My Chef – We don’t need a dish washer it’ll be a slow night

by AlmostNerd9f

32 Comments

  1. wendellbaker

    Yeah it sounds like you need a dishwasher more than you need a head chef

  2. Ouestucati

    If he doesn’t help y’all out of the mess he helped to create, maybe start sending out resumes.

  3. maybejustadragon

    I’ll just leave it for him to clean up in the morning. Leave him a little note.

    Note: We didn’t need a dishwasher – clearly because you got this. 😃

  4. As a former dishwasher, this triggered THE FUCK out of my PTSD>

  5. Lopsided-Row-7985

    honestly at least its moderately organized

  6. MotorEnthusiasm

    It’s NYE and the night before NYE. Those are always busy. Your chef is an idiot.

  7. ReasonableComfort645

    Also, “why tf did it take three hours to close?”

  8. Shit-sandwich-

    Fuuuuck man. If i was chef there and made a bad call like that (which happens- just own it) I’d be there early to make sure my crew had things moving along and I’d be elbow deep clearing the dish pit ASAP. But on NYE? who thinks it will be slow?

  9. You don’t need a dishwasher because chef is dishie tonight.

  10. CoppertopTX

    The one and only time I heard Chef say “Eh, it’s going to be slow, we don’t need dish tonight” as the dishwasher, I told the boss I was just going to take off my shirt and leave it back while I had a drink or two.

    Halfway into my first drink, they arrived. A 12 top with no reservations and because it was slow, the host seated them. Halfway into drink #2, the order hit the window and Chef realized they suddenly did need a dish that night. Chef comes out, sees me at the bar with the boss. Chef tells me clock in, help the line then hit the pit.

    Boss tells me to hold up a minute and finish my drink. Boss looks over at Chef. “You’re lucky the kid decided to drink before taking off, or you’d be up the creek without a boat in 30 minutes. Now, how about you go back to the line, help out, then hit the dish pit YOURSELF and I’ll put the kid on the line for the rest of the night.”

    The boss looked at me. “If you want the shift, I have a jacket in the office for you. If you want to head out, you can wait 20 minutes, we can toss the bike in my trunk and I’ll drive you home.”

    After a night washing dishes, Chef appreciated dishies.

  11. shoelesstim

    So we add a close dish for 4-5 hours or we have two kitchen closers stay and 2-3 hours .
    I’ll never understand why some managers and owners don’t get this

  12. When a chef says a dishwasher is not needed, they should be taking that job on themselves.

  13. Just throw all of the dishes away and start over

  14. tuotone75

    Worked at Pizza Hut years ago, whenever the bosses said it was going to be slow night, we knew it was bullshit. It was always the opposite.

  15. Good-Tea3481

    fuck this bitch you know they left early. Time to send out some resumes

  16. tonyMEGAphone

    I’m cleaning for the boys now. I forgot to toss the night girl on the day shift.

    I zen out in the dish anyways so it’s all guuuud

  17. No-Literature7471

    either ur chef is cleaning, or your chef is fired.

  18. UrAntiChrist

    We didn’t need escalations today… yet I have clients down and had to call escalations in. I think everyone underestimated this year 🙂

  19. WreckitRu55

    Put an ad in a paper for a chef and a dish washer

  20. ZombiejesusX

    An old km I worked for would say “it’ll be crickets tonight I’m taking off”. That was the curse, We’d get smacked and beaten. ” OH I guess it was busy last night, you guys went through a lot of product”

  21. TrickleUp_

    I’m available immediately – 40 dollars per hour

  22. rougekhmero

    If you have to do that before leaving. Smoke a joint and take your time. Get those hours.

  23. Sanquinity

    Walked in on a similar scene once. I’m a cook but it was supposed to be a “slow day” so I was on dessert and dish duty. Only the evening shift. Saw 3 grey boxes full of dirty dishes, stacked as high as they could go + a whole bunch of pans and hotel pans on the ground.

    I sent a message to the chef with a pic of the dish pit and the text “This is what I walk in on at the start of my shift.” 10 minutes later a server came to come do the dishes while I put them away, until it was 80% cleared. Chef had called the phone at the bar and gave them an earful apparently. ^^;; (servers are supposed to help doing the dishes on slow days, only they hadn’t done any.)

  24. I used to work with a FOH manager, Juan, who liked to sneak in the kitchen and start cutting people before the dinner rush because it was slow because it was… *before* the dinner rush.

    I called it “getting Juan’d”

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