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Nah, BOH should be paid a living wage and benefits by the owners and not have their lovely wages floated by a pittance from their coworkers who in turn received a pittance from customers. Also, in the original post it sounded as though they were mad that the KITCHEN was getting 2% on food sales not that a servers total tip out was 2% on sales. But yeah I’d file a DoL complaint the second someone told me I was supposed to be asking a server to tip a BOH person, but I don’t floor manage any more.
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MAKE NO BABBYS posted:Nah, BOH should be paid a living wage and benefits by the owners and not have their lovely wages floated by a pittance from their coworkers who in turn received a pittance from customers. That poster is in Canada. The laws and customs are different.
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Resting Lich Face posted:Oh god there's nothing worse to hear when working foodservice than "the computer is down". Giving me flashbacks. Euuugh. Treat yourself with some better than usual after work booze. One day our computer went down. Except since I work in a casino with very very strict money handling procedures... we just stopped serving. I insisted on getting to be the one who stood up front and told customers we were unable to take their orders. I was super polite and apologetic but inside I was giddy because I actually got to tell customers "no".
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Shooting Blanks posted:That poster is in Canada. The laws and customs are different. ^ Tipping out the kitchen in Canada is normal and happened in literally every joint I worked at
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Resting Lich Face posted:Oh god there's nothing worse to hear when working foodservice than "the computer is down". Giving me flashbacks. Euuugh. Treat yourself with some better than usual after work booze. Oh I did, apple cider with whiskey. I deserved it after an 8 day stretch.
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bare bottom pancakes posted:Thanks for the anxiety attack, I'm going to send this to all my work friends There's a guy at my latest gig who practically throws a tantrum if we get a ticket in late at night. Not a "5 minutes before we close" ticket, those we all bitch about... like, he'll flip his poo poo if a ticket comes in 2 hours before close. Stomps his feet, loudly yells "oh gently caress off, go eat somewhere else" within potential earshot of the customers, sometimes throws things. The worst part is it's probably not even for his station, 9/10 times it's for me (bar food, we're famous for wings, and I'm the Queen of Fry-landia). So he acts like a loving toddler for absolutely no reason and it's driving me nuts. I'm sorely tempted to gaslight the gently caress out of this guy tonight by playing this on my phone. "Dude, why are you getting so upset? See, there's no ticket..." Speaking of this new gig, hooooo boy do I have some stories for y'all when I have more time. Maybe the OSHA thread, too. Maybe I've been spoiled by nicer kitchens, maybe it's my old habits from working dish for the Army, but it's by far the most filthy, unsafe, code-violatin' kitchen I've ever been in.
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Ghostnuke posted:Brewing is cool, but people don't realize that it's like 95% janitorial work. This is true. I still like it though.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I'm sorely tempted to gaslight the gently caress out of this guy tonight by playing this on my phone. "Dude, why are you getting so upset? See, there's no ticket..." Haha yes do it
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JacquelineDempsey posted:There's a guy at my latest gig who practically throws a tantrum if we get a ticket in late at night. Not a "5 minutes before we close" ticket, those we all bitch about... like, he'll flip his poo poo if a ticket comes in 2 hours before close. Stomps his feet, loudly yells "oh gently caress off, go eat somewhere else" within potential earshot of the customers, sometimes throws things. The worst part is it's probably not even for his station, 9/10 times it's for me (bar food, we're famous for wings, and I'm the Queen of Fry-landia). So he acts like a loving toddler for absolutely no reason and it's driving me nuts. Just link us to the posts or cross post em here then. Because I'm hella curious.
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Resting Lich Face posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TmDCK-B4Q Science WHORE posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWPz0XQrpjU Either my brain has found a way to cancel out the sound or for some merciful reason, there was no audio on either of these. I was watching another YT video at the time with no issue. Hyperlynx posted:Is this better? And yet, this one worked no problem. I also found £20 on the way home. I'm not used to this.
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I have some fun Chinese restaurant stories from the year and a half I worked for a crazy person but it'd have to wait for not phone posting Any of y'all in Central Texas? Remember that storm Tuesday evening? Yeah, our roof fell off (photo from the news story)  probably doxxing where I work but goddamn it was an adventure, there were only three of us plus the new AGM working at the time, so the convenience store people had to come tell us to evacuate. The girl frying the c-store taquitos in my fryer ran off and came back going HOLY poo poo GUYS went and smoked weed after that instead of being at work, pretty good night overall
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TheKennedys posted:Yeah, our roof fell off That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
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That's insane! Presume you work at the fast food place so you prob had people coming up like "why the gently caress are you closed?"
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Resting Lich Face posted:That's insane! We've got a Popeyes, Subway and the corporate-owned restaurant (Country Pride here but it varies, we also own Quaker Steak) in that building, plus the c-store, I work at the restaurant. We had like ten tables and two orders up when it happened, one server, the brand new AGM, the night prep cook and me (line cook) there was a crowd of customers gawping at the damage out front when we were leaving, like 20 feet from the roof on the sidewalk TheKennedys fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Oct 17, 2019 |
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Manuel Calavera posted:Just link us to the posts or cross post em here then. Because I'm hella curious. Weh-hellll, I was gonna start with the simple stuff like the German cockroaches and keeping our cold foods in those Sterilite shoeboxes you get at the dollar store instead of actual NSF cambros, but let's just skip to tonight, where I got to walk through 2 inches of sewage water backing up thru the kitchen floor drain every time I went to the walk in! It started flooding in the kitchen about 8:30. First it was grey water, presumably from the dishwasher. Then they started trying to clear the drain with a shopvac, and the water turned brown and with definite shredded toilet paper in the mix. "Golly, JD, when did you finally close?" Not before I left, dear reader, oh no, we couldn't possibly take a hit on sales by closing early on a Friday night. Did I mention that the ladies bathroom was also flooding with poo poo water, and was out of order from about 8pm on? I think I managed to skip the line on being cut when I loudly asked "so am I just supposed to piss outside next the dumpster, or hold it in until I get a UTI?" (I used the men's room bc I really give zero fucks about that, but my point stands.) Manuel, babe, that apple cider with whiskey sounds really good right now. Kennedys, glad you're safe! And I think I've mentioned it before but I love your AV/text. (Also, pls send one of those storms up here to VA so I can be lead from this godforsaken job and still get unemployment)
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 to having your roof collapse during business hours. Utter insanity. Can I assume no one was hurt, at least? I'd think you would mention that.- to having sewer water pumping into your restrooms, walk-in and kitchen and not shutting the place down. What the absolute gently caress.
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So chef hasn't put out next week's schedule yet. Our week starts Sunday, it is late Friday night. I wanna know if I can go to a rave tomorrow or not god drat it!
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I opened a place once that had sewer water pump into the restrooms on like the 3rd day after opening. We moved people from the inside to the patio when possible, we comped/voided anyone who wanted to bail, no worries. It was an issue with city plumbing, but whatever, the guests were the priority, so we did what we could. I will never forget the one couple that decided not only to stay, but to eat inside while the women's toilets were overflowing. I have no clue what they were thinking but goddamn, that's some dedication.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Manuel, babe, that apple cider with whiskey sounds really good right now. regular or 'Red Hots' moonshine? I got both. The rest of that story, indeed.
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TVsVeryOwn posted:So chef hasn't put out next week's schedule yet. Our week starts Sunday, it is late Friday night. I wanna know if I can go to a rave tomorrow or not god drat it! Of course you can go, the only question is how much would you like to suffer on Sunday?
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I used to work at one of the oldest brewpubs in the city as a busser. In like summer of 2012 there was a massive torrential downpour. The bar was in the basement of a heritage building near the waterfront. I worked the day shift that day so I managed to escape this, but apparently there were like six inches of water everywhere; they stayed open all night and servers were walking around with plastic bags on their feet. The owners brought in some bags of millet to pour down to absorb the water. We had to replace some of the carpeting (yes, the whole place was carpeted and smelled like a sewer for weeks afterwards). My last kitchen job in a well-established board game cafe was the jankiest poo poo ever though. The kitchen had no hood vents so everything was electrical. We're talking some really lovely induction hot plates (that would make an annoying high-pitched sound when turned all the way up) and a few panini presses that really took a beating over the years. But the piece de resistance was when they brought in this awful electric range to replace the convection oven that finally kicked the bucket. It was designed to plug into a 100-amp outlet; our 'handyman' (a French expat and friend of the owner, and total moron, who was definitely working illegally in the country) rigged it to one of your typical 60-amp plugs for a washer/dryer. This caused numerous brownouts, melted the plug to the wall outlet - when we called a real electrician he touched the plug and said "I'm not working on this until you cut the fuse" because it was hot to the touch - and actually started a small fire in the fusebox downstairs. Oh yeah, and the other kitchen, the one in the new venue they purchased, which I helped set up and open, well that was a proper kitchen with hood vents. Only thing was, it was built into another heritage building and there was no space allotted outside for the exchangers, so they had to be built inside the kitchen, suspended from the ceiling. This meant that I (a 5'11" man) had to duck to get on the line. Other cooks transferred or quit because they were literally too tall to work there. And to top it off, we'd been cooking there for about a month when the fire marshal showed up for a test of our suppression system. About twenty minutes before he came by, our handyman came in... to install the cylinder for the system. It was just an empty box; we'd been cooking with no fire extinguishers for a month. When I confronted him about it, he said "heheh yeah but ya got paid rite?" I was very close to spilling the beans to the fire marshal right there. Thank God I'm out of those places. Coincidentally though, last night at my current job (an arcade bar that I bus and work the door at, which I actually quite enjoy) we had a blackout. It wasn't us, the power went out all down the street. We kicked everyone out, did as much of the close as we could by phonelight, and right as I was about to leave the power came back on. Lol.
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bare bottom pancakes posted:
No injuries, thankfully.  It more "fell off" than "collapsed" so there was no interior damage besides some minor leaks.
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LOL an old lady called me worse than Trump because I directed her friend to the drinks after mishearing her asking about trays. Wanted to talk to the manager and everything. I never got to interact with a whiny old person in my career before but I can't help but like her because she hates Trump. Edit: She came back today to complain about me to anyone she could find working in the cafeteria. Apparently she really hates me. We all had a good laugh. Still like her. Republicans fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Oct 23, 2019 |
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I guess this is the best place to post this. This is my fiance’s rough draft of the logo of the pop-up bar we’re working on, Edgewood Union Lodge. As you may have already gathered, we’re focused on advocating for service industry rights. The ethos is cheap sherry cocktails, unpretentious industry camaraderie, and labor rights advocacy. We’ll be bringing in representatives from local labor unions to educate on what unions can do for you, how to strike, things like that. The cocktail menu is sherry-driven because it’s cheap and friendly. We’ll be serving an Admiral Russell’s Punch, entirely because of Kenning’s presence in the cocktail thread. I absolutely have this thread to thank for inspiring me. Hospitality is increasingly important in helping both ourselves and each other cope with the world around us, and the people who do it for a living deserve more than they get. I hope to do some small part in evening the odds for us industry weirdos. Thanks for being you, Something Awful Restaurant Industry Thread.
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This probly belongs here too:Sandwich Anarchist posted:Quick shoutout to my bar manager who thinks that kahlua, cognac and heavy cream makes a $14 cocktail, and that a mai tai has Captain Morgan, Dissarono, and no orgeat.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:This probly belongs here too: this hurts me. prayer group posted:I guess this is the best place to post this. This is awesome. I hope it works out for you.
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prayer group posted:I guess this is the best place to post this. Let us know how it goes!
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My first restaurant gig is starting to turn to poo poo, last three paychecks bounced from friday til monday, chef left, significant slowdown in business in general. Owner and General Manager are insisting everything is fine, but this thread has me too paranoid to believe them. I've only been there for about 6-7 months, just doing backwait shifts. I'm 28 so it's a little unusual to be joining the industry now but I like the work in general. My biggest problem is there just aren't enough hours, I used to get 20+ hours a week whereas now I might be averaging like 13 hours per week and obviously that's not enough. I'm in pretty terrible financial situation now (like income = $1,000 a month or less) so can't afford to wait, need to act now. BUT, the one big thing, is I might be able to train as a bartender really soon -- like, starting in the next week or two -- and in that case, it seems worth it to stick it out here for a few more months so I can "be a bartender" and then try to bartend elsewhere? Bartenders make SO MUCH MORE than backwaits and door guys and all the kinds of gigs I'd otherwise be "qualified" for. I'm thinking about trying to get a second job but not quit the first one yet, just hedge my bets a little. Maybe an easy morning gig at a coffeeshop or something, then try to get bartending experience and somehow parlay that into serving/bartending full time somewhere. Anybody have advice? Am I crazy, or sounding reasonable?
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Make sure you have all the money you're owed, then quit. I wouldn't even give notice because you aren't going to get paid for any hours you work after you tell them you quit.
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wlokos posted:My first restaurant gig is starting to turn to poo poo, last three paychecks bounced from friday til monday, chef left, significant slowdown in business in general. If checks are bouncing they’re training you in (or making promises of) bartending to get a few extra weeks of work out of you before you leave in frustration. They can’t afford a proper carrot so they’re just milking you with empty promises. My gut says that even if you do end up pouring drinks the checks will still bounce, and when you complain and/or leave they probably won’t give you a reference. I’d recommend getting in touch with the previous chef, ask him for a reference, and use that to try and parlay a job elsewhere. Even if you don’t quit right now you need to sort that and start searching for something else now.
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do not in any circumstances agree to start bartending prior to being backpaid
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OK heard, I'm gonna start looking for a new job tomorrow.
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wlokos posted:My first restaurant gig is starting to turn to poo poo, last three paychecks bounced from friday til monday, chef left, significant slowdown in business in general. Bounce. I had one rule in the industry that I considered ironclad. If pay bounced, so did I, because at that point I am no longer an employee, I'm a volunteer.
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Liquid Communism posted:Bounce. I would give one pass if I felt it was something out of their control, but if I didnt get paid within a week, gone. Pay bounced twice, gone.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:I would give one pass if I felt it was something out of their control, but if I didnt get paid within a week, gone. Pay bounced twice, gone. 'm interested in what your definition of "out of their control" is, because about all I can think of is the owner banking with a local credit union that gets all their infrastructure wiped out in a natural disaster or something.
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