Seems a little problematic 🤪
Influencer tells followers to stage for fun/free cooking class
byu/chronic_blaze inKitchenConfidential
by chronic_blaze
Seems a little problematic 🤪
Influencer tells followers to stage for fun/free cooking class
byu/chronic_blaze inKitchenConfidential
by chronic_blaze
50 Comments
One simple trick to free food is “work for it”? Ok
Real? I’ve always wanted to work in a kitchen but I spent too much time and money learning to survey to give it up for food. Sunk cost fallacy, I know, but that sunk cost is tens of thousands of dollars and years of my life on a boat.
What a way to waste other people’s time and energyÂ
So, in reality, how would this work? Need any certifications first? Should you lie and say you’re a student thinking about going to culinary school?
How many chefs would actually welcome a random person off the street to come in and fuck around in your kitchen to get free food? I feel like you have to personally know the chef otherwise you’re just in the way and being tolerated.
What a shithead. Yeah lets just be a shitty worker on purpose and complicate everyone’s job to learn a few recipes. Fucking influencers
I don’t mind this at all, especially since she isn’t coming from a professional background. I wouldn’t put her in any position to harm my business but extra hands are extra hands. Bonus is the free advertising.
Yes please come be a drag in my kitchen. Maybe on a slow day on the off season you can come shell peas and scrub potatoes. I’ve got a case of chard that needs stemmed.
After asking around and getting rejected, she found a chef who is still willing to illegally exploit free labour.
She just outed this dude lol.
I used to stage for fun. I’d be like “damn I wanna work the pasta station at ——- and would go stage for a night”
I would have her do dishes the whole shift
I fucking hate staging. It’s one of the worst aspects of the industry. It’s just like unpaid internships for restaurants. You don’t really get pick up much because you don’t know their menu as well as the others working the line, but the restaurant gets at least a night of free labor.
I tell people to sign up for Amazon to use their 200$ new employee show voucher for work shoes/boots
She mentions staging in TO. Stages are illegal in Ontario.
Staaaaaggge’
Must be nice to be so well set up you work for…..*checks notes*…..fun. completely out of fucking touch.
 You let some kid in off the street and they beam their head off the counter after a slip, you gotta send them in the ambulance, the hospital makes a worker injury claim.
 Obviously this differs where you are but isn’t this on the minds of the owner?Â
Ohhhh man this would be an awesome way to get all those shrimp peeled and deveined for free. Sure, come get your free meal hahaha.
A free kitchenhand?! Fuck yeah! Works for food? Yeah okay! Ofc They can’t handle the food without a food handling certificate but they can watch
No phones on the line.
You ready to cut 200 lb of chicken?
So much salt in this thread.
‘Can I stage?’
‘Any experience?’
‘No.’
‘Fuck off.’
If you’re not having that eight word conversation before letting someone into your kitchen, that’s a you problem, not them.
I hate this so much. Not many people know that stages in the US are considered a form of employment and require compensation. Restaurants love to have people stage and not pay them and there are basically no repercussions. It’s just another way for restaurant owners to exploit their work force and get free labor.
Not only is she acting like this is a generous thing that restaurants do, but her further misinforming people that stages aren’t paid only harms the workers who actually have to do restaurant work for a living. It doesn’t hurt the influencers and upper income people who think that cooking for a living is quirky and fun and not low paying back breaking labor. It encourages taking advantage of people who are already taken advantage of.
Under US labor law, if someone is performing work, they must be paid, regardless of whether it’s a “stage” or a regular shift. More people need to know this.
I’ve had to stage a few times and I get it to an extent but it seems like a bullshit swindle move to me. Like, come work a night for free to see if you fit in with our style of dining. Dumb. I don’t care if it’s an “industry standard,” it’s fucking dumb. Any time I’ve had to have a stage under me, I let them keep all of the tips because they did most of the work. I thought we were above slave labor in this country…
Depends on where you live/ where you stage at yes, in theory this is what a stage is about (trading a pair of hands on deck in exchange for knowledge and experience….or just a kitchen try out). But in some places (nyc and Chicago and I’m sure other places. Stages are supposed to be payed). I’ve done stages where the establishment would literally not let me do anything other than chat and war free food (they were scared about getting in trouble for free labor), and stages where I’ve labored for hours only to realize I was just viewed as free help. Idk, depends on where you stage.
I would fucking lose it. Get the fuck out of my kitchen. This pisses me off so much lol
This reminds me of the key/peele skit where the two bank “robbers” have a plan to “infiltrate” (work) a bank, and then work for 30+ years and get a salary.
This is pretty normal. I plan on doing this myself this summer. It’s nice to get out there meet people and see how other spaces operate.
Sure thing. Grease trap ain’t gonna cleane itself right.
Get off the phone and start peeling potatoes
Rage bait 100%
PutSomeFuckingGlovesOnOhMyGod
Staahhhggg my ass
So they not only let her in the kitchen to ‘stage’ but also allowed someone else filming her doing it?
This is a great plan when you have rich parents and don’t need money, so you just want to dip in and see what everyone else does to survive! I spent a day in a coal mine to see how Papa’s sla.. I mean employees live, it was so much fun!
Does this require a work visa ? Asking for a friend.
Would this be a way a moderate DIYer could experience a real kitchen for a few nights or are they only going to take industry folks ? Or, in other words, how picky are they with their free labor if I can chop some chives okaish and am good at cursing. i’ve never shown up at work under the influence of alcohol but i can learn
What is the title trying to say? I think I had a stroke trying to read it.
Great idea except many countries would consider this a visa violation.
worst industry , least pay and most work. dont waste your life …or do whatever
It’s called slave fucking labour.
Never ever do this.
stodge somewhere else dirty liar
The idea of this made my heart race đź’€
I did this in Hawaii with an amazing Thai chef. She was incredible!
I’ve never heard of someone doing a stage that wasn’t looking for a job, is this common?
Why do all of these influencers sound exactly the same?
I just want someone to come in and realize that working the line involves cleaning. Â
So many people come in and then bail when they realize its all prepping and cleaning. Â
More food and bev journalists should be doing this
Nice to see an influencer getting people to do real things and not just being all cute and “Hey look at me, give me Likes!”