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So one of the duties I'm picking up in my promotion to management is maintaining our web presence, and looking over our website one thing that's really kinda jumping out at me is that our menu page has things listed in a different order than the print menu...is this just me being overly compulsive? I get the feeling if I make it all match it'll be easier to make sure things that need to change when we add new items or change pricing or whatever don't fall through the cracks.
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Sep 2, 2015 15:46
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Kenning posted:I concede the point – once again I forget how (relatively) privileged I am to work in California. Would you say that the highest cost of living in the country (California) offsets that privilege?
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Sep 2, 2015 16:59
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goodness posted:You are right it isn't! Less than a handful of states actually require lunch or small breaks to be provided. Paid lunches/breaks maybe
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Sep 2, 2015 17:47
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Paid lunches/breaks maybe What is the maybe?
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Sep 2, 2015 17:49
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goodness posted:Would you say that the highest cost of living in the country (California) offsets that privilege? Didn't DC overtake California recently? Might've been for specific conditions, I heard this secondhand.
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Sep 2, 2015 18:19
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Trebuchet King posted:So one of the duties I'm picking up in my promotion to management is maintaining our web presence, and looking over our website one thing that's really kinda jumping out at me is that our menu page has things listed in a different order than the print menu...is this just me being overly compulsive? I get the feeling if I make it all match it'll be easier to make sure things that need to change when we add new items or change pricing or whatever don't fall through the cracks. Just make sure it isn't a drat pdf menu.
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Sep 2, 2015 19:10
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goodness posted:Would you say that the highest cost of living in the country (California) offsets that privilege? There are plenty of places in California where the cost is living isn't that high, and in places where it is fairly high the economic opportunities are (almost) in line with the expenses. Also the superior weather is another part of the high cost of living, and I thank the good lord for that every day.
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Sep 2, 2015 19:24
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Kenning posted:There are plenty of places in California where the cost is living isn't that high, and in places where it is fairly high the economic opportunities are (almost) in line with the expenses. Also the superior weather is another part of the high cost of living, and I thank the good lord for that every day. I would add that the labor benefits and whatnot that we enjoy add to our quality of life, which is a big factor in cost of living.
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Sep 2, 2015 20:04
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Tunicate posted:Just make sure it isn't a drat pdf menu. There's a button to open a pdf of the print menu but the menu page is just, like, text. I'm working on getting better and more photos.
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Sep 2, 2015 20:24
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Trebuchet King posted:There's a button to open a pdf of the print menu but the menu page is just, like, text. I'm working on getting better and more photos. That's good, it's a real pain in the rear end to try to browse a pdf on a smartphone (the worst sites have each page as a separate pdf). If I can read the hours, phone number, address, a menu, and maybe even daily specials without clicking through a billion links or using flash, I consider it a a great website.
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Sep 2, 2015 22:28
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Trebuchet King posted:I'm working on getting better and more photos. Not of the food though, right? I mean unless presentation is a rigid priority in your BOH... and really even then. I know this is picky and judgy but seriously. Tunicate posted:If I can read the hours, phone number, address, a menu, and maybe even daily specials without clicking through a billion links or using flash, I consider it a a great website. If the first 3 aren't the first thing you see with a link to the fourth on any device it's a bad website imo. also http://neversaidaboutrestaurantwebsites.tumblr.com/
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Sep 2, 2015 22:34
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Don't photograph your food. Plating changes all the time and someone will complain about it. Or the angle you took the photo at makes it look fantastic, but when they actually get the plate they aren't happy.
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Sep 2, 2015 22:41
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“The lorem ipsum looks good.” This is hilarious (and frighteningly accurate).
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Sep 2, 2015 23:03
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Chef De Cuisinart posted:Don't photograph your food. Plating changes all the time and someone will complain about it. Or the angle you took the photo at makes it look fantastic, but when they actually get the plate they aren't happy. The only exceptions I can think of are if you're a bakery, or harold's new york deli. And the latter doesn't include photos despite them being 100% necessary. EDIT: Oh, one other thing. If the kitchen closes but the bar stays open, list when that happens. Tunicate fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Sep 2, 2015 |
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Sep 2, 2015 23:30
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CdC - what do you say to people who ask for a smoke break? just like 'no, you can't take a break' or 'yeah, but clock out first?' or what. like the actual words you say. I think I need to work on my iron fist technique quite a loving lot before I have any business going back into the industry. I'm way too nice and I'd totally be like... "ok  be back in 5 minutes" even though it would drive me loving insane and I'd want to fire whoever every time I looked at them from that point on.actually on second thought I'd probably just be like 'lol yeah just take the rest of the day off' because gently caress smoking around food you're preparing for someone else hope that's legal!!!
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Sep 3, 2015 00:20
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Chef De Cuisinart posted:Don't photograph your food. Plating changes all the time and someone will complain about it. Or the angle you took the photo at makes it look fantastic, but when they actually get the plate they aren't happy. This isn't per item--it's for headers and subheaders. The current images are of dishes we haven't had in ages, so it just seemed off to me. The lunch menu tile's now the signature turkey club, dinner's going to be the fish and chips, and weekend'll probably be the classic eggs/bacon/homefries/toast plate. I figure if I stick with menu items that have been fairly consistent in our 49 years open that's pretty safe. Also, most of the photographs on the site are either of the jazz nights or of decor that we're renovating in the next two weeks, and it just seems good to have pictures of food for promotional stuff, social media, etc.
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Sep 3, 2015 01:48
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Let's Play: Prep, Weeds, Close! After the dinner lead played Santeria by Sublime for the fourth time in two hours, you and everyone else on staff has come together in a hitherto unprecedented show of unity and finally done the needful: the relevant surfaces have been cleaned and sanitized, and the carcass has been broken down and stored in the freezer for easy disposal in separate locations under the cover of the early morning hours. The only problem is that you have a service looming right now and no time to bicker over the Spotify. So everyone pitches in and picks one track to play while prepping, one track to spin in the weeds, and one track for cleaning up and closing, possibly while sipping shift drinks since y'know the boss just disappeared mysteriously before open and all. What godawful noise do you inflict on your coworkers? Prep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AXF1GoabAg Weeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boTKLuI7nzM Close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88
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Sep 3, 2015 05:48
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no cdc, you can't play Hydrogen by M.O.O.N six-hundred and sixty six times throughout the day, that's not the game. we've been over this.
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Sep 3, 2015 05:50
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Willie Tomg posted:Let's Play: Prep, Weeds, Close! One of the funniest nights in the kitchen was when i introduced the other cooks to 10-hour youtube loop videos We tried looping the Chipmunks version of Gangnam Style but we tapped out before the first play ended. There's only so far you can go to annoy everyone. I played https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50ncnomRZO8 and it went for like 5 minutes before one of the other cooks noticed, it was great
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Sep 3, 2015 06:27
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I think the only 10 hour loop we ever made it through was the Herman four non blondes video. Oh my god I do not miss back of the house! ( I do sometimes.) I literally can not post better than this.
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Sep 3, 2015 08:28
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prep : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzmWzXLPa6I service : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=386zfdJt8JM close : https://www.mixcloud.com/TOLKIENBLACK/cvs-bangers/ I'm hiring! ! !
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Sep 3, 2015 08:51
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mindphlux posted:prep : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzmWzXLPa6I i would work under these conditions edit: wait maybe not
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Sep 3, 2015 09:06
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We play a lot of talking heads and ween. The best was the other night were blasting gently caress the Pain Away, and one of the 60-plus servers comes in between obscene lines and starts getting down. She left before more obscene lines, so we're pretty sure she had no clue what she was dancing to. The only thing I'm not a big fan of is screamo, so when hot line is rocking that I either bring the battered old ghetto blaster over or pop in my ear buds
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Sep 3, 2015 13:41
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A pizza shop that I worked at had a pretty culturally diverse staff, and between the ~10 of us there was one single song that everyone was okay with. So it went on loop in the kitchen, open to close every day, for 3 years. My wife says that I mumble Hotel California in my sleep sometimes when I get sick.
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Sep 3, 2015 13:45
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Willie Tomg posted:no cdc, you can't play Hydrogen by M.O.O.N six-hundred and sixty six times throughout the day, that's not the game. we've been over this. That's why you play the whole Hotline Miami soundtrack, duh. Prep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KgM67enfwQ Weeds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wW6jXZ5cRk or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uINi-b5Fi1o Close https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl58QllW2QM
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Sep 3, 2015 14:31
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Willie Tomg posted:no cdc, you can't play Hydrogen by M.O.O.N six-hundred and sixty six times throughout the day, that's not the game. we've been over this. gently caress you, I dow aht I want https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXEQG_kiDK8
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Sep 3, 2015 14:55
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SHUPS 4 DETH posted:We tried looping the Chipmunks version of Gangnam Style but we tapped out before the first play ended. There's only so far you can go to annoy everyone. After further investigation it was in fact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi0grzrag_4 which is my official entry for weeds I stand by tom's verse for prep and here's close https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrSSY3q1rZc
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Sep 3, 2015 18:51
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Prep Weeds Close
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Sep 3, 2015 20:09
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Splizwarf posted:A pizza shop that I worked at had a pretty culturally diverse staff, and between the ~10 of us there was one single song that everyone was okay with. So it went on loop in the kitchen, open to close every day, for 3 years. My wife says that I mumble Hotel California in my sleep sometimes when I get sick. Never before have I felt such great pity for another human being.
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Sep 3, 2015 22:56
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Trebuchet King posted:Never before have I felt such great pity for another human being. I have to hear that "Chandelier" song about 5 times a day, am I in the running? I seriously envy y'all who get a say in what to listen to. Some sergeant plugs his/her phone into our PA every day, and it's been literally the same 12 song playlist, foh and boh, for months. I'm gonna start breaking into hives the next time I hear "Thriller" or "Heart-Shaped Box" (and I used to like these songs )
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Sep 4, 2015 00:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9AcP3VHiak This whole album would be pretty good too. Or the first Ziltoid album, Ziltoid the Omniscient.
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Sep 4, 2015 04:19
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When I worked at this one restaurant the we pretty much played dubstep and house music all shift. Now I still listen to that stuff at my new job even though I no longer work in the food industry unfortunately.  I miss working with different foods and learning new recipes from coworkers.
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Sep 4, 2015 06:38
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We had sirius/XM in the kitchen for about the first four months that I was there -- but there was too much bickering and complaining and fighting about it that eventually "the receiver in the bar broke, so we need to take this one." One of our guys was a big fan of Christian death metal. I figured out eventually that I could get rhapsody on my phone (this was like 6 years ago) and on Sundays when chef wasn't around, we'd listen to jazz or some EDM stuff during service. Sunday nights we always did "piso mojado," aka powerwashing. For this we would hook up a CD player (?!?!) to the still existing speaker system and it would either be radiohead, daft punk live album, or Manu Chao. No matter how lovely the night was, or how much we hated powerwashing, we would always stop and do our ridiculous Pinocchio dance.
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Sep 4, 2015 14:50
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Back in the day, I'd be walking into the kitchen right about now if I hadn't been there already. Since it is a Friday, it's 50/50 if I wouldve been there already or not. Holiday weekend, so there's that slight glimmer of hope that it'll be slow, but the reality is that it will be the exact opposite. Today, however, I am freezing in my office that we keep far too cold. I moved from my cube to our back office because the guy two cubes down from me brought in his kids... because idk why people loving bring their kids to the office before a holiday weekend? But they do. And they're screaming.. like actually screaming like dinosaurs. And now that I moved to the back, I still can't get away from G-, the admin whose voice and tone are amazingly able to be heard across the entire building. I am quite far from her desk, yet I can recite the entirety of the lunch order that she is calling in right now. SHARON, WHAT DRESSSING????? echos across the building and in my mind for eternity.
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Sep 4, 2015 17:00
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And that's why I can't work an office job.
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Sep 4, 2015 17:11
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I don't understand any of this conversation about music at all. Why the gently caress aren't y'all listening to narcocoriddo and tejano? That's the only music that I can work to anymore, and I don't think that's a problem. poo poo will get you HYPE to cut stuff.
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Sep 4, 2015 17:20
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Cuando cuando cuando
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Sep 4, 2015 17:22
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For the floor, I made a Morrisey station on pandora and have proceeded to thumbs down all the Morrisey and Phil Collins. poo poo's real.
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Sep 4, 2015 18:34
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I worked at an electronics store when Soldier boy was new. I still have panic attacks when I hear that song, which thankfully is less than once a year because it was such an awful song.
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Sep 4, 2015 19:21
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My trigger? We had a band play on Thursday nights. They were the owners buddies Do you know how many times I wake up with a memory of an off key drunk man screeching "I waaaaaannnna know? Have you ever heeeeeeeard the rain?"
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