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Do not the disturb the chef......any further.

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by opfinistic, Oct 20, 2009.

  1. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    I've been in the biz and I've seen a lot of crazy ****. This takes the cake.

    :pity:

    http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localn...s/epaper/2009/10/16/1016chefthreat.html?imw=Y

    Now lets all start calling the place and ordering those salads to go. :chuckle:
     
  2. Jeffrey

    Jeffrey Banned

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    Sounds like someone doesn't like salad.
     
  3. gunn34

    gunn34 I miss Don & Dan

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    Better order the Krabby Patty.
     
  4. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    My company (not me personally) did the equipment package for that job.
     
  5. gunn34

    gunn34 I miss Don & Dan

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    You guys equipped him with a firearm?
     
  6. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    Lmao.





    No.
     
  7. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    If not for the gun slamming on the counter, I would have taken this as normal back of the house/front of the house friction.
     
  8. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    Looks like someone was about to add a side of...

    *Takes off glasses*

    ...Murder.

    [​IMG]
     
  9. Jeffrey

    Jeffrey Banned

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    lmfao
     
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  10. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    I have had several kitchen utensils brandished in my direction when I was in the biz, and when I was in the kitchen I waved the occasional cleaver and chef knife as well. Wisely, I kept the gun at home.
     
  11. The G Man

    The G Man Git 'r doooonnne!!!

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    No salad for you today!

    [​IMG]
     
  12. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    :shifty:

    Uncanny resemblance.
     
  13. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    I've definitely said some stuff that if taken out of context might get me in trouble. I threatened to walk out more than anything, but if not that, it probably involved me threatening to use a sheet pan as a weapon.
     
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  14. azfinfanmang

    azfinfanmang Premium Member Luxury Box

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    That's EXACTLY the first thing I thought of :lol:
     
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  15. Jeffrey

    Jeffrey Banned

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    The Salad Nazi. Like The Soup Nazi from Seinfeld, but with more attitude.
     
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  16. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    I once told a fellow server that I'd cut his throat for a nickel. Even though I was speaking metaphorically it wasn't a nice thing to say. :no:
     
  17. Jeffrey

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    A dollar would have been sufficient.
     
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  18. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    Ahhhhh, restaurant stories:

    - I've called an assistant manager at their house, from work, and *****ed them out, very loudly.

    - I've wrapped a server's entire section in saran wrap. Tables, chairs, sugar caddies, etc.

    - There was a thing where one of our asst. managers started telling "your momma jokes". One day my mom came in for lunch, and I had her call the manager over and introduce herself. Then she said, "Scott, I don't know you, and you don't me, but Tony has told me you say all these truly horrible things about me". Then pulls out a piece of paper and reads off a list of the vulgar insults. I've never seen a more panicked and embarrassed adult in all my life.

    - A bunch of us went to see Star Wars when it was re-released, one of the servers was from South Africa and had never seen any of the trilogy before. 5 minutes in I tell him the major plot points to all 3 movies.

    - We used to carry around those little creamers in our apron, back up to a server or cook, fart, and pop the creamer so it would spray all over them. We called them "gay farts". Damn, that was wrong.

    - We'd cut the bottoms of those little paper cups for ketchup, so that when you poured something in there, the bottom would open like a flap and the condiment would go everywhere.

    - Wait for a server to make a dessert, after spending a minute to make it all pretty, and just walk by and smash it with your hand.
     
  19. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    LMAO! Done that too! Ever see the movie 'Waiting'? Great for someone who's been in the trenches. I used to love to leave the ice scoop on top of the ice machine, full of ice, so when the next guy needed it he'd get hit with a bunch of cold water when grabbing the scoop.
     
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  20. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    That movie was far and away the most realistic portrayal of restaurant life I have ever seen.

    We also used to make the new guy, "empty" the hot water from spout on the coffee maker. My personal record had a trainee who was still "emptying" it for 28 minutes.
     
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  21. Ultra

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    haha nice. when I worked fast food through high school and some college we had the new people water the plants in the lobby...but they were all fake. my favorite was we got a new kid to spend 30 minutes looking for the shelf stretcher :lol:
     
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  22. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    I guess he doesn't like tossing salad....
     
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  23. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    When I worked retail, we'd always get the new guy to go to a different store to ask for a wall-stretcher. Classic.

    When I played college baseball, you'd ask a guy to get you a box of left-handed curve balls and find the key to homeplate.
     
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  24. SICK

    SICK Lounge Moderator

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    wow i guess you can say thats one angry chef/manager
     
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  25. Soundwave

    Soundwave Phins Sympathizer..

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    yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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  26. Frumundah Finnatic

    Frumundah Finnatic U Mad Miami?

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    Is working at a restaurant really that stressful?

    1) So ran to your mom and told on him?
    2) You did what with a condom?
     
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  28. Jeffrey

    Jeffrey Banned

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    I LOL'd.
     
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  29. ILPhinFan88

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    Thats like my working in a shipping/recv. warehouse and having the newbies go to the office and ask for the trailer stretcher. :lol:
     
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  30. opfinistic

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    It sure can be. When you get twenty tickets at once and 10 minutes later everyone is clamoring for their food...waitresses bugging you, throwing you out of sink. Someone's getting stabbed.
    :pointlol:

    He was a hero to a chef, Enrico, that I worked with.
     
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  31. Stitches

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    When you're in charge of a buffet and an unannounced bus shows up, yes. When multiple busses show up unannounced.....ugh...:pity:

    When you're one person doing the work of two. :yes:



    :no:
     
  32. anlgp

    anlgp ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A

    dealing with the public is indeed a *****
     
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  33. Colorado Dolfan

    Colorado Dolfan ...dirty drownin' man?

    ...when I was in the Air Force, we'd send the newbs to find flight line and jet wash...

    ;)
     
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  34. Jaydog57

    Jaydog57 Canes/Fins/Magic fan

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    Damn that dude sounds stressed, too stressed to be in charge of a kitchen. I've seen a few people snap over the years working in kitchens but not to that extreme.
     
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  35. TokyoFishFan

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    Anyone run out of line feeds for their printer?
    :wink2:

    Always love having someone don chem gear in order to take air samples for asbestos testing using 30 gallon trash bags...doesn't look air tight enough! Go back and take another sample!

    Back to the restarurant business...I sent a friend out to turn off the sign out front. Told him the switch was about half way up the pole. Gotta love automatic timers.

    EDIT: Oh...and for you old folks...separate the unclassified chad from the classified chad from those punched cards.
     
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  36. Dolphin1184

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    YEAHHHHHHHHhHHHHHHHHHHHH!

    EDIT: Oops didn't see soundwave's post :pity:
     
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  37. Miamian

    Miamian Senior Member

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    I once threw one of those small plastic bottles of orange juice at a cook. The restaurant business is very high stress.
     
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  38. Jeffrey

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    Ask Rex Ryan what he knows about the Chinese buffet. He over indulged after the Monday night game. They had to kick him out like Homer on the Simpsons.
     
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  39. Pauly

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    I overheard one of our waitresses explaining to a customer that the kitchen was closed and the customer was trying to pull the customer is always right thing.

    She just said to him "I'm not asking the chef, he talks to his knives ... and he says they talk back to him"

    Sometimes it pays to develop a rep as a Grade A psycho.
     
  40. cnc66

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    what.. no fallopian tubes or level bubble???
     
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