I need more steam than that, greenhorn. How else am I going to steam these hams?
guiltycitizen
If they laugh, they’re cool
Over-Director-4986
Heh heh heh.
JustinCooksStuff
Had someone do this once, poor kid was standing there emptying the hot water when the GM walked in and the GM just stared at me, shook his head with a look of true disappointment and walked out.
Make sure he mops the walk-in freezer once he finishes up here
AlarmedAppearance191
When I started at IHOP they handed me a garbage bag and told me to change the stale air in the walk-in. I did whippets from the readiwhip instead lol
wormwoodscrub
I’m a “go get me the glass magnet from the bartender” kinda guy myself
thisistherevolt
Noooooooo lol.
MariachiArchery
Alright alright… You know how we need to go into the front of the fryer to empty the oil and clean the fryers? Make sure your new dishie or prep cook sees that happen at least once.
Then, and this can happen before hand, go to the other restaurants near by, and tell them “hey, when my dishwasher/prep cook comes by asking to barrow the ‘fryer wrench’, tell them you leant it to this other restaurant nearby.” Then, you get like three or four other nearby restaurants in on this. All saying the same thing.
>Hey we need to barrow the fryer wrench at my restaurant. Aww sorry man, we leant it to this place next door. … Hey we need to barrow the fryer wrench at my restaurant. Aww sorry man, we leant to this other restaurant…
On and on…
Then, during a busy service, when your new guy is in the kitchen, you rip open the front of the fryer like tearing open the hood of an overheating car. Look in it all panicked and shit, then say to your new guy “I need the fryer wrench! Now!”
Let him go dig around in back for it, maybe he’ll ask some other employees if they’ve seen it, and when he can’t find it, you send him to the restaurant next door to barrow theirs.
It’s a good way to introduce him to our collogues next around the block. The last restaurant in this chain of fuckery gets to break the news to him that their is no fryer wrench.
jackattack502
Fun trick turn off the water supply, and the victim will report back to the confused prankster that they finished.
Bladrak01
It is entirely possible to have a legitimate reason to do that with hot water. That’s how I get the water to blanche and shock tomatoes before peeling them.
thisistherevolt
I was raised in the industry, my mom was a bartender for a very long time. I saw it all go down while doing homework and getting warned by the friendlier workers at various restaurants about these kinds of things. First time someone told me to “go get the glass magnet” I went outside and took a smoke break and went back to doing dishes. Got a little head nod from the AKM.
Express_Area_8359
ok best joke in the restaurant industry….tell him the water box for the soft drinks needs changing
tacomeat247
Gonna need him to go to dry storage and get a bag of ice mix for the bar
tlollz52
I did this to someone and they never came back after that shift….oops
The servers told me I was a bully
eggz627
I was doing this the other day (not being pranked, had to burn my ice bin) and the iced tea maker stopped giving me hot water.
So can they *actually* run out? I thought it was hooked up to the water line
Professional_Room_90
F N G !!!!
Possible_Excuse4144
My faves used to be sending peeps to the bar next door (our hangout) for keg polish, bacon strechers, and rice peelers. It was epic. Note the request must have a sense of panicked urgency so the noob has no time to think about it.
WakingOwl1
We’d send them down to maintenance with a five gallon bucket to get steam. Maintenance guy would go in the back room for a couple minutes then come back out with it covered and tell them to get it back quick before it all escaped.
Critical_Field_1526
Have them rotate the ice in the ice machine.
jeffnorris
I sent someone to dry storage for dehydrated water. Never saw them again
Shokoku
That’s fucked up, how long did he last?
oleshorty
Last night, a high school dish washer was sent to me, so I could explain the bacon stretcher. He wanted to see it, what does it look like he asked. I said we lent ours to another downtown restaurant, and it hasn’t been seen since.
yafuckonegoat
My favorite is still using the plunger to check for loose tiles in the kitchen
meseta
Go down to mandarin house and get the rice sifter when you’re done. They’ll know what you’re talking about.
Existential_Sprinkle
For some reason the main one that got me was being sent to go find a left handed spatula
Professional_King790
I once told my wife that our pour over coffee tastes better if you boil the water first, let it cool, and boil it a second time before you pour it over the ground coffee.
Like a month later I get home from work and she tells me that she pre-boiled my water for me in case I was making a coffee.
She’s the best.
drsquig
Ahhh I love this. My old manager managed to get someone to check for loose tiles with a plunger. I think I saw that one on here actually.
JAM3S0N
Fucking love this..Ive done this to countless rookies..great pic..made my day..now let’s rock a Saturday night all!! GL
SteveEcks
Oh that poor soul
giant_spleen_eater
A place I got hired on to like 10 years ago attempted to get me to go borrow a left handed spatula from the place next door.
It wasn’t my first rodeo so I just went out and smoked instead. They all looked disappointed when they all looked out the door and saw me just sitting down enjoying a cigarette
PonchoCavatelli
Holy shit, we were telling the newbies to do this 25 years ago!
Ccarr6453
My chef tried this on me when I was starting out, and I looked at him and told him that, so long as I was getting paid, I would happily stand there and drain it until everyone was done, but that unless it was a weird machine, I was pretty sure it was plumbed in and it would be a waste of my time and thus, his money.
I projected confidence because I knew I was right, but every ounce of my body was scared that, even though I knew I was right, I would have to face his rage.
He laughed, told me he never had anyone tell him that in his career, and immediately took me under his wing and trained me into the chef I am today. (Don’t get it wrong, he was a jerk, but a jerk who was really good at his job)
dathomasusmc
Oh man, this reminds me of when I was in the Marine Corps and they told me to empty out a dozen big igloo coolers. They come out 20 mins later to see what’s taking so long and I’m standing there holding the pour spout finishing up the first one. The boss comes over, twists the lid off one, dumps it out (onto my boots) and walks away. Yeah, I felt dumb.
livid-fridge
This reminded me of a girl and I taught her to brew the coffee and that 4 pots would be poured into the serving container and left her to it but she thought I meant brew a pot, pour it back into the coffee machine and do that four times before pouring the pot of coffee into the container. I came back and was like what took so long and she explained and I couldn’t even understand what she did but when I finally wrapped my head around it I was like “tell no one about this” for both our sakes 😅
LaVerdadd
Let me guess it never empty’s??
Da_Big_Buddha
Doing the lords work.
euniceaf
I don’t get it. They’re just standing their filling pitchers of water while other people do real work. And he’s probably getting paid too. OP 🤡 because I never worked any restaurants where there isn’t shit to do. As soon as we got an intern I was excited to throw all the tedious, menial but necessary work at them.
JonnytheGing
I used to work at a JJ’s back in the day and we got a co-worker to mop the sidewalk out in front of the store, still my favorite prank I’ve done
under_gong
He might just be adding to the hot hold. Hot kick.
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Never not funny
lol got em!
Drain that hot water lil fella
I need more steam than that, greenhorn. How else am I going to steam these hams?
If they laugh, they’re cool
Heh heh heh.
Had someone do this once, poor kid was standing there emptying the hot water when the GM walked in and the GM just stared at me, shook his head with a look of true disappointment and walked out.
I like how some things never change.
https://preview.redd.it/sb4hlzabhqrf1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79dd005af968c0d7b9c6796c53cef2eb3a53dcab
From a few years ago, but here’s my contribution!
Make sure he mops the walk-in freezer once he finishes up here
When I started at IHOP they handed me a garbage bag and told me to change the stale air in the walk-in. I did whippets from the readiwhip instead lol
I’m a “go get me the glass magnet from the bartender” kinda guy myself
Noooooooo lol.
Alright alright… You know how we need to go into the front of the fryer to empty the oil and clean the fryers? Make sure your new dishie or prep cook sees that happen at least once.
Then, and this can happen before hand, go to the other restaurants near by, and tell them “hey, when my dishwasher/prep cook comes by asking to barrow the ‘fryer wrench’, tell them you leant it to this other restaurant nearby.” Then, you get like three or four other nearby restaurants in on this. All saying the same thing.
>Hey we need to barrow the fryer wrench at my restaurant.
Aww sorry man, we leant it to this place next door.
…
Hey we need to barrow the fryer wrench at my restaurant.
Aww sorry man, we leant to this other restaurant…
On and on…
Then, during a busy service, when your new guy is in the kitchen, you rip open the front of the fryer like tearing open the hood of an overheating car. Look in it all panicked and shit, then say to your new guy “I need the fryer wrench! Now!”
Let him go dig around in back for it, maybe he’ll ask some other employees if they’ve seen it, and when he can’t find it, you send him to the restaurant next door to barrow theirs.
It’s a good way to introduce him to our collogues next around the block. The last restaurant in this chain of fuckery gets to break the news to him that their is no fryer wrench.
Fun trick turn off the water supply, and the victim will report back to the confused prankster that they finished.
It is entirely possible to have a legitimate reason to do that with hot water. That’s how I get the water to blanche and shock tomatoes before peeling them.
I was raised in the industry, my mom was a bartender for a very long time. I saw it all go down while doing homework and getting warned by the friendlier workers at various restaurants about these kinds of things. First time someone told me to “go get the glass magnet” I went outside and took a smoke break and went back to doing dishes. Got a little head nod from the AKM.
ok best joke in the restaurant industry….tell him the water box for the soft drinks needs changing
Gonna need him to go to dry storage and get a bag of ice mix for the bar
I did this to someone and they never came back after that shift….oops
The servers told me I was a bully
I was doing this the other day (not being pranked, had to burn my ice bin) and the iced tea maker stopped giving me hot water.
So can they *actually* run out? I thought it was hooked up to the water line
F N G !!!!
My faves used to be sending peeps to the bar next door (our hangout) for keg polish, bacon strechers, and rice peelers. It was epic. Note the request must have a sense of panicked urgency so the noob has no time to think about it.
We’d send them down to maintenance with a five gallon bucket to get steam. Maintenance guy would go in the back room for a couple minutes then come back out with it covered and tell them to get it back quick before it all escaped.
Have them rotate the ice in the ice machine.
I sent someone to dry storage for dehydrated water. Never saw them again
That’s fucked up, how long did he last?
Last night, a high school dish washer was sent to me, so I could explain the bacon stretcher. He wanted to see it, what does it look like he asked. I said we lent ours to another downtown restaurant, and it hasn’t been seen since.
My favorite is still using the plunger to check for loose tiles in the kitchen
Go down to mandarin house and get the rice sifter when you’re done. They’ll know what you’re talking about.
For some reason the main one that got me was being sent to go find a left handed spatula
I once told my wife that our pour over coffee tastes better if you boil the water first, let it cool, and boil it a second time before you pour it over the ground coffee.
Like a month later I get home from work and she tells me that she pre-boiled my water for me in case I was making a coffee.
She’s the best.
Ahhh I love this. My old manager managed to get someone to check for loose tiles with a plunger. I think I saw that one on here actually.
Fucking love this..Ive done this to countless rookies..great pic..made my day..now let’s rock a Saturday night all!! GL
Oh that poor soul
A place I got hired on to like 10 years ago attempted to get me to go borrow a left handed spatula from the place next door.
It wasn’t my first rodeo so I just went out and smoked instead. They all looked disappointed when they all looked out the door and saw me just sitting down enjoying a cigarette
Holy shit, we were telling the newbies to do this 25 years ago!
My chef tried this on me when I was starting out, and I looked at him and told him that, so long as I was getting paid, I would happily stand there and drain it until everyone was done, but that unless it was a weird machine, I was pretty sure it was plumbed in and it would be a waste of my time and thus, his money.
I projected confidence because I knew I was right, but every ounce of my body was scared that, even though I knew I was right, I would have to face his rage.
He laughed, told me he never had anyone tell him that in his career, and immediately took me under his wing and trained me into the chef I am today. (Don’t get it wrong, he was a jerk, but a jerk who was really good at his job)
Oh man, this reminds me of when I was in the Marine Corps and they told me to empty out a dozen big igloo coolers. They come out 20 mins later to see what’s taking so long and I’m standing there holding the pour spout finishing up the first one. The boss comes over, twists the lid off one, dumps it out (onto my boots) and walks away. Yeah, I felt dumb.
This reminded me of a girl and I taught her to brew the coffee and that 4 pots would be poured into the serving container and left her to it but she thought I meant brew a pot, pour it back into the coffee machine and do that four times before pouring the pot of coffee into the container. I came back and was like what took so long and she explained and I couldn’t even understand what she did but when I finally wrapped my head around it I was like “tell no one about this” for both our sakes 😅
Let me guess it never empty’s??
Doing the lords work.
I don’t get it. They’re just standing their filling pitchers of water while other people do real work. And he’s probably getting paid too. OP 🤡 because I never worked any restaurants where there isn’t shit to do. As soon as we got an intern I was excited to throw all the tedious, menial but necessary work at them.
I used to work at a JJ’s back in the day and we got a co-worker to mop the sidewalk out in front of the store, still my favorite prank I’ve done
He might just be adding to the hot hold. Hot kick.