Do you have this guy (or in my case woman) in your kitchen that constantly cuts corners? Found these gems in the diced tomatoes on the mise.
When I asked her if she went out to eat and was served this would she be happy? She said yeah, I know I'm trying to break myself some of some of the bad habits from when I worked at the bar. I guess the people at the bar that she worked at like chewing stems. She has been with us for a month now. It's not just this. She's a corner cutter. Not changing soup pans at the end of the night, not sweeping under the equipment. Just the visible flooring you know corner cutting.
I made club manager aware.
Do you have this person? Have you had this person in your kitchen in the past? How did you deal with it?
by picaman13
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Every place has this person. If they’re nice*ish* I usually try to help. If they’re a dick, I’ll throw them under the bus at the first opportunity. /s…kinda
Oof, in the immortal words of Dave Coulier, cut it out.
Obligatory reference to dimension hopping tomato sharks.
We still have a person like this. They put him as a server/busser, but he was terrible at that. Put him as a line cook/prep chef and he added things like in the above photo. So now he currently resides in dish pit, where if he drops something freshly cleaned he won’t wash it again-instead just puts it back where it belongs
You should have challenged that bet and make them eat em on the spot
You should have a tomato corer. This wouldn’t happen if you had a $2 tool to easily scoop out the core.
I absolutely misread this post and thought OP was bitching about not getting enough of the last useable tomato off these bits and was very concerned about their wellbeing.
Taco Bell would love her
It might help if you teach her to go through and quickly remove that stem piece from all the tomatoes first. Then she can just bust through dicing without a worry.
Some people aren’t great at breaking down a task and streamlining. This is the real skill that’s needed in prep.
To jail. Straight to jail.
I got a guy that does similar with salmon. My pan always has a bunch of little 3 or 4 oz peices.
Bro if I’m eating a dish and I find tomato buttholes in it I’m going back there and cooking my own meal
Sounds fkn lame
You don’t have a tomato knife/scooper? I’m sure someone knows what I’m talking about. Honestly have no idea what it’s actually called.
The danky green strikes again!
What the ever living lazy ass fucking bullshit is that?! I’d definitely put those in the person’s knife bag/shoes/drink/something. Seriously, it takes effort to skip the .7 second job of chopping off the end of the carrot, damn!
Douche bag vibes
I recently had a guy quit because I ruined his day by suggesting to him that he sliced a tomato horizontal instead of vertical. Keeping the skin ends and core cuts. He was so upset and wanted to leave early to blow off steam that when the DoorDash person was cut, he said “he better not come back in this kitchen or I’m going to throw a knife in his face”
One of the first things my chef/mentor told me to see in “typical, simple or regular” dishes. is if they don’t care for the little things, its a bad cook.
he said.
“-if they don’t even care for people putting this in their mouth, imagine the rest of their food.”
I used to work at a place and we were serving stracciatella for specials that day. Stracciatella ran out so my colleague was supposed to use chopped up burrata with some cream. Instead she took the innards of the burrata and throws the mozzarella in the bin 🫠
I just bully them for being lazy.
I once had a French chef make me go through a bowl of tomatoes I had cut poorly and eat every. Single. Tomato butt. In the bowl.
I never again cut tomatoes without taking all the cores before starting.
Make her eat those pieces. If she refuses, ask her why it’s good enough for everybody else but not for her.
I used to freak out about this at a job but it was for the stem like beige part of the onion. I was so worried someone would hurt their teeth biting into one of them. Id pick them out and show coworkers, didn’t matter what i thought though it just kept happening and i just kept having to pick through and remove them.
The manager definitely should not have said that but cutting corners is not good in any workplace, don’t see why so many people are defending her with such little knowledge of what’s really going on.
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Stores the boiled eggs with the shell still on them.
Doesn’t cut the Broccoli stems.
Peels the mushrooms but then won’t take stems out (we’ve been told thats how chef wants them multiple times)
Decanting? – never heard of her Spoon from the tub and leave it there over night.
The one that really boils my piss however, is they won’t take stuff to the cling wrap dispenser, rather take the cling wrap out and complain about how hard it is to find the edge again.
Like my brother in christ, you want to be lazy leave the wrap in the fucking dispenser.
Thanks I just woke up and looking at that gives me untold frustration. Also, same person, I assume: I was covering grill on Sunday while doing push and a couple burgers came in, went to grab a sliced Tom, it was a top with the asshole still on it. Went to grab another, it was a bottom cut like 1/8 on one side to 1 inch on the other, I pull out the pan, literally all tops and bottoms of varying thickness.
The worst one I worked with would walk over to the prep list and check off something or erase something as if it was done and go on their merry way, then come back several minutes later and do the same thing. Like “hey A-hole checking it off doesn’t fix that we don’t have it dumbass” and everytime they’d say that wasn’t them. We have all witnessed you do it. There’s only so many times you can claim you checked it off to do it but then didn’t have time to. So glad they’re somewhere else’s problem now.
I swear taco bell only uses tomato tops