Industry Thread

This.

Best line\prep rate in my city is 18\14. Servers make 25 easily, 300 a night minimum

Dishbitch reporting in, pulling doubles all this weekend and they just opened the patio up so that is an extra 80 heads. Only saving grace for this weekend is the bar down the road, Hello liquid lunch.

>you've been with us so long and work well so we decided to up your pay
>from $11 to a WHOPPING $11.50
>mfw
can't wait to go back to school

>tfw always get your pay upped by a buck an hour, inside of ninety days no matter where you work because you bust ass

bullshit, i walked with $40 in tips last night
though usually I make about a bill

your best bet will most likely be trying to apply to other places

just my experience, but once a place has you bussing and foodrunning they tend to want to keep you there as they are annoying positions to fill. There are always tons of waiters applying for positions.

F

I think it might be illegal actually. There was a class action suit in my state for similar practices in a restaurant.

It is illegal. When it passed the servers at my work were cheering, making fun of the cooks, etc. So the owner immediately changed everyone's job title to something neutral, and forced the tip sharing again. Fuck front of house.

you have no idea how painful customer service is
those tips are blood money

true. i worked FOH for a few years. at least BOH actually got along. it's cutthroat horseshit out there. plus, BOH don't have to deal with the general populace, a.k.a. entitled, walking garbage people.

not that i think 25/hr is justifiable AT ALL for waiting fucking tables. shit is laughable to me. you entire lot deserve to make 20 or less/hr. your effort is not that important, trust.

fuck you commie scum
i deserve every red cent I can squeeze out of these chucklefucks

dads would rather stay in with a six pack and a steak. parading around town is a female thing

could you imagine taking your dad out to dinner for father's day?

how weird would that be? i wouldn't want my faggot kid wasting that kind of money on me. just give me a phone call or some scotch.

>work at a diner that already has a fuckhuge Sunday crowd
>could be dead all week, yu could fuck off all week but you better bring the A-game for Sunday
>mfw I forgot about Mother's Day

I always take my dad to Outdoor World and buy him something and Texas Roadhouse for dinner.

>work at bakery/restaurant
>the cake pre orders have been in and are coming in more every day
>still gonna be some fuckers pissed day of that we don't have a beautiful from scratch 4 layer cake ready for them the second they ask

on the side I'm also selling about 6 cakes to various people for the day, plus one for my own mama

I take my dad out for breakfast and make him a cake. Then later my sister will have him over for dinner and beer.

>celebrating British Holidays

Stop dutyfree shopping in my country, cancuck.

>recently got a job boh
>usually before mainly did foh with some food prep on the side
>enjoyed the money from foh
>but wouldn't trade that shit for how easy boh is compared

it's honestly just chiller. Plus financially more consistent which I prefer. Some weeks waiting you'd make out killing a grand, other days dead nothing. BOH you make the same no matter what and it evens out.

Plus the place I work doesn't have waiters as much as everyone is a cook and whoever is closest will work register and we all take turns bussing and taking out food, customers get their own drink up front along with utensils and are supposed to bring their plates back but we still buss most of that. Anyway tips are split even and it's pretty great on top of 13/hr. But I've been mostly BOH since I bake a lot of the bread and pastries sold and shit's so fucking much better. I never got why boh fucks always said foh since it felt fine to me but now oh god I fucking get it and don't think I could go back.

Baker master race reporting in. About to head to work now to bake about 70 dozen croissants and pastries. I fucking love my job.

LOL. FOH get so shitty when I take the Tip on in house catering food. Like wtf did you faggots even do?? selfish fucking pricks!
>gibson me dat free money dawg

preach anyone, preach.

heeey

I like the early hours desu. It's very relaxing 5am in the morn sipping coffee smelling fresh pastries.

I've worked just about every bakery shift imaginable, overnights are my favorite. Generally alone, listen to p9dcasts or music, dance around, yell at the ovens, good times.

I was a production bread manager for awhile and I had to he at work at 1 a.m.. FUCK THAT.

I'm in at 4am regularly. I like it. I never thought I'd be a morning person but it's comfy af now. I'm alone for an hour, no traffic, oven is all mine and podcast it or dance like you say. Clock out just before lunch rush, day is young and I can get a lot of shit done.

I'm solo kitchen staff. can someone just fucking shoot me before I go into work this saturdayt

So confused by the idea of a dishwasher that seems to comprehend basic English.

I was a host in a redneck bar/roadside family joint across from a theater.

Fuck this industry.

New here, FOH vs BOH?

Samefag but dude leave. There's always someone to be a buscuck/runnercuck. They don't want you to be a waiter if you're one. You're never gonna get it user. Apply somewhere else.

we have another white dishwasher also, but the other 3 are Mexican. From what I can tell the only time you get white dishwashers is if they are Desperate like in my case or there a convict.

i want your job so much

>
Oh shit, I get it now

Front and back, fuck I'm so new here

Front of House = FOH = Waiters, Bartenders, Hosts, Bussers/Foodrunners

Back of House = BOH = People who make food

Puppetmasters = Useless owners who haven't been involved in the business in years

I guess I'm back of house, problem is I work in a wank 2 star hotel so half the shit they microwave anyway and I work with a useless fucking head (Only 2 of us on anyway, me and him)

I want to burn those microwaves, he relies on them too much. As a "part time" (Not prep, literally part time) I burn more tickets than anyway.

Also anyone got a good recipe for cinnamon syrup? Instead of just reducing cinnamon sugar water down. Wanna bring in some awesome desserts since the boss has like 9 fucking kg of cinnamon.

no it's mine

>manager/owner knows what she's doing and helps out like any other worker
>whole crew is great
>clean af, chill, no drama
>might get a raise in a couple months

reason number one im no longer a cook
stay strong

I used to be a dishwasher for Pizza Hut. Two months in, I literally went to the back door, slipped out and never returned, only to get my last check. Holy fuck never again.

Can't wait for my fucking sunday morning shift. Fucking vietnamese people gonna bring their entire families to the vietnamese restaurant I work at, I don't even want to imagine what our reservation list looks like.

oh shit, business has basically fallen off until summer break so this will be a nice bounce back for once.

Slightly different situation as I previously worked in the dining hall during college. Rotated through various stations (dish room, dining room, stir fry, sandwiches, burritos, deserts, etc.) based on the assigned list. Chill days and busy days in between, but I felt satisfied doing the job. Our food services gets ranked on the top lists, and I was fortunate to be on the unlimited meal plan (and that meal rebate was a nice perk).

Godspeed to those anons working this weekend.

What got you into baking? I've always been interested in the science of it, and I'd love to do it as something on the side.

Couldn't hack it, eh?

>Puppetmasters
why are they always so fucking useless and annoying holy shit

Still got a drug habit, eh?

I wash dishes for 9.13 an hour. The temp agency that just bought my old temp agency is offering 401k.

>be me
>work for an overpriced shitty chain that most average people would call "high end"
>teppanyaki
>teppan chefs take first 9% of sales as a tip that the servers have to pay out to them
>even if my table doesn't tip me anything, I have to tip the chef, meaning a lot of the time I'm paying out of pocket for people to eat there
>half our customers are niggers and don't tip

Sometimes I walk out with $140 on four tables, sometimes I walk out with $12 on eight tables. Head chef already makes $25 hourly wage. I don't see why they should be entitled to our already shit tip money when we as servers make $2 hourly, but legally they can't pay that low of a wage to a chef. If a chef wants to make tip money, he should have applied to be a server.

I'd have quit the very day they explained the tip out procedure to me, except there's a GM opening in a month or so and I'm first in line for that comfy salary.

not that guy, but I went totally clean a few months ago cause I want to join the armed services.

it's not actually that hard
I admit at first I was worried about snapping at someone and raging out without muh weed and muh booze but I think it's actually easier to handle if you don't get all fucking grumpy at the end of your shift because you're hankering for a drink or a smoke

Im working breakfast on Mothers Day. We do about 500 on a regular Sunday. Can't imagine what Mother's day will be like.

Assistant Brewmaster at memetastic nano-brewery reporting.

BOH and FOH, I make the beer and serve it too.

Dope gig. Never have to serve a real section (bartend tiny bar on side of Restaurant); Don't have to work fucking line in the kitchen.

>T. Foodservicefag for 10 of my 25 years

>only have ~150 seats in restaurant
>somehow 700 seats in reservations for Mother's Day lunch between 11am and 1pm

Kill me before Sunday, someone, I'm begging you.
>competent hosts ever
lmao nope

This desu. Not a morning person at all, but it's really chill being the only cook in the restaurant making bacon and eggs for people at 7 am as the rays of sunlight are just starting to shine into the dining room. Plus the coffee is still fresh.

I'm a jimmy John's delivery driver, am I allowed here?

>>competent hosts ever
>lmao nope
this is the worst
we do brunch every sunday and the fucking hosts manage to fuck it up every goddamn sunday.
we have people waiting outside for hours with empty tables all over the place and everyone getting pissed off it's fucking stupid and it means we seat people way late after we should already be breaking down the buffet and then the dinner guys get pissed off because none of the sidework is done so their stations are a fucking mess and FUCKING HOSTESSES REEEEEEE

this sunday is going to be an utter shitshow

Can you deliver fast?

What state allows fucking servers that hard?

Most?
The federal minimum wage for employees that earn at least $30 monthly in tips is $2.13 hourly.

If you don't earn enough to make up to $7.25 in tips, then your employer has to pay you extra to make up to $7.25 hourly, but at a place where you earn jack shit and take care of 30-ish people at a time, min wage doesn't really cut it.

>tfw serving in CA
i make $11/hr + tips

The only other states like that are Oregon, Washington, New York, and Alaska.
I'd kill to live on the west coast and wait tables, I bet the money is hot dosh, especially in the PANW because there's so few niggers.

How much is GM salary for a place like this or chain restaurants in general? Do they usually hire from within or bring somebody new?

t. hoping to not have this shit job forever

I used to wait tables in Baltimore and it was fucking hellish dealing with all the ratchet niggers

SoCal is decent money and rude ass nogs are relatively rare but the living is very expensive here and it's infested with spics who can't speak english and don't tip white people

also the fagmafia in restaurants here is real

At the place I work it's a comfy 50-60k for GM plus benefits of course. They usually will hire from within if they have someone with applicable experience, but for a GM role they'd rather hire a McDonald's employee with GM experience than a loyal employee with no management experience. Luckily I have enough mgmt experience to shoe me in to this position.

It's not the same everywhere. The salary is better the less common of a chain it is.

>fagmafia in restaurants
What did he mean by this?

the gays run shit and will make your life hell if you don't play nice with them

>CDP: Vegetables and Sides
>Fine Dining
>Every menu item has something from my station
>Already booked to compacity

Kill me please, somehow all the hood fucks manage to go on these holidays, so I know there's going to be bullshit. I don't know how Tyrone and his baby mama's family can afford around 150-200 a head, EBT must be getting good.

Lol you're going down m8
Why has every menu item got something from your section?

He's the dishwasher.

Why the fuck is tipping a thing. Who came with this bullshit.

>and then this autist tries to ruin another thread by turning it in to tipping thread #234234832352523523

it's a bribe for good service
if you don't want to tip expect to get the shittiest service possible

DISREGARD
THIS IS NOT A TIPPING THREAD
I REPEAT, DISREGARD

i hate front of house workers with a passion. they have one of the easiest jobs on the planet, make bank working short ass shifts then come in the BOH to bitch about their stupid highschool esq problems that im supposed to care about. FOH should make minimum flat and split all tips evenly.

I hate back of house workers with a passion. they have one of the easiest job on the planet, make hourly wage cutting veggies and grilling steaks then wait for FOH to come around so they can bitch about their stupid ex wife and cocaine problems that I'm supposed to care about. BOH should make minimum flat and shut their fat pie holes about the money servers make if they choose to work BOH and not apply for server jobs.

BOH requires actual training and trades skill, FOH does not (yes I know there are exceptions). You dont go to school to become a waiter, you became a waiter because you went to school. FOH works a talentless job that is way overpaid.

I think I'm pretty fast

Its ironic that cuckservatives complain about hoodrats so much yet have so much in common with them

>Go to Japan
>Restaurants are always clean and attendants are always nice and helpful
>Tipping is not a thing in Japan so you just eat, pay, and go
>Come back to America
>Portion sizes are all unreasonably large
>Half of the time the attendant has some attitude
>Socially obligated to give this dunce a tip because employers pay them fuck all.
Can we just get rid of tipping and just get slightly higher menu prices?

Yea, I kinda agree, I like the fact that a number of places are deciding to do away with tipping. It the long run I believe it to be a change for the better. If you feel like your server went above and beyond and really feel like gifting them some cash go ahead. Its a gift at that point, and not a tip.

Is 25 too late to get into an apprenticeship?

Suck a dick. If servers can get a tip out for serving the food, I should get a tip for making the food.

As someone who used to be a dishbitch, I salute you. Just keep that head down, blaze through that shit and you'll be gold

Welcome to the service industry

What do you mean 'solo'? You're the only one staffed for Bob? Because that sounds like a shit deal

WEAK

>mfw my work isn't open on Sunday
Sat will still be a bitch though. We have two chefs normally and one decided to walk off the other day. We haven't had time to hire a new one.

>just learned I'm working a double on Sunday

One of my most relaxing jobs was working as a waiter and prepper in a tea house. Not many people came in during the day, but the food was always amazing. And the staff was quite friendly.

Doing anything always seemed fine. Washing some dishes, or layering out the food as needed, brewing the tea, etc. It was all nice and relaxing in a way. Plus the free food was a plus, and always delicious.

To be honest, I doubt I could handle a real restaurant job as any of the staff. Would be way to hectic and stressful.

>now hiring part time dishwasher
>apply in person with resume

>move home
>work in small town Oldschool Italian joint for half a year
>owner is a fucking screaming Italian cokehead
>non stop screaming all night long in an open kitchen but no one cares
>calls his wife a whore bitch and no one bats an eye
>leave for a few months, tired of his volume
>come back after I realize small town and no other restaraunt worth my time
>everyone is now addicted to heroin
>kitchen zombies invading, FUCKING EVERYTHING up
>ask for a $5 raise because I'm the only competent one
>save up enough and move to the city and leave that SHIT hole once again

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