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Here's to the frontliners thank you for tanking all of the shit guests give and the shit us BOH may give.
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Here’s to the frontliners thank you for tanking all of the shit guests give and the shit us BOH may give.


I could never to this shit which is one of the reasons i knew i was destined to be a chef

Here's to the frontliners thank you for tanking all of the shit guests give and the shit us BOH may give.
byu/Jordyy_yy inKitchenConfidential



by Jordyy_yy

16 Comments

  2. VladThe_imp_hailer

    Thanks for reminding us for the 69th time what’s gluten free and what’s not

  3. consumeshroomz

    I had to step back to BOH from being a bartender/server/FOH manager. After about a decade I just couldn’t deal with it anymore. Fucking *people* man! Eventually got out of restaurants all together. With the occasional pick-up shift at a pizza joint. But I didn’t realize till I got out just how much it was fucking up my mental health. Not to mention my body…

  4. RedEd024

    The difference between ordinary and extraordinary, is that little extra

  5. shredbmc

    You spend some effort to convince the guest that their order doesn’t make sense, won’t be anything like the original dish and suggest they make logical changes, but they’re adamant that they know what they want. Finally you accept fate with a smile because it’s your job (and everyone suffers when you piss off the confident idiot).

    Then the table gives you one of those orders that’s so stupid you have to apologize to the line before ringing it in and the ticket gets posted to reddit.

  9. DandyElLione

    20 minutes for a ticket during a crush isn’t terrible. This server needs to chill.

  10. Introverted_Extrovrt

    Fun fact: that trainee kid went on to appear in “Bones” but got killed off as he left the show to go write/direct movies, which led to him writing “Spiderman: Homecoming” and directing “Game Night”

  11. sid_fishes

    Asscock?? FOH should leave the swearing to us.

  12. SteveEcks

    I do my best to not give in to the “people suck” mentality.

    I’ll give you a fucking mile.

    But some people… *Some* people cannot be pleased. And you know what I do? And give them the exact same service I would give to anybody else I let them pay and I let them walk away. After that my job’s done at least for that table. I can’t make you be happy. I can’t make you like our delicious food and our delicious cocktails. What I can do is I can provide the same service to you that I provide to every single person that sits down in my restaurant. And at that I’m damn good.

  13. kylethemurphy

    I went from BoH to management to FoH. FoH is easier but there are moments of absolutely shenanigans.

  16. jazzhandpanda

    “Nothin sets off a good steal like ketchup”