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Sex Hobbit posted:They either aren't pronounced the same or I've been saying Russia-Moscow wrong my entire life. (Family lives in Lewiston, just south.) I grew up in Seattle, but my grandparents lived there most of my childhood. They're pronounced the same to me, or close enough not to matter. Moss, as in the green plant and co, not cow.
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The Midwest loves to do that. See locally Nevada, IA (Neh-vay-dah).
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Minot ND -> "Mine it" Pierre SD -> "Pier". Lead SD -> "Leed" (seems excusable, but it is a mining town...)
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Oct 8, 2015 05:26
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Second guess my terrible French. Is "Soup de jour: Creme de broccoli" the correct way to write "Soup of the day: Cream of broccoli"?
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Oct 8, 2015 06:04
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CommonShore posted:Minot ND -> "Mine it" Why I'm glad I live in Sioux Falls. Easy enough to pronounce. Not looking forward to winter though. If we're staying as consistently busy as we have been, christmas party season will be nuts. Feel bad for the servers tonight. It was apparently "stiff the waitstaff" night. Like all big rear end parties with like $600 tabs that tipped like $30. They were all bitching every time they came into the kitchen.
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Oct 8, 2015 06:15
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Why aren't large parties getting an auto-grat?
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Skwirl posted:Second guess my terrible French. Is "Soup de jour: Creme de broccoli" the correct way to write "Soup of the day: Cream of broccoli"? My french sucks but: Broccoli in french has only 1 c
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JawKnee posted:My french sucks but: Broccoli in french has only 1 c Yeah, I don't care enough to fix that.
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That's a queer way to spell "tequila".
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argh I hate vegan and vegetarian dietary restrictions so loving much I literally cannot understand them or keep them straight. and I try really hard to accommodate any and everyone I serve food to. (edit : imnotarestaurant) I had a dinner party last week and I left cheese off a vegetarian plate (because it's made with rennet harvested from poor baby veals and also the milk of suffering caged cows) and the guest poked fun at me for not giving them cheese! what the gently caress also I have mistakenly given vegans things with yeast and they have been like 'no I don't eat yeast' also wtf. they may have been gluten free too? but yeast doesn't have anything to do with gluten unless its in bread??? gently caress everyone just eat food if its put infront of you!!! if you don't want to eat chicken every day because you think it's a poor environmental choice or don't like killing animals or whatever that's fine!!! I'm completely on board with your choice!!! just if you're accidentally given something that has an ingredient that you don't like, push it aside, or just eat it that once because it will account for 0.00001% of your annual food intake, and you look like a douche, are probably being ungrateful to someone, and it's just going to get thrown away even though that cow had already given its milk that was made with the poor dead veal stomach enzymes, and your preferences in this case amount to absolutely nothing other than a kafkaesque comedy of errors you dicklicking gently caress. not angry, just laughin' with the world 
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Oct 8, 2015 06:38
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but if it's in a restaurant then sure, your job as a patron is literally to make the staff slave over you and be as miserable as possible in return for money, so that's fine I guess...
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Oct 8, 2015 06:41
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mindphlux posted:argh I hate vegan and vegetarian dietary restrictions so loving much When I host a party there's always at least two vegan options. they can 1)make do or 2)gently caress off Seriously though,vegans eat yeast, it's a bacteria not an animal and if you aren't eating bacteria you aren't eating anything.
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Oct 8, 2015 07:08
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When I worked in a bakery someone asked what products we served that did not have dairy, sugar, yeast or gluten, and got mad when I offered them a cup of water.
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AA is for Quitters posted:Why I'm glad I live in Sioux Falls. Easy enough to pronounce. Feel that. Tonight was apparently some kind of "yes we're going to split a salad and full order of pasta. Yes we know you offer half plates, but we're just going to split the main size thank you. Oh? Drinks, no thank you we're fine with water" night.
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Oct 8, 2015 08:37
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WanderingMinstrel I posted:Feel that. Tonight was apparently some kind of "yes we're going to split a salad and full order of pasta. Yes we know you offer half plates, but we're just going to split the main size thank you. Oh? Drinks, no thank you we're fine with water" night. don't want to order the half-portions? Enjoy your full dish, plus an empty plate on the side
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AA is for Quitters posted:Feel bad for the servers tonight. It was apparently "stiff the waitstaff" night. Like all big rear end parties with like $600 tabs that tipped like $30. They were all bitching every time they came into the kitchen. Autograt any table size over 6
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Oct 8, 2015 08:39
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JawKnee posted:Autograt any table size
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mindphlux posted:but if it's in a restaurant then sure, your job as a patron is literally to make the staff slave over you and be as miserable as possible in return for money, so that's fine I guess... Hi 5 back to IT for money bro
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Skwirl posted:Second guess my terrible French. Is "Soup de jour: Creme de broccoli" the correct way to write "Soup of the day: Cream of broccoli"? So I left at 2am. Whoever opens may or may not notice our specials sign says "Potage Du Jour/Crème de Brachiosaurus"
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Oct 8, 2015 10:39
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WanderingMinstrel I posted:Feel that. Tonight was apparently some kind of "yes we're going to split a salad and full order of pasta. Yes we know you offer half plates, but we're just going to split the main size thank you. Oh? Drinks, no thank you we're fine with water" night. Ahahaha, my husband and I do this all the time at this italian restaurant near our apartment but we never ask for them to be actually split and we drink a shitload of wine so I figure it works out. Grad school is making me want to go back to food service real hard, you guys. Better the devil you know or some poo poo like that, I guess.
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Oct 8, 2015 14:34
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Skwirl posted:When I host a party there's always at least two vegan options. It's a fungus. Vegans buy literal jars of yeast to use as a umami flavouring: 
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pile of brown posted:When I worked in a bakery someone asked what products we served that did not have dairy, sugar, yeast or gluten, and got mad when I offered them a cup of water. We put a sign on the door warning people with gluten, wheat, or nut allergies to not come in because we were unable to prevent flour and nut dust from being airborne while we were working. It really cut down on the number of people we had to worry about accidentally putting themselves into toxic shock by walking in.
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Oct 8, 2015 14:59
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For me the worst part is that a vast majority of people doing vegan and especially gluten-free are doing it as a fad diet and have no underlying conditions. It really detracts from the plight of people who have legitimate and severe allergies or celiac. Of course those people aren't squeaky wheels like fad dieters; they just know better. One of the servers where I work has a deathly allergy to celery. Celery. I didn't think such a thing even existed and it turns out to be just as dangerous as acute nut allergies. So that's at least half of sauces out the window, anything with celery salt, or even skin contact with a raw stalk. What that person does when it comes to eating out, is to eat at home. And also have my deepest sympathies because holy gently caress.
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Oct 8, 2015 17:32
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If someone is a vegan or vegetarian and is a massive rear end in a top hat about it, there's a good chance they're a massive rear end in a top hat about other things as well. I don't cook vegan because I haven't found one nice enough that I'm willing to invite over to eat with
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Oct 8, 2015 18:37
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My boss, awesome dude, is vegan. He's typically not a dick about it at all. We work in wine -- he's the director, so a decent chunk of his job is going out to eat. And boy some of the vegan plates he's seen are downright pathetic. Like, if he just gets 4 vegetable sides or whatever, that's ok, but many places are soo much worse than that.
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Oct 8, 2015 19:18
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It's so nice, seeing my restaurant get talked about in my local LAN thread.
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Turkeybone posted:My boss, awesome dude, is vegan. He's typically not a dick about it at all. We work in wine -- he's the director, so a decent chunk of his job is going out to eat. And boy some of the vegan plates he's seen are downright pathetic. Like, if he just gets 4 vegetable sides or whatever, that's ok, but many places are soo much worse than that. When you mentioned your boss I thought of the E/N thread about somebody's boss making them awesome vegan salads every day, and trying to figure out how to politely ask them to not do that every day.
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passed this walking out the door. i give up. i give up.
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i made the dish guys fish that out, and they were all "oh yeah, that pot was in the back with some stuck on food in it so we, uh... were going to take it outside and scrape it out! yeah!" Which answers surprisingly few of the questions I had for them and raises a few more.
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Oct 9, 2015 05:38
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We just left that pot full of food there to chill. Was gonna dig it out! We swear!
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Oct 9, 2015 05:40
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Hey, when it's time to get down, are you just gonna stand there with a pot in your hands?
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Willie Tomg posted:i made the dish guys fish that out, and they were all "oh yeah, that pot was in the back with some stuck on food in it so we, uh... were going to take it outside and scrape it out! yeah!" The omni rules
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One of the kitchen guys somehow got an actual bit of jalapeno in his eye tonight. I poured him some milk to flush his eye with and watched him spend the next ten minutes trying to get it out before a manager offered to rub one on his other eye so he wouldn't notice the first one as much. A few weeks ago, in light of our upcoming Steritech visit, I suggested several important detail cleaning tasks I might be able to do if I were scheduled an open day that I could focus on it, because it's too time-intensive for one person to do on a normal shift while running their position. We finally did it yesterday, two days after our 87% Steritech inspection which included five criticals, one of which was a repeat from the previous inspection. JawKnee posted:don't want to order the half-portions? Enjoy your full dish, plus an empty plate on the side This is what we do, owners will not allow splits and I completely get it but it never ceases to amaze me how often people complain. If saving $15 isn't worth the thirty seconds it takes you to move your half of the dish to the provided empty plate, you can't be pleased and I look forward with rapturous joy to the moment you leave the building. Re: grats, we do 15% on 8+. Vorenus, would you like the 7 top that's here to watch the game that comes on in 30 minutes or the opportunity to be seated with multiple 2-4 person tables?  Willie Tomg posted:i made the dish guys fish that out, and they were all "oh yeah, that pot was in the back with some stuck on food in it so we, uh... were going to take it outside and scrape it out! yeah!" Vorenus fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Oct 9, 2015 |
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Willie Tomg posted:passed this walking out the door. i give up. i give up. Print that picture out and post it below the other signs.
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Oct 9, 2015 06:38
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as a human being you are only ever presented with two choices, give up or give in.
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Oct 9, 2015 06:52
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Print that picture out and post it below the other signs. Seconded.
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I'm cross posting this from the woodworking thread, if any Texas goon wants me to build one for them I will do it for costs plus cheap. My bar made from an 1890s piano
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Skinny King Pimp posted:Ahahaha, my husband and I do this all the time at this italian restaurant near our apartment but we never ask for them to be actually split and we drink a shitload of wine so I figure it works out. I'm sure you're a really nice person, but I hate you so much right now. Also on an unrelated note, what the hell kind of question is, "are we keeping you here?" its always that group who are chatting about nothing who have already paid hours ago. I swear if I ever put my two weeks in at this place I'm going to tell the first person who asks that "no not at all, I was heading out, if you get yourself any drinks just leave the cash on the bar and lock up on your way out! Have a great night"
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I work at a place that gives no fucks about that and it's nice. Once closing time rolls around we make it very obvious that you should leave. What's worse is that we get dicks who call for delivery 5-10 minutes before we close. Ugh.
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