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Chef De Cuisinart posted:Doesn't matter, yearly review comes around, he gets a raise. Even if you give him a poo poo raise of 2%, and you do that for 15 years, he'll salary cap. You can't fire him, and you can't not give him a raise at our establishment. We also have 3 barely decent cooks making $20/hr because they haven't been bad enough to fire over 15+ years. If that truly is the case (and I highly doubt it is), then your hotel has god-awful management to let a union grab them by the balls so tightly.
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Had some friends over for dinner and movies tonight. Nothing special just some burgers fresh off the grill, fresh corn on the cob and some other odds and ends. Lettuce for the burgers came from my cool gardening neighbor and the corn is unbelievably tasty right about now. I like having low maintenance friends where we can sit and BS and watch some movies and poo poo. I even sharpened my friend's kitchen knives and a buddy's pocket knife during a lull in the movie. Now we can all go chop poo poo up. Yee-haw!
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mindphlux posted:but enough about horrible weddings - what are some weddings you guys have been to that have been really awesome? (need to start doing some research here I don't know if it was awesome (to me it was), but my wife and I did the following. We got married at the city hall, only witnessed by my wife's grandmother (who was sworn to secrecy), and a year after we redid it in the church. We asked the minister (a female one), to inform the guests in her speech about the fact that they weren't at a wedding, but rather at a blessing of an already excisting marriage. She was having a good time with it - so as we were facing the alter, she informed the church that we had already done the deed, silence fell on the church.. Then the first started to laugh, and a wave of merriment crashed over us from behind. A lot of speeches got rewritten, we went on to have a party where the only things that I had decided was that the cook (who was someone we knew, and who is really good) would get free hands in both materials and in the menu (I actually tried to get him to spend more on materials, but apparantly it wasn't possible). The dinner was from 5pm to 1am - interrupted by the wedding dance, can't remember the menu, but pine needles was featured in it.. There were 18 speeches - 2 of them was awkward (because parents - but :3) There were a free bar, I guess we had bought around 20 bottles of booze. 100 bottles of wine was drunk, 5 or 6 cases of beer. The party stopped at 6am - parents started to leave at 3am. The venue was in the center of town, with plenty of sleeping arrangements nearby, plus I had knocked up my wife, so she could drive! The only thing I would have done differently was to have a band for the music (we had decided to get a jukebox, because this was all low budget). 40 people attended (we don't do the huge wedding thing that americans do)
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Jul 28, 2012 08:38
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Also - hey, back from Alsace.. It was good! Got the best calf kidneys ever at an Auberge where I had a stone in the brakes of the car. I have saved tons of money, the trip practically paid for itself! I bought 60 bottles.
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Jul 28, 2012 09:07
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I don't think we say it enough, HappyHat, so let me repeat: I love you, HappyHat. <3 Finished reading Flowers for Algernon, and cried and cried. God drat, what an awesome short story.
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Jul 28, 2012 12:50
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I'm staying with friends at their place in the country. They've got two kittens and a puppy! My cuteness cup overfloweth. I've just made us all scones for tea, which we will top with cream and strawberries I just picked from their garden: I purÊed some, chopped the rest, and mixed them all with a bit of caster sugar. gently caress yeah.
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Jul 28, 2012 17:00
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There's a big rear end concert in town this weekend with Neil McCoy and Lonestar and a bunch of other terrible country acts that has brought 10000 wannabe rednecks to our peaceful valley, and they've overrun the town like they do every year. We're trying to lay low and away from main street, so we're throwing a backyard party for a friend who just got her master's yesterday. We're going to play Norteņo music and grill up meat and tortillas and peaches.
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Jul 28, 2012 19:24
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Happy Hat posted:I don't know if it was awesome (to me it was), but my wife and I did the following. this is awesome.  added to my Very-Successful-Wedding-Checklist : * venue that doesn't kick you out after a certain amount of time, with nearby sleeping accommodations.
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Jul 28, 2012 20:15
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I picked up a fresh packet of sichuan pepper to make mapo today. My whole face is both numb and on fire at the same time. 
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Jul 28, 2012 20:56
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mindphlux posted:this is awesome. We got married in a hotel in the Scottish countryside, so not only were the ceremony, breakfast and reception all in the same place, but once the official party had stopped, there was the hotel bar to abuse.
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Jul 28, 2012 21:02
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Happy Hat posted:We got married at the city hall, only witnessed by my wife's grandmother (who was sworn to secrecy), and a year after we redid it in the church. The bolded part is key. Mother-In-Law turned the quiet legal ceremony into an EVENT, my parents (whom I had specifically told not to be there) understandably flipped out. Then MIL decided she (and the rest of the fam) wasn't coming to the actual wedding because she had already seen us get married once, and my mother got so angry at me for telling her not to go to the courthouse and then trying to plan my own wedding (she wanted me to fly HER minister cross-country for the service. I had never met him) that she threw a tantrum and said she wouldn't go to the wedding either. End result: Bride and Groom didn't get anything near the wedding they wanted, serious family resentments are born and a wedding dress hangs sadly unused in my closet. But my MIL finally got to live out the wedding she had always wanted! Please, learn from my mistakes. Jerry's Final Thought: We still ended up married. That's the important thing.
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Jul 28, 2012 21:28
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The main reason we had my wife's grandmother attend was because she was 89, and would probably die soon.. She died last year, just before our 10th anniversary.
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Jul 28, 2012 22:41
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I'm at a party where a bunch of drunks are trying to roast a pig. I may die. Also there's a baby.
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Jul 29, 2012 00:43
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Also the baby has a Mohawk.
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If you start a fight with one of the drunks (or the baby) won't you be right at home?
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Jul 29, 2012 01:51
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The pig fell apart on the spit. I still may die.
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Drink and Fight posted:I'm at a party where a bunch of drunks are trying to roast a pig. I may die. Also there's a baby. I hope they started the baby long after the pig otherwise it's gonna be all dried out. 
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Jul 29, 2012 03:56
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When my uncle got married, it was in a protestant church of some stripe. Now, my grandparents are Catholic. Many of my aunts and uncles are Catholic. Nobody cared because it was a very touching ceremony and the reception had an open bar and all manner of delicious goodies. Brie en croûte. Brownies. Various meat things. Jesus wept, it was magical. There was also champagne and the most incredible cake, made up to look like a beach with surfboards on it. My uncle makes surfboards.  Also, the priest was a lady. She was cute.
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Jul 29, 2012 07:38
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And on the sixth day, the lord created hangovers and connecting flights. Ouch.
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Jul 29, 2012 17:35
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so, with my left over duck carcass, I pressure cooked it with some aromatics for a while, augmented the resulting stock with some chicken stock I had made earlier and a bit of beefy flavoring elements. made french onion soup with duck stock.  checkmate, world. poo poo was good as hell.
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Jul 30, 2012 06:46
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The tipping thing confuses me greatly. Do people actually work out percentages etc? Here if I pay by card then you'll get an amount of money I have in my pocket that's probably 10-15% of the total bill assuming you weren't actively bad at being a waiter. If it's cash then you get whatever's left after the bill + some arbitrary amount, if the bill was say Ŗ95 then I'll pay either Ŗ110 or Ŗ120 depending if I've got Ŗ10's or just Ŗ20's, never Ŗ115 as I like to keep my fivers. I always tip in cash because some places here have started charging it's staff a 'handling fee' to process tips done by card.
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Jul 30, 2012 11:52
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Aramoro posted:The tipping thing confuses me greatly. Do people actually work out percentages etc? Yes, roughly. I almost never carry cash so I usually just add 10% to the bill, which is a fairly standard tip here.
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Jul 30, 2012 14:16
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The world would be a better place if everyone had to support themselves for at least one year working a tip-dependent job.
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Aramoro posted:The tipping thing confuses me greatly. Do people actually work out percentages etc? Here if I pay by card then you'll get an amount of money I have in my pocket that's probably 10-15% of the total bill assuming you weren't actively bad at being a waiter. If it's cash then you get whatever's left after the bill + some arbitrary amount, if the bill was say Ŗ95 then I'll pay either Ŗ110 or Ŗ120 depending if I've got Ŗ10's or just Ŗ20's, never Ŗ115 as I like to keep my fivers. mindphlux posted:so, with my left over duck carcass, I pressure cooked it with some aromatics for a while, augmented the resulting stock with some chicken stock I had made earlier and a bit of beefy flavoring elements.
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bartolimu posted:The world would be a better place if everyone had to support themselves for at least one year working a tip-dependent job. That or retail. Preferably at least 6 months at each.
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Just got back from gorgeous Philly. Was in the Chestnut Hill area, with my friend, and her cousin. They took me to Rocco's Italian Ice to try "Water Ice". Very delicious. It's like the shaved ice I get in my neighbourhood, but the flavour is much more intense, and the ice crystals are like little tiny itty bitty beads. No rough edges or shards at all. And unlike the shaved ice, which is essentially shaved ice with a bit of syrup on, this seemed to be a syrup with ice in. Very tasty. And, of course, the wonderful Philadelphia soft pretzels. I /really/ need to head down there more often.
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There's been a recent trend in the LA area's Chinese dessert shops towards "shaved snow" which is shaved flakes of ice cream instead of ice. The ice cream they use is more watery than regular ice cream I think, possibly to maintain the desired flakey texture.
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Manuel Calavera posted:That or retail. Preferably at least 6 months at each. gently caress that, not when landscaping is an option. Backbreaking labor and heatstroke are way better then putting up with retail or food service poo poo.
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Jul 30, 2012 19:14
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bartolimu posted:The world would be a better place if everyone had to support themselves for at least one year working a tip-dependent job. Fuckin absolutely.
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Goon approved National Service sounds a bit lovely, TBH.
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Steakandchips posted:Goon approved National Service sounds a bit lovely, TBH.
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Dino, did you have a chance to go to the Reading Terminal Market? It's fun to wander around. Crowded as all get out though. I'm going to be back in Delaware for a few days soon and I am looking forward to stocking up on Dogfish Head's brown honey rum. Also, crabs.
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I ate my first softshell crab in the Reading Terminal Market. It was lightly breaded and fried, served on a bun with a splort of mayo and some lettuce, and absolutely amazing.
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bartolimu posted:The world would be a better place if everyone had to support themselves for at least one year working a tip-dependent job. Word. Of course, best case scenario would be a world where everyone is paid a living wage for full-time work, but that's never going to happen in the US. It's not even so much the wage instability as it is the attitude that it engenders in customers- that if they are not sufficiently impressed, the person serving them need not be paid more than $2.13/hr. Can you imagine that standard being applied to any other profession? It's humiliating to have to tolerate abuse to make money- some people take it better than others but it always sucks. I speak from experience when I say that standard restaurant labor practices are broken from pretty much every direction. But one thing everyone should agree on is that we should treat tipped employees with respect, and respect includes the right to a fair wage, no matter who "should" be paying for it. It is what it is- work to change the system if you want, but don't penalize those who are living in it.
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Aramoro posted:The tipping thing confuses me greatly. Do people actually work out percentages etc? I take the first number of the total amount of my bill and then double it as a baseline, and then add a few bucks more if service was particularly good - in america anyways. so a $46 tab gets $4 * 2 = $8 + $0-5 also I think I gotta disagree about the 'world would be a better place if everyone worked a tip-based job' thing. people work those jobs by choice. there are plenty of targets, home depots, malls, AT&T stores, best buys, landscapers, administrative assistant positions, kitchen positions (we don't get tipped, you know), blah blah blah in the world. I'm not saying tip lovely, but waitstaff know what they're getting in to, and goddamn I have never met more self absorbed bitchy entitled cunts in any line of work including the financial services industry and lawyers, which you'd think would be hard to beat.
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mindphlux posted:also I think I gotta disagree about the 'world would be a better place if everyone worked a tip-based job' thing. people work those jobs by choice. there are plenty of targets, home depots, malls, AT&T stores, best buys, landscapers, administrative assistant positions, kitchen positions (we don't get tipped, you know), blah blah blah in the world.
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No Wave posted:Ha ha... already identifying as a cook? I've worked in a kitchen to pay the bills before. it was a long time ago, and for only about 6-8 months, but I've done it. mindphlux fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Jul 31, 2012 |
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bunnielab posted:gently caress that, not when landscaping is an option. Backbreaking labor and heatstroke are way better then putting up with retail or food service poo poo. Also a possibility! But only if they're treated as a migrant worker during their stint. @mindphlux - I figure you know this, but. The idea is that it would knock some snotty fuckers down and make them understand why they shouldn't abuse the "lowly" service folk just because they've got daddy's platinum card. Something like that. On an unrelated note. http://tompreston.deviantart.com/art/Soapbox-Derpy-Appreciate-This-317598837 here's this thing on Deviantart. But wait, it gets interesting. http://comments.deviantart.com/1/317598837/2668664320 there's this comment string. And this girl is just...so...I don't even know. It's loving mind-boggling. I think she might be broken. If you don't want to read it. She eventually gets to the point of explaining why she's against same-sex marriage. "Because umm what if a gay dad wants to touch his kid UGH? And ladies will get jealous because I know I would!" I know this isn't really the place for it. But I just had to share it. 
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I do as mindphlux on this, my only problems with your capitalistic tipping systems are: 1. It is unworthy treatment of humans to pay them USD 2.13 an hour in a society with your middle and median income 2. I dislike lickspittles and sycophantic behaviour, and this promotes such in my server Regardless of the quality of the service I have never undertipped on purpose - but some of the things you guys tip (tour guides, bus-drivers etc.) I simply do not understand why should be tipped, unless they too get USD 2.13 per hour too? With regards to line-cooks being envious of the better conditions of the serving people - well... A large part of the experience of dining somewhere is the experience and atmosphere that the host is able to create, and instead of being jealous of their wage, if yours is too low, the answer isn't lowering someone elses to make yours seem higher, that would actually not really make any kind of sense, at all, anywhere, ever.
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