You don’t need to watch every season of Kitchen Nightmares to realize that having a job where you cook professionally is not for the faint of heart. The hours, the heat, and the endless list of things that could go wrong are enough to stretch anybody to their mental limit. Unfortunately, it is the kind …
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Employee Gets Fired For Refusing to Work When He Wasn’t Scheduled
One of the best parts about being a salaried employee is that you don’t get called in for random shifts on the weekend. At least I don’t, but y’all stay safe out there. There’s nothing worse than preparing for a nice long day of doing nothing, and receiving a doomed call from your manager asking …
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Former Restaurant Worker Reveals Secrets of the Industry
Restaurants are renowned for their stark difference between their customer-facing façade and the reality of behind the scenes. No one knows this better than the people that work in them, and while some of us patrons like to think we’re clued up on the process, it always helps to have a reminder of how these …
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Crazy Boss Makes Employees Sign an NDA Saying They Can’t Speak About Their Job For 25 Years
One of life’s greatest pleasures is being able to complain about a job you hate. If I wasn’t able to tell my close friends and family about the annoying customers and often more annoying coworkers at my customer service jobs, then I don’t know how I would be able to survive. Even when things weren’t …
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Male Karen Blows Up at Son-In Law For Tipping at a Restaurant
Anyone who has worked as a waiter knows that people who don’t tip are the worst. In the United States, many waiters only get paid $2 hourly and, therefore, only survive on tips. Some restaurants don’t even pay their servers an hourly wage. This is basically common knowledge at this point, so for most people, …
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James Corden Exposed As a Karen By Restaurateur Keith McNally
English entertainer James Corden is an easy target. His entire presence, to some, can only be defined as «cringe.» The singing, the bumbling about, the Top 40 squeals and that godawful ‘Carpool Karaoke,‘ in which he seems to want to make everything about him. His presence, to us, is grating, but we’ve never heard of …
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Restaurant Worker Memes For Servers & Back of House Alike
If you’re an Anthony Bourdain fan, or have worked service, you may have seen this quote pop up during your internet travels: ‘You can always tell when a person has worked in a restaurant. There’s an empathy that can only be cultivated by those who’ve stood between a hungry mouth and a $28 pork chop, …
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An Infuriating Collection Of Times Restaurants Used Anything But Plates
It’s a tale as old as gentrification: when you rock up to a restaurant with a certain kind of… ambience, you don’t expect your meal to be served up on a traditional kind of crockery. It’s hard to put a finger on when it became the standard for chefs to experiment with what they choose …
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Luxury Diner Prompts Controversy by Showing off Gross Food at Michelin Starred Restaurant
Gastronomy has come a long way since we figured out that grinding up grain and cooking it produces something pretty tasty. While some of us have never evolved our tastebuds past the basics (hello, chicken tender devotees), there is a whole genre of food that seems devoted to pushing the concept of edibility to its …
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Restaurant Worker Memes For Broke Line Cooks and Servers Who Have to Deal With Karens
Working at a restaurant is kind of bad for your health. I’ve seen both front of house and back of house people succumb to alcoholism, drug addiction, burnout and dark depression. I’ve experienced some of these ails as well. Unfortunately, working a high-paced and high-stress job kind of goes along with those pitfalls. But for …
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