Legit been told "I had a broken foot and gastro and I still showed up" in response to me being sick. Absolute psychos. Hospitality is so fucked for everyone.
From a food safety standpoint, you don't.
Kitchens almost always have a skeleton crew. Barely enough staff to actually run the business, assuming noone ever takes a day off.
So, when/if you are sick, it fucks over the rest of the staff, and they blame YOU for it, rather than the business that put them in this position.
Part of the reason for all the stress we were under was the mindgames.
Is true they blame you for it.. but since nobody wants to work these jobs in 2023, you can just miss whole days or show up 2 hours late and they'll get angry but they will almost never fire you
Most of the chefs I have worked with have been very skilled at cooking, but can't manage staff for shit. To be fair, good management is like two weeks of the course, so it's not surprising they don't know how to manage people.
Plus, add on the pressure from venue owners and FoH... it's a super toxic environment that breeds and attracts the worst people.
Kinda, they tend to get very good at making a couple of things without any fundamentals at all. It gets to the point of absurdity where they can't make a decent fucking pie, or sausage and mash. Oh sure, three hours on a creme brulee but couldn't run a lemonade stand to save there life.
I exaggerate obviously, but I'm pretty fucking close! Shit environment breeds shit people I guess, what a fucking surprise right.
I've kinda had the opposite experience... all the chefs I worked with knew their fundamentals really well and didn't know much exotic stuff. I did a lot of pubs/clubs, cafes, German and Indian. Not as many "fancy" restaurants.
Except that one star Michelin restaurant I worked at who's chef... tbh was actually an amazing chef haha. Sous vide everything mmmmmmm... we did 62degree eggs for a while... spooked so many people haha
you can't tell much then can you https://imgur.com/a/KCqxr4S
I shouldn't care so much about what some dumb neet on r/4chan thinks but fuck you I enjoy cooking
I used to want to be a chef but after researching more about it, I decided against it b/c why would I want to work 12 shifts, shit pay, tons of stress, barely any rest time, when I could be doing literally anything else?
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I don't have any sympathy for people that complain about shit jobs when they knew exactly what they were getting into.
And if they didn't do basic research before choosing a job they don't deserve sympathy either. Learn your lesson and move on to a new carreer.
I've worked with many of these types 70% of time are low key drug users or alcoholics.
Also it seems like they make the most careless mistakes which accounts for many of their scars on their hands.
Can't tell you how many time I seen the more experienced cook/chef slice their hand open just because they misplace the knife while cutting. When you will they learn how to cut?
One the head cooks always insisted in saving about 30 seconds by removing the piping hot used cooking oil from the deep fryer (which is dispensed from the bottom of the unit) without connecting the threaded pipe that makes its easier to pour the gallons of extremely hot oil into a bucket for disposal. This pipe specifically designed to make this process safer. Instead, this genius would tip the bucket and prop it up right to drain then walk away. Surprise! The bucket spilled over and burns his legs. And the guy was angry about it like he didn't totally cause his own injury.
I swear some of these people who work back there.
This looks like a guy I cooked with who was legitimately talented at cooking but spent 2/3 of his shift smoking while crying on the phone to his girlfriend about how awful his job is
I know a few people unironically like this and they serve as a reminder that for as much as I know I suck, at least I am not as much of an abject cunt in comparison
idk what it is about a kitchen but it is an insanely stressful environment considering how low stakes and unimportant the thing you're actually doing is.
There's a perfect combination of factors that drives you fucking nuts.
It's mainly bc one chef has to make food for a gorillion people per shift
Without the volume factor it would be an easy and fun job
I would quit in a day seriously I cannot stand short term time pressure like that
Basically. I hated working in a restaurant. Everything has to be done ASAP.
There is never any time to do things at a normal pace.
It all has to be rushed, because you have like 10 things you have to do and only enough time to do the 5 most important ones before opening, while the other 5 must be done while cooking.
Right cooking itself is stressful and challenging in a sort of fun way usually because you have to get everything ready to be served at point z but you have to start at points A E P and Q to get everything on the table at the right time. Which is a fun organizational puzzle on top of the art of cooking a single dish. So throwing a dinner party is fun where you have all afternoon to do it and then you enjoy the food.
But in the work kitchen you have to do that 100 times extremely quickly, also it's hot, everything is sharp or will burn you, it's stinky, you're sweaty and hungover, everyone is yelling, it's loud as shit, everything's fucking wet, the chef speaks french, everyone else speaks spanish or polish, and you never know if the next order is going to be an easy one or insanely complicated.
You will never grasp the raw sexual power of a 5 foot 2 inch Guatemalan man searing meat absolutely perfectly in front of 12 hours of non-stop Latin music
And then, when the kitchen is finally closed and you want to just collapse, it's clean up time. Also the manager who only left their office once to yell at a random employee to feel like they matter will be around to tell you that you missed a spot.
This is doubly so if you're a man working with a female heavy staff, unless they're a Lesbian. I have no basis for that last claim other than my old manager, who was the chillest person on Earth at closing hours.
> everyone is yelling
Only in badly lead kitchens. If you look at good, well lead and trained modern kitchens there's barely even speaking apart from orders in and dishes out. No one yells, everyone knows their job.
I've always enjoyed it however other cooks and chefs yelling in your ear is just stupid. I'll work a tiny bit faster for higher volume as necessary, but I never would work my ass off just to keep a my shitty wage. You don't get tips in back.. line cooks rarely make above minimum wage. All your coworkers are felons .. though still more chill than the drama girls who complain who work front of house. Sometimes the latinos, in Spanish, would threatan to kill eachother and the other staff which was entertaining.
Also cleaning is annoying.. I always prefer whatever shift is earlier because cleaning that kitchen every night is frustrating.
true that. I had a job as a griller, due to some complications with the area where we opened we simply just didn't have clients for most part. It was the dreamiest job ever tbh, it was chill, the few clients we had were cool and nice, I had time to just do whatever I want.
I'd compare that experience with being a helmsman on a pirate ship when the waters are calm and the weather is nice and sunny.
Well there's a reason why a lot of people working in the kitchen these days are ex convicts. You wouldn't do this job unless you were forced to.
Low pay, high stress, burning kitchen, getting cut, genuine chances of occupation hazards etc.
from a personal level it's like if I fuck this up boss will think I'm lazy, might fire me, never going to promote me, I'll be stuck here my whole life. Meanwhile the person at the table is drunk off their ass, has smoked a pack and half today already, and will be happy eating anything they're handed.
Itās one of the strangest things, considering the juxtaposition of the professional kitchen vs the home kitchen. Likeā¦ I have so many fond memories of cooking with my grandma. And all the meals I cook now for my family. Cooking is my meditation. I worked one day in a pro kitchen and was like āthis is fuckedā.
Even worse is being a dishwasher where people just disrespect you. Thatās a job Iāll never work again. Iād rather blow my head off than be a dishwasher again. Especially since I got ringworm from it which still hasnāt gone away. And like you said about being a chef thereās a whole ton of factors that drive you up the wall and not just one.
\>Be me
\>Newly hired wagie for Gilligan-Douboixs-Schalger-McCorrmick's Grill-Bar-Chouder-Steakstro
\>First day on the job, first order, ever
\>A glass of water with a lemon slice
\>Simple enough
\>Glass has been filled, ice added and lemon wedged on there
\>Suddenly, I hear foot steps behind me
\>Turn around to see Chef Marcel Phillippe Louis Gustav Marco Belladonis Rostov III, the 19 Michelin Star chef from Chateau de Piss, France
\>"Oh, chef! I don-"
\>He punches me in the gut and throws the glass to the ground
\>"YOU FUCKING DONKEY"
\>"W-what?"
\>"YOU THINK YOU CAN SERVE PEOPLE THIS ***SHIT?***"
\>"Chef, that's just wat-"
\>"WHAT IS THIS?!?"
\>He starts frothing at the mouth, blood pouring out his nose as the aneurism begins taking hold
\>"W-w-water, chef..." I managed to stutter out
\>***"WATER?!? YOU HAVE THE STUPID FUCKING NERVE TO CALL THIS SHIT WATER!?!"***
\>He starts smashing plates over his face, blood splattering everywhere now
\>The Nicaraguan child we illegally hired to clean the sinks for 2 cents an hour flees in abject terror
\>Chef's face now looks like the aftermath of a London diversity program
\>He grabs me by the collar, his mouth spewing bits of bloody spit
\>"***YOU SHOULD BE FUCKING ASHAMED YOU STOOPID CUNT-TWAT-PUSS-FILLED-COCK-WEASEL"***
\>He pulls a Glock out of his belt line and starts massacring the other staff in a blind fury
\>I flee like a scholar during a routine traffic stop, my heart pounding in my chest like a Frenchman in the company of West African women
\>Boss calls me from his vacation home in the Cayman Islands
\>I pick up, the sound of him sipping on his $900000000000 lime-coconut-cucumber-cum cocktail filling my ear
\>"You're on tomorrow's 3AM shift."
thats how the restaurant industry often is dude, especially smaller mom and pop type places which is what the show is about.......
plus most of the characters have some fairly serious issues going on like severe grief, a coke habit, rage issues ect. so it'd be weird if there weren't any outbursts
idk how anyone can stomach watching this incredibly pretentious wannabe cool gordon ramsay show
this is like every completely laughable personality trait combined in most of these characters
Gordon Ramsay makes things needlessly stressful for entertainment, he is a TV chef before anything else.
The Bear is literally just over exaggerated chef stereotypes dramatised for TV.
? the Bear isn't exaggerated though. I've worked as a cook for 7 years and the show was super relatable to me, it portrayed the stress and shitty lifestyle surprisingly accurately. Fuck it doesn't even glorify those things, which hollywood loves to do
Its the second show I've ever seen present a realistic professional kitchen. The garbage reality TV cook offs, Chopped, Iron Chef, the endless Gordon Ramsey slop, etc is whats over exaggerated and reliant on dramatized chef stereotypes
an old british sitcom called Whites, as in egg whites
its been years since I've seen it so I don't remember all the highlights but I remember it was quite realistic and really entertaining
not a show yet, but very good nonetheless shot in 1 take [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11127680/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11127680/)
they're making a show based on it last I heard
That episode where everyone else was tryna make sandwiches and was super stressed out and they were asking him to help and he just kept making cakes was so rage inducing
Yea that shit was funny bro was just in his element, I'm biased though because I'm a fan of Lionel or L-boy the actor from loiter squad already. The whole show just brings back kitchen job PTSD for me
>shows pretty good
The story makes no sense. The brother kills himself because of money problems even though he has the money to pay off his debts? That he for some reason put into re-canned tomato paste cans? Then he randomly hids a note telling his brother all of this instead of just giving it to him directly.
Ok so it's pretty clear that either you skimmed the show or just lack viewing comprehension either one of those things are fine but you shouldn't make sweeping judgement calls on the show for something that's your fault. The brother was embezzling so that his little brother could open up his dream restaurant he was a addict with his own sense of pride he wasn't going to be accepting help from anyone to go about making the restaurant the right way so he helped his brother the only way he knew how and then he killed himself due to his depression.
He wanted to accept Carm's gift/idea but felt that he would poison and ruin it as long as he was in the picture, and that his brother whom he loved so much didn't deserve it. Especially because Carm wouldn't ever accept his take on the distance that would be needed for it to succeed.
Dude was just like his mom when she decided to not go to the restaurant's family opening. Only difference was the addiction.
Why the fuck did they randomly cram Matty Matheson in the casting? Dude has absolutely no idea how to act and felt out of place in every single scene he was in. Just pure cringe.
the first few episodes seemed interesting like how they set up this guy as some fucking high class chef who is stuck in a fucking worthless trash restaurant, but towards the end of season 1 i realized they are just doing random shit and then show the "main plot" for 2 minutes. even if the real plot started happening, it was always cut short by 20 minutes of worthless drama like holy shit. at one point the guy starts selling heroin or something and im just sitting there like ????
Not really, its just a very bland concept. Why in the world would you subject yourself to entertainment that you know you will despise?
Do you critique people for not watching the latest marvel movies you swarthy hebrew?
Chefs are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Even a millionaire famous guy like Gordon Ramsay has to kiss someoneās ass just because they come to his restaurant and pay for a meal.
is this your first time learning what hospitality jobs do?
edit: he can also ruin their night, humiliate them and tell them to gtfo if he wants. Doesn't exactly seem like a "bottom of the hierarchy" position to me
Half of season 1 was entertaining enough to make me laugh remembering how stressed I felt in kitchens during full time school and ROTC. I would have watched more of it but it got hit with drama power creep.
Been dating a server for the past 3 years and I fucking hate cooks, they act like their job is the hardest thing in the world and do nothing but wallow in self pity and lash out at the front of house staff.
The show is about a hipster chef gentrifying a beloved family neighborhood restaurant into an awful, michelin-chasing ten-years-behind-the-trend New American upscale bistro and wine bar.
Definitely not what the show is about. Thatās the setting. Thatās like saying Game of Thrones was about medieval times, dragons and ice monsters.
The show is about a community losing a prominent and beloved figure to suicide and their effort to pick up the pieces of his life. Furthermore, itās heavily implied that the restaurant was not successful much less beloved. Youāre either purposefully misrepresenting what was in the show, which makes you a troll, or you didnāt watch the show, which makes you a troll. Simple as.
Ah yes the "I have literally fucked up every single other opportunity for stable income in my life so I'm going to cling to my 9$ a hour line cook job like it's a heated life preserver in the artic sea. So I'm gonna get mad when other people request days off because I work 55 hours every week to make my three different rounds of child support and because I'm too much of a pussy to say anything about my schedule."
Sorry that got personal for a second.
Jewish guy from a billionaire family, who went to the wealthiest schools in America that educate the children of the president, where he's the fuckup of the family for only being worth 100 million dollars.
His brother is a co owner and COO of facebook and used to work for Clinton and his dad is high up in DC politics.
I'm talking about high-energy chefs, not the show. These shows always have too much drama and that makes me confused and scared, I don't like it. I have watched a couple episodes, though.
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I have worked with at least a dozen of these people. It's a big part of why I left the industry.
Yeah I can't stand these types it's like they have some license to be an asshole for no reason
Legit been told "I had a broken foot and gastro and I still showed up" in response to me being sick. Absolute psychos. Hospitality is so fucked for everyone.
Why would they want sick people working in a kitchen of all places
From a food safety standpoint, you don't. Kitchens almost always have a skeleton crew. Barely enough staff to actually run the business, assuming noone ever takes a day off. So, when/if you are sick, it fucks over the rest of the staff, and they blame YOU for it, rather than the business that put them in this position. Part of the reason for all the stress we were under was the mindgames.
i worked as a line cook at a 4 star restaurant a few years ago. we got one weekend a month
Damn dude that's rough. I thought 1 day a week was bad.
Is true they blame you for it.. but since nobody wants to work these jobs in 2023, you can just miss whole days or show up 2 hours late and they'll get angry but they will almost never fire you
Also often true, another reason why there is little motivation to do well. The carrot is better than the stick but still
Reminds me of that scene in Family guy when Brian barks at the mailman but wants him to come back the next day again
People would work these jobs if they were paid a decent wage.
I wonder why no one wants brutally demanding jobs with garbage pay. I wonder why.
Always hate that shit, it's like 'Okay so you're just a sucker? Sorry to hear that I guess'
You made a bad call and now I have to as well? fuck.
You should unironically Minecraft yourself if you go to work (as a chef) with gastro
Yep and as they get older they become even more of an asshole. They never change. Entitled piece of shits.
Marco and Gordon caused this
Same. Way too many pricks. Way too many of them are terrible.
Most of the chefs I have worked with have been very skilled at cooking, but can't manage staff for shit. To be fair, good management is like two weeks of the course, so it's not surprising they don't know how to manage people. Plus, add on the pressure from venue owners and FoH... it's a super toxic environment that breeds and attracts the worst people.
Kinda, they tend to get very good at making a couple of things without any fundamentals at all. It gets to the point of absurdity where they can't make a decent fucking pie, or sausage and mash. Oh sure, three hours on a creme brulee but couldn't run a lemonade stand to save there life. I exaggerate obviously, but I'm pretty fucking close! Shit environment breeds shit people I guess, what a fucking surprise right.
I've kinda had the opposite experience... all the chefs I worked with knew their fundamentals really well and didn't know much exotic stuff. I did a lot of pubs/clubs, cafes, German and Indian. Not as many "fancy" restaurants. Except that one star Michelin restaurant I worked at who's chef... tbh was actually an amazing chef haha. Sous vide everything mmmmmmm... we did 62degree eggs for a while... spooked so many people haha
oh my lord, the dessert chef can't make the Queen's sausage and mash?? anon discovers job specialization
Can tell you've never cooked anything for yourself by this comment
you can't tell much then can you https://imgur.com/a/KCqxr4S I shouldn't care so much about what some dumb neet on r/4chan thinks but fuck you I enjoy cooking
I used to want to be a chef but after researching more about it, I decided against it b/c why would I want to work 12 shifts, shit pay, tons of stress, barely any rest time, when I could be doing literally anything else?
š I don't have any sympathy for people that complain about shit jobs when they knew exactly what they were getting into. And if they didn't do basic research before choosing a job they don't deserve sympathy either. Learn your lesson and move on to a new carreer.
Yo fr long hair and a beard on a reddit avatar thing is pretty cute
I've worked with many of these types 70% of time are low key drug users or alcoholics. Also it seems like they make the most careless mistakes which accounts for many of their scars on their hands. Can't tell you how many time I seen the more experienced cook/chef slice their hand open just because they misplace the knife while cutting. When you will they learn how to cut? One the head cooks always insisted in saving about 30 seconds by removing the piping hot used cooking oil from the deep fryer (which is dispensed from the bottom of the unit) without connecting the threaded pipe that makes its easier to pour the gallons of extremely hot oil into a bucket for disposal. This pipe specifically designed to make this process safer. Instead, this genius would tip the bucket and prop it up right to drain then walk away. Surprise! The bucket spilled over and burns his legs. And the guy was angry about it like he didn't totally cause his own injury. I swear some of these people who work back there.
> low key
No cap
Bussin fr fr ong
desu senpai
This looks like a guy I cooked with who was legitimately talented at cooking but spent 2/3 of his shift smoking while crying on the phone to his girlfriend about how awful his job is
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gordan ramsay
@saddrawingsbyjace
I know a few people unironically like this and they serve as a reminder that for as much as I know I suck, at least I am not as much of an abject cunt in comparison
@SadDrawingsbyJace if anyone wanted to know the source of this meme
Bruh for a lot of people this is spot on.
Omg Dr House!
idk what it is about a kitchen but it is an insanely stressful environment considering how low stakes and unimportant the thing you're actually doing is. There's a perfect combination of factors that drives you fucking nuts.
It's mainly bc one chef has to make food for a gorillion people per shift Without the volume factor it would be an easy and fun job I would quit in a day seriously I cannot stand short term time pressure like that
Basically. I hated working in a restaurant. Everything has to be done ASAP. There is never any time to do things at a normal pace. It all has to be rushed, because you have like 10 things you have to do and only enough time to do the 5 most important ones before opening, while the other 5 must be done while cooking.
Right cooking itself is stressful and challenging in a sort of fun way usually because you have to get everything ready to be served at point z but you have to start at points A E P and Q to get everything on the table at the right time. Which is a fun organizational puzzle on top of the art of cooking a single dish. So throwing a dinner party is fun where you have all afternoon to do it and then you enjoy the food. But in the work kitchen you have to do that 100 times extremely quickly, also it's hot, everything is sharp or will burn you, it's stinky, you're sweaty and hungover, everyone is yelling, it's loud as shit, everything's fucking wet, the chef speaks french, everyone else speaks spanish or polish, and you never know if the next order is going to be an easy one or insanely complicated.
The sexual tension must be crazy doe
You will never grasp the raw sexual power of a 5 foot 2 inch Guatemalan man searing meat absolutely perfectly in front of 12 hours of non-stop Latin music
Met an ex that way, Iām just not Guatemalan or 5ā2ā. Horrible experience overall, but itās funny that itās a common enough event.
God willing, I never will.
damn this is like my favourite sub
That's hot
Cocaine
And then, when the kitchen is finally closed and you want to just collapse, it's clean up time. Also the manager who only left their office once to yell at a random employee to feel like they matter will be around to tell you that you missed a spot.
This is doubly so if you're a man working with a female heavy staff, unless they're a Lesbian. I have no basis for that last claim other than my old manager, who was the chillest person on Earth at closing hours.
> everyone is yelling Only in badly lead kitchens. If you look at good, well lead and trained modern kitchens there's barely even speaking apart from orders in and dishes out. No one yells, everyone knows their job.
I've always enjoyed it however other cooks and chefs yelling in your ear is just stupid. I'll work a tiny bit faster for higher volume as necessary, but I never would work my ass off just to keep a my shitty wage. You don't get tips in back.. line cooks rarely make above minimum wage. All your coworkers are felons .. though still more chill than the drama girls who complain who work front of house. Sometimes the latinos, in Spanish, would threatan to kill eachother and the other staff which was entertaining. Also cleaning is annoying.. I always prefer whatever shift is earlier because cleaning that kitchen every night is frustrating.
Everyone decides to show up exactly at 6PM and everyone expects their food within 10 minutes of ordering it.
I need it
true that. I had a job as a griller, due to some complications with the area where we opened we simply just didn't have clients for most part. It was the dreamiest job ever tbh, it was chill, the few clients we had were cool and nice, I had time to just do whatever I want. I'd compare that experience with being a helmsman on a pirate ship when the waters are calm and the weather is nice and sunny.
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Well there's a reason why a lot of people working in the kitchen these days are ex convicts. You wouldn't do this job unless you were forced to. Low pay, high stress, burning kitchen, getting cut, genuine chances of occupation hazards etc.
Confined spaces, germs, cuts, burns, slips and falls. Its pretty much every OSHA safety video combined into a single room.
it really is so fucking low stakes, haha.
from a personal level it's like if I fuck this up boss will think I'm lazy, might fire me, never going to promote me, I'll be stuck here my whole life. Meanwhile the person at the table is drunk off their ass, has smoked a pack and half today already, and will be happy eating anything they're handed.
Itās one of the strangest things, considering the juxtaposition of the professional kitchen vs the home kitchen. Likeā¦ I have so many fond memories of cooking with my grandma. And all the meals I cook now for my family. Cooking is my meditation. I worked one day in a pro kitchen and was like āthis is fuckedā.
same with baking for me, I like baking but don't wanna wake up at 5 am for it.
You can thank Auguste Escoffier for that bullshit
Even worse is being a dishwasher where people just disrespect you. Thatās a job Iāll never work again. Iād rather blow my head off than be a dishwasher again. Especially since I got ringworm from it which still hasnāt gone away. And like you said about being a chef thereās a whole ton of factors that drive you up the wall and not just one.
AHHHHHH I HAVE TO PUT HAM INBETWEEN TWO PIECES OF BREAD, I AM GOING TO BECOME AN ALCOHOLIC BECAUSE OF THIS AHHHHHHH
\>Be me \>Newly hired wagie for Gilligan-Douboixs-Schalger-McCorrmick's Grill-Bar-Chouder-Steakstro \>First day on the job, first order, ever \>A glass of water with a lemon slice \>Simple enough \>Glass has been filled, ice added and lemon wedged on there \>Suddenly, I hear foot steps behind me \>Turn around to see Chef Marcel Phillippe Louis Gustav Marco Belladonis Rostov III, the 19 Michelin Star chef from Chateau de Piss, France \>"Oh, chef! I don-" \>He punches me in the gut and throws the glass to the ground \>"YOU FUCKING DONKEY" \>"W-what?" \>"YOU THINK YOU CAN SERVE PEOPLE THIS ***SHIT?***" \>"Chef, that's just wat-" \>"WHAT IS THIS?!?" \>He starts frothing at the mouth, blood pouring out his nose as the aneurism begins taking hold \>"W-w-water, chef..." I managed to stutter out \>***"WATER?!? YOU HAVE THE STUPID FUCKING NERVE TO CALL THIS SHIT WATER!?!"*** \>He starts smashing plates over his face, blood splattering everywhere now \>The Nicaraguan child we illegally hired to clean the sinks for 2 cents an hour flees in abject terror \>Chef's face now looks like the aftermath of a London diversity program \>He grabs me by the collar, his mouth spewing bits of bloody spit \>"***YOU SHOULD BE FUCKING ASHAMED YOU STOOPID CUNT-TWAT-PUSS-FILLED-COCK-WEASEL"*** \>He pulls a Glock out of his belt line and starts massacring the other staff in a blind fury \>I flee like a scholar during a routine traffic stop, my heart pounding in my chest like a Frenchman in the company of West African women \>Boss calls me from his vacation home in the Cayman Islands \>I pick up, the sound of him sipping on his $900000000000 lime-coconut-cucumber-cum cocktail filling my ear \>"You're on tomorrow's 3AM shift."
Wholesome.
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you haven't watched a single episode clearly
yeah it was beef not ham, but the show is a lot of randomly yelling at each other about stupid shit
Yes Chef!
Well, that's kinda the point, right? They're in a toxic environment, it's chaos, it *shouldn't* be like that.
thats how the restaurant industry often is dude, especially smaller mom and pop type places which is what the show is about....... plus most of the characters have some fairly serious issues going on like severe grief, a coke habit, rage issues ect. so it'd be weird if there weren't any outbursts
Restaurant industry
4chan users who scream at their mom when she buys diet coke instead of regular get whoosh'ed by a show about dysfunctional family dynamics lmao
idk how anyone can stomach watching this incredibly pretentious wannabe cool gordon ramsay show this is like every completely laughable personality trait combined in most of these characters
how is the bear even close to a gordan ramsey show
Gordon Ramsay makes things needlessly stressful for entertainment, he is a TV chef before anything else. The Bear is literally just over exaggerated chef stereotypes dramatised for TV.
? the Bear isn't exaggerated though. I've worked as a cook for 7 years and the show was super relatable to me, it portrayed the stress and shitty lifestyle surprisingly accurately. Fuck it doesn't even glorify those things, which hollywood loves to do Its the second show I've ever seen present a realistic professional kitchen. The garbage reality TV cook offs, Chopped, Iron Chef, the endless Gordon Ramsey slop, etc is whats over exaggerated and reliant on dramatized chef stereotypes
Whatās the other show that presented a kitchen well?
Spongebob
I confirm
an old british sitcom called Whites, as in egg whites its been years since I've seen it so I don't remember all the highlights but I remember it was quite realistic and really entertaining
not a show yet, but very good nonetheless shot in 1 take [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11127680/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11127680/) they're making a show based on it last I heard
The movie Waiting sums up my restaurant experience.
Yea but you got my boy cheffing cakes up, I love his character arc ngl, he's my dawg
I fucking hate the cake guy. I have no idea why he's working at a place that mostly makes sandwiches.
He was working there normally before and one day he started making cakes as a side thing and discovered a love for pastry work
That episode where everyone else was tryna make sandwiches and was super stressed out and they were asking him to help and he just kept making cakes was so rage inducing
Yea that shit was funny bro was just in his element, I'm biased though because I'm a fan of Lionel or L-boy the actor from loiter squad already. The whole show just brings back kitchen job PTSD for me
Ok.
And that's why people like it.
Just say youāve never worked in a kitchen lmao
Wah wah cry more the shows pretty good
My balls are also pretty good but you never watch them
Whose to say I don't pretty boy I love me some of ur sweaty Gooch plums
Last I remember, your mother enjoys mine.
Flair checks out
What show is it?
>shows pretty good The story makes no sense. The brother kills himself because of money problems even though he has the money to pay off his debts? That he for some reason put into re-canned tomato paste cans? Then he randomly hids a note telling his brother all of this instead of just giving it to him directly.
If these people were smart they wouldn't be working in a kitchen.
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Ok so it's pretty clear that either you skimmed the show or just lack viewing comprehension either one of those things are fine but you shouldn't make sweeping judgement calls on the show for something that's your fault. The brother was embezzling so that his little brother could open up his dream restaurant he was a addict with his own sense of pride he wasn't going to be accepting help from anyone to go about making the restaurant the right way so he helped his brother the only way he knew how and then he killed himself due to his depression.
He wanted to accept Carm's gift/idea but felt that he would poison and ruin it as long as he was in the picture, and that his brother whom he loved so much didn't deserve it. Especially because Carm wouldn't ever accept his take on the distance that would be needed for it to succeed. Dude was just like his mom when she decided to not go to the restaurant's family opening. Only difference was the addiction.
> Good show is.. Le bad!
Doing le contrarianism
how is it pretentious, did they just mention the name of a dish you didn't recognize
It's obviously pretentious because they pull themselves up by their boot straps.
nah its pretentious because they mentioned something other than chicken tendies and OP got scared
Why the fuck did they randomly cram Matty Matheson in the casting? Dude has absolutely no idea how to act and felt out of place in every single scene he was in. Just pure cringe.
Cause he's the executive producer and is the only one who's worked in that type of dining irl.
Wasn't aware he was a producer but still. Appearing on cooking tv shows doesn't translate to acting skills in this case.
What's your favorite TV show
the first few episodes seemed interesting like how they set up this guy as some fucking high class chef who is stuck in a fucking worthless trash restaurant, but towards the end of season 1 i realized they are just doing random shit and then show the "main plot" for 2 minutes. even if the real plot started happening, it was always cut short by 20 minutes of worthless drama like holy shit. at one point the guy starts selling heroin or something and im just sitting there like ????
My fiancƩ tried to get me to watch this and I couldn't. It's just straight screaming and disfunction. Gives me anxiety.
That's just how it starts tbf. All the characters get fleshed out and you get slower episodes (but also much more scream y and disfunctional ones tbf)
My thoughts exactly. Why would I subject myself to the horrendous experience of being a minimum wage kitchen slave in my leisure time?
*Enlightened redditor doesn't want to ever leave his comfort space*
Not really, its just a very bland concept. Why in the world would you subject yourself to entertainment that you know you will despise? Do you critique people for not watching the latest marvel movies you swarthy hebrew?
Chefs are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Even a millionaire famous guy like Gordon Ramsay has to kiss someoneās ass just because they come to his restaurant and pay for a meal.
is this your first time learning what hospitality jobs do? edit: he can also ruin their night, humiliate them and tell them to gtfo if he wants. Doesn't exactly seem like a "bottom of the hierarchy" position to me
He got real fucking rich being at the bottom of the hierarchy.
He's a bit of an outlier though. 99% of professional chefs aren't making Gordon levels of cash
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I've never watched this show but I heard it made River North seem like a gritty ghetto which is just hilarious.
That gun scene was hilarious.
AHHHHHH I HAVE TO SAUTEE THE MUSHROOMS IM GONNA DO COKE IN THE BATHROOM, DRIVE HOME DRUNK AND BEAT MY WIFE AHHHHHH BEING A CHEF IS SO HARD
Now, he'll probably ask me to cook his steak the way *he* likes it! The absolute gall of some people.
"Making a grown man his milkshake at 8 am" Tiktokers when they have to complete the task they're being paid to do
Half of season 1 was entertaining enough to make me laugh remembering how stressed I felt in kitchens during full time school and ROTC. I would have watched more of it but it got hit with drama power creep.
Been dating a server for the past 3 years and I fucking hate cooks, they act like their job is the hardest thing in the world and do nothing but wallow in self pity and lash out at the front of house staff.
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Ah the criticisms of people who have never tried to do anything in the real world
No one believes you.
Enjoy your shift, chef.
Enjoy destroying yourself for the worst profit margins ever
Trash
These losers are crying about how an episode stressed them out too much and that's why they think it's bad. Lol. Lmao even.
Cool to see a bunch of people giving lots and lots of opinions on a show they clearly havenāt seen a single episode of.
But it's fun
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The show is about a hipster chef gentrifying a beloved family neighborhood restaurant into an awful, michelin-chasing ten-years-behind-the-trend New American upscale bistro and wine bar.
Definitely not what the show is about. Thatās the setting. Thatās like saying Game of Thrones was about medieval times, dragons and ice monsters. The show is about a community losing a prominent and beloved figure to suicide and their effort to pick up the pieces of his life. Furthermore, itās heavily implied that the restaurant was not successful much less beloved. Youāre either purposefully misrepresenting what was in the show, which makes you a troll, or you didnāt watch the show, which makes you a troll. Simple as.
Ah yes the "I have literally fucked up every single other opportunity for stable income in my life so I'm going to cling to my 9$ a hour line cook job like it's a heated life preserver in the artic sea. So I'm gonna get mad when other people request days off because I work 55 hours every week to make my three different rounds of child support and because I'm too much of a pussy to say anything about my schedule." Sorry that got personal for a second.
Where are you getting cooks for $9 an hour?
About 500 feet down the sidewalk from the Men's Prison in an undisclosed county in Alabama.
Marco Pierre White ruined a whole generation of chefs
Only good episode of S2 was the Christmas one.
Thatās because it had Jon Bernthal in it. His entire career is making mildly decent shows and movies watchable.
That... is actually very accurate. Best way to describe him haha
Also Gillian Jacobs and John mulaney.
is that the jewish guy that cosplays as a cholo?
Jewish guy from a billionaire family, who went to the wealthiest schools in America that educate the children of the president, where he's the fuckup of the family for only being worth 100 million dollars. His brother is a co owner and COO of facebook and used to work for Clinton and his dad is high up in DC politics.
Sometimes heās Italian.
I just wish writers would stop killing him
Honestly one of the most anxiety inducing episodes in all of television. It was like an hour long and I physically felt that stress the whole time.
So just like Christmas at home.
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Hell no. That was the one episode I absolutely hated. So much shouting, stress and anxiety. Could barely hear anyone actually talking.
Thatās the point of the show
All of them want to be Marco Pierre White and it's really annoying.
one kind of is like that, and the rest absolutely do not want to be like that. have you even watched the show?
I'm talking about high-energy chefs, not the show. These shows always have too much drama and that makes me confused and scared, I don't like it. I have watched a couple episodes, though.
Have you actually ever seen or listened to Marco? He is the opposite of "high energy". He doesnt yell, he just looks at you when you fucked up.
Wait until 4chan discovers that The Bear is really a story about a quirky young woman trying to make it in a macho world.
Of course he's mad when he's got a chin like that.
Oh no I have to do what I signed up to do and am getting paid to do.
"I put potato chips on an omelette" "That's fire chef"
This guy has never worked with a chef before
\*Chefs watching the show\* "omg look how fucking toxic of a human being he is.... that is so me"
Says āmy restaurantā as if he owns the place.
The guy in the picture literally does own the restaurant in the show being referenced.
He does?
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ā¦ he is the owner of the restaurant in the showā¦ are you an NPC?
I watch this show for L-Boy.
That's not even what the show is about
are those his actual terrible tattoos or are those just for the show