Assorted things you might hear from the kitchen staff where I work:
- "Order’s up! Move your ass!" -the stoned one
- "Okay, Mommy." -the salad guy
- "I’m not gay, I’m an actress!" -the grill guy
- "BritStone, you’re looking beautiful today." -the chef
- "Doo Doo on the Walls" -it’s a song
- "I’ve got a see server." -various waitstaff
- "We need hot bread in yesterday." -the food runner
- "Daniel, where are you from?" "Tuskegee." -he is from St. Thomas
- "All servers out of the kitchen!" -the hungover sous chef
- "I believe that I might be part wolf." -he’s not gay, he’s an actress
- any number of renditions of popular songs with the lyrics changed to suggest that entire cook crew are repressed homosexuals
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You have way too much fun at work.
Sounds like a fun group.
Having co-workers to joke with or make jokes makes the work experience much nicer.
I, on the other hand, work alone and must live vicariously through you.
Yup. Sounds like the kitchen I remember…
Especially the see servers. When those started to roll in in abundance - usually for some trivial thing neither the cooks nor runner needed to know - an occasional hot plate would follow. They’d usually taper off after that…along with the first few layers of skin on the offender’s hand.
Then we’d all join in a merry chorus of the doo doo on the wall song — only the theme song would change from month to month. It started out as “Don’t Bring Me Down,” gradumutated into “It’s gittin hot in hyere” and eventually slipped into nothingness when the job became completely hellacious.
And don’t even get me started bout the pancakes.
I’ll have you know I think long and hard before I press that see server button. You should see some of the creative ticket ringing I’ve done to avoid the see server button.
I live in Nashville and really enjoy your blog. Today’s New York Times has a story about a website for people in restaurant industry called http://www.stainedapron.com. The revenge section is great.
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