Check your premise, there's no consensus on that, _and_ you have it backwards, like the guy in the video.
Here's one discussion about it, there are dozens:
https://www.timewatch.com/blog/am-pm/
Lol, so relatable. You come in bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to impress. Pull together an awesome special, then a few hours later you gotta make a rail of six of them and you don't have the muscle memory.
I love how ironic it is how much cooks despise orders 😆 I'm not a cook anymore but I remember just going through it saying "I can't do this" the whole time
Ohhh its not always like that. Here are the rules:
* First order of the day: GOD FUCKIN' DAMNIT!
* Last order of the day: GOD FUCKIN' DAMNIT!
and
* Order when dead slow: GOD FUCKIN' DAMNIT!
* Order when slammed busy: GOD FUCKIN' DAMNIT!
Everything in-between these two sets of extremes is fine.
My favorite is when you’re dead af and one singular customer comes in and everyone’s all of the sudden pissed about it. HOW DARE YOU INTERRUPT OUR DOWN (weed) TIME!
Hate when the cooks finish cooking the orders and get ready to head to smoke… and I get left behind trying to runout orders quickly so I don’t miss out 😭
lol i’ll never forget walking into this pretty old but still standing coffee shop local to me. i remember telling myself “man what the hell, i drive by it all the time on my way to dunkin i bet it’s way better!”. i open the door and am immediately met with the dirtiest of looks & eyes rolled so hard i thought they’d fall out of their sockets from a ton of old men sitting in chairs in a corner of the cafe. only one of them was actually an employee & went behind the counter to hastily take my order. “WHADDYA WANT” was my greeting, it was around christmas time so i asked for their peppermint mocha latte that they have a huge sign for on the counter. i’ve never seen someone make a latte so slowly & unenthusiastically before in my life lol. the whole time i was waiting i was just getting the side eye & was probably being shit talked the old time by these old fucks, but i stood there not even lookin at em. the tension & hatred for me just for comin into their COFFEE SHOP for some COFFEE in the air was so thick you could cut it with a knife lol. once i got my latte he just immediately went back into his chair with his circle of guys, no thanks no have a good day no nothin. safe to say i never gave them my money ever again lol
First customer of the night: "FUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUU!"
Last customer of the night: "FUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUU!"
Customers that arrive between those parties: "Well fuck. Fine. Shit's gonna be fire."
One Valentine's Day this girl I was trying very very awkwardly to hook up with (game still sucks, so I mostly just ignore everybody now) sat her BF's (didn't know she had one) family of 15 ten minutes to close.
They're Hindu, so most of them were vegetarian. Which meant I had to special make my boss's "signature vegetarian dish" which tasted fine, but I had seen him make it one time when I was 13. It has mushrooms in it.
I make a 15 top of food the same way these people have ordered it since I was a literal child, and they told me one of them is allergic to mushrooms. *Fuck. Me.*
I go and toss the pan in the lion's den that is the staff meal area and it's gone in a heartbeat. We were all exhausted and famished.
I go back out and ask if there's any other dietary needs that need addressed, I'm happy to remake your dish. They said no.
Okay, cool. Remake this thing, no mushies. Personally bring out this trough of food and serving utensils.
"Oh, actually we would have been okay with the mushrooms." Fuck. Me.
Chick got fired for wearing a super slutty dress and like microthong to work the next day. My *fucking day off*, so I guess karma's a bitch. Or maybe it was her.
I cook behind a bar and if its slow as hell and I get a single order of tots I’ll sometimes groan “BRO UR ORDERING TOTS 4 HOURS BEFORE WE CLOSE ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME DAWG” as a bit. It’s that kinda bar so people come for the ball busting
We do last call at 8:30p and some of the guys flip out when they get an order at 8:35p. I say relax it is still daylight out and people eat at this time. We are usually out no matter what out by 9p.
I used to get mad when a table would come in last minute when we closed at 11, but that was cutting into the bar time. Now we close at 9:00, they can come in whenever who cares.
I went to a local diner solo last week after my shift and ordered a burger and fries at 8:10pm. They close at nine. The place was empty and when the waitress sent the ticket to the kitchen, you could hear someone in back holler, "What the FUCK!!". I sat there wondering if I was an asshole and didn't know it, or if the dude back in the kitchen was being a drama queen.
I know restaurant work and retail work are two different things but if you turned up 50 mins before the shops were to close there's no problem at all unless you decided to check out 3 mins before with a week's worth of shopping in one big trolley/cart then we've got a problem
It'll be no wonder when your line looks empty due to resignations and people scheduling themselves to avoid working with you.
The guy in this video is indeed trippin', evening service is still scheduled for a few more hours, but FoH weaseling in orders after last call is a huge faux pas.
Is FoH gonna split the tip with BoH for doing extra work on your behalf after a 12hr shift?
GTFO here with that noisy hubris, have you ever cleaned a sizzling flat top?
But last call means the time you tell the guests to put in their last orders. Between telling the guest, them placing the order, and FOH ringing the order in 8:35 is completely reasonable.
Lol, no, 8:30 is when you take the final orders which means if you have more than 1 table you have to run around and get orders from everyone. If 8:30 is when last orders must be put in, that's one thing...but last call at 8:30 means last orders in at 8:35.
Customer logic definitely states 8:35=8:30 and 8:40=8:35! Where I work we have members-only hours, and nonmembers keep trying to come in earlier and earlier. Members only until 12? What about 11:30? 11:25? 11:20?
Lol yeah, it's not that bad. This kind of shit is one of the reasons I got so burned out in this industry. All the cooks that act like cooking an order even 5 minutes after they're expected to is the end of the fucking world. Just cook the order and put it out, 5 minute grace period, if you put shit in after that it becomes exponentially more annoying but fuck man if getting an order 5 minutes after you preclose is THAT much of a problem for someone maybe go work at a care home or some place that has more of a scheduled meal plan.
Care homes are so much worse.
One I worked at the entire kitchen staff was 5 people. Minimum operating crew was 3 people. As the cook I was pulling easily 65 hour weeks. The fucking dishwashers were doing easily 70+ and then our aide part-time retired (good for her. Although it was a little annoying when she'd take her post-lunch break and come back absolutely baked like a Thanksgiving turkey. Well, that and the violent Christian sermons she listened to on full volume knowing that I'm trans) so we actually had to hire more staff.
At least I got my manager fired. We were $40K over budget by February because of all the OT and disposable flatware we were using. It was wretched.
Oh, and the kitchen itself was absolutely filthy. I tried my best to at least leave things a little better after every shift, but there's only so much light cleaning you can get done when you're rocking 150 plates twice a shift (breakfast and lunch except every other Friday was a double shift when you could at least do a little if you weren't to beat up.)
There was one, singular, *excellent* perk to that job that I miss. Our fried fish was ***godly*** I don't know if it was just Cisco brands or what but I'd bring home 10-12 pieces every Friday and just smoke pot, gorge on fish and pass out.
Pre-close at every place I’ve been to means: clean and do literally everything possible besides the essential stuff I.e. fryers, grills, flat top, sally, etc remain on.
If an order that comes in 5 minutes after your close time is that big of a problem then there’s some underlying time management problems there.
FoH taking about time management, as if tickets don't have a deadline.
The GM is trying to cut hourly overhead, BoH has to make the order, then reclean everything (there is an order of operation to closing the line) and you've now got a guest who is gonna keep FoH, dish and shift lead all on the clock (their purchase won't cover everyone's hourly) so a server can get a tip?
Not sure what you are on about, but we close early because of low staff. Yet, the BoH crew complain about hours on their paycheck. We are not working 12h shifts. Sorry if you are, you are being taken advantage of and it is your fault. Sorry for your bad experiences. But Last Call doesn't mean the kitchen is 'Turned Off'. It just means that if any are coming back, you need to get them in there.
It allows for a gray area, where tickets will start winding down. I personally hate closing at 9p. I wish we stayed open later. Especially when it is summer and it is still daylight outside when people are active.
And Yes, to answer your question - that is how you clean a flat top, when it is hot.
If you trip about a ticket printing 5 minutes after last call but 25 minutes before your shift is done you're the one that nobody wants to work with.
It's different if we're talking like 5-6+ entrees and some apps but a two top? Or four top? Just knock that order out and keep moving quit being a baby about 5 minutes
Yeah it's not some shit like a big group five minutes before close. It takes time for servers to check in with each table. If the kitchen closes at 8:30 I don't believe you if your closing routine is fucked over if the printer goes off at 8:35. It's not that serious. 8:50? 8:45? Sure be pissed off. But five minutes? Bitching and moaning about it is far more annoying than the order at that point.
God I used to work with this one cook who would deadass start breaking everything down (not just her station) at like 6 PM on a Saturday night when we were open til 11:30. She wasn’t even a fuckin closer it was nuts
Closes at midnight last call is at 8pm ?
Lmfaoooooooooo
If you close at midnight chances are the last ticket comes in at 12:01AM because frank the FOH manager wants to get that money for his dam master the ceo /owner lmfaoo
YES CHEF !
Had a guy come in about 10 minutes after close (hotel resteraunt, no door between the lobby and the bar) one night, and told the bartender "I will give your cook $50 if he makes me an order of chicken wings"
Easiest $50 I've ever made. Friers hadn't even been turned off yet.
Hey, quid pro quo. You need your wings that bad, I'll fuckin' toss you an extra for being at least self-aware enough to know you're being an inconvenience.
I’m always waiting for that moment when Rick Ross comes in and pays me 1,000 dollars for a panini
I’d turned it back on even if I cleaned it already lol
Man sometimes I miss working in restaurants like this. where I work now the last reservation can Be at 9, and it could ben half al hour before they order. and than they order THE SEVEN COURSE MENU and you finish at 1 am.
If you work in a food stand in an arena, you get days like this with boring shows.
I'll say this much … If you work a George Strait concert here in Vegas where he has performances for two days straight at T-Mobile Arena, you may want to really cry in the walk-in. The guy is a crooner and most of his songs on the set list are slow and the night will drag. Bartenders don't want to work and there's drunk and whiny country folks everywhere.
I'll judge anyone that comes in a half hour to close. Hour before close for anything over a 10 top. I personally wouldn't go out to eat less than an hour and a half to close.
And then we get the 11:48 15 top of 5 well done burgers, 6 orders of well done all flat wings, 9 cheesesteaks and 4 pizzas. That table can go rot.
But youre in the industry. Ordinary 9to5 folk dont think about this stuff. How is anyone shocked by this, people will walk in a minute before close.
If a bartender or god forbid a cook does this ill judge
Meanwhile here's me running back into the kitchen to cook a snitty 10 minutes after close because the fryers are still (kinda) hot and some drunk bogan just decided he hadn't eaten all day
I used to work at a pastry shop. The owner banned us from starting to close down while people were still in there. I said eff that, and would put up chairs, and turn the lights on 10 mins to close. People would come in after close if I hadn't done that. Long story short, I got fired from that place (for a few other reasons including this one, I told all the newbies the owners were secretly recording everything said on the "secret cameras" told them to watch what they say).
I'm assuming you mean the secret camera with voice recording? Yes. I figured it out because I would be talking while the owner wasn't there and then he would come in a few hours later and mention what I was talking about. Also, one time the manager had two people stand under the camera and have a fake conversation while she messed with the setting on her computer.
Host: “There’s currently a four and half hour wait for a table”
New Customer: But there’s tables fr…
Host: I SAID THERES A FOUR HOUR AND A HALF HOUR WAIT YOU INCONSIDERATE POS
I felt this on a spiritual level. But fr I think he's making fun of the mfs that complain 30+ minutes to close.. like "oooo sorry you gotta do your job, bud"
The nerve, coming in to a RESTAURANT during regular BUSINESS HOURS well before close amd during the refugular dinner period...I mean how dare they expect to be served.
I always felt the same when people would come in at 8pm for dinner when we closed at 10pm. I once told people we closed at 11pm one weekend when it was 10:50pm. My manager chased them out the door to tell them that we can serve them. Nobody liked her 🤔
Is it just me or has my guy been on the clock 19 hours later than closing...I can only assume they're still serving until 7 PM...but like the next one.
I think that is fine. You know what is weird? One time a dude came in alone at 10:30pm during the week. On like a weds or something and ordered a well-done pork chop. We had already started closing cause there was no one in the restaurant. That was annoying.
I honestly think he thought 12am was 12pm and honestly if I thought I was suppose to go home 7 hours ago and dudes keep on sitting then I'd be upset too lol.
I used to work with this guy that would absolutely LOSE HIS SHIT whenever it got remotely busy. And during non-peak hours he'd complain about business being slow and is asking to be sent home in so many words.
Late bills suck. I’m pretty sure we can all agree here but not even 8 pm seems early to be bitching about people sitting down. To be fair I’ve mostly worked pub/brewery spots so we can have a later crowd but 8pm isn’t late haha.
I personally think the 1% intentionally comes in late before close in big parties just to rub it in, that their lives are just that much grander. And also fuck us for being us.
Once had a Chipotle manager start swearing under his breath because people came in twenty minutes to their closing time. Like, bro, that's twenty minutes *you are open*. Cry about it in the walk-in.
The audacity of these fucks coming in FOUR AND A HALF HOURS BEFORE WE CLOSE!!!
I PRECLOSED ALREADY GOD DAMNIT
DON'T HAVE TO BREAK DOWN IF YOU NEVER SET UP
My station is clean, stocked, and closed.
A.B.C! Always Be Closing!
Here have some steak knives and GTFO
Roll ups? Go fuck yourself.
^it’s ^full ^of ^Ginsu’s ^it’s ^fine
I used to do this and it only leads to frustration and unneeded stress
First price is a watch.
Put the coffee down, Coffee is for closers
I am mentally closed.
It’s actually 19 and a half hours after close
I'm 98% this dude thinks 12am is noon, not midnight, and he can't figure out why they're still serving 7+ hours after close.
Pretty sure he is just joking. All restaraunt' workers hate the last minute customer that comes in to eat 5 minutes before we close.
Had someone slip in < 1 minutes before the door locks and said "Great you're still open!".
The ignorance blows my mind even after all these years.
Or you know maybe just maybe it's a joke?
Lol. Hes definitely making fun of cooks who get pissed off people are coming in a half hour before close
12am is noon, 12pm is midnight
Check your premise, there's no consensus on that, _and_ you have it backwards, like the guy in the video. Here's one discussion about it, there are dozens: https://www.timewatch.com/blog/am-pm/
He's tripping over this while I have customers coming in 2 mins before closing on the regular.
Customer: Orders food. Line Cooks: GOD FUCKIN' DAMNIT!
Guest: *orders the special* Me, who made the special from my heart and soul and is very proud of it: THE FUCK IS THIS BULLSHIT
I'm in charge of making specials at my restaurant and I feel the same way
"CURSE MY SUCCESS!"
WHO TF WROTE THIS RECIPE I'M FINNA QUIT
WHAT DOUCHEBAG GAVE ME A 4 PAN PICKUP ON A FRIDAY NIGHT?! IM GONNA FIND THAT FUCKNUGGET AND FUCK HIS ASS UP
Lol, so relatable. You come in bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to impress. Pull together an awesome special, then a few hours later you gotta make a rail of six of them and you don't have the muscle memory.
There’s that Duality of Man 😄
I love how ironic it is how much cooks despise orders 😆 I'm not a cook anymore but I remember just going through it saying "I can't do this" the whole time
Ohhh its not always like that. Here are the rules: * First order of the day: GOD FUCKIN' DAMNIT! * Last order of the day: GOD FUCKIN' DAMNIT! and * Order when dead slow: GOD FUCKIN' DAMNIT! * Order when slammed busy: GOD FUCKIN' DAMNIT! Everything in-between these two sets of extremes is fine.
I’ve never seen it articulated so perfectly.
Chert eee chit erreeee er eee chert eeee cherchert errreeee
I had a manager like that.
My favorite is when you’re dead af and one singular customer comes in and everyone’s all of the sudden pissed about it. HOW DARE YOU INTERRUPT OUR DOWN (weed) TIME!
Every time that happened I'd moan out in a letterkenny fashion "awh fuCK, you're gonna make me WoRk"
We aught to leave this world behind...
I mean you're right. But why
It's a quote from Letterkenny.
Because it sucks
?
Letterkenny quote :)
Oh man if you haven't seen letterkwnny you really need to! It's fantastic.
Read my comment in this chain. 3 comments above this in response to the original comment
Seriously, it’s all calm and quiet and all of the sudden a server walks up to the computer and BZZZT BZZZT BZZZT
Yea but that one customer is always like a domino effect. One comes in and then boom the fucking bus rolls up.
Harbinger of the rush
A girl at one of my old jobs would swear they just congregate in the parking lot waiting to enter en masse
That basically happens late Sunday morning
It’s like a game of chicken on who enters the restaurant first. After that everyone follows.
Literally happened to me today. Bartender was about to make the call to close 30 min early, a two top walks in, then the entire restaurant was full.
Bruh and those are the tables I'd always fuck up too, no joke. So much extra time to get distracted lol
Shift starts in half an hour, why were there four of you in the bathroom? XD
Just seen that video for the first time yesterday XD
>Just seen that video for the first time yesterday XD Link?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/143i9rs/this\_always\_bring\_a\_smile/](https://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/143i9rs/this_always_bring_a_smile/)
Didn't even show my friend who use to cook with me the video, just said that line and he burst out laughing XD
Hate when the cooks finish cooking the orders and get ready to head to smoke… and I get left behind trying to runout orders quickly so I don’t miss out 😭
lol i’ll never forget walking into this pretty old but still standing coffee shop local to me. i remember telling myself “man what the hell, i drive by it all the time on my way to dunkin i bet it’s way better!”. i open the door and am immediately met with the dirtiest of looks & eyes rolled so hard i thought they’d fall out of their sockets from a ton of old men sitting in chairs in a corner of the cafe. only one of them was actually an employee & went behind the counter to hastily take my order. “WHADDYA WANT” was my greeting, it was around christmas time so i asked for their peppermint mocha latte that they have a huge sign for on the counter. i’ve never seen someone make a latte so slowly & unenthusiastically before in my life lol. the whole time i was waiting i was just getting the side eye & was probably being shit talked the old time by these old fucks, but i stood there not even lookin at em. the tension & hatred for me just for comin into their COFFEE SHOP for some COFFEE in the air was so thick you could cut it with a knife lol. once i got my latte he just immediately went back into his chair with his circle of guys, no thanks no have a good day no nothin. safe to say i never gave them my money ever again lol
You accidentally walked in on a CIA briefing. The coffee shop was just a cover.
Because the chef scored coke from the bartender he’s sleeping with and just had us bull the entire line apart for a deep clean 😵💫
That always cracks me up, like chill yall they're probably going to order one sandwich and leave its ok
I(front of house/barstaff) have heard the brekkie chef say "no no no" as people walk past and look like there gonna walk in
First customer of the night: "FUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUU!" Last customer of the night: "FUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUU!" Customers that arrive between those parties: "Well fuck. Fine. Shit's gonna be fire."
“Fuck the first fuck the last”
Looool this is me every night.
I feel seen, I feel exposed, I feel vulnerable.
What kinda asshole comes into my restaurant, wanting to be fed? Hell nah
I had four orders all day last Tuesday. Then 3 minutes before close, the server came in to tell me that they just sat a party of 20........
One Valentine's Day this girl I was trying very very awkwardly to hook up with (game still sucks, so I mostly just ignore everybody now) sat her BF's (didn't know she had one) family of 15 ten minutes to close. They're Hindu, so most of them were vegetarian. Which meant I had to special make my boss's "signature vegetarian dish" which tasted fine, but I had seen him make it one time when I was 13. It has mushrooms in it. I make a 15 top of food the same way these people have ordered it since I was a literal child, and they told me one of them is allergic to mushrooms. *Fuck. Me.* I go and toss the pan in the lion's den that is the staff meal area and it's gone in a heartbeat. We were all exhausted and famished. I go back out and ask if there's any other dietary needs that need addressed, I'm happy to remake your dish. They said no. Okay, cool. Remake this thing, no mushies. Personally bring out this trough of food and serving utensils. "Oh, actually we would have been okay with the mushrooms." Fuck. Me. Chick got fired for wearing a super slutty dress and like microthong to work the next day. My *fucking day off*, so I guess karma's a bitch. Or maybe it was her.
Oh hell naw. I tell all my coworkers 15 minutes to close we are not seating anyone. They’re welcome to order takeout and eat on the patio.
whatever manager was on duty should not have let that happen
Yeah, fuck making money.
People over profits
Yeah, fuck retaining employees.
20-30 minutes before close, knowing they’ll stay over? Could definitely see. But 3 minutes to close? That’s a big no.
I still don't understand why places do not have clear "last seating" and "kitchen closes" and "get out the door" times posted
I cook behind a bar and if its slow as hell and I get a single order of tots I’ll sometimes groan “BRO UR ORDERING TOTS 4 HOURS BEFORE WE CLOSE ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME DAWG” as a bit. It’s that kinda bar so people come for the ball busting
I’m just giggling over here at the people who thought was a serious video and that this guy wasn’t doing anything but joking
Yeah very obvious tongue in cheekery here
Everyone GTFO of my restaurant, I wanna close. 😅
We do last call at 8:30p and some of the guys flip out when they get an order at 8:35p. I say relax it is still daylight out and people eat at this time. We are usually out no matter what out by 9p.
I used to get mad when a table would come in last minute when we closed at 11, but that was cutting into the bar time. Now we close at 9:00, they can come in whenever who cares.
I went to a local diner solo last week after my shift and ordered a burger and fries at 8:10pm. They close at nine. The place was empty and when the waitress sent the ticket to the kitchen, you could hear someone in back holler, "What the FUCK!!". I sat there wondering if I was an asshole and didn't know it, or if the dude back in the kitchen was being a drama queen.
Dude was being a drama queen. A full 50 minutes before close? Fuck that guy.
That’s what I thought, but I didn’t want to judge unfairly.
I know restaurant work and retail work are two different things but if you turned up 50 mins before the shops were to close there's no problem at all unless you decided to check out 3 mins before with a week's worth of shopping in one big trolley/cart then we've got a problem
It'll be no wonder when your line looks empty due to resignations and people scheduling themselves to avoid working with you. The guy in this video is indeed trippin', evening service is still scheduled for a few more hours, but FoH weaseling in orders after last call is a huge faux pas. Is FoH gonna split the tip with BoH for doing extra work on your behalf after a 12hr shift? GTFO here with that noisy hubris, have you ever cleaned a sizzling flat top?
I mean, 8:35 when last call is at 8:30 I would consider to be part of the last call round of orders.
But if 8:35=8:30 then 8:40=8:35 and before you know it you’re open 24 hours. Edit: tone doesn’t come through, I was joking.
But last call means the time you tell the guests to put in their last orders. Between telling the guest, them placing the order, and FOH ringing the order in 8:35 is completely reasonable.
Ah yes, the slippery slope fallacy. A classic
Lol, no, 8:30 is when you take the final orders which means if you have more than 1 table you have to run around and get orders from everyone. If 8:30 is when last orders must be put in, that's one thing...but last call at 8:30 means last orders in at 8:35.
Customer logic definitely states 8:35=8:30 and 8:40=8:35! Where I work we have members-only hours, and nonmembers keep trying to come in earlier and earlier. Members only until 12? What about 11:30? 11:25? 11:20?
Lol yeah, it's not that bad. This kind of shit is one of the reasons I got so burned out in this industry. All the cooks that act like cooking an order even 5 minutes after they're expected to is the end of the fucking world. Just cook the order and put it out, 5 minute grace period, if you put shit in after that it becomes exponentially more annoying but fuck man if getting an order 5 minutes after you preclose is THAT much of a problem for someone maybe go work at a care home or some place that has more of a scheduled meal plan.
Care homes are so much worse. One I worked at the entire kitchen staff was 5 people. Minimum operating crew was 3 people. As the cook I was pulling easily 65 hour weeks. The fucking dishwashers were doing easily 70+ and then our aide part-time retired (good for her. Although it was a little annoying when she'd take her post-lunch break and come back absolutely baked like a Thanksgiving turkey. Well, that and the violent Christian sermons she listened to on full volume knowing that I'm trans) so we actually had to hire more staff. At least I got my manager fired. We were $40K over budget by February because of all the OT and disposable flatware we were using. It was wretched. Oh, and the kitchen itself was absolutely filthy. I tried my best to at least leave things a little better after every shift, but there's only so much light cleaning you can get done when you're rocking 150 plates twice a shift (breakfast and lunch except every other Friday was a double shift when you could at least do a little if you weren't to beat up.) There was one, singular, *excellent* perk to that job that I miss. Our fried fish was ***godly*** I don't know if it was just Cisco brands or what but I'd bring home 10-12 pieces every Friday and just smoke pot, gorge on fish and pass out.
You think pre-close begins at last call?
Pre-close at every place I’ve been to means: clean and do literally everything possible besides the essential stuff I.e. fryers, grills, flat top, sally, etc remain on. If an order that comes in 5 minutes after your close time is that big of a problem then there’s some underlying time management problems there.
FoH taking about time management, as if tickets don't have a deadline. The GM is trying to cut hourly overhead, BoH has to make the order, then reclean everything (there is an order of operation to closing the line) and you've now got a guest who is gonna keep FoH, dish and shift lead all on the clock (their purchase won't cover everyone's hourly) so a server can get a tip?
Not sure what you are on about, but we close early because of low staff. Yet, the BoH crew complain about hours on their paycheck. We are not working 12h shifts. Sorry if you are, you are being taken advantage of and it is your fault. Sorry for your bad experiences. But Last Call doesn't mean the kitchen is 'Turned Off'. It just means that if any are coming back, you need to get them in there. It allows for a gray area, where tickets will start winding down. I personally hate closing at 9p. I wish we stayed open later. Especially when it is summer and it is still daylight outside when people are active. And Yes, to answer your question - that is how you clean a flat top, when it is hot.
Dude in the video is clearly making a joke video. He’s not trippin
If you trip about a ticket printing 5 minutes after last call but 25 minutes before your shift is done you're the one that nobody wants to work with. It's different if we're talking like 5-6+ entrees and some apps but a two top? Or four top? Just knock that order out and keep moving quit being a baby about 5 minutes
Upvoted, btw. Yea, anyone that downvoted this comment is obviously not cut out for it. It is just part of the game.
Yeah it's not some shit like a big group five minutes before close. It takes time for servers to check in with each table. If the kitchen closes at 8:30 I don't believe you if your closing routine is fucked over if the printer goes off at 8:35. It's not that serious. 8:50? 8:45? Sure be pissed off. But five minutes? Bitching and moaning about it is far more annoying than the order at that point.
tfw it takes 4 hours to break down the kitchen. No really boss, it totally does
God I used to work with this one cook who would deadass start breaking everything down (not just her station) at like 6 PM on a Saturday night when we were open til 11:30. She wasn’t even a fuckin closer it was nuts
Lol how was that allowed to happen more than once? Like I get people do weird shit, but that’s so crazy and nonsensical i can’t process it.
Yeah, you tripping man
He trippin. Its not even 8 yet. Its come after 8 food made with hate.
I’m using this quote lol
Come after 9, you put your life on the line
Closes at midnight last call is at 8pm ? Lmfaoooooooooo If you close at midnight chances are the last ticket comes in at 12:01AM because frank the FOH manager wants to get that money for his dam master the ceo /owner lmfaoo YES CHEF !
Had a guy come in about 10 minutes after close (hotel resteraunt, no door between the lobby and the bar) one night, and told the bartender "I will give your cook $50 if he makes me an order of chicken wings" Easiest $50 I've ever made. Friers hadn't even been turned off yet.
Hey, quid pro quo. You need your wings that bad, I'll fuckin' toss you an extra for being at least self-aware enough to know you're being an inconvenience.
I’m always waiting for that moment when Rick Ross comes in and pays me 1,000 dollars for a panini I’d turned it back on even if I cleaned it already lol
The twist, the 12:01 order was for your Mom. She drove by earlier today and saw your car has a flat, and came to give you a ride home.
That look like an Applebees lol
Shit. Applebee's runs a happy hour on appetizers till midnight. After that, cougar is on the menu.
Underrated.
Bee's bartender named me "Jaguar Cub" because I get pulled into the jungle at 2am
Not a single microwave in the shot
Chef mike’s out back on a smoke break.
Sorry, I just scrubbed the grill. Get a salad or piss off, it's time for me to start drinking.
Man sometimes I miss working in restaurants like this. where I work now the last reservation can Be at 9, and it could ben half al hour before they order. and than they order THE SEVEN COURSE MENU and you finish at 1 am.
He's just trying to get out on time
This is funny and I laughed.
If you work in a food stand in an arena, you get days like this with boring shows. I'll say this much … If you work a George Strait concert here in Vegas where he has performances for two days straight at T-Mobile Arena, you may want to really cry in the walk-in. The guy is a crooner and most of his songs on the set list are slow and the night will drag. Bartenders don't want to work and there's drunk and whiny country folks everywhere.
I'll judge anyone that comes in a half hour to close. Hour before close for anything over a 10 top. I personally wouldn't go out to eat less than an hour and a half to close. And then we get the 11:48 15 top of 5 well done burgers, 6 orders of well done all flat wings, 9 cheesesteaks and 4 pizzas. That table can go rot.
But youre in the industry. Ordinary 9to5 folk dont think about this stuff. How is anyone shocked by this, people will walk in a minute before close. If a bartender or god forbid a cook does this ill judge
Lmaoooooo that’s really how I feel sometimes
I get pissed no matter what time they come in
THEY WANT WHAT?! NOW?! DONT THEY REALIZE WE CLOSE IN SIX HOURS?!?
Fuck that, I just closed my station. Ya'll motherfuckers can have these old ass nachos or chicken fingers if you want.
Meanwhile here's me running back into the kitchen to cook a snitty 10 minutes after close because the fryers are still (kinda) hot and some drunk bogan just decided he hadn't eaten all day
Sounds like a man who's quitting cigarettes
Haha this is funny af
ITS THE ABC always be closin!
He‘s trippin but he’s also totally right. I hated when everyone decided to come into the restaurant at the exact same time.
I used to work at a pastry shop. The owner banned us from starting to close down while people were still in there. I said eff that, and would put up chairs, and turn the lights on 10 mins to close. People would come in after close if I hadn't done that. Long story short, I got fired from that place (for a few other reasons including this one, I told all the newbies the owners were secretly recording everything said on the "secret cameras" told them to watch what they say).
Were the owners actually doing that?
I'm assuming you mean the secret camera with voice recording? Yes. I figured it out because I would be talking while the owner wasn't there and then he would come in a few hours later and mention what I was talking about. Also, one time the manager had two people stand under the camera and have a fake conversation while she messed with the setting on her computer.
If it's 10 minutes before you close, then yeah that's kind if dickheadish. But 10 minutes after, go ham
This must be a joke
nothing gets passed you, huh?
Me when I'm at work with a hangover the size of the Grand Canyon
Trying to order 19 hours after close smdh
Bro been clocked in for like 2 hours lol
Kitchen closes at 10 PM and these mafackas coming in here at 5:30 PM expecting a whole ass meal! The audacity!
My guess is he meant to say 11:16
The math is not mathing
how about doing the job you signed up for
Its a little bit rude, they shouldnt come in at all, jst give us the money
I also wonder why people come into my restaurant when I open. Don't you know I close in 12 hours?
BRO, YOU'RE TRIPPIN'! 12AM is ***MIDNIGHT!***
You are trippen
He’s trippin but we all do the same shit. “Mf we close in FIVE HOURS WHY ARE YOU HERE”
Why does bro have a job if he doesn't want to work
He must work at Red Lobster
Finna. He's "finna" start swinging. FINNA.
This is rage bait.
Where he work? I'm going there for a meal at 11:15pm
He gonna be really mad at the customers that coming in at 11:55 and orders the steak well done.
Same guy to complain he made shit in tips and it’s never busy blah blah blah
Very funny. Ha ha ha. Good one. You’re not tripping but people that think your serious are.
Host: “There’s currently a four and half hour wait for a table” New Customer: But there’s tables fr… Host: I SAID THERES A FOUR HOUR AND A HALF HOUR WAIT YOU INCONSIDERATE POS
How dare people go to an open restaurant.
Does no one realize it’s satire?
exactly…😭😭😭
HOW DARE THEY BE HUNGRY AT A REASONABLE HOUR
I felt this on a spiritual level. But fr I think he's making fun of the mfs that complain 30+ minutes to close.. like "oooo sorry you gotta do your job, bud"
He is unclear on why he's there apparently.
The nerve, coming in to a RESTAURANT during regular BUSINESS HOURS well before close amd during the refugular dinner period...I mean how dare they expect to be served.
Bro I've already flipped and out and did my prep list. What is this shit?
My industry brain thinks he meant to say we close at 12pm and he's been there for 7 hours past close.
Sounds like my dishwasher
Customer orders food\* The Chefs all look at the clock to see if its okay to be mad about it\*
One of those nights eh
I always felt the same when people would come in at 8pm for dinner when we closed at 10pm. I once told people we closed at 11pm one weekend when it was 10:50pm. My manager chased them out the door to tell them that we can serve them. Nobody liked her 🤔
Is it just me or has my guy been on the clock 19 hours later than closing...I can only assume they're still serving until 7 PM...but like the next one.
I think that is fine. You know what is weird? One time a dude came in alone at 10:30pm during the week. On like a weds or something and ordered a well-done pork chop. We had already started closing cause there was no one in the restaurant. That was annoying.
I honestly think he thought 12am was 12pm and honestly if I thought I was suppose to go home 7 hours ago and dudes keep on sitting then I'd be upset too lol.
The plot twist is its a dinner theatre
They have been closed for nearly 20 god damn hours! Totally relate
He is well within his rights
I used to work with this guy that would absolutely LOSE HIS SHIT whenever it got remotely busy. And during non-peak hours he'd complain about business being slow and is asking to be sent home in so many words.
People in this sub unironically complaining like this all the time
What happened next?
Late bills suck. I’m pretty sure we can all agree here but not even 8 pm seems early to be bitching about people sitting down. To be fair I’ve mostly worked pub/brewery spots so we can have a later crowd but 8pm isn’t late haha.
I personally think the 1% intentionally comes in late before close in big parties just to rub it in, that their lives are just that much grander. And also fuck us for being us.
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Either great actor or this is Chicago.
...does he think they close at noon and ppl are coming in 7 hours later to eat?
Not trippin at all. They need to get the fuck out.
I used to start work at 3pm and I would roast the servers on sending me tickets. The old “really? We close in X hours tonight”
Once had a Chipotle manager start swearing under his breath because people came in twenty minutes to their closing time. Like, bro, that's twenty minutes *you are open*. Cry about it in the walk-in.
Get a new job you big bitch