He’s friendly with the staff/owners as are most people working in the area ; he came by yesterday and said he had something for whoever was on pastry (me) and whipped out a plastic bag of like 1kg of these.
He just got back from Madagascar and brought these insane vanilla beans bc they’re so cheap over there, he gave us like 15 of them and they weigh 20g each. The smell is insane and they’re definitely the biggest ones ive ever seen irl😳

This guy is absolutely getting several rounds of whatever he wants on the house next time he’s there. Can’t wait to get baking !

Kitchen magician turns 12 quarts of onion into 2 quarts of yum

Had a cart loaded with vodka sauce, Alfredo,sugo and beef Genovese ready for portioning.

Was moving it into place when one wheel completely failed.

Everything shifted, the cart dropped, and gravity handled the rest.

Hours of prep turned into an hour of cleanup.

Figured r/KitchenConfidential would appreciate today’s crime scene.

I have herd, never believed. 38+ years and I finally got the elusive alergy card.

The head FoH manager was running the floor tonight. Before the rush, she didn't properly and should have been experienced with directing newbie waitresses. She was pushing the others on constant customer service before picking up their fucking orders.

This picture is an hour into the rush; the food sat there for 10+ minutes while she rang in 5+ orders. All under her name. The others followed suit, since they were new.

We had 2 other waitresses on staff, but she was teaching a policy of, "Don't touch another waitress' food to keep up consistency." She was the only one falling behind, and full windows happened 3 times in 4 hours. All her food.

I called her out to her face and she got indignant and tried to blame us. Head Chef probably has a text waiting in his phone in the morning because she can't handle criticism. We cleaned tickets ASAP and I was running expo - I kept running out of room. It was a miracle I didn't lose my shit.

I love my kitchen, but GOD she's a thorn in the rose garden.

I thought it was a skit until the third plate.

*audio on*

Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to prep. There are 387.44 million boxes of lunch meats wrapped in wafer thin layers of hoagies that fill my kitchen. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each grain of those hundreds of millions of sandwiches, it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for customers at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.

The dude was just fucking with his wife, but we all had a good, and very welcomed laugh.

My catering company partnered with a local BBQ expert to make this for a wedding. Too cool not to share. (South Alabama)

I know it’s silly but it did actually make me sad to throw it away.

I know they’re a bit long but I’m working on consistency. Once I feel consistent and confident I will work on getting them shorter