Restaurant industry thread. - Like r/KitchenConfidential except we can say the N word.

[maguyver16]

Next question: Stupidest order?

I've had people order pizzas w/no toppings and no cheese, just crust and sauce.

Even worse than that is when people walk in and buy like 4 20-oz sodas, no food or anything. when they could have simply walked to the gas station a minute down the street and obtained the same items way cheaper, sometimes the gas station even has deals for sodas like BOGO. A fountain soda costs less than 2 dollars for an extra large. People have no common sense forreal.

I was then instructed to ask "Is this thin enough"?

It's always nice to permit a bit of savagery in the service.

Probably the only industry where you can see a manager and a coworker scream at one another to the point of raising fists only to be chilling together over a drink an hour later.

Something about the food industry just sets people off lol. Maybe it's all the hangriness of customers that adds to the mayhem, but you just kinda get used to being irritated/stressed/fritzed out for a period of time, and then just shrug it off over a smoke break or whatever afterwards. Although, I've found that having a solid team where everyone knowing where they fit really helps avoid shitshows, because even just one shit-tier dipshit can cause an issue to compound, ruining the flow and therefore the night; one of the many reasons I hate being made to train people during the dinner rush.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Next question: Stupidest order?

I've hit the point where I'm so used to stupid mods completely fucking the entire line up that I can't actually remember any of them, they give me Vietnam type flashbacks if I try and think of them.

But one sticks out solely because it was made when the entire restaurant was completely fucking dead and we were about 90% done through the closedown with the bare minimum running. This fat cunt decides he wants the biggest burger on the menu, but with enough mods to basically triple the size of the burger (fried eggs, extra pattys of different meat, hash browns etc.) he ended up with this burger that was almost impossible to stand up straight and cost MORE than a prime cut of steak at an upmarket place. He ends up taking like three bites and then leaving it. I've never been so furious about food wastage in my life. I can guarantee the fucker bought it just for an Instagram photo or something.

 

[oramge cat]

I've had people order pizzas w/no toppings and no cheese, just crust and sauce.

I dated a vegan for a while and she would sometimes order pizzas with no cheese but she'd order like a veggie combo pizza with no cheese which isn't terrible but not great but do you just mean like, sauce and crust? Stupid but if I owned a pizza joint and could sell idiots less than a dollar's worth of food for the price of an actual pizza I'd do it.

 

[ZipDisk]

I've had people order pizzas w/no toppings and no cheese, just crust and sauce.

That's what pizza was. Maybe you'd get some Reggiano sprinkled on it, but the drown it in Mozz thing came later.

I learned about that from a documentary on Newhaven pizza, which is often times derisively joked about for having clams on.

Newhaven isn't my style. I understand the appeal of partially burnt crust, but I think it's shit.
(I fucked the youtube link, hopefully it is fixed now)

 

[oramge cat]

That's what pizza was. Maybe you'd get some Reggiano sprinkled on it, but the drown it in Mozz thing came later.

I learned about that from a documentary on Newhaven pizza, which is often times derisively joked about for having clams on.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dm-8eMHS10sNewhaven isn't my style. I understand the appeal of partially burnt crust, but I think it's shit.
(I fucked the youtube link, hopefully it is fixed now)

I learned about this from Max Miller but I think the reason they didn't drown it in cheese was basically because it was poverty food when it was invented. I've always thought that Italian food purism was funny because all their traditional recipies were bacically just peasants stretching out their food budget and the moment Italians came to America where food was less scarce they started making shit the way they probably always wanted to eat it (kinda). I could see this kind of pizza coming back the same way polenta was a big trend for a while and on the menu of every nice restaurant for a few years though. One chef calls it like "pizza classico" or some shit and sells it as an appetizer and then it becomes an instagram trend. Reaches critical mass when Applebees offers it but it's pita bread from sysco with prego sauce chucked into the broiler and dies out.

 

[ZipDisk]

pita bread from sysco with prego sauce chucked into the broiler and dies out.

I hate how right you are, they will absolutely pull that shit and sprinkle kraft "parmesan" on it.