My spot for the night… Just gonna sleep in the clothes I worked 13 hours in and get back up in 4 hours to do it all again.
by THERES_NOTHING_LEFT
46 Comments
sloth08beach
I have slept at 3 kitchens. None were comfy but I always used a bag of towels as a pillow.
Redyellowredred
You’ve never really worked at a place until you’ve slept there.
oldmonkforeva
Bro got his chemistry lab right behind him…. He’s cooking
LovingRaccoon420
Get an Xbox up in there you gonna be set
Most_Zebra3551
Props to you for having a space that is so clean and organized you can sleep on the floor. Was flipping through shows this evening and came across Kitchen Nightmares for a moment…. I’m still traumatized.
Uhhh kind of? I’ve slept in my car a few times. Off at midnight and in at 7 am sort of deal. Good ol super Clopen
Wiizardcud
Pizza hot bags and unlimited tap beers hit hard
disicking
Not in the kitchens, but when I used to work retail, I worked inventory enough that I had created a nest of backstock sweaters in the tall moving shelves in the back room, and on my breaks would regularly nap or read up there with no one the wiser.
Chefs_Steel
On a banquet overnight when opening Authentic Regional Mexican restaurant in ATL.
FaxyJ
One time I clocked out as restaurant sous, because I was working 80 hours a week. I could not justify being paid for being so tired. I slept on a stack of foam insulation.
HughMungus77
50 pound rice bags make great pillows tbh
poppa_koils
Slept off a drunk in the linen closet. Pack of aprons for a pillow, used tablecloths as a bed.
Got vertical just before the boss opened the door. I can just imagine the booze cloud that rolled out, lol.
CurLyy
Yes and it’s one of the reasons why brunch should be illegal.
Kaladin_Stormryder
Well you win, yes Chef!
Least-Researcher-184
Wouldn’t that mattress absorb all the odours and grease in that kitchen? I’d imagine in a couple of months it would start to resemble crackhouse furniture.
Resident_Diamond7205
New job!
AKA-Doom
This looks like a 2 weeks notice to me
Quercus408
Not for all the money in the world. Though when I worked at a hotel, I sometimes considered it. One of the rooms had no windows. It basically existed as a charity suite for staff. And probably other shenanigans too, but I was too busy running up and down stairs like a mad man to notice.
airborneaquarium55
Cintas towels and floor mats have come in handy a time or two.
N7Longhorn
Once. On a pile of chef coats
MamaD93_
Only one time, but there were round booths up stairs that we only opened a few days a week and I curled up on that
theFooMart
Once. Got a call at some stupid time of night that one of our coolers wasn’t at temp (we have a monitoring service) so I had to go in at stupid o clock.
By the time I got there, checked product temps and fixed the cooler, there’s was no point in me driving back home, and then back to open, so I just slept there until my shift started.
Worst part is that the closers got a call earlier telling them that the temp wasn’t normal, and they just ignored it. It would have taken them ten seconds to fix.
Obvious-Dinner-1082
Asked to yes, did I? No, because they wouldn’t let me stay punched in.
bobbywaz
I’d do it in the walk in, free ac
Expert-Host5442
Passed out drunk? Yes. Voluntarily went to sleep for the night? Fuck that.
Veganberger
Yes… 3 man kitchen, BUSY af breakfast place… the day before Mother’s Day, a Sunday of course.
Saturday we worked service, took a quick nap, then prepped the fuck outta EVERYTHING… then got shitfaced. 😂
All crashed at the spot so we wouldn’t have to worry about getting up in the am.
NakedScrub
I lived in the basement of my work for months when I was 1718. It was kinda wild thinking back on it. I often would stay up late ish just hanging out or eating, so the alarm company would call pretty regularly and I’d have to give them the secret “all-safe” password. I also had to set the alarm before bed at the front, then use the grace period to run to the back and down the stairs before the alarm set all the way. Couldn’t come up at all until the morning manager came in in the morning, or the motion sensors would set off the alarm. Yup, I had to bring an empty cup with me in case I had to piss in the middle of the night.
The room I slept in was used every once in a while as a classroom for training, but it was pretty bare. Concrete floor with a thin thin carpet over it. Basically laid a blanket down that I slept on, with another over the top of me. It got cold AF as this was in the winter (in northern New England) so I had a small space heater that I would rotate around like a campfire to keep warm overnight. The bright side is that it had a 13″ TV/VCR combo for the training stuff, so I would regularly borrow movies from friends to have something to watch.
I had to empty my piss cup in the morning when I’d used it, and come upstairs before opening to use the bathroom properly and get cleaned up. Eventually the district manager caught me down there and said I couldn’t do that anymore. For obvious reasons that 18 YO me didn’t understand at the time. So I bought a Chevy Blazer the next day and wound up sleeping in that for a few months, usually in the parking lot behind work. Until it got repo’ed because I never should have been allowed to sign that purchase. Lol.
So I moved into a tent behind my work’s dumpster. I stayed in that tent for a bunch more months until next winter came around, and all my tree cover disappeared. I made that thing bougie AF too. I slept the best I ever have in my life in that tent. But my wife still wonders why I don’t have any interest in going camping with her.
I don’t think I was ever late for work though…
SpookyPotatoes
Only if I’m getting paid to sleep.
Equivalent-Finish-80
You’re going to have to give us an update on your morning adventure please OP! Much respect on the hustle and grind!
samuelsfx
I actually sleep in the kitchen during my split shift break few times. Just over the corner or in the dry store.
Fivedartsdeep
Yup so many times.
ParsleyBeneficial123
What?! Fuck no man
HotLettuce-
Slept in the booths a couple times. Always the day before mother’s day. No point in going home to sleep for one hour only to come back, when if I sleep at work I can get a solid 4, maybe 5. Not as comfortable, but I’ve done it. And the coffee in the morning at work is better than the coffee I have at home.
ItsAMeAProblem
There was a time I was willing to do this. That time has long passed.
1993xdesigns
Only when i worked at a hotel lol they allow us to stay the night comped if we worked closing and had to come in at 530a the next day if they had unsold rooms lol
bananacustardpie
So so so so SO many times
fastal_12147
Only when I was too drunk to drive. They really shouldn’t have given me a key back then.
KeyOwn9898
Yeah, used a bag of Rice as a pillow XD fun times
fuxxo
This is luxury 5star hotel to compare where I had to sleep. Office desk being the most comfy
pb2614z
I slept under a prep table after a night of heavy drinking at a coworkers place next to the pizza joint I was managing. Couple bags of clean bar towels for pillows.
I laid there still and silent in the morning when the commissary driver came in to make his delivery.
Partially to not have to explain myself and also to not scare the living shit out of him.
Careless-Art-7977
Worked on an overnight ship with kids programs and had to do a split shift. 2pm-10pm and then would sleep in the lower decks or the cabin. Wake up at like 5am to cook breakfast and we’d finish the morning shift by about 11am.
Importchef
I would leave, get drunk, then pass out in a booth ready for brunch.
Unfair_Holiday_3549
Nope. Fuck that.
meggerplz
On top of the chest freezer warm exhaust+din of motors 😴💤
46 Comments
I have slept at 3 kitchens. None were comfy but I always used a bag of towels as a pillow.
You’ve never really worked at a place until you’ve slept there.
Bro got his chemistry lab right behind him…. He’s cooking
Get an Xbox up in there you gonna be set
Props to you for having a space that is so clean and organized you can sleep on the floor. Was flipping through shows this evening and came across Kitchen Nightmares for a moment…. I’m still traumatized.
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I’m workin a clopen!
[https://youtube.com/shorts/Z-8gu0yz2tA?feature=shared](https://youtube.com/shorts/Z-8gu0yz2tA?feature=shared)
Uhhh kind of? I’ve slept in my car a few times. Off at midnight and in at 7 am sort of deal. Good ol super Clopen
Pizza hot bags and unlimited tap beers hit hard
Not in the kitchens, but when I used to work retail, I worked inventory enough that I had created a nest of backstock sweaters in the tall moving shelves in the back room, and on my breaks would regularly nap or read up there with no one the wiser.
On a banquet overnight when opening Authentic Regional Mexican restaurant in ATL.
One time I clocked out as restaurant sous, because I was working 80 hours a week. I could not justify being paid for being so tired. I slept on a stack of foam insulation.
50 pound rice bags make great pillows tbh
Slept off a drunk in the linen closet. Pack of aprons for a pillow, used tablecloths as a bed.
Got vertical just before the boss opened the door. I can just imagine the booze cloud that rolled out, lol.
Yes and it’s one of the reasons why brunch should be illegal.
Well you win, yes Chef!
Wouldn’t that mattress absorb all the odours and grease in that kitchen? I’d imagine in a couple of months it would start to resemble crackhouse furniture.
New job!
This looks like a 2 weeks notice to me
Not for all the money in the world. Though when I worked at a hotel, I sometimes considered it. One of the rooms had no windows. It basically existed as a charity suite for staff. And probably other shenanigans too, but I was too busy running up and down stairs like a mad man to notice.
Cintas towels and floor mats have come in handy a time or two.
Once. On a pile of chef coats
Only one time, but there were round booths up stairs that we only opened a few days a week and I curled up on that
Once. Got a call at some stupid time of night that one of our coolers wasn’t at temp (we have a monitoring service) so I had to go in at stupid o clock.
By the time I got there, checked product temps and fixed the cooler, there’s was no point in me driving back home, and then back to open, so I just slept there until my shift started.
Worst part is that the closers got a call earlier telling them that the temp wasn’t normal, and they just ignored it. It would have taken them ten seconds to fix.
Asked to yes, did I? No, because they wouldn’t let me stay punched in.
I’d do it in the walk in, free ac
Passed out drunk? Yes. Voluntarily went to sleep for the night? Fuck that.
Yes… 3 man kitchen, BUSY af breakfast place… the day before Mother’s Day, a Sunday of course.
Saturday we worked service, took a quick nap, then prepped the fuck outta EVERYTHING… then got shitfaced. 😂
All crashed at the spot so we wouldn’t have to worry about getting up in the am.
I lived in the basement of my work for months when I was 1718. It was kinda wild thinking back on it. I often would stay up late ish just hanging out or eating, so the alarm company would call pretty regularly and I’d have to give them the secret “all-safe” password. I also had to set the alarm before bed at the front, then use the grace period to run to the back and down the stairs before the alarm set all the way. Couldn’t come up at all until the morning manager came in in the morning, or the motion sensors would set off the alarm. Yup, I had to bring an empty cup with me in case I had to piss in the middle of the night.
The room I slept in was used every once in a while as a classroom for training, but it was pretty bare. Concrete floor with a thin thin carpet over it. Basically laid a blanket down that I slept on, with another over the top of me. It got cold AF as this was in the winter (in northern New England) so I had a small space heater that I would rotate around like a campfire to keep warm overnight. The bright side is that it had a 13″ TV/VCR combo for the training stuff, so I would regularly borrow movies from friends to have something to watch.
I had to empty my piss cup in the morning when I’d used it, and come upstairs before opening to use the bathroom properly and get cleaned up. Eventually the district manager caught me down there and said I couldn’t do that anymore. For obvious reasons that 18 YO me didn’t understand at the time. So I bought a Chevy Blazer the next day and wound up sleeping in that for a few months, usually in the parking lot behind work. Until it got repo’ed because I never should have been allowed to sign that purchase. Lol.
So I moved into a tent behind my work’s dumpster. I stayed in that tent for a bunch more months until next winter came around, and all my tree cover disappeared. I made that thing bougie AF too. I slept the best I ever have in my life in that tent. But my wife still wonders why I don’t have any interest in going camping with her.
I don’t think I was ever late for work though…
Only if I’m getting paid to sleep.
You’re going to have to give us an update on your morning adventure please OP! Much respect on the hustle and grind!
I actually sleep in the kitchen during my split shift break few times. Just over the corner or in the dry store.
Yup so many times.
What?! Fuck no man
Slept in the booths a couple times. Always the day before mother’s day. No point in going home to sleep for one hour only to come back, when if I sleep at work I can get a solid 4, maybe 5. Not as comfortable, but I’ve done it. And the coffee in the morning at work is better than the coffee I have at home.
There was a time I was willing to do this. That time has long passed.
Only when i worked at a hotel lol they allow us to stay the night comped if we worked closing and had to come in at 530a the next day if they had unsold rooms lol
So so so so SO many times
Only when I was too drunk to drive. They really shouldn’t have given me a key back then.
Yeah, used a bag of Rice as a pillow XD fun times
This is luxury 5star hotel to compare where I had to sleep. Office desk being the most comfy
I slept under a prep table after a night of heavy drinking at a coworkers place next to the pizza joint I was managing.
Couple bags of clean bar towels for pillows.
I laid there still and silent in the morning when the commissary driver came in to make his delivery.
Partially to not have to explain myself and also to not scare the living shit out of him.
Worked on an overnight ship with kids programs and had to do a split shift. 2pm-10pm and then would sleep in the lower decks or the cabin. Wake up at like 5am to cook breakfast and we’d finish the morning shift by about 11am.
I would leave, get drunk, then pass out in a booth ready for brunch.
Nope. Fuck that.
On top of the chest freezer warm exhaust+din of motors 😴💤