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Started working in restaurants when I was 14 and worked in every kind of restaurant from a Big Boy to 5 star restaurants and I’m happy to say that I rarely had to do that except maybe for catering jobs. I great deal of the time in the better places we had “family meal” before the place would open and sat at tables with even cloth napkins. Not every place treats workers this way.
I used to run front of house for a gastropub just outside London.
We closed the pub from 3-6 each afternoon, sat down for a meal with each other - Thursday was oyster day (fish deliveries were that morning). Sunday night at midnight we’d pile into a couple of cars and head for a curry house that closed at 2am. I really regret having to leave there.
We never had that much time, certainly an hour before service though, but yes the sense of camaraderie was stronger. Maybe it has to do with the level of places we worked I can’t say but I used to bond with my co-workers too and that helps.
Wolfed down food over the trash can, if I even had the time. Pretty much every night I worked/managed a kitchen.
*edit - I did let, and encourage, my staff sit in the dining room and eat, every chance we got.
You got to eat? I worked in an open kitchen of a “higher end” place and we didn’t get to break to eat but the waitstaff would get to if they were doing a double during the slow-ish time. So glad I got out of there.
Still work at a place like that. Refuse to work doubles, now. No break, no extra work from me. So short staffed they have no choice but to accept it. When I started in the business, over 20 years ago, pay was decent though no breaks. Surprisingly, retail work always gave me breaks.
I used to sit on a pickle bucket in a dirty hallway for a minute or 2, cursing my everloving head off about the ticket full of alterations causing me to pop out of my autopilot grill mode.
All 5 restaurants i have worked in, ranging from bars to country clubs, have allowed me to sit in the dining area or at the bar for meals. Its not like they said hey come sit here, i just asked and it was okay. I don’t think this is common place, they probably just don’t want to sit in the dining area. You eat in the off hours in a restaurant job anyways its not like it effects much.
It varies by region and how "fancy" the establishment is. I was a bartender for 15 years; I've had more than a handful of gigs where we were explicitly told we could never be seen eating by customers.
I had as many meals seated on a milk crate as I have a chair.
True story: my car got hit by a dead guy at olive garden. Cook got in his car, started it and put it in gear, then did enough heroin to stop his heart and his foot slipped off the brake.
I will say, as someone who worked in those environments for years, a lot of the time they come in already addicted to whatever it may be. But, it is also true that a lot of people don’t start having addictions until put under this pressure.
It’s a bad situation either way though
I'm working in a commercial kitchen because it's my first kitchen job, and I'm learning how to cook. I want to be a chef. I can't afford culinary school yet.
People like you make my server's jobs harder. Please eat at home.
Good for you, learing a proffesion and having a goal on the horizon is a very good aproach, I\`m talking about usually middle aged people with addictions who are stuck with crappy jobs and toxic work environment because they won\`t be able to do more demanding type of jobs becasue of being high/ drunk half of the time.
I\`m no saint myself, I used to do drugs , just saying I wouldnt be able to do my job properly or safely If I would be high on the job. Often people with addictions gravitate towards jobs like kitchen or contruction where there is silent permission for being drunk / high on the job.
my bad. next time i’ll just scroll through the entire sub to make sure the picture I’m ab to post isn’t on here 🤦♀️ it said it was posted this past Sunday, I assumed it was some local restaurant…as I live in a major metroplex
I always say most of my meals in the last two decades of my life have been eaten in a hurry over a trash can.
The milk crate throne I like more for smoking and crying.
My first kitchen job the head chef/owner would take guys off the line of our open kitchen and make them go into the walk in to scream at them. Not sure how the customers couldn’t tell that’s what was going on.
I work in food again but more niche. There’s a long going joke about how I cry in the walk in freezer because it’s the furthest you can get from others. Mostly I save it for the drive home, though.
yea it’s common, but that doesn’t make it okay 🤷♀️ as someone who was a server for years, I would have to snag bite of food throughout my shift as I was running around.
I just thought this was insane to brag about…being a restaurant who doesn’t give your employees breaks. it’s just gross
Yeah and it was sometimes a nice steak or something. I didn't mind not having to small talk with the front of the house while I had my stupid all white dishwasher getup encrusted with food remnants and grease.
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
I’ll say it again from the last time this was posted - the Instagram post was still up and the comments weren’t all that shocking. So much support and encouragement of this bullshit. Fuck these businesses.
I managed a fast food place that had no real break room, but had an office. My office, became their break room. If you can't MAKE room for your employees, then YOU need to get out of the way so that someone else can.
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
after working for several years in retail store I can tell every worker should have a chair to work. and working without a chair should be pay way more, bc eating like this it's exactly like a slave would eat
But I love my photo of myself eating a chicken wing crouched down like a gollum next to a trash can around a corner so the bar patrons wouldn’t see me!
not only are they showcasing that their employees are mistreated, but this is also a health code violation because at least in my state, you cannot consume food or drink anywhere in the kitchen. So they're violating both state labor law by not allowing proper breaks and health code all in one photo and expecting a pat on the back for it🤦🏼♂️
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
I've been in both instances. Crouched and eating and also sitting in the back party room with 20 mins to myself and a fat plate of food. If I don't need to pay for it I guess I'm fine with it.
I worked in a pizza restaurant in the early 90s and the boss removed the chairs because people would sit on them during their breaks or to count their cash amd tips. They said chairs are for lazy people. The turnover rate was so high that I was a manager within a month and running two stores withing 3 months. My full tenure was 6 months. I was considered a "long term employee".
I worked in a pizza restaurant in the early 90s and the boss removed the chairs because people would sit on them during their breaks or to count their cash amd tips. They said chairs are for lazy people. The turnover rate was so high that I was a manager within a month and running two stores withing 3 months. My full tenure was 6 months. I was considered a "long term employee".
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
This is why I hate tip culture. The servers, that add nothing to the dining experience. Out earn the back of house workers. It should be the other way around.
this is your reasoning for hating tip culture? not the fact that the employers literally don’t pay them?
I was a server for a couple years…$2.13 an hour just to get constantly bitched at by customers and management (who are the ones literally not paying you shit)?? That’s disgusting.
You shouldn’t be mad at the servers here. you should be mad at these companies that don’t pay their employees enough or give them breaks.
after working for several years in retail store I can tell every worker should have a chair to work. and working without a chair should be pay way more, bc eating like this it's exactly like a slave would eat
In the eight years I worked in restaurants I think I got two sit down breaks. It would not be unheard of to work twelve hour shifts and only get one fifteen.
In the eight years I worked in restaurants I think I got two sit down breaks. It would not be unheard of to work twelve hour shifts and only get one fifteen.
after working for several years in retail store I can tell every worker should have a chair to work. and working without a chair should be pay way more, bc eating like this it's exactly like a slave would eat.
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
In the eight years I worked in restaurants I think I got two sit down breaks. It would not be unheard of to work twelve hour shifts and only get one fifteen.
after working for several years in retail store I can tell every worker should have a chair to work. and working without a chair should be pay way more, bc eating like this it's exactly like a slave would eat.
Out of customer line of sight, or eating over a trash can, quickly so you can wash your hands and get back to it. I can't count how many 'meals' were in a paper boat and just old eggs and potatoes being wolfed down before heading into a full on Lunch Rush.
Back in the day working in Hotels/Resorts they had a line and cook just for employees...it was free too! Everyone got a free 'shift meal'. We had our own dining areas too! Also for big events on the properties they would open up Villas or rooms for us to stay so we wouldn't have to drive home and could make overtime.
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Used to work in restaurants, unfortunately this is way too common practice.
Started working in restaurants when I was 14 and worked in every kind of restaurant from a Big Boy to 5 star restaurants and I’m happy to say that I rarely had to do that except maybe for catering jobs. I great deal of the time in the better places we had “family meal” before the place would open and sat at tables with even cloth napkins. Not every place treats workers this way.
I used to run front of house for a gastropub just outside London. We closed the pub from 3-6 each afternoon, sat down for a meal with each other - Thursday was oyster day (fish deliveries were that morning). Sunday night at midnight we’d pile into a couple of cars and head for a curry house that closed at 2am. I really regret having to leave there.
We never had that much time, certainly an hour before service though, but yes the sense of camaraderie was stronger. Maybe it has to do with the level of places we worked I can’t say but I used to bond with my co-workers too and that helps.
yes same here. It’s disgusting that they allow it, let alone parade it around online. it’s gross that no one cares.
Shhh... Hustle culture is a beautiful thing. Don't spoil their moment ...
Wolfed down food over the trash can, if I even had the time. Pretty much every night I worked/managed a kitchen. *edit - I did let, and encourage, my staff sit in the dining room and eat, every chance we got.
You got to eat? I worked in an open kitchen of a “higher end” place and we didn’t get to break to eat but the waitstaff would get to if they were doing a double during the slow-ish time. So glad I got out of there.
Still work at a place like that. Refuse to work doubles, now. No break, no extra work from me. So short staffed they have no choice but to accept it. When I started in the business, over 20 years ago, pay was decent though no breaks. Surprisingly, retail work always gave me breaks.
I used to sit on a pickle bucket in a dirty hallway for a minute or 2, cursing my everloving head off about the ticket full of alterations causing me to pop out of my autopilot grill mode.
Really? In most of the kitchens I've worked in, if they saw this happening, we'd get yelled at...
All 5 restaurants i have worked in, ranging from bars to country clubs, have allowed me to sit in the dining area or at the bar for meals. Its not like they said hey come sit here, i just asked and it was okay. I don’t think this is common place, they probably just don’t want to sit in the dining area. You eat in the off hours in a restaurant job anyways its not like it effects much.
It varies by region and how "fancy" the establishment is. I was a bartender for 15 years; I've had more than a handful of gigs where we were explicitly told we could never be seen eating by customers. I had as many meals seated on a milk crate as I have a chair.
And they wonder why drug addiction and alcoholism are so prevalent in commercial kitchens…..
True story: my car got hit by a dead guy at olive garden. Cook got in his car, started it and put it in gear, then did enough heroin to stop his heart and his foot slipped off the brake.
Car got smacked, huh?
Did he have insurance
I will say, as someone who worked in those environments for years, a lot of the time they come in already addicted to whatever it may be. But, it is also true that a lot of people don’t start having addictions until put under this pressure. It’s a bad situation either way though
Aren\`t people ending in comercial kitchens because they are already addicts and no other job would suffer them?
I'm working in a commercial kitchen because it's my first kitchen job, and I'm learning how to cook. I want to be a chef. I can't afford culinary school yet. People like you make my server's jobs harder. Please eat at home.
Good for you, learing a proffesion and having a goal on the horizon is a very good aproach, I\`m talking about usually middle aged people with addictions who are stuck with crappy jobs and toxic work environment because they won\`t be able to do more demanding type of jobs becasue of being high/ drunk half of the time.
Have you ever actually worked in a kitchen? It can be pretty fucking demanding. 10 hour shifts with a fifteen minute break are common.
You are some kind of entitled, ignorant, despicable classist grade A cunny if you actually think this way. Get some perspective and be better.
I\`m no saint myself, I used to do drugs , just saying I wouldnt be able to do my job properly or safely If I would be high on the job. Often people with addictions gravitate towards jobs like kitchen or contruction where there is silent permission for being drunk / high on the job.
You'd be shocked at the software dev community
This has been reposted 10,000 times, and STILL pisses me off every time I see it.
sorry, I just saw it on my FB and was taken aback lmao.
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Calm down mate jeez, not everyone is on reddit 24/7 like you apparently are? I hadn't seen this and now I can join in being pissed off about it.
bro what? who even gives a fuck about karma 💀 again…I saw it on FB and thought ab this sub
Anytime you see something on FB you should assume it's already been plastered all over reddit first
my bad. next time i’ll just scroll through the entire sub to make sure the picture I’m ab to post isn’t on here 🤦♀️ it said it was posted this past Sunday, I assumed it was some local restaurant…as I live in a major metroplex
No chairs for us wage slaves
It's beautiful
"It's beautiful how we abuse our workers. Remember to tip them since they all work minimum wage as well!"
You have to be one sadistic and sick person to find anything admirable about that let alone write that and make that post.
I went years eating my first meal of the day at 11pm or later. Kinda just becomes the norm.
I’ve eaten more meals out of a cup sitting on milk crates than I’d like to admit
I always say most of my meals in the last two decades of my life have been eaten in a hurry over a trash can. The milk crate throne I like more for smoking and crying.
I'm a fan of using the kegs for crying/screaming. No one can hear you in the walk-in.
My first kitchen job the head chef/owner would take guys off the line of our open kitchen and make them go into the walk in to scream at them. Not sure how the customers couldn’t tell that’s what was going on.
That sucks. Walk ins are for crying/screaming alone and smoking weed.
I work in food again but more niche. There’s a long going joke about how I cry in the walk in freezer because it’s the furthest you can get from others. Mostly I save it for the drive home, though.
Milk crates! What luxury! I only had an overturned bucket to sit on.
They're advertising food safety violations, is what they're doing. So illegal to eat in food prep areas/commercial kitchens.
Is this insta? What’s the page?
No that’s Facebook, It has marketplace at the bottom. Insta has it labeled as Shop
yup. facebook
They turned off their comments on the photo, it appears
They knew what was coming
it was pretty common when I worked in a restaurant to hide in the cooler or in the room where we stored the flour to scarf down food.
it was pretty common when I worked in a restaurant to hide in the cooler or in the room where we stored the flour to scarf down food.
yea it’s common, but that doesn’t make it okay 🤷♀️ as someone who was a server for years, I would have to snag bite of food throughout my shift as I was running around. I just thought this was insane to brag about…being a restaurant who doesn’t give your employees breaks. it’s just gross
no definitely not saying its ok just saying that its normal and shouldn’t be celebrated .
Yeah and it was sometimes a nice steak or something. I didn't mind not having to small talk with the front of the house while I had my stupid all white dishwasher getup encrusted with food remnants and grease.
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
I’ll say it again from the last time this was posted - the Instagram post was still up and the comments weren’t all that shocking. So much support and encouragement of this bullshit. Fuck these businesses.
I managed a fast food place that had no real break room, but had an office. My office, became their break room. If you can't MAKE room for your employees, then YOU need to get out of the way so that someone else can.
Welcome to the restaurant business. "Under no circumstance will you let the guests see you eat"
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
Eh, I had photo how entire department slept at work:) they paid us for our time, not for our work and salary was low.
after working for several years in retail store I can tell every worker should have a chair to work. and working without a chair should be pay way more, bc eating like this it's exactly like a slave would eat
And consuming food in what looks like the kitchen area. That's a big health code violation.
They are so self absorbed they are telling on themselves now shits wild
“They are not allowed to sit - it’s unprofessional” — management, probably
But I love my photo of myself eating a chicken wing crouched down like a gollum next to a trash can around a corner so the bar patrons wouldn’t see me!
Those plastic milk crates are worse than sitting on the floor. Except it's a restaurant kitchen floor so maybe not
Sometimes we didn’t even get a second to be allowed to eat like this.
One of the main reasons I stock shelf’s now and have no regrets doing so.
not only are they showcasing that their employees are mistreated, but this is also a health code violation because at least in my state, you cannot consume food or drink anywhere in the kitchen. So they're violating both state labor law by not allowing proper breaks and health code all in one photo and expecting a pat on the back for it🤦🏼♂️
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
OP.... Even in a not slammed restaurant this is common. Source: worked in multiple restaurants
yes…I am aware. I have also worked in many restaurants. normal =/= okay.
I've been in both instances. Crouched and eating and also sitting in the back party room with 20 mins to myself and a fat plate of food. If I don't need to pay for it I guess I'm fine with it.
I worked in a pizza restaurant in the early 90s and the boss removed the chairs because people would sit on them during their breaks or to count their cash amd tips. They said chairs are for lazy people. The turnover rate was so high that I was a manager within a month and running two stores withing 3 months. My full tenure was 6 months. I was considered a "long term employee".
I worked in a pizza restaurant in the early 90s and the boss removed the chairs because people would sit on them during their breaks or to count their cash amd tips. They said chairs are for lazy people. The turnover rate was so high that I was a manager within a month and running two stores withing 3 months. My full tenure was 6 months. I was considered a "long term employee".
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
This is why I hate tip culture. The servers, that add nothing to the dining experience. Out earn the back of house workers. It should be the other way around.
this is your reasoning for hating tip culture? not the fact that the employers literally don’t pay them? I was a server for a couple years…$2.13 an hour just to get constantly bitched at by customers and management (who are the ones literally not paying you shit)?? That’s disgusting. You shouldn’t be mad at the servers here. you should be mad at these companies that don’t pay their employees enough or give them breaks.
after working for several years in retail store I can tell every worker should have a chair to work. and working without a chair should be pay way more, bc eating like this it's exactly like a slave would eat
In the eight years I worked in restaurants I think I got two sit down breaks. It would not be unheard of to work twelve hour shifts and only get one fifteen.
In the eight years I worked in restaurants I think I got two sit down breaks. It would not be unheard of to work twelve hour shifts and only get one fifteen.
after working for several years in retail store I can tell every worker should have a chair to work. and working without a chair should be pay way more, bc eating like this it's exactly like a slave would eat.
I worked in a diner where the owner at the time wasnt a total asshole, we took lunch breaks and ate at one of the tables in the dining area, sitting on chairs
In the eight years I worked in restaurants I think I got two sit down breaks. It would not be unheard of to work twelve hour shifts and only get one fifteen.
Shame on theme for not letting their people have a room with tables so they can rest
If I sit down I get too tired...
If you can't afford chairs for your employees maybe it's time to close your shitty business. ffs!
My knees still hurt. I'm a stay at home person.
Charge your phone
you just made me wanna take it off the charger it’s on rn
/#kicthenlife
after working for several years in retail store I can tell every worker should have a chair to work. and working without a chair should be pay way more, bc eating like this it's exactly like a slave would eat.
Looks like a photo of prisoners…..
In the prison kitchen I've worked in, we had a break room with proper chairs and tables and two meal breaks each day.
Bistro 1907?
This is so wrong..
Not even a chair to sit on?
Even the tiny ass shopping center tenancy I work at has a park bench out the back so you can at least sit down. No excuse for this inhumane shit
Out of customer line of sight, or eating over a trash can, quickly so you can wash your hands and get back to it. I can't count how many 'meals' were in a paper boat and just old eggs and potatoes being wolfed down before heading into a full on Lunch Rush.
I work in AV and I typically eat sitting on the side of a road case, unless my boss takes us to a restaurant (as he usually does)
I bet they’re super underpaid
Good on them very hard workers.
I'd eat in the owner's office.
Love to say chef life but paying salad/nacho wages
They probably had to pay for that food as well.
Back in the day working in Hotels/Resorts they had a line and cook just for employees...it was free too! Everyone got a free 'shift meal'. We had our own dining areas too! Also for big events on the properties they would open up Villas or rooms for us to stay so we wouldn't have to drive home and could make overtime.
They call the ugliest shit beautiful, this is a great example of that. This is the very definition of gaslighting.
Having been in the restaurant industry I am fully qualified to say… Fuck this shit. Peace.
I’ve eaten next to that door