Thread 21572870

How accurate is The Bear to working in a kitchen?
Also, food service thread.

>How accurate is The Bear to working in a kitchen?
0%
The dumbest scene in the show is when the magic black girl turns on the doordash machine and it gives them a lot of tickets, and the whole staff freaks out about this.
Then, after getting funding for the restaurant, instead of just turning on the doordash machine and hiring more staff... they decide to scrap the restaurant which can make money for a fine dining concept.
This fine dining concept is going to be staffed by the same crew who can't bang out 50 tickets.
Any wagie who even works fast food or fast casual bangs out more/bigger tickets in a single day. When you get to catering orders you can be preppping thousands of items. This doesn't stop the restaurant from ALSO doing doordash, uber jeets, etc.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh we have to make 40 snadwiches these CIVILIANS DON'T UNDERSTANDahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>21572884
kek that was my thread, I'm glad people still enjoy that post

>>21572888
based plagiarist

>>21572870 (OP)
As a chef I can vouch for the show. 100% real.

aaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRGH IM NOT PAID ENOUGH THEREFORE IM GOING TO SPEND MY INCOME ON TATTOOS THAT COST HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS EVEN FOR A SMALL TATTOO AS WELL AS CIGARETTES AND ALCOHOL WHICH ARE TOTALLY UNNECESSARY AND EVEN BAD FOR ME IN THE LONG TERM RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHGHG

Chef!! Chef! Fucking Chef! Cousin! Run run run Chef! Is that a fucking order for fucking sandwiches? In my family sandwich store!? ARRRRRRRGGGHH IM LOSING MY FUCKING MIND CHEF COUSIN!!!!! I'M 100,000 IN DEBT TO MY OWN UNCLE BECAUSE MY BROTHER KILLED HIMSELF! HE KILLED HIMSELF BECAUSE HE OWED MY UNCLE 100,000 AND HAD 100,000 IN CASH HIDDEN IN TOMATO CANS COUSIN! COUSIN!!!!!!!! ARRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHNN CHEF CHEF COUSIN CHEF!!!!! CORNER!!!!!!!

>>21572870 (OP)
"Cooking" and "Restaurant" movies are some of the most boring, god awful drek to watch. Holy shit they are baaad.

Who fuckin cares if they're accurate. I can tell you now that yes, it's hard. Is it scream and cry and piss yourself like a baby hard? No. Thats probably 90% of those films. High drama for no reason is gay and disingenuous.

>>21572904
AAAURUGHUGHUGUGUGUH YOU MEAN I HAVE TO COOK FOOD IN THE JOB I GOT IN A KITCHEN NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

i dreaded every car that pulled into our parking lot. it's really demoralizing

>>21572905
Lmao exactly. Drama like that is gay as fuck.

>>21572906
you still do because you're still a wagecuck

i worked in fine dining for almost ten years and can say it is army prison levels of dramatic gay and retarded, havent watched this show but if its dramatic gay and retarded id say theyre giving the industry a fair representation.
>its a sandwich stand
the right kind of gay retard influencing the right crew of fatherless dickriders can even cultivate these levels of intrigue and drama at a simple sandwich stand

>>21572870 (OP)
>food service thread.
I decorate cakes for $17/hr. The amount of first world issues with customers is mind boggling sometimes.

>>21572904
this

>>21572941
it's sideways

>>21572945
>it's sideways
Let me be a dirty phoneposter in peace dammit

>>21572948
looks good

>>21572884
they could just set an order limit per person

>>21572952
Thanks. Petite fudge crown. Choco cake with fudge between. Fudge iced and choco buttercream rose. Toasted almonds was a custom request. I hate doing the torte version.

>>21572948

how much does the customer pay for this?

>>21572968
i've never eaten at a fancy place but i think that's why they require reservations, helps keep food cost down

>>21572993
The petit is $11.99. The almonds weren't an extra charge.

I work in a restaurant but I'm new and idk if it's that relevant to my experiences
As a kitchen hand I related to the bit where the dishwasher complains about them leaving the labels on the containers though

>more trash pushing skin graffiti
Just buy shit and cook it yourself lol

>>21572870 (OP)

most inaccurate thing for me is that the employees seemed to care so deeply about the restaurant succeeding. in reality MAYBE the right hand guy actually cares (and usually because they actually may co-own).

>>21572968
They do. They're all having a psychotic meltdown because their sandwich shop has 40 customers buying a sandwich each.

>>21572948
Now its upside down mate

>>21574140
Happy birthday to the ground?

>>21574143
You're just taking the piss, arentcha

>>21572870 (OP)
I only worked in kitchens for 4-5 years so I could be wrong but the constant tardscreaming is not realistic at all in my experience. Things can get a bit tense and dry during big rushes but that shit was ridiculous

>>21574149
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH6WUr5tfw4

Pretty accurate

>>21572882
Up until season 4 (or late season 3) isn't that kind of the point? Carmy swaps out the menu every fucking day and is concerned with giving everyone a unique and perfect experience without thinking about it as a business or a functional atmosphere.
It's not about the story of a successful, well thought out restaurant. It's the story of a chaotic artist trying to leverage the restaurant to fulfill every narcissistic art project he comes up with.

>>21574460
Nah, it's a story about a guy picking up the pieces after his brother killed himself because he was 100k in debt. To his uncle. But he wasn't in debt. The money was hidden in tomato cans. The tomato cans that were in the basement the whole time. And he wrote a note saying the money was in the cans but the note fell down a hole. So the brother could have paid the money back at any time.

This is litterally the plot BTW outside of the shouting and screaming.

>>21572888
Fuck off back to social media, this is not a space for your personal ego you fucking faggot.
Nice trips, hope you have a nice day.

>>21574453
Why do the most stressed out retards like to make a habit of putting themselves in stressful situations? I used to enjoy the line getting backed up, it was a like a fun game of figuring out what bits and pieces I can assemble first to unclog things and get them moving again. And if it didn't slow down, that just meant the shift would fly by quicker. It's just a restaurant, not a hospital, fucking relax.

>>21574808
>Why do the most stressed out retards like to make a habit of putting themselves in stressful situations?
not everyone works at an applebee's like you where no one gives a fuck

>>21574453
im going to order club sandwiches every chance i get to make the little wagie in the back panic and lose years of his life

>>21574453
>hey boss, we either need another cook or a sandwich line because these clubs are so popular
all it takes

>>21574864
>boss says no because they always do

>>21574899
then find a new kitchen to work in

>>21574829
I worked at a Gyu Kaku in San Diego. It got plenty stressful, but the ones that thrived were the ones that could laugh and have fun instead of freaking out and getting drunk in the parking lot mid-shift. Don't be a fucking pussy, or find a different job if you can't handle stress.

>>21574453
>writes 2 paragraphs crying what a pain making club sandwiches is
>in the 3rd paragraph he’s wondering why people dont just make them at home
Smartest kitchen slave
I always order them if they’re on the menu especially if it comes with fries, love me a good club sandwich

>>21574453
>unhinged rage over utterly meaningless petty nothings
>frequent references to hard drug use

Chefs can never tell us these dumb shows are inaccurate because they really are like that

>>21574478
So does the bear find the tomato money? Is the uncle paid off? Is the show now over and complete?

>>21575022
Carmy was never the bear. The black girl is the bear. That's the finale of the show.

>>21574453
Clubs are kinda annoying but only because where I work we have to line each piece up on a single skewer for presentation purposes.

>>21575023
I didn't watch the show. Does the chef brother guy find the money? Is the uncle paid?

>>21572870 (OP)
0%. No chef gets pissy about taking shit out for example. Less work? Good for him then. That's less to prep. No chef is standing around screaming that some dude asked for no mushrooms and flipping out. Whoever wrote this show has never worked in a kitchen ever.

>>21575016
Yes they can. Im telling you now, for example.
Waiting is much more accurate to restaurant life. Not 100%, but exponentially more than this dumb ass boring show

>>21574989
It's a pain when you have other dishes to make. It's not a pain when you don't.

>>21572941
>>21572948
Do you see this? Are you fucking BLIND? I will unironically have you fired for this. UNACCEPTABLE. You should be ashamed. How are you not crying with embarrassment right now? Truly. I really want to know. No, I really want to know. How do you sleep at night? I wouldn't serve this to my DOG. My Guatemalan nanny does better work than this and I sure as fuck don't pay her as much as I pay you. Fuck I'm literally shaking, get the manager before I say something I'll really regret.

>>21575195
Women do really say and do this

>>21575207
OK, how you know?

>>21574453
>hardest thing on planet Earth to make
>"doesn't take any cooking skill!"
Which is it?

>>21575210
I have ears and eyes

>>21575195
>Uppity white Karen screeching
Nah my stores in the hood, all the white people are really nice. Besides who'd complain about extra nuts. Same customer has an order for next week I need to add the almonds to a different cake. Will post if I remember then.

>>21575218
TBF, "hardest thing" doesn't necessarily mean "requires the most skill," it can also mean something that's simple from a skill perspective but just arduous and grueling. But he's still being a hyperbolic faggot though

>>21575241
Bitch ass wrong image

i just *shoots up heroin* get stressed out so much *drinks booze, poorly manages personal finances* at my high octane stressful job!! *is thinking about his full sleeve tattoo that will set him back $5000 while complaining about not making the rent he spent on cigarettes*

How dare you order a club sandwich on the menu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is the guy in OPs picture ethnically Jewish? I feel like the whole tv show is one giant psyop to try to show you that jewish guys can look white and be attractive.

>>21575235
>I hang out with women
Yeah, OK dude

>>21575249
What's your ao3 handle?

>>21575033
It gets stupider anon
Carmy finds the cash
Uses it to upscale the restaurant to get a Micheline star to fulfill the black girls 'desires' and to prove his capabilities to run a Micheline star restaurant without crashing out to himself
After spending all the cash, he asks the same uncle for more cash
Its garbage after s1 and I hate that ive seen till season 3

>>21572941
YOU SURE DO CHARGE FIRST WORLD FUCKING PRICES, I EXPECT A FUCKING FIRST WORLD CAKE MADE BY FIRST WORLD HANDS. OR ELSE GO OUT OF BUSINESS, I DON'T GIVE A SHIT, YOU THINK I'M NOT 10X HAPPIER GETTING A CAKE AT A FUCKING GROCERY STORE? YOU THINK I COME ALL THE WAY OUT TO YOUR LITTLE FUCKING CAKE BOUTIQUE BECAUSE I LOVE TO GET RAPED AND SPIT ON BY YOU? AND HAVE YOU LAUGH AT ME BEHIND MY FUCKING BACK WHEN I LEAVE?

>>21575659
>I DON'T GIVE A SHIT, YOU THINK I'M NOT 10X HAPPIER GETTING A CAKE AT A FUCKING GROCERY STORE? YOU THINK I COME ALL THE WAY OUT TO YOUR LITTLE FUCKING CAKE BOUTIQUE BECAUSE I LOVE TO GET RAPED AND SPIT ON BY YOU? AND HAVE YOU LAUGH AT ME BEHIND MY FUCKING BACK WHEN I LEAVE?
I'm a decorator in a grocery store. Simmer down now

>>21575710
Anon, if miss Donna summers name was in the phone book, HOW would it appear?

the show is awesome just skip every time they aren't talking about food/the restaurant or preparing food and whenever the sister or mother is in the picture

>>21572870 (OP)
I don't understand why Hollywood insists on glamorizing and dramatizing wagie jobs like restaurant work. It's all because of that nepo baby Bourdain.

Here is working in a restaurant

>1. it gets busy

>2. It's hot

>3. You work with a lot of felons

>4. You work with people who possess little education

>5. You work with illegals

>6. You work with people who are barely functional addicts

>7. Your coworkers are often intoxicated on the job

>8. Like all service industry jobs the customers suck

>9. Like most jobs, management sucks

>10. Like most jobs, you're under staffed

>11. Your coworkers are often unreliable and there is high turnover

>>21575839
Half of those are wrong. You've only read memes of what work is like. no first hand knowledge whatsoever. But keep telling us what work is like, neet. Surely the neet knows

>>21575986
I know from personal experience working in restaurants they're not wrong. Sorry to burst your rose tinted wagie bubble.

>>21575986
They're 100% accurate. Getting people to show up on time and do what they're paid to do shouldn't be hard but it is.
>Yeah bro, my car broke down so I can't come in to work
>No problem, tell me where you live and I'll pick you up
No reply

>>21572870 (OP)
Dishwashers are chefs.

>>21575839
this guy is such a faggot

i bet he can't avoid having a heart attack if he goes out of his house without a watch or a designer t-shirt on

and he has the gall to call other people not men for cooking

he would crumble and break down crying if he had to work a real job, no wonder this fucking pussy is in jail for rape

>>21572870 (OP)
>twats abound

Not enough Spanish or Polish or heavy drug use.

>>21576087
Working sucks
I know thats news to you

>>21576368
But he's right, a significant portion of the suck at your average workplace comes from other people being unreliable assholes

>>21575839
lmao entirely accurate

>>21575839
>Bourdain
It was White who brought the screaming crazy chef who is obsessed with his work and all fucked up because if it to popular imagination.

>>21575839
It's because being a chef is one of the few non wagie jobs out there still where you can get in with no degree and work your way up
Programming used to be another

>>21576007
I doubt it. Though maybe thats you only worked at shit holes cuz that's the quality of person you are. In which case I see why you can only see trash from where you are. Hope things improve for you
>>21576087
Yeah. I agree. That happens way less with illegals than it does Americans. I showed up once with walking nmeunonia i didn't know I had, so i dont get nkt showing up to work, but i see it more with kids your age. Most of the rest, unless your experience is in a waffle house and not a competent place, are not common at all. But go have your fun, im sure you dont let reality effect the things yoi decide to believe

>>21575839
Despite the fact that moving your ass to an restaurant and waiting for something you cannot control to ingest is way worst ROI as food DIY he is the typical idiot knowing the price of everything but the worth of nothing, Time is money but money can't buy time.

yes chef

>>21572948
Really beautiful, how do you achieve the swirl on top?

>>21577908
Eat a lot of fiber first

>>21577908
I use a speed icer tip to cover with fudge and then use a rounded spatula to drag upwards at an angle and into the center.

>>21572870 (OP)
It's not, it's more like a low level malaise.
The only screaming profanity is gonna be if someone accidentally burns themselves.

>>21572870 (OP)
I would honestly watch the BEER!

Why do restaurant employees act like a 5 hour shift of chopping and sauteeing is hard prison time or some shit

>>21577952
Awesome, thanks!

>>21577918
>Yeah, I used to be a chef at Wendy's. Hard racket...

>>21577984
>Why do restaurant employees act like a 5 hour shift of chopping and sauteeing is hard prison time
Have you not worked in the service industry before? A good chunk of your coworkers are gonna ex-cons or drug addicts.

>>21574079
This is very funny.

>>21578420
In 13 years ive encountered this twice
Get a life outside of 4chan, if not for yourself to help your terminal condition, for everyone else around you so you're less of a miserable twat.
Shit, one guy i worked with who did dish got his doctorate in neuroscience and fucked off ti Amsterdam. Meanwhile, you're a neet with a really weird complex

>>21577955
Well, sometimes when you sing the fuck song before guests are let in, but thats not as common

>>21578842
>"Oh look at me, I worked in a fancy neighborhood where the employees were all college students like me! If you lived in a poor neighborhood and worked alongside ex-cons then you must be some kind of 4chan delusion poster, get away from me, you neet!
Don't be such a faggot, anon

>>21579676
Yeah sorry im not trash like you come from. I hopena loser like you can somehow improve your situation like countless illegals i know who came here not even knowing the language. But theyre better people than yiu, so I get how you'd fail where they triumphed. Maybe try being an hero. It would make your mom happy

>>21575264
Jewish men unironically mog western euro men

>>21580086
>ESL looks down his nose at people

>>21575839
I’ve worked at several restaurants and never worked with any felons or addicts

>>21578420
Most of the people I’ve worked with in restaurants were chill tomboys, karens, nice Mexican dudes or nice fat white dudes

Stop learning about life from internet memes

>>21575248
You ever sneak some out of the icing bag like a gogurt?

>>21580100
depends bro, in big cities, big restaurants with a lot of staff have an institutional environment. i'd compare it to high school rivalries but the students are all retarded addicts. i worked in some resort towns and our staff were mostly criminals. the one place lost 17 employees to murder in the two years i worked there, not to mention those who ODd or just went missing. I remember the one dude turned up in a fucking storm drain, some kids found him. Then i moved up north and it was just mexicans, very chill, mexicans are bros an dont give a fuck where they work or who they work for, theyre just here for the money

>>21580135
adding on to this, felons are just basically children who aged out of minority and never adjusted their behavior, theyre typically not scary or violent or mysterious or whatever, they do stupid shit like get fired for stealing on camera or getting a buddy to clock them in for a shift they didnt show up to, or genuinely want to get their shit together and take their jobs very, sometimes way too seriously. theyre not big evil brutal guys, theyre just losers who got caught up. read about mercenaries next

I only watched the first two seasons but the most unrealistic aspect of this show for me is that no one is at the point of disruptive alcoholism. how the fuck do you do a kitchen show without alcoholic line cooks?? it has been such a fundamental aspect of any back of house experience I've ever had

>>21572989
Did Tim Burton order this one?

>>21580177
and cocaine

>>21580105
I dislike buttercream so no. But I've had times where I'd ask the baker to leave a Bismark unfilled and jammed a bag of the whipped ice in and filled it with it
>>21580252
You'd think, but no. We can do whatever as far as colors go with any cakes we tos into the frozen bunker. The regular case gets specific designs

>>21580142
Fuck those worthless scumbags

>>21574453
I ordered a club sandwich and I'm not even a member

>>21578804
Thx man

>>21578842

I lurk here constantly. First time I posted.

You doubt this dudes experience but you can't disprove it, so you try to shit on him in the most reddit tier way possible.

I worked as night auditor for one of the top resorts in my state. The kitchen was behind my office. Nice guys. But every single one of them, except the chef himself, was a druggy ex con. In fact, that kitchen is the drug hub for our region- bringing in stuff via bike clubs.

Your anecdotal experience of knowing 1 person that achieved anything, like an education, does not mean the other dudes experience is wrong.

You're an angry douchebag. Take a long look in a mirror. Grow some self reflection.

Also, enjoy some bacon wrapped onion rings with spicy mayo dipping sauce.

>>21572870 (OP)
I've never seen it but just based on what I see people saying about it: not very

I would like to work in a kitchen but I'm definitely too lazy and don't like to be rushed in my work

>have to make a blooming onion and 2 medium rare steaks
AAAAAAAAAAAAA I'M GOING CRAAAZZYYYYY

>>21580097
I've worked everything between kindergarten/schools and three-starred restaurants and I've been a functional addict and felon the whole time and mostly I don't tell people.

>>21580941
SAVE ME RAMSAYMAN

>>21572904
>Is it scream and cry and piss yourself like a baby hard? No
while I agree it isnt I have seen ALOT of people cry in restaurant work...especially if the kitchen starts shit with front of house

>>21581089
Do you?

>>21581140
NO

>>21572941
>first world issues with customers
Share some!
>>21572989
I actually like those dreary colors on the cake.

>>21572870 (OP)
If you don't interact with customers there is zero excuse to get this tilted in the kitchen.
I understand if you have to deal with customers though. I tard raged a few times in front of customers and should have been fired multiple times but I was the only one working there who gave a shit so nothing happened.
>threw food at the wall
>slammed food into the trash can
>chucked meat at a customer
>told another to shut the fuck up
And I was just a grocery deli wagie, not even a proper kitchen.

I am 100x more comfortable around coworkers. If there's beef or something you at least have options to deal with it. With customers you just have to take their dumb entitled shit all day.

>>21580933
you are using reddit spacing, you don't get to call others reddit

>>21583113
How many anons here actually know what reddit spacing is? It seems like so very few. Pretty cringe

>fucking civvy asks for no sauce on his burger
YOU DONT GET TO MAKE CHANGES TO MY MAGNUM OPUS MENU YOU FUCKING CIVYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
>splurts mayo ketchup and mustard all over the bun and patty

CHEF PLEASE I'M SOR-

>>21583113
>>21583139
>reddit spacing
fuck

off

newfags

>>21581089
>said black people are portrayed as shot callers and not lazy drug addicted asshats