Restaurant suckiness or how would you managers have handled this?

[Becks]

What a wonderful ending!!!

[Lace Neil Singer]

I love a story with a happy ending.

[Andara Bledin]

There's nothing like seeing how a place handles it's problems to let you know if it's a place you want to do business with.

That owner really stepped up to the plate.

Considering the comments the owner made regarding issues while that manager was working, I wonder how often the bad cooking was the cooks' way of trying to get someone to complain enough to get the manager ousted...

^-.-^

[Kogarashi]

There's nothing like seeing how a place handles it's problems to let you know if it's a place you want to do business with.

That owner really stepped up to the plate.

Considering the comments the owner made regarding issues while that manager was working, I wonder how often the bad cooking was the cooks' way of trying to get someone to complain enough to get the manager ousted...

^-.-^

Yes, mad props to the owner.

I wonder if perhaps the bad cooking was due to the manager harassing the cooks. I know I can't do work properly if I've got some stick-up-his-butt higher-up hovering over me, harassing me and screeching and making it difficult to concentrate.

[AnqeiicDemise]

As a former cook (the jobs around here didn't give me what I needed to survive and no benefits. I'm still looking, though, but the job I have is teh awesome!) I agree with Kogarashi.

My best meals came when I was under the supervision of a Chef that complemented what I did, gave me creative leeway and gave me FREEDOM (within parameters of course) to do what I had to do.

I always screwed up/got shit/had to recook food whenever the Chef was riding my ass like an unfixed dog without a mate.

SC: What are you, stupid? You can't do it this way!
M: Sorry Chef! -gets flustered, burns self- ah!
SC: Is this what you're trying to give the customers, charred finger?!
M: Sorry Chef! Didn't mean to chef! -almost drops pan.-
SC: God, you're horrible. I asked to be given a cook, not a chimpanzee on valium!


And YES, I did have a Chef like that. I'd go home in tears and with burns all over my arms. At some point I stopped giving worth a shit and if I had a plate come back to me because it was 'under cooked' 'over cooked' 'didn't fit the Chef's plating standards' I felt like wiping my behind with it and slamming it on the plate and yelling "Here Chef, its a portrait of you!"

Of course, I never did that.

The paying customer doesn't have to suffer because my boss is a Dick.


There was one time, however... The new york steak was PERFECT. Tempt'd to a mouth watering medium rare (as the woman wanted it). It came back, cut in half, with that delicious pink center.

The problem?

It was overdone.

Well, if the stupid wench wanted it RARE, why did she order it MEDIUM?

My Chef at the time let me eat the meal. I love that Jamaican-born-English-accented-Soccer-head to death. -sniff-