I've been in the biz and I've seen a lot of crazy ****. This takes the cake. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
Thats like my working in a shipping/recv. warehouse and having the newbies go to the office and ask for the trailer stretcher.
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. He was a hero to a chef, Enrico, that I worked with.
When you're in charge of a buffet and an unannounced bus shows up, yes. When multiple busses show up unannounced.....ugh... When you're one person doing the work of two.
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.
Anyone run out of line feeds for their printer? 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.
I once threw one of those small plastic bottles of orange juice at a cook. The restaurant business is very high stress.
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.
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.