chocolate couvertures.

Also I've only ever once tasted a crème mousseline that good.

I don't even know why I started an offtopic dumb pastry power ranking discussion, but dumping pastry porn anyways.

>>6042154
I work at one of my university's dining halls.
I do dishes sometimes, messy as fuck, but I get it done fast.

>>6047274

>>6046984
Damn, this new job sound sweet as fuck. WIll you be my DM?

>>6042290
lol fagget

>>6042991
>>6046740
>>6046790
>>6046964

i feel your pain bros

>>6047031
Let's trade lives

>working pizza station
>we have a pizza of the day, which is just sliced tomato, sliced fresh mozzarella balls, and some Basil.
>Busser comes up and asks me what's on it
>tell him
>he orders it
>we're pretty close to closing so I haven't put any pizzas in, but whatever, I'll make one for him
>tell him it takes about ten minutes and he says ok
>he hovers around the entire time
>when it comes out he looks at it and asks about meat
>Explain to him that I already told him what the fuck was on it
>Oh ok.
>He takes a different pizza sitting in the window

What was the fucking point of that?
At least I got to take home the two pizzas sitting in the window at close

>>6046906
It's like we're all one person bruh wo wdammn

fuckin

ckception bruh

>>6046888
can you cut veggies?

>>6046888

I got a job doing that with no commercial kitchen experience but I interview very well and did an extended working interview beforehand

>>6046999
I'm a manager of a small pizza franchise where the owner and his wife both "work," meaning he comes in for an hour and then calls in staff on their days off to cover the rest of his time at the store, or else just finds something completely irrelevant to do for a few hours while the other staff try to work around him.

The wife is the best person in the store hands down, at almost every station and certainly at staff management. They've started fighting every day since their daughter moved out, and I had to come in shouting at both of them one day to just not both work on the same mornings.

I worry about what the divorce is going to do. I wish the husband (who is technically the only "owner") would fuck off and let his wife (who knows what she is doing) run this shit.

SERIOUSLY
GOD DAMMIT

sorry for blogging ya'll

>>6047274
That isn't pastry porn, you're just triggering anyone who ever ate a cactus

How the fuck do I teach someone who sucks after working a month in to be quicker and more efficient? It seems like he never learns.
>new person comes in, first time he's ever been in a kitchen
>teach him how to do things like prepare food in his section, back up his supplies and ingredients and clean his area
>he's fat and very slow, takes him ten minutes to do something it would take me two minutes to do, he doesn't understand the concept of acting with a sense of urgency
>keeps forgetting to put in whatever takes the longest to cook first
>a few orders come in for him, he needs me to help, he's on the fryer which can be manned easily with one person, end up having to leave another section of the kitchen to help him out
>tell him to just read off the tickets, hand me the ingredients as I will batter them and fry them
>he's having trouble counting the number of ingredients and cannot absolutely handle more than four simple orders
>constantly have to remind him to do certain things but he just fucking forgets
>tfw hate working with slow shitty people

>>6047516
It doesn't sound like he can be helped. If he can't handle the heat... etc.

Just fire him, or if you are not the guy to do that, bring your concerns to those who can in a professional and level-headed manner.

>Be one of the "sushi guys" at an Asian Fusion Buffet restaurant
>Be only asian place in town that caters to non-Asian (the other places are full of asians and few white people dine there for some reason)
>small variety
>california roll, various veggie roll, and salmon or whatever fish is on sale
>it's not even sushi grade, it's fresh fish from the asian market that the owner gets but i wouldnt eat it raw
>see people eat the raw fish quickly when i put it out but have to smile
Don't eat raw fish at buffets that are <$25.

>>6047524
>mfw "sushi" at odd places like texmex restaurants or an "authentic" italian restaurant

>>6047528
I've never seen sushi at either of those places.

>>6047516

This is why you do working interviews. Some people just don't get faster, at least not for a very long time. He's been there long enough to get used to the kitchen, if he's still slow and he spaces out then he is probably just not a good fit. We have someone at my job doing a working internship right now with no prior commercial kitchen experience but she's still very fast and has remembered everything I've told her, even when I just through her on the line with no prior explanation. This probably just isn't for him.

>>6047554

>through

just got home, thanks brain

threw*

also she's only been here 3 days so far, some people have it and other's dont

>>6042218
Fuck I work with a server just like this. But she doesn't have an education, is a crap server, doesn't know when to keep her mouth shut when talking to chef and cooks. But she got to be friends with the new manager so now she's a shit bartender a few shifts a month. Even has the boy friend twenty years older than her with two kids ten years younger than her.

>>6039539
imagine finger blasting a girl with hands like that

>>6047554

The few times I've had women apply they were either slow, irritable, or both. We do have one girl though who is fucking great. Really pretty too, but she works her ass off. Was really refreshing to hire her since most young people have been horrible.

>Whataburger
>two drunk girls at 2am
>one starts to dance on table.
>falls
>I start cracking up
>other drunk chick starts yelling at me, I tell her to help her friend up and get out of my store.

One can be a lot more honest after hours, I've noticed. Most of our night owls are chill people and the other customers in the dining room agreed with me and told the girls they were being annoying and to gtfo

>>6047941
Sounds like an average day at Denny's at night.

Considering apply for a serving job and quitting my shitty part time grocery job (uni-fag) so I can eventually try and become a bartender. Anyone have any experience as either a server/bartender who could either give me some tips, or whether or not I should. I get free fruits and vegetables at my current job, but won't be able to make more than $10.25 for the next two years.

>faggot customer sends out an email bitching about closing kitchen staff making a shitton of noise, yelling and swearing over their music
>they have half an hour of time where the restaurant is closed at the end of their shifts
>implying you can't be a little lenient to the people you treat like shit
>management leaves a passive-aggressive note and outlaws music at all hours of day

They just can't allow the tiniest bit of happiness.

>>6049872
You want to ruin the last ten minutes of the customers evening?
Come on anon, what do you think the goals of your employer are?

>>6049878
Eating the customer's shit and calling it caviar.

>>6049897
No really, all posturing aside, what do you think are the big picture goals of your employer ?

>be one of 3 kitchen managers
>get switched from day shift to early morning (4-10)
>one of the KM's is apparently an overemotional tyrant that throws around the owner's name to get her way
>she flips out and gets pissy over the most trivial shit
>she gets switched to my former shift
>everyone is now threatening to walk out

So that's my week. She's running my old shift into the ground and emotionally draining everybody. She did the same to the evening crew. Now, nobody wants to work with her.

Basically, this is a story in progress.
WILL THE KITCHEN WALK OUT?
WILL THE OWNER GET RID OF HER BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE?
HOW THE HELL DID I CUT MY FINGER JUST NOW? (Seriously though, how did I even...?)

>>6049900
Make the largest amount of money possible.

We've got a major business review this weekend. I'm the opener for two of those days.

Any advice /ck/?

>>6047203
You may be married... but that doesn't gaurentee you're not gay. Your parents know this.

>>6047475
I remember you
Any new stories?

>>6049610
Bartender here.

Land a job at a restaraunt or pub. Whether it be with a dishwasher or server. Bro up with the bartender, get him to show u the ropes. Female bartenders tend to be cunts. I used to be a waiter before i was asked to tend a bar, old bartender showed me everything i know before he quit.

I work in this restaurant that's in a hotel. It's also a banquet hall so there are lots of events. This time of year are the holiday parties. Does anyone else work in a restaurant where you have to serve tables and make drinks? It's so annoying not having a bartender. At least you get experience that way though.

>>6047022
While the waiter shouldnt of laughed at you and shouldnt of auto tipped or whatever, your a little bitch for trying to eat wings with latex gloves

>>6042290
Christ... I'm not saying you didn't deserve that thrashing for being an idiot. But the screaming session seems really unnecessary as he probably knew that you already knew you screwed up big time.

>Get hired for a waiter job
>Restaurant is a collection of restaurants owned by one group
>Second day of hiring have to watch a video
>In the video they show two girls
>This white girl is told to serve a table of black males
>They are professionals and not hood rats
>White girl comments to this Flippino-Puerto Rican looking girl
"Uggh I can't believe I have to serve these guys I know they won't tip
>Female No. 2 says nothing
>Female No. 1 goes to them
>Drops their menus on their table instead of giving it to them
>Doesn't say anything about specials
>Doesn't even mention her name
>Walks away
>Black Men are concerned
>A while later they are ready to order
>She comes back to them
>Tells them they need to open up a tab to be served
>Reluctant the men give in a open a tab
>Receive their food and drinks a while later
>Again the waiter drops their plates on their table
>Guest 1 wants a refill on his water
>Signals the waiter but waiter ignores him
>Waiter is focusing on everybody but them
>She finally comes to see them after 40 minutes have gone by
>Guest are aggravated and demand to speak to her boss
>Fights this
>Gives in
>is fired for racial profiling
All this because she knew that she wasn't getting a tip
However, on the flipside the video then goes on to explain her errors and re-shows the same film except this time she does none of the above and in the end she gets a $20 tip which is followed by the Asian Latino chick saying
>"See as long as you don't prejudge and serve your guest with respect and courtesy they may surprise you"
Or something along that line

I just remember this to this day because it was funny but I still think shit, do some waiters actually do this? I mean I know that old saying that "Black People don't Tip" but still, all that for a tip?

>first ever job
>employed at amusement park run by whom I understand is hitler reincarnated
>3rd day there
> understand how to run hot dog stand pretty well at this point
>somehow get paired up with someone whos first day at work is today
>only us in stand
>okay
>teaching him some basic shit, hot dog building is farthest away from the interesting shit and doesn't get much business even on super busy days
>everything going good, have a dozen hotdogs in the drawer wrapped and ready and everything is clean
>we are supposed to fill both hot drawers at all times even though on a day like today we'll sell a quarter of a hot drawer of dogs all day
>everyone who comes over to us just wants fries
>wouldn't you know bossman is making the rounds
>proceeds to scream at us for 33 minutes
>wearing a watch so I know it was 33 fuckin minutes
>both of us dont know what to do
>boss screaming that hot dog trays aren't filled
>begins cooking 30+ hot dogs, still screaming
>screams at us for "overfrying" the fries
>if we put them in for time on fryer they turn mushy and people immediately freak out so we pop em longer and they're good
>by jove a customer comes up
>wants fries
>boss is allsmiles like he's not still red in the face
>boss makes her fries by hand and glares daggers at us
>lady has one and says they suck
>both of us look at boss, too scared to say anything
>he says "thats how they are supposed to be made"
>storms off after lady asks to speak to manager
>we look at eachother

>dishwasher rolling joints with toilet paper
>taking shots of Crystal hot sauce
my fucking guy. I miss that job sometimes when I'm feeling really down

>>6051672
Yes, waiters are literally the worst people in the food industry.
They're lazy, they're quick to bitch and moan, they're rude, they're normalfags, and they're spoiled as shit
I've had AMAZING servers who impress me everyday and I've had some of the worst servers ever who make the traits above look like a joke, but 90% of servers I've met are all of what I listed above.
And they wonder why they get shit tips
It's pathetic

>>6042218
muh pussypass

pizza maker/line cook at a small family italian beef sandwich restaurant. Been there a month and it's ok just way too slow it's freezing here in midwest.

Just got a second job at Dunkin Donuts. Today was my first day orientation. Any tips? I'm gonna be working in the morning when it's the busiest. Any tips from anyone with similar experience? Never worked at a fast food franchise before.

>>6039487
You shouldn't receive tips you fucking loser

I'll explain, lets see what you make(lets say 3.50)

OK so you have 3.50
Lets say you get 1.00 in tips
Ok so now employer has tomake the difference with min wage, lets say 7.25

You have 4.50 banked up, so that means your employer has to pay you 2.75 more to make up the difference

You get full wage. If they do not do that, they are using illegal business practices and you should probably just quit right away if they do not fix it.

>>6046620
Three fucking weeks? Jesus Christ that makes me so angry, lazy scroogey bosses are the absolute worst.

>>6044465
I wouldn't chalk anon's advice up to sarcasm. Whatever it is you choose as your current career, it's gonna be a big fuckin part of your everyday, your off days, your sleep... It will have an effect on everything you do/are.

And like everything else significant in your life, you will get out of it what you put in to it. The people that go that extra distance and respect their work for what it is (i.e. Something you spend more time with on a daily basis than anything else in life) will be the ones that are happiest and most successful, and best of all, have the most freedom of choice in the matter.

>come into job at one of the best restaurants in my city
>dish washer
>slow as shit
>didn't put many things away as I went
>piles of clean dishes at close
>being told I need to improve
>getting constantly yelled at and insulted old Filipino prep cook who used to be the dishwasher
>you look away from the dish pit for one second and this guy will have everything washed and put away
>I know he means well and is giving me some tough love
>I know I'm shit but I'll get good

>fast foward to now
>work fast
>clean station
>help prep
>on the old Filipino guy's good side
>he yells at other people and we laugh about it
>complain about people being retards
>good food
>good times
>paid wage + weekly tips makin dosh
>cook for myself at the end of my shifts

I love cooking in the restaurant kitchen, so much better than using what I have at home.

>>6052569

put up with shit but not too much. be patient and humble but not a doormat

do what you are told

be aware of what other people are doing and what they need to do and what you need to do. time it so you aren't in the same place at the same time

don't fuck up the coffee

don't bitch about a fucking thing until you've been there for a while

get an education or learn a trade som you can get out of there as fast as humanly possible

>>6042264
>>6042218
She tried that shit again

>pull another 9 day work week
>have two days off
>so happy, made plans with a friend I had not seen in ages because of conflicting work/school schedules
>spend night getting pissed and playing cards
>get to sleep around 5 am
>wake up around 9, bullshit until around noon, drinking beer, cleaning up
>ride bike 3 miles home
>on my porch looking for my keys and my phone rings
>chef calling me
>almost don't answer it's my fucking day off and I know, I fucking know what this is about
>answer the phone anyway
>anon, the new girl can't come in today and the other new girl isn't trained to cover your station on her own yet can you--
>interrupt the shit out of chef
>WOW THAT MAKES ME FUCKING ANGRY CHEF. SEE YOU IN AN HOUR
>tear through house and into back yard, slam the shit out of a piece of sheet metal with a bit of 2x4
>roommate is like "hey dickhead calm down"
>tell him what happened
>lol oh that sucks
>if this happens again I am refusing to come in unless they let me pick up all of her shifts forever and she can just take off for the rest of her fucking career
>spend next hour drinking as much as I reasonably can without compromising my ability to work
>get my shit together, leave for work
>get to work, apologise to chef for being a cunt on the phone, chef says don't worry, thanks so much for coming in on your day off, we really needed you
>so chef
>fuckin anon man, bitch just don't like to work, huh
>.....
>chef follows me into dish
>"between you and me anon, I don't think she'll be with us much longer. She really isn't doing anything for us. Don't blow it up."

hahawww yeeeeeeah

>>6047152
Aside from the slapping that's good parenting.

>>6044615
>next day at work, she comes running at me yelling about finding a hair in the food and how she warned me and all that crap about it
>just start laughing my ass off at her
>she's wondering why I'm laughing instead of worrying about the guest

I love employees who have a vendetta and are out looking for blood. Its like their whole existence is trying to get ("You") fired.

>>6053900

what ive learned from bullshit like this is that

>you are a needed employee
>she isnt
>make a huge stink and tell her to go fuck herself
>she quits
>you tell management that shes a cunt

seriously, good for you man, fuck that bitch

>>6053900
I don't know why I laughed so much at this. I can really imagine you in an angry raging expression the whole time.

>>6053900
>>tear through house and into back yard, slam the shit out of a piece of sheet metal with a bit of 2x4
what the fuck

>>6051672

Bartender here, but was a server until I was old enough to touch liquor. I always give people the same service unless I know they are either trying to take advantage of the restaurant because I have served them before or they are just the biggest assholes you can imagine. I have categorically never fucked with anyone's food and would get someone fired if they did. It is funny because yes you get some black people that tip like shit but you also get whites that do it all the same. Some of my best tips have come from black tables and or black regulars. Assholes come in all shapes and sizes, not just one ethnic group. If you treat people like people you will make money and move up, I think because there is so much turnover in restaurants, you just get lots of shitheads.

Story time:
>get a black table
>fat as shit black woman, king beetus as her boyfriend, poor kid that will be raised by these morons with them
>'Hi, my name is anon, I will be taking care of you this evening....'
>give specials, etc.
>lady is obviously trying to be cheap
>'kids drinks are free right?'
>'Yes ma'am, they come with the kids meals.'
>get two adult waters and a 'free' kids lemonade
>lady proceeds to chug down the lemonade every time I leave the table and I see her doing it every time I come back
>refill a roughly 8oz lemonade like 30 times
>orders wings extra crispy, we fry them 4 minutes longer I think
>gets close to a bone on the first drum
>'these are raw, we need new ones'
>GM cuts open 3 flappers, steaming hot, cooked through
>whatever we will drop her another pound
>orders a burger medium, split
>we cut burgers in half (obviously) when they are being shared
>tells me it is raw and she ordered well done
>end up comping the entire table
>leaves a single floppy ass $1 bill on the table and leaves

I almost hit the roof but fuck it, shit happens. I can tell you all how I got them to stop coming in if there is interest.

>>6055434
I want to use this dog as a pillow

>>6055507
There are some people who will never be happy. They have to find something to be angry about or to complain about. There are also some people who live to make server's lives miserable for whatever reason. They want to get a reaction out of people, sometimes I feel like they want to bait you into being mad so they can complain.

These people I just try to move along as fast as possible with minimal friction. I don't give them any logical reason to complain about me. Such as I just get nicer and more polite as they get more angry. What will they do, call the corporate hotline and complain I was too nice?

> new job, 25-30 hrs/week but it's a place I really want to work so I take the hit short-term
> flu and shit going around the 5 people on staff BoH, 2 of the 3 people also get pnemonia, people having to take a bunch of time off
> everyone but me on salary
> get bumped up to 40 hours to cover absences
> everyone else keeps coming in early and doing all my station's prep
> working an extra 15 hours and not doing any extra work because people keep doing all my shit
> can't stay late after we get reamed in service because I'm not salaried, get sent home, everyone else comes in early to make up for it

Goddammit, guys. Let me prove I can do this job. Fuck. I show up half an hour early and stay half an hour late and end up holding my dick and doing dishes.

>>6055525

Nah, they just wanted free food. This is how I got them to stop coming in.

>be second time in my section, same routine
>'free' kids lemonade, 2 waters
>order wings and kids food first so he can eat and they get the wings as an app
>wings extra extra done
>bring out a bowl of naked wings to them
>'Are these crispy enough ma'am? I wanted to make sure they were to your liking before we sauced them so we could put them in longer if they weren't.'
>made it seem like I was trying to help them out so they wouldn't have to wait 15 mins for another order when in reality I was keeping us from buying them
>'Yeah those are good.' with a weird ass look on her face
>burger time
>'Grill, burn that shit, I don't want you to have to make it twice.'
>take it out as shoe leather with toppings
>'Anything else? Is everything thoroughly cooked?'
>'Uh, we good.'

Only ever saw them one more time after that in some one else's section and I know it is because we stopped buying their meals.

>>6053900

just curious, what city is your restaurant in?

>>6052474
God damn it I love our dishwashers. My station is at the back of the kitchen too so I get to bullshit with whoever is on pots and pans all shift. Yesterday it was this guy who got shot like 9 times and has been on house arrest for the past 5 years. He smokes crack and looks like black Jack Sparrow. He's an excellent dishwasher, too, and since he is a fucking tweaker, between harassing the shit out of anyone who comes into his pit who has no business there with threats of rape and animal sounds and covering for the other dish guys while they're off checking bus tubs or mopping up a spill, your trash has been changed three times and your station has been completely replenished with dishes and pans.

>>6055538
I love the fact they tried it again.

>>6056329

Our dishwashers are great too. My station is pretty far away so I can't hear their music unless I walk back there to drop something off.

Yesterday:
>go in back to drop off cutting board
>mid 40s mexican man washing the dishes, looks like a cholo although he's actually the nicest dude ever
>"shake it off" blaring on radio

I literally burst out laughing

>>6053242

I'm always jealous of the cooks/chefs who get tips. I do love me some free money, especially when the pay is so shit. This is the only career though where I don't fucking dread coming to work everyday though so I guess I'm destined to be poor. Oh well, rather that than be completely miserable.

>>6040626
>tradie-mobile

What's that, then? Google turns up nothing outside of cell phone business.

>>6057626
>I literally burst out laughing
>literally

Stop using this word. All you have to say is, "I burst out laughing."

>>6041251
>Before the wedding there's a rehersal

Ridiculous Yank shit.

>>6041251
>>6041297

Can you go and jump from a roof? Thanks.

>>6057696

fuck off, at least I used it correctly unlike most people

also I included it to clarify that I wasn't just using hyperbole

>>6057702
Its just a practice for walking in with everybody in the wedding party, usually with a dinner for everybody afterwards, how is that ridiculous?

Anyone here work a salad bar position? I recently got my first job part-time at a BBQ place. People are pretty nice, boss is cool, hours are decent, pay is decent, and the responsibilities themselves aren't difficult at all. Plus I've learned various ways I can sneak food since I started working. I mainly get snacks out of banana pudding and canned pears while I'm reloading stuff in the cooler. And when we make croutons and bread pudding, everyone gets to frisk a piece or two while it's on the cooling rack.

>>6056329
There's this guy that works dishpit at my job that wears an eyepatch. I wonder what kind of tragic eye-losing accident made that necessary.

>>6057825
>everyone gets to frisk a piece or two
frisking croutons and bread pudding?

Worked as a dishwasher at a really fancy place when I was 13 or so. A large spa/sauna/pool/wellness/restaurant/white people sports center owned by a family friend.

One of the chef's assistants was the whitest, most rural-ass, Northern Dutch guy you could ever imagine. He quite genuinely hadn't ever met a non-white person before me in his life. He insisted on being addressed as G-Stylow (yup) by everyone but those above him, and on Sunday nights would attempt to rap along to this "urban" radio show playing stuff like Gang-Starr.
We were always free to dig into whatever food was sent back or left unfinished, and again, this was fancy and real quality stuff. Man, just the fucking chicken skewers -- these big, glorious chunks of freshly cut and marinated filet in sauce made with all fresh ingredients and whatnot.
It was at times hard to resist, is what I mean.

This motherfucker, though, he would eat just about anything sent back and it actually almost seemed like he sought out the nastiest things imaginable: aforementioned chicken skewers out of which bites had already been taken, half-eaten rolls, motherfucking steak tartare that had been out on the tables for a good while at the end of the night. You name it. And he wasn't even trying to impress; he lacked complete self-awareness about it. He at times had to be told to stay the fuck in the out of the customers' sight while doing this. You could walk in on him in the break room eating this shit while simultaneously dragging on a hickory-smoked horseshit-smelling rolled cigarette.

Also the chef somehow was able to grab plates and pans and the like directly from the oven without mitts. Real fucking impressive.

>>6057727
are you for fucking real

>work at mom and pop pizza and sub joint
>lady comes in
>wants a large
>start rolling out the dough
>she just wants artichoke hearts
>no sauce or cheese
>just artichoke hearts on dough
>mfw

>>6058262

It's like a ceremony or performance, they practice beforehand so that everything goes smoothly since it's a very expensive and extravagant occasion

>work at a Marriot hotel as a "supervisor" chef.
kind of an underpaid version of a sous chef but whatever.
>have this program from a local CC where we get students to be free slav- interns for 6 months
>beginning of a new term so we get 3 people
>Some mexican kid with tattoos who looks like one of those Homies dolls introduces himself as "Loco mike"
>he even has "Loco mike" engraved into his school chef whites.
> EY FOO he says while giving me a headnodd.
>a tiny pale girl about five feet tall, with bangs and glasses is the next one
>finally we get bruce. motherfuckign BRUCE.
>a guy in his early 40s, with a huge 6 inch binder that says " futue iron chef", not a typo on my part.
>since they are all interns they mostly do basic shit unless we need them to hop on the line if were understaffed or something.
>were gonna host some banquet for the homeless for thanksgiving so we need tons of shit for mirepoix cut up.
>the students get into their stations and I hear the familiar yells of loco mike and glasses loli chopping away
>" EY FOO DEESE ONIONS ARE MAKING ME HAVE WATER IN MY EYES" says loco mike
>those are called tears
>WAT FOO I DUN CRY, DAS GAY VATO
>after a few min i realize that motherfucking Bruce isnt on his station
>ask around
>one of the line chefs tells me he is on the floor working with the brunch crew who cook shit outside
>run the fuck out there
>fucking bruce is walking table to table asking every one how the food is
>yeah I work here Im in line to be the next head chef
>when i walk up to him he is in the process of cutting some ladys steak for her
>this is the proper way to cut steak see you go against the grain
>he isnt even going against the grain but what the fuck bruce.
>he somehow slips the steak fucking flies into across the table knocking the dudes wine glass on his lap
>dude stands up
>bruce looks at him and says "Dont worry you ordered cheap wine anyway so its not a waste"

>>6058340
Please tell me there's a continuation to this.

>>6058345
Oh god yes, more please!

>>6058345
He worked with us for 6 months I have toooons of fucking stories.
the ending yto that is I told him the hotel would clean his suit and the meal would be comped.
and we dragged brucie back into the kitchen.
He didnt even apologize. to the guy

BRUCE TALES
>the three are prepping like usual
>we have loco mike unfreezing calamari and then cutting it so the island sink is full of calamari
>EYY FOO I BET WHEN I COME HOME I BET MY DAD IS GONNABE LIKE EYY YOU SMELL LIKE BITCHES RIGHT CHEF?
>fucking loco mike.
>glasses loli is on grill duty today, her job is to mark all the steaks for the 200 people banquet later that day, shes actually a very good student but she almost never talks.
>Bruce isnt in the fucking kitchen again
>our kitchen is divided into 3 sections
>the pantry, where the short order stuff is made, the line and the prep room.
> walk into the line area
>see his fucking binder on the cutting board
>then i see bruce standing behind one of the line chefs
>thats now how you do it you have to FLICK your wrists, like if your bowling. he says to one of the chefs sauteing. what you re doing is just garbage!
>the line chefs are ignoring him but all of them are visibly annoyed.
>One of the chefs asks for coriander and reaches for the cilantro
>bruce does this stupid rasberry and spits everywhere like an idiot.
>CILANTRO ISNT CORRIANDER YOU STUPID FUCK HAHAHAHA OH MY GOD HOW DUMD ARE YOU LIKE HOLY SHIT
>bruce bruce, cilant-
>CHEF CAN YOU BELIVE THIS GUY HE THOUGHT CORRIANDER WAS CILANTRO OH MY GOD HOW FUCKING DUMB
>the line cook is like super upset but he sticks to doing his job
>bruce is still fucking bagging on him though and he isnt fucking listening to me
>fuck it i yell too
>BRUCE, cilantro IS coriander, its also known as Chinese parsley.
>he doesn't believe me, gives me a stupid dumbfounded look instead
>wow chef I thought you out of all people would know better than that.
> I cant belive Im a better chef than you too.
>send his ass home early that day.

>>6058413
>we need liek a lot of mushrooms sliced up and portioned so I need all three of our precious little kitchen slaves on the prep.
>show them how to do it, very simple, you cut off the stem and you slice the cap.
>have them try
>glasses loli does it perfectly
>loco mike does it good, but a tad bit slower.
>its motherfucking BRUCE's turn.
>oh man I can cut mushrooms i cut mushrooms all the time at work I am gonna be a future iron chef and have my own tv show and shit.
>okay bruce
>he cant even hold a mushroom properly
>tries to cut but somehow in some fucking implausible way he just smashes the mushroom with his knife instead of cutting it.
>he tries with another mushroom
>fucking smashes it again, with his knife edge somehow like just squashes it. I dont even know how that is possible
>I take his knife and give it a few goes on the steel
>give him back his knife
>he still fucking squashes it, I cant explain this properly because it seemed so impossible, it seemed like the mushroom was resisting his knife and just got squashed instead.
>loco mike cant stop laughing and yells "EY WAH HAPPEN TO IRON CHEF"
>bruce gets pissed and slams his fucking knife into the cutting board and walks out.

>>6058413
>MY DAD IS GONNABE LIKE EYY YOU SMELL LIKE BITCHES RIGHT CHEF?

My sides have attained terminal escape velocity

>>6057687
Think old ute
>>6042110
Not sure, I don't think we're hitting our intake goals each day and it changed owner about 6 months ago.

>>6058262
whats the problem?

>>6058426
>>6058413
>>6058340
This is too beautiful. You should write a book. Please go on with your stories. I wanna hear more about The Dynamic Trio
Loco Mike as The Token Mexican
Underage Loli
and IRON CHEF BRUCE!

>>6058426

>>6058275
>>6058497

This is the problem: >>6057702

Where I'm from -- and this goes for the majority of the Western world outside of U-S-A NUMBER 1 -- we simply adequately plan shit in advance and allow for an iota of spontaneity.

I'm not saying that your Yank wedding rehearsals take most of the beauty out of living something magical for the first time or anyth--ooops, no, that's exactly what I'm saying. Like seeing your favourite bit of, say, movie magic getting constructed, deconstructed, and constructed once more in this ridiculous quest for controlled environments partly borne of dumbshit fairy-tale perfection.

You ridiculous motherfuckers.

>>6058536
Its a fucking practice, its like 45 minutes. Its so people know where to stand and shit. No ones dressed up or anything, its so people know what to do.
>spontaneity
Like the plan can deviate when you know what is sopposed to happen
>Pic related: You

>>6058536
hehe, my chinese and indian friends basically put their whole lives on hold getting ready for their weddings, they make murriburgers look like filthy casuals with their weddings

you obviously live in that part of england where they still haven't gotten over the arrival of olive oil. carefully planned weddings are a big deal to a lot of people all over the world, just because you learned about the world outside your blighted factory town via american mass media doesn't mean america is the entire world outside your blighted factory town.

>>6047280

it looks some generic cookie on the bottom. fuck that

>work as dishwasher in newly opened Mexican restaurant, just applied because I needed a job
>apparently, this is a quite specialized joint, doing authentic Mexican food
>whatever, I'm just here to do dishes
>Mexican dude as head chef, pretty rare to get real Mexicans in Europe
>takes food really seriously, always perfectionist
>takes a liking to me for some reason, starts doing tequila shots with me, asking me for input on new recipes, etc
>goes on for about 2 months, I get pretty close with the kitchen staff
>one day, get asked if I would like to help with the dinner shift, since I had tasted all the dishes
>this leads to me being trained to be the next grill chef
>goes on for about 2 years, doing great, develop my own take on a lunch menu with the head chef, it's actually placed on the menu
>everything is going well, decent profits
>owner retires because of old age, sells restaurant

>mfw some new, 40-something prick buys the joint, and demands we start doing Tex-Mex food, "because people like that better".
>mfw the entire brigade quit that exact moment
>mfw the joint closed 3 months later
>mfw the Mexican head chef got the new lease on the, now unpopular, restaurant for a bargain

>>6058508
> a few months have passed and the CC instructor is coming to check in onher students, and she gets pissed if she just seas her students do prep.
>so decide to make all of them do actual shit
>Glasses loli says she wants to try working on short order
>Mike is trying to talk to the girl who makes fruit trays and salads so he jumps on her station
>throughout the whole day I just hear shit like "AYY MAMI CHU NO?!"
>dey call me loco mike wanna know why?
CUS IM LOCO HAINA CHEEAOOW
>Motherfucking bruce is standing next to me
>so bruce, where do you wanna go?
>THE LINE CHEF
>of course you do bruce.
>deny him the line, say we have a full line
>Just kick out that dumb asian guy
>that "dumb asian guy" is the sous chef,
> IM BETTER DAN HIM THOUGH HE CANT EVEN FLAMBE
>He storms off back to the prep stations.
>later he is again no where to be found
>Hes in the short order station bothering glasses loli
>CHICKEN STRIPS HUH? THATS EASY
>our chicken strips are battered by hand
>he grabs a raw chicken breast with his bare hands out of the container in the reach in under the station
>slaps it on the stainless steel prep table
>glasses loli is just kinda watching him
>now, where is the flour?
> he finds the flour bin and sticks his motherfucking hand and grabs handful a flour with his salmonella hands
>after he is done "breading" the chicken breast with a thick flour and water mixture he walks over to the fryer and and raises his hand
>think shit hes gonna drop it in from that high?
>try to stop him
>fucking hot oil splatters all over the place
> glasses loli screams
>2nd degree oil burns on her right arm
> YOURE NOT SUPPOSED TO ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES DUMBASS
>GIRLS, RIGHT CHEF?
>she still has that burn scar on her arm.

also if you all wanna know why i cant "fire" them its cus they are under the incredibly insane protection of the head chef and HR.

>>6058568
>>6058573

wow those are really amazing counterarguments

>>6058250
>Also the chef somehow was able to grab plates and pans and the like directly from the oven without mitts

having seen this, how the fuck does that work?

>>6040083
School will teach you food science and technical skills allowing you to make a competent dish.

Working will give you real world situations, instinct, experience, knowledge, and a plethora of secrets that don't exist in any textbook on earth, allowing you to make an incredible dish.

I would hire someone with 2 years experience over someone with 2 years schooling anyday.

>>6041093
you only got one life bro, your dream job is out there. Why do you think people work for 20 years in little hole in the wall cafes? You can have some nicer clothing and a big TV or you can wake up happy every morning

>>6058638
>we are having a banquet for some kind of dentistcon.
>Head chef says they didnt ask for plate service but floor service.
>floor service is when we are on the floor, cooking on tiny stations in front of the guests.
> the fucking CC instructor is there so she says "its a nice opportunity for the students to get some facetime!"
>I dont want to, they dont even have Marriot whites, they have their school uniform chef coats on.
>Say, the people payed to have the Marriott kitchen staff cook for them, not some students.
>CC instructor and head chef look at me like I killed a cat.
>sigh and say fuck it, Mike, Glasses loli, youre on a station
>cc teach looks at me with a stupid as smile
>"and bruce?"
>No.
>queue one of those family guy cutaways and all 3 of them are s
>I made bruces job real simple, I cooked the bell peppers and sausage dish and put it on a heat warmer on his station.
>he is literally there too only LOOK like he is cooking more sausages.
>tell him that when hes finished "cooking" to put it into the tray on the bottom, not the tray on the warmer.
>GOT IT CHEF NO PROBLEM LEAVE IT TO ME
> it starts to go pretty well at first and even im surprised.
>glasses loli is doing her job perfectly, but she seems so robotic when dealing with people
>fucking mike is on his station with a skillet in each hand sauteing shit and making a show out of it
>the people are liking his show and he is cooking the food properly so its fine.
>suddenly trouble.
>a fuest comes up to me and tells me her sausages are raw
>they are almost completly raw
>BRUUUUUCE
>he took the tray off the food warmer, and put the tray he made on it instead
>what happened to my tray bruce?
>the people said they didnt like yours but they loved mine chef so i put my tray instead.

>>6041251
If I go to a restaurant and see a black chef I just walk out

>>6058682
kill yourself

>>6058689
not even fucking joking

>>6058692
But that's racist.

>>6058682
>>6058692
Fast food places don't have "chefs".

>>6055047

>"goddamit you're so fucking spoiled!"
>good parenting

please don't breed

>>6058776
I don't think we have to worry about him even having the opportunity to mate, let alone successfully reproducing.

>>6058774
If Guy Fieri can be called a chef, it's fair game for anyone.

>>6058638
Hold it time out!!!!

Food Network Star: Bruce touched food with his BARE HANDS!!!!!!'

Are you shitting me!!!!!!

>>6058787
I'll Johnny your Garlic mate

>>6057886
I meant to say you can take a piece and eat it and get back to work. My bad. Wrong word?

>>6058340
>>6058413
>>6058426
>>6058638
>>6058677
You are the hero that the Marriot and /ck/ deserves.

Thank you anon
Thank you glasses loli
Thank you based Loco Mike
Fuck you Bruce

>>6046964
find another job FIRST

then leave this barista job, maybe find a proper way to communicate to the boss before you do go how you feel. She might blow you off but you aren't chained to this business.

>>6046999
moose's tooth

>>6047097
this is funny

I work as a butcher and i've taken to licking the trays we put the meat into. Not sure why, it just excites me knowing people are cooking up traces of my spit.

>>6058649
I once saw a fry cook who used his bare hands to get shit from the deep fryer. Some kind of gypsy magic fire resistance I guess?

>>6059291
experience
it takes some time to get burned as long as you dont touch glowing iron

>>6059178
Is this you?

>>6057626
everyone loves taylor swift dude

>>6058649
their hands are probably already so burned and calloused that they can't feel the heat anymore

>>6046896
Depends on the execution

>>6058677
I gotta know. Because these "Internships" do eventually end. What happened after six months?

Btw, you guys have a good morning breakfast. Love your guys scrambled eggs and fruits. Was the best meal waking up too during my god awful 3 month stint in Dallas.

>>6058677
Was this guy a literal retard or something? His spectacularly misplaced confidence reminds me of this retarded guy in my class who wasn't quite retarded enough to be in with the Down's kids.

another shift another dollar

>>6049922
Do you work at the 3 brewers by yonge/dundas square?

>>6058270
Well did you tell her anything?

>>6058613
How is the restaurant now?

>>6060008

>cooked breakfast
>stick a strawberry on top of it
>Murrica

Holy shit, Top Gear was right.

>starbucks barista in an affluent area
>work evenings, mostly slow except weekends so we get closing stuff done really easily
>close at 9:00, it's saturday night at 8:45, almost all dishes are washed except for one steaming pitcher and one espresso machine
>see a white girl at the door
>ohshitherewego.jpg
>literally 20 identical basic white females flow into my store
>just me and my boss
>every single one of them wants two frappuchinos
>it's minnesota, fucking 10 degrees outside
>making frappuchinos until fifteen minutes past close
>have to re-wash and clean everything, re stock frap supplies and wash everything
>closing a fucking starbucks until 10:15 in the p.m. because of basic bitches

It's a fun job, but fuck I hate starbucks' clientele.

>>6060798
you're looking at it the wrong way

instead of seeing it as the one day you 'have to do extra work', think of all those other days where you got to close early. it's not normal to be done at end of hours, but you've had a good time of it.

cherish it m8

>>6060820
>one day you have to do extra work
I don't want to turn my awful 8 hour shift into a 9 for high-school girls who have to have ice and sugar in a blender at 9 in the goddamn evening. I'm not spending valuable time in a kitchen developing muscle memory or knife skills, I'm pouring milk into a pitcher, adding syrup and pressing a fucking button

>>6060798
Nothing wrong with wanting a cold drink when it's cold out if you feel like it, especially since they probably do feel the cold that easy if they've grown up with it. I don't get the problem if they weren't being rude to you. They're allowed to order things they like. So you closed later than usual, welcome to every day of retail.

>>6060885
don't feel the cold*

>>6060885
They're high-school girls, of course they were dicks about it. People come in late all the time, but they're polite and they tip so who gives a shit; when you get 20 people shouting over the bar about where their drinks are that late at night, it tends to grate on you.

>>6060905
Fair enough if they were being dicks, then, carry on.

>>6060798
I assume you're paid hourly? By the sounds of it, it is a rare occurrence to stay so late, so hardly worth complaining too hard about.

I'm giving up on my engineering degree and becoming a chef. Not going to school, gonna work hard in kitchens and suck a lot of dick until maybe in 20 years I'm worth something in a kitchen. I start a dishwashing job next week. I'm 60k in debt. Any tips? Pic related. Me when my six month deferment rolls off.

>>6050196
Not really a lot going on. The status quo is all at this place. I want to leave but everytime I try to get out something happens on my end that ensures I remain. The work is easy and the pay is okay but I want out.

>>6061137
Is 'don't do that' good enough advice? Because seriously don't do that.

>>6058340
>>6058413
>>6058426
>>6058638
>>6058677

compiled.

>>6061309
doing god's work, anon

>>6060733
Doing pretty well, though I went to uni straight after quitting, so I don't work there anymore. Chef's still a bro.

>>6061137

try to get a job as a line cook in a shithole instead of working as a dishwasher, you're not going to get moved up unless one of the prep cooks shows up too drunk or something

>>6060008
How it worked back then was the CC would send certain students to a random hotel who had the internship agreement
the Hyatt,Marriott Renaissance hotels were for Culinary students
and some bakery's were for the bakers.
after you intern for a a semester you would go back to the teacher, and in the next semester she would send you to a different location, so you can network and see how it works at different places.

Mike ended up staying with us for a full year. because our head chef said wed hire him if he did (that motherfucker lied)
FUCKING BRUCE went over to an assembly line type bakery because "cooking was too easy" and ended up fucking up an entire days worth of product by mixing the wrong fucking bag into the wrong mixer.
so everyone who bought cakes from them got a disgusting combination of chocolate carrot cakes. most of the hotels in the area, including ours actually bought their cakes from that place too

Motherfucker was still messing our shit up after he left.

Glasses loli stopped cooking
she got hit by a drunk driver on the freeway and both her legs had to be amputated.
>>6060258
he wasnt. he was just a fucking moron.
imagine a sheltered fucking manchild whose mom told him all his life how special and talented he was and always got what he want.
he was a guy with a big head and no practical skills.

>>6061424
>Glasses loli stopped cooking
>she got hit by a drunk driver on the freeway and both her legs had to be amputated.
If only Bruce had been there to show her the proper way to get run down by a drunk driver

>>6061424
>imagine a sheltered fucking manchild

So, basically, you missed a chance for yelling at him and making him cry? Those kinds of guys tend to cry pretty easily.

Why do the bottom tier subhumans who do these jobs expect both tips and pay?

I believe that those who can do no better should be allowed to scrape the plates of diners leavings and have them to eat. This is better than adequate recompense for their trained-monkey tasks an may inspire them to better themselves and be equal to refuse collectors or other much superior working folk.

>>6061424
>glasses loli stopped cooking

That's

Incredibly sad

She sounded so promising ;_;

>>6061495

maybe she could start a career on youtube posting herself flipping pancakes

>>6061424
>Glasses loli stopped cooking
>she got hit by a drunk driver on the freeway and both her legs had to be amputated.

Damn that hit me right in the feels.

All day long I have been fantasizing about having a tiny, cute shy cooking student who would consider it the most exciting thing ever to be hugged and caressed and lovingly fondled in some dark corner in the store room ...

>>6061424
>>imagine a sheltered fucking manchild whose mom told him all his life how special and talented he was and always got what he want.

So basically Andrew Dobson. I'm sorry you had to go through that

>>6061424
>Glasses loli stopped cooking
>she got hit by a drunk driver on the freeway and both her legs had to be amputated.

Christ.

>>6061424

Man, she didn't deserve any of that...

I work in a high-volume restarant where 5 cooks will have to serve from-scratch meals to ~650 covers in a three-hour rush. runners at the restaurant are also responsible for stocking dishes and managing the dish crew to make sure the burning foil smell doesn't reach the dining room and they don't panic when they forget where they are or what their names are
> one runner has been working for the company for 15+ years
>started at company at 15 so everyone calls him "Junior" even though he's like 32
>tiny black dude with gold fronts, tattoos on his face and dreads to his waist
>nicest fucking dude, good at his job (15 fucking years come on), just one of those people who you're always happy to see because he just makes your day go smoother and never loses his composure
>eats candy all day
>as of the beginning of december, all waitstaff are required to wear bells around their necks
>it feels a little perverse, but w/e man
>back of house thinks it's funny so sometimes you'll see a cook or a dish guy wearing a bell
>Junior wearing a bell
>just doing his shit he always does but he jingles everywhere he goes
>slowing down after getting slammed, restocking salad girl's plates
>other runner who hits on salad girl all day every fucking day rolls up on him
>OH JUNIOR WHAT YOU THINK YOU DOIN SON
>says nothing
>TANNY BABY TELL HIM I BEEN STOCKING YO PLATES ALL NIGHT I BE LOOKIN OUT FOR MY BABY
>junior says nothing
>Tania says nothing
>Junior has been stocking her plates all night
>Junior goes off to do something else
>Chef has stepped off the line to take a phonecall
>hears Junior coming, jumps out at him
>Junior jumps back like a cat and lands in a fucking battle stance
>haha, a'ight Chef
>jingles off
>Chef just watches him leave like a proud father

I saw him cry once and it was like watching someone step on a rabbit. His brother had been shot but he just fucking dried his eyes and went back to carrying trays.

>>6061839

Guys like that are the heroes of this industry, I'd take 1 of those guys for every 10 'lel, just waiting tables to get through college' types.

I work at Panera as a baker, and I went to culinary school, Le Cordon Bleu, for a two year degree. I feel like my abilities are being wasted, because all a Panera baker does is put dough (that comes on a truck, pre-formed) into pans, proofs it, and bakes it. And yet, I feel like half of the fucking bakers that work in this market still manage to routinely fuck it up. I'm one of if not the best and everybody knows it, my boss knows it and is constantly telling me that I can't quit, they'd be fucked, constantly catering to me, I'd literally have to murder a guy before they might maybe consider firing me. I'm fucking irreplaceable.

I hate it. This job is braindead fucking easy, just pulling cookies and muffins out of boxes in the freezer and throwing them in the oven. The hardest thing I do is decorate shortbread cookies, and that can be fun, I guess.

When I first started, I had a leg up because of culinary school but I did learn a few things, so it wasn't a complete waste, but by this point (been working here for three years) I feel like I have nothing left to learn. I want to be a pastry chef at an actual restaurant. I don't mind starting at the bottom as a prep bitch. I want to learn how to make things like >>6047145 and >>6047115. I want to stop wasting my time with the same dull routine. I want to create instead of doing the same goddamn thing over and over again.

I want to temper chocolate. I want to make pastry cream. I don't want to get it out of a box.

I'm having a hard time articulating what it is I'm trying to say. I guess my job sucks and I'm tired of the drudgery, and I want to keep getting better at what I love, but I just can't do it here.

Just venting, really. I need to get in a real kitchen.

>>6061309
You da real mvp

>>6061968

how much do you get paid to do that?

>>6062015
$12.50/hr

Probably entirely too much.

>>6062016

If you work salary, your effective wage will be lower than that but you will probably make more money than you do now unless you regularly put in a buttload of overtime. Just be sure that when you interview for places that they don't get their desserts ordered in frozen and that pastry's job isn't more/less portioning/garnishing.

>>6042264
>tfw searching for a part time job
>no luck with a 20 hour a week job anywhere, just lame seasonal shifts
>mfw I know that people like this get hired over me

makes me wonder what it truly takes to get an average $7 an hour job. maybe its just the city I live in or something

>>6062037
Thanks, that's good advice. Is that common? Makes me a little sad.

I live in Seattle so $12.50 actually feels pretty low compared to the cost of living here. I don't mind working harder for more pay.

>>6047115
is that gold powder on the icing thing?
cant tell if glitter effect or artifacting

>>6040626
I didn't laugh.

>>6062047

I get paid less than that and the cost of living is a decent amount higher here than it is in seattle. Welcome to the industry.

>work graveyards from 11:00pm to 6:00am at Jack In The Box
>2 of us working since it's a weekday
>there's heavy winds outside and the power's flickering
>one of the toasters won't turn back on, the shake machine is acting up, and we can't brew coffee
>power goes out for almost every store in the area except for ours
>car rolls into the drive through with 5 orders
>it starts
>commence rush with me manning the grill, fryers, toasters, and assembly
>drive through line extends out of the parking lot into the road
>coworker on headset pauses to lock the doors since the lobby closes at 12:00
>customers we didn't have time to kick out keep letting others into the store
>3 1/2 hours later I get a 30 minute break to restock and clean
>breakfast rush starts

>>6061991
>>6061332
Thanks anons.

>>6047049

where abouts? I work near Palais Royal

>>6061503
Hey, I was that cooking student once. I was quiet and shy with pigtails and glasses, and I would go to the storeroom to get banged by my co-worker. Good times.

>>6063329
was he into stumps

>>6061968
If you wanted to do all of that, then maybe you shouldn't have gone to Le Cordon Bleu.

I'd higher a baker from Panera without that shitty degree before anyone with it.

>>6063336
And I just saw you're in my city, very likely working two blocks from where I live. You should have gone to Seattle Central instead. Not great, but at least half way decent.

>>6061839
>jingles off

Marvelous.

>>6058340
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>>6058677
Holy shit based Mike and Based Glasses Loli, if this were a sitcom, I'd watch the shit out of it.