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Dropped 72 freshly made mousse cakes on myself and the floor. The wheels on the trolley are all seized, save one.
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Dropped 72 freshly made mousse cakes on myself and the floor. The wheels on the trolley are all seized, save one.


Thanks to the trays and my colleagues, though, we were able to salvage most of the cakes! (The ones touching the ground were binned, the ones sandwiched between trays were saved).

by tessislurking

21 Comments

  2. _lilj

    Wow, honestly that’s probably one of the worst accidents I’ve heard of. That is a lot of time, energy, food…

  3. Nacho_7258

    That’s nightmare levels of a mess up. My condolences lol

  4. eurtoast

    sorry to see it OP.

    I saw a similar disaster unfold while I was dining. A cheesecake place during the holidays, some workers were loading up a box truck with a bunch of cheesecakes on a wire rack. The truck was equipped with a hydraulic lift to move the platform from the ground to the bed to prevent the need for a ramp. Well, the worker loading the rack onto the lift platform didn’t line the wheels up correctly and the rack fell with the cheesecakes and it proceeded to dump the whole load onto the street.

  5. weGloomy

    When I make a drastic mistake like this I just thank the gods that I don’t work in an industry where lives are at stake 😅

    At least you have a good team to help you salvage the situation.

  7. dannkherb

    RIP chef. At least it wasn’t 200° tomato bisque. Don’t ask how I know. Hope everything worked out, shit happens.

  9. greeneagle2022

    The wheels on the trolly go round and roun…. wait … nevermind.

  10. PhoonTFDB

    *Welp, I’ll go ahead and kill myself so you guys don’t have to kill me. Wouldn’t want to inconvenience you any further.*

    Would be my honest response

  11. Purple-Tumbleweed

    Omg you poor thing! Glad you were able to save most of them.

  13. Corvousier

    Oh man thats a fucking mess. I feel you.

    I was working as a banquet server in Banff at a fancy ass hotel. We were wheeling out a huge multilevel cart loaded with dishes to set all the tables, like im talking 5 feet tall by atleast 8 long. The same kind of thing happened, both front wheels seized up. The cart stopped moving but the dishes kept going. 100s of white porcelain plates and bowls quickly became 1000s of white porcelain shards.

    Of course we were rather over-worked and underappreciated so there wasnt any crying but there was a resounding cry of ‘OPA!!!!’ followed by piles of write-ups. For the celebration not the actual breaking of plates.

    To this day I still regret never learning the monetary value of that mistake, im sure it was epic.

  15. tenderlittlenipples

    All I see is hard work and time being wasted due to faulty equipment, I’ve been there Once lost two days worth of veg prep because a dip shit server put a faulty keg in my walk in ..

    Explosion of beer over night the clean up was unbearable..

    Give it a year you’ll look back and giggle …

  16. pupoksestra

    this brought tears to my eyes. I would have been devastated and very angry! at least it’s over now.

  18. The_Oliverse

    Ah being in a kitchen with a ton of prep around and hearing an, “Ah, Shit!” Followed by loud clanging noise.
    Never gets old.

    Last time it was a 10gallon pot full of tomato basil soup and that shit went everywhere. Idek how the guy got it on the ceiling.

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