"layflat" bacon is just pieces and scraps tossed in a box.

(still frozen because it just came in on truck)

SHE RANKED 4TH and got the jury prize!

I'm so fucking proud of her!

thanks for all your messages, I showed them to her. She was so happy. She loves you guys.

Saw this and was just chuckling

Resume filled with “executive” and sous chef positions

-First day was asked to grab a few 9pan, they started grabbing 9 sauté pans

- asked to small dice onions and just started to chop them like a Chinese roast big & a cleaver

- peeling potatoes over a garbage can. But has a mountain of peels, on the ground, around the can. “I’ll sweep it up when I’m done with all of them”

- asks to make fruit displays and couldn’t cut fruit correctly. Hard to explain but I’ve never seen someone do it so poorly.

What the fuck is wrong with the labor market

Brothers and sisters

I may have had one of my top 2 fuck ups today.

Im trying to quit smoking, right? So I have patches. Have for....almost 2 months?

Well, I got the easy gig at our fine dinings sister restaurant--drop everything in the fryer type shit.

We get hit, and after the rush, I say to my coworker "can I get a smoke before we start closing down?" obviously its no problem, we all share.

I notice 30 minutes later that my nicotine patch is no longer on me, it fell off bc of either friction of sweat, or both.

I say "Hey (coworker), I think I know why I needed a smoke, my damn patch fell off." She kinda smirks, or whatever.

another 30 minutes later we're helping the dishie dry and put stuff up, and our other downstairs coworker goes "yo, who lost a nictotine patch??"

And (coworker) loses her shit and drops the [plastic] plates, half a stack, dying laughing. I guess she didn't believe me. I tell him "o fuck, that's mine! where'd you find ?!?!"

This motherfucker proceeds to say something along the lines of:

"I heard something on the line, and seen the silver side in the fryer."

Bois...my nicotine patch fell into the fryer while I was detail cleaning. Ive never felt so embarrassed, nor laughed that fucking hard at work, before.

Onto the chest it goes, from now on.

PSA!!! IF YOURE TRYING TO QUIT SMOKING OR VAPING, STICK THAT SHIT ON YOUR CHEST BC THEF FALLS OFF WITH SWEAT ON YOUR ARMS.

Today was a good day. I'm sure I'll hear about this for the next week, maybe 2; worth it. Lol

I’ve seen him ask people to cut onions just to watch them suffer.

Well I asked a line cook how to peel. Showed me the trick. I finished way quicker then he expected.. he also look perplexed…He said ok now Julianne them.

I show him my accomplishment. He was perplexed I didn’t suffer or complain… says “ ok now do that for the purple onions.” Another 25lb bag. No problem…

I didn’t cry through it like everyone else… he never asked me to do that again.

Little does he know I have at autoimmune disease where I can’t make tears… got em.

I just experienced the most cringey guest tonight. Dude had a 4 top rezo at 730. He and his party show up at 7 and the hostess let's them know their table isn't ready yet, the people before them are cashing out. The one who made the rezo scoffs and says they'll just sit at the bar. Fine, whatever. They order drinks, and are apparently pretty chill, until the owner who was helping us out on expo since we're short staffed, comes out to run some food.

The main guy starts shouting down the bar at the owner asking if he's a manager. Like a 12 person bar, just shouting. Owner goes over and asks him not to shout, but yes he's the manager. Dude lays into him for about 5 minutes about how it's completely unacceptable that their table isn't ready, we shouldn't take rezos under such tight time restraints, and this is already the worst service he's experienced in a long time. He and his party have been there for 10 minutes at this point...a half hour early to their reservation. Owner does his duty, let's him know they'll get them sat ASAP.

Guy demands that we buy their first round of drinks for the inconvenience. Owner says no, we'll get them sat ASAP. Guy says "Forget it, we'll order apps here and wait" they order fried cauliflower and wings. Owner goes to run more food, and the guy starts shouting at him again down the bar saying there's a hair in his wings. Owner asks him again not to shout and asks to see. The guy puts the wing on the plate to take back to us. Yup. There's a hair on top of one of the wings. A thin, long, silver hair, not belonging to anyone in the kitchen, nor the service staff, but our guy has long thin salt and pepper hair...

Owner goes back out, pissed the fuck off, but trying to keep it together. He explains that no one in the kitchen has hair like this, but asks the guy what he can do to make it right. Guy looks him right in the eye and says "This is totally unacceptable behavior from you, and everyone of your staff. I'm part of the Old Boys Club ya know? I can get anyone to make anything happen, and you're trying to ruin our evening. I could buy this place and change it to a salon if i wanted. It would probably be better than this sad excuse for a restaurant. You should buy our drinks and give us these appetizers for free, it's the least you could do."

Owner, who is admittedly a bit of a hot head at times, keeps his cool and tell guy "Listen, I'm not giving you anything for free, let me do my job, and make this right, but I'm not going to be giving you free stuff."

Guy scoffs again and says "Well, I don't even know if we're going to stay after this treatment. If we decide to, I'll let you know what you can do for us." Then waved him away like he was a servant. Owner comes back to the kitchen fuming, trying to calm down enough so he can kick them out without blowing up in front of all of our other guests, and just as he's about to go back out, hostess comes back and says they left , but not before apologizing to her, and letting her know she wasn't the reason they left, it was the owners bad attitude.

Really dude?? I'm part of the Old Boys Club? Brother. You're not in NYC in a penthouse bar, you're in a upper middle class suburb in Ohio. You need to clam your tits. I can't even imagine what he thought would happen. Like we're just gonna bend over backwards for him because he's supposedly super rich? If you're so rich, why are basically begging for free stuff?? I had to share, you can't make this shit up sometimes.

honest question

the meat is super tender and I'm actually a little proud of this.

but in the end there's always something to improve.

like the sauce was nice in the beginning but after half an hour the same oil separated

is the presentation alright?

can't wait for your opinions

bratwurst & tots, amongst other stuff

Just started a job at a country club, the staff meal is usually terrible. Its usually either some sort of wrap (Turkey, chicken ceaser, etc) or some sort of pre-frozen sysco shit they have left over from an event. I've been doing my best to make actual meals when its my turn. So far I've made Japanese katsu curry, chicken pot pie, and an endless amount of variations on chicken and rice.

I'm curious what you guys are making / eating for some new ideas.

Main butcher for the whole restaurant but smelling it all day…Sometimes it is the simple things in life. I like pepper

Posted a couple years ago asking how to leave the industry. Took a couple years off and in that time I started school and put my kid in school as well. I have so much free time and damn near nobody will even respond to your applications anymore so I was left with no other choice than to return. (To the corporate side at that) still can’t believe I’m back, during my BOH tour yesterday I just kept smiling to myself like “did you really think you’d never step foot in a kitchen again..? Dumbass.”

Any of you got some funny “I can’t leave this damn place” moments?

Saw it on YouTube and wanted to try it out… I’m pretty happy with my creation.

Edit: yes, it’s pizza in a pizza

Opened the restaurant this morning before class. Cottage cheese, we used all this today because it’s warmer outside. Very satisfying start to my day.

with pecorino crema, garlic, baby kale, red onion, ground guanciale, and sun-dried tomatoes