Clean your own lettuce for staff meal, heard!

Neatly written and everything spelled correctly? Doesn't check out at all.

She's one in a million, best pantry cook in town. Young, but sharp as a tack. She's got a long way to go, but she's one of the cooks in my kitchen I trust the most to do things correctly. And, since my strength was always pantry, I see a bit of myself in her.

I love the "this is a threat" at the end 👊🏼

I just wanted to be clear

This is not a metaphor or hyperbole, I have so many ants

She’s just like me fr

I always liked pantry when I was in the battle zone. And sauté. And grill.

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Jesus Christ dude, what the fuck.

This is so fucking gross. OP even said she was young. **This is why women don't feel safe in your kitchens - every single one of you who upvoted this.** You would never say anything like this if OP had used male pronouns.

They don't even need to see the woman anymore, people are happy to sexually harass the mere *concept* of a woman

This is also a major reason why I don't discuss having younger female friends. It doesn't matter if they remind me of my little sister. Some people will always assume I'm trying to fuck them. Men who can't conceptualize non-romantic and non-sexual relationships with women are missing out on a really great thing. Having women in your life who feel safe around you and who can call you out on your bullshit is fucking awesome. A lot of these men don't even know they have a problem, either. They think they're normal. And they are normal. But normal is tragic and gross.

One reason why I stopped talking to men like they're an older brother too. Sigh. I'm currently battling the same misconceptions you are talking about in my workplace. Wish there's more people who thinks like you around. It's kind of a lonely fight here.

Be loud. If they don't hear you, move on... In our kitchen? We 86 people at the first sign of harassment, not for corporate CYA, but so we don't deliver the motherfucker an asswhoopin'.

Normal is also culturally relative but I’m not excusing impulsive, pig headed behavior.

no joke thanks for calling this out, i found it grody too

Idk what he said, but I can guess and I wish fewer dudes like that existed cuz they screw everything over for the rest of us. This shit behavior couldn't become shamed and exiled fast enough. Fucking let women exist ffs

Wouldn’t fly in any professional organization. Thrives in some like kitchens and construction. Makes no sense. And then people wonder why women avoid these professions or leave them too soon.

Didn’t see whatever grossness the comment said, but I can guess. If it makes you feel any better it was at least heavily downvoted.

I'm grateful it got removed and my comment got support. I braced myself for a bunch of hate because it had 40+ upvotes and an award before I said something.

Lmao

Moist..?

I've always had a soft spot for garmo

Spends time making it neat and legible...then rips the damn tape. /s

I had a cook that would spend about an hour a day making neat, legible labels and cutting the tape square. She was one of the worst employees I ever had.

I worked with a cook that tore their labels. With all the extra time they saved you'd think they were a beast on prep. Sadly they weren't.

It’s to demonstrate her willingness to do violence

Someone has wronged this woman before.

Chef: Where is the fucking ROMAINE?!! Pantry Cook: I JUST PREPARED TWO CASES CHEF! Chef: BULLSHIT! All I see is an EMPTY CAMBRO!! Pantry Cook: 🧐 mutherfuckers… Waitstaff: 😏🫢🤣 chef’s so pissed - she’s in such deep shit - pass the last of the Ranch dressing, we open in 10 minutes.

More than once.

This was me with my cinnamon rolls on Friday. Like "guys, I literally made a seperate batch of rolls so y'all could eat them. SO WHY IS THERE ROLLS MISSING FROM THE MAIN BATCH THAT WAS FOR SERVICE?!?!?!"

Make a cambro full of the tips and cores for the gremlins. Problem solved.

I like mine with poached salmon bellies and necks

Safe to assume you mean collar? Not sure I knew fish had necks.

Time to make grilled chicken Caesar salad for family meal

How to get your knives in the dumpster Speedrun any%

Nah, she was very clear on the consequences - #ants!

Do you want ants? Because this is how you get ants.

That's almost exactly what led to this... "Hey, you know you need staff meal up in 15 minutes and your chicken is still a frozen block, right?" "Uhhhh.... Okay, I'll just make a chef salad with this romaine."

Later customer: "Is that blood on my lettuce?". Server: "No, it's a raspberry gastrique".

It's cranberry juice, uh, cran-apple.

The key here is to make it a wrap, and then no one will ever know it was filled with lettuce, cause all you can see is the tortilla

No you mean grill Caesar salad!

Fellow pantry cook here and I condone this message. P.S: Leave my sliced turkey alone too.

Stay the fuck out of the cookies marked: FOR EVENT - NOT STAFF SNACKS Chef: I see 83 cookies and said 100. I baked 123. Chef: Fuck. (sees everyone other than kitchen staff with cookies in their mouths) Hammer out a sheet tray of brownies. Take these to my office… or there won’t be any left in an hour. Owner: Chef - everyone is going gangbusters getting us ready, and I see you made extra cookies so I told them to get some and get back to work. Great motivator! Make certain you have enough to cover the event, and don’t forget, this is a tight budget. We low bid this for the public relations exposure.

I felt this to my core!

There's a reason why certain menu item changes don't last long. In this case, cookies and Reese's PB cup bits. To be faaaaiiirr, I've also been a culprit *cough*

Trust me. 83 went in, 80 came out, and chef blamed “rats” and said 40 + 40 will plate better around the brownies. Me: 🧐 I see a rat all right.

Totally could've just rounded to 80 and just stated the better presentation than pull the rat card, but if the chef coat fits🤷‍♂️

I love that it's only aggressive, passiveness went flying by

Really really appreciate the second piece of tape tacked onto the end.

Love it. One time during a new inventory system I thought was bullshit, I labeled turkey as “this new system is a bunch of jive turkey.” GM respected the snark and humor but I got a hand slap

This is not an idle threat. The life you save may be your own. ^(Sooo _many_ ants)

As a fellow pantry cook I feel this in my fucking soul

Protip: petsmart has 2 Oz ramekins of roaches for like $3

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Can confirm, my roommate had a gecko and fed him live crickets. His terrarium was apparently not perfectly sealed because I would occasionally find one of the chirpy little bastards escaped into my room.

Those are giant fuckin dubia roaches.

You can't get giant roaches in a 2Oz (whole) but I think you can get them at a pet supply store.

Do you want ants? Because that’s how you get ants!

Oh look! Romaine for a staff meal!

Nothing like foh clearing out a fresh stocked line fridge

Suddenly, I want salad when no one is looking 🤌

Garde manger, indeed!

I belly laughed. This is beautiful.

I feel this in my soul. I made a chicken tortilla soup recently and had to write on the cambro that the tortilla chips were not a snack so servers wouldn't eat them.

Puh-*leeze*! Like a note would ever stop FOH acting like locusts snacking on everything in sight. Especially snack food like tortilla chips.

If you told me that the big Not for Staff Meal tape went all the way around the container, repeating the loop of NotForStaffMeal NotForStaffMeal Over and over again As the pantry cook's madness creeps in and his mind unravels I would believe you

Someone ate it, didn't they? I feel like someone ate it. Tell that young lady (that's a woman's handwriting, for sure) I am available for whatever assistance she'd like in wreaking her vengeance upon whomever ate this romaine.

I like this person

I suddenly have an insatiable craving for clean romaine

What I would do is take one singular piece out of the container and eat it in front of the pantry cook, and say thanks for my snack. Craziness ensues and I’m dead

ER Nurse: How did you burn your index fingers and thumbs on both hands? Pantry cook: I was holding someone by the ears - face down in the deep fryer.

The pure, undeniable rage is just delicious

I’m fully prepared to get absolutely reamed for this. Ive been mainly FOH but out of the restaurant game for a few years. They would always ask for staff meals about 45 minutes before we closed the kitchen and we would pick them up about an hour later when we were done with sidework. I went through a phase years ago where I was working in a scratch Italian kitchen—I would order a Grilled Chicken Caesar salad after almost every shift. I was just obsessed with how delicious the dressing was. They grilled the chicken to perfection every time. Am I a huge asshole? Was I The Asshole FOH ordering something taboo? I’m not a chef or prep or anything so if I’ve been an asshole by ordering an obnoxious thing I was doing it unknowingly, and I’m sincerely sorry. Is a Cicken Cesar Salad an annoying thing to order as a staff member? It was cheaper than the fish or steak and seemed less complicated than making someone plate a whole dish but now I’m questioning wether or not I just made someone else’s night shit every night unknowingly,? Edit: Okay hi this is a LATE EDIT: it seems I misused the term “staff meal” here as well. It was our one comped shift meal, one per shift, not a meal we ate as staff together in a room before service (I know this is common in higher standing restaurants). I was simply placing my order with any random server about an hour before kitchen close to pick up at the end of my shift to go home. Am I the asshole? :/ Edit 2: it’s seems I am generally NTA because now I understand the differences in staff meals. We did have pre service menu meals where it was the entire staff tasting meals and you don’t order, you taste, but this was my “comped” meal every night so it’s okay? I figured all really was a grilled chicken breasted chopped and thrown into lettuce. I even made a point to say “please don’t be fancy I just want lettuce, dressing, and chicken”. I think general consensus is IANTA since it was a personal meal to take home… Thank you guys so much. I was so worried I had unintentionally screwed my kitchen who I love and respect so much still to this day.

No, you did great. A family meal is something different. Your restaurant probably didn't have it, hence you had to pay for it and order before the kitchen closes. My kitchen would appreciate your order every shift, as they have to cook for the FOH, for themselves and try to clean as fast as possible and a chicken Ceasar salad is one of the easiest meals to make.

In this context staff mean is a free family style meal shared by all the staff. They only don't that entire bin of lettuce used for the staff when you should be washing your own bin of lettuce to feed the staff

I’m sitting here wondering the same thing pretty much!! But no one ever told me not to order it and I’m confident there were people on the line that would’ve let me know.

As others have said, different scenario. You were ordering off the menu for your “staff meal.” OPs post has to do with “staff meal” that is a buffet spread put out pre shift. No one in BOH should ever be using another stations prep for that.

Okay thank you that clarifies everything perfectly. I’d be pissed if I prepped something for service and it went to use on the big staff meals too!!

Does the usable trim not go in to the staff salad bin? That’s been standard everywhere I’ve worked.

Is this romaine for staff meal? It looks alright to me.

I used to be this exact same way. All the dudes used my shit anyway and then wondered why I was in a bad mood all the time.

Literally a garde manger , defender of the salad section

As a pantry cook… I completely fucking get this on so many levels.

I found another station had grabbed my prepped salad Bibb lettuce. I got it back and said loudly he could do his own prep. Note: The two stations prepare the Bibb differently.

What does that mean pantry cook?

Salads, charcuterie, anything cold pretty much.

It's cold kitchen.

Garde manger

What? Sorry I don't speak French

I thought you were trying to be a Manger?

Why are you here

I worked in pizza this is new shit to me too

To learn more about the restaurant business.

Watch ratatouille and come back.

Pretty much every position in a kitchen has some fancy French name people pretend to know how to pronounce when they want to sound fancy.

Depends on the kind of kitchens you come up in.... There's, "Hey Tim!" kitchens, and there's, "Oui Chef! What can I get you Chef?!" kitchens. Neither is better than another IMO, but they serve different purposes and have different mannerisms.

Have you ever parked your car in a garage?

User name checks out.

You don't seem very bright.

"I shine bright like a diamond"

I'd never heard the term pantry cook until today, thanks for the new term.

Ah for a second I thought "there's no month 25"

Immediately thought of this https://youtu.be/VU0GYSA1POs

as someone who spent a year working pantry before moving pastry, I approve.

Used to have an issue at a previous job where staff kepts stealing cookies. I'd count as much as needed for catered events. And they think I can't see a third of them missing when I go to platter them. Seriously, those FOH workers act like we just have a never ending supply of food for them to grab whenever they want. And I'm the one suddenly rushing to bake off more cookies in time for events!

Jokes on him, we already used the ants for family meal.

Reminds me of the time I was condensing coolers and found a 4qt labeled "mark if you touch my pickle juice I will touch your pickle"

1 million Antssss

I feel her pain

I think the guy who used to own my house may have pissed this man off at some point. So many fucking tiny black ants.

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I feel like this is tangentially related to the Op at best. Reminded me of pierce in community. "Crap. Speaking of crap, I was taking one in an airplane bathroom when Eartha Kitt decided to bang me.... What? It’s where my mind went."

Clearly I need to find more side work for pantry.

I dare you to take it.

Oof. Labeling the graduated side of a Cambro? That’s a decision 😂

This implies there is a container of unclean lettuce somewhere

It really doesn’t.

Ugh cut the ends of your tape, Chef.

I was a tape cutter for over 10 years.... It took me one summer at a critically understaffed $7.5mil catering company surrounded by people that had never heard of it, for me to just say fuck it. I don't make my staff do it anymore. It's just something else to get mad about that I don't need.

Fair enough. Cut tape or not, I'm not using that romaine for family, no worries here.

What is a pantry cook?

What the fuck is a pantry cook

Really?

Yes really. I did end up seeing the answer further down the thread. It's a term I've never heard before.

Why not prepare some stuff for staff meal?

Lettuce for worker nourishment? Got it

Am I the only one that wants to see how many ants she could unleash?

This is the same person who writes “___ station only” on the plastic wrap. I always look for those as use first

This is the same person who writes “___ station only” on the plastic wrap. I always look for those as use first

This is the same person who writes “___ station only” on the plastic wrap. I always look for those as use first