Thread 21553412

Is it worth pursusing a career in resturant if you enjoy cooking?

>>21553412 (OP)
no, unless you have zero other options

>>21553412 (OP)
no

Sure. Just as long as you don't have any tattoos meaning you are not mentally ill and you have standards of sanitation unlike your picture.

>>21553412 (OP)
No.

>>21553415
>>21553419
>>21553463
why not?

>>21553464
You'll grow to hate cooking.

>>21553506
True. Cooking should be reserved for automation/a.i.

>>21553412 (OP)
>That pic
Do people like that really exist?

>>21553464
because cooking is dumb and lame

>>21553518
Not the jacket but the bandana and horrid tats are rife in the industry all the way from pub slop to fine dining
My favorite was a pastry chef i worked with who had a hammer and sickle hilted dagger stabbing a swastika on his forearm

>>21553518
100%
Go to the downtown of your local city, you'll indubitably find one such establishment full of those types

>>21553518
Not in legitimate food service no. You'd be expelled/never hired because of the tattoos and smoking.

>>21553464
hard work. low pay. no respect. no job security. awful conditions. peak times for much of the industry mean you get no weekends or nights to yourself, can get stuck doing split shifts where you might be required to start at 10am and work until 3pm, then come back at 5pm until 10pm, but you have to be there earlier to prep so your entire day is spent on working, but you only get paid for when the place is actually open, owners are always money rich, intelligence poor retards born into money who think they know what they're doing because they watched kitchen nightmares (will close in 6 months)

>>21553528
>immediate disqualification from the food service industry. The restaurant owner and/or the food safety inspector would be appaled.

>>21553531
>>21553531
>>21553531
all this.
it's all the abysmal pay and disrespect of working at amazon, except you get to larp to yourself that you're some kind of tough guy while you do it because you have a bad attitude at your coworkers.

>>21553547
Would never be near a kitchen. Keep dreaming.

>>21553534
My 3rd world country (canada) local health authority is a fucking joke also its basically illegal to chastise an employer over how employees dress/tat/pierce themselves etc
It's pretty much kosher to look like a coked out addict even at our 1 star restaurants

>>21553555
Anthony bourdain birthed a generation of cooks like that anon

>>21553562
OK, but in an actual country like the USA we have standards and practices and there is no way someone would hire a

1. Smoker
2. Drug Addict
3. Tattoos (gang related or not)
4. Unkempt

person to be anywhere around food including delivering it. No one wants to put that face on their restaurant even if it is a grimy shithole roadhouse bar. They don't go together. They don't fit. In fact, it is the exact opposite

>>21553568
Too bad they can't find a job.

Imagine having facial hair and calling yourself a cook or chef.

>>21553571
i don't actually believe you anon
Substance abuse issues are rife in American foodservice establishments
a simple search on the internet will disprove your post hundreds of times

>>21553591
>I...I can find an exception to your statement!

Lol well good then anon.

>>21553595
You can stop romanticizing foodservice at any point anon

>>21553601
>he is comfortable with hiring trash at his restaurant.

How sad and low standards you have. Won't be in business too long.

>>21553412 (OP)
I think one of the things people miss is that cooking in a restaurant is compeltely different thing than cooking at home, ypu could almost say it isn't cooking at all. You're on a factory line, expected to make the same dishes day in day out with consistent quality, in an incredibly tight timespan, and due to everyone eating at the same time it means most of your work happens within a few hours with no time to slack off. You don't really get the option to enjoy the art, and unless you make it to head chef you have no say in what you'll even be cooking

>>21553620
pretty much this outside of working in fine dining without a set menu in the farm to table context its hard for cooks to actually cook or come up with ideas/experiment

>>21553412 (OP)
Are you an ex-con? Have you ever killed someone? Are you addicted to at least one substance? Is your body covered in more ink than a! average book?
If you answer yes to at least 2 of the above, you will fit in

>>21553530
I'm curious what you consider "legitimate food service", I'm listening

>>21553571
>t. has never ever worked in a commercial kitchen

>>21553534
>>21553555
>>21553571
I don't know what kind of delusional reality you're living in but it's sure not the current one.

>>21553412 (OP)
NEVER make your hobby, your job.

>>21553571
>in an actual country like the USA we have standards and practices and there is no way someone would hire
anon... whatever you do, don't go in your favorite restaurants kitchen. the shock might kill you.

>>21553412 (OP)
You don't pursue this life, this life pursues you. Civilians just don't understand. I walk down the street every day with a thousand yard stare, everyone on the block knows I've seen some real shit. Last week it was 10 minutes until closing time and 4 people walked in asking for paninis. This shit isn't a game.