I’m a deli lead at a “fine” dining restaurant, I try very hard to make all of my product come out to thin and crispy perfection. Even though I’m in Texas I use only New York style techniques and I genuinely try to make every pie and sandwich amazing. I’m not very experienced, I was a kitchen manager at a chilis level restaurant for 2 years and managed a dominos before this. I want y’all to be the judge of if I’m just meeting standards, because they always say my product is good until now when I was denied a raise :/ help me out in not feeling crazy
by mentz11
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Owner and chef both come from NYC, and it is an Italian style restaurant
pies look great! wish you were in my area 😭
give me that pizza, i want it
https://preview.redd.it/g4wrxb8z1fif1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb1554967bf307bd4eca06ea95edf08e05dc9672
“Product” you selling blue meth?
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Looks so good
The food looks great. Your raise depends on their standards though, not ours – can you ask your boss how you can surpass expectations rather than just meet them, so they can support you to improve? It’s not helpful to you (or them tbh) if they’re just like “eh it’s fine” without explaining what they want to be better
It all looks superb to me. Everything looks well balanced and extremely appetizing.
Only slightly related but I recently had a review with numbered sections totalling 220. It was a 1-5 with 1 being below expectations and 5 being exceeds expectations. I would get a 3 on some categories and ask how i could improve and was told I couldn’t because “you can’t exceed expectations at honesty” and other similar categories. It infuriated me because my total was 161/220 but over 40 points were unobtainable using their idea of the system.
Fuck that looks good. Damn!
Honestly I work in pretty fine dining, and meeting expectations is kind of the name of the game. My chef does not want us trying new shit, or adjusting things. He wants everyone of his recipes to hit the plate looking the same. And for that there is no “exceeding expectations” only meeting them.
What kind of style pizza are you going for the crust seems kinda flat.
Looks great (and I’m sure it tastes great), but that’s the easy part with pizza. If you’re unsatisfied with his judgements of your dishes, perhaps ask him what you could be doing better.
I want that sammich.
You are a light being.
The food looks good. Not sure I’d call it “Fine Dining”, but that’s subjective.
Being able to make the food the way you were shown isn’t anything special, it’s what we pay you to do.
As a corporate Chef, “Meeting expectations” in our group just means you get to keep your job. It’s kind of the bare minimum.
If you want a raise or a promotion, ask your Chef what that takes. What are they looking for from you in order to get to that next step.
I’d eat all of this. In one sitting.
That pizza in pic 2 looks absolutely perfect and I need it
Please move to northern Virginia and open a pizzeria of your own, that looks fire and we have a lot of money to buy delicious things.
Bro where is this. I need a jalapeno popper grandma pie in my life.
Are they expecting you to be coming up with new items or are they just wanting you to execute what you are given? Also there may be some verbiage shift, if I say someone is doing a ‘good job’ that is going to be roughly ‘meets expectations’ if the options are just exceeds/meets/below expectations. Pictures look good but we also can’t see things like consistency. But as others have said, you really need to ask them what you can be doing to be exceeding expectations in their eyes, nobody here can possibly have enough information just based on a few pictures.
We have completely lost the definition of what fine dining is. Holy shit.