Red Mosquito

They don't even get tips.

A good line cook can whip up just about anything.

A good waiter can… iron a shirt?

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and a good line cook usually has a gangsta hair net and cool tattoos and a buried history where he used to smoke dudes with a pistola but he would never take back up arms again

only takes up egg station

A good friend who is an executive chef once told me that line cooks absolutely hate being scheduled on the 15s. 3:45 in time? Fucking insulting to a line cook. They'd rather lose that 15 minutes on their weekly schedule and see it written as 4:00pm.

But of course they have no problem coming in at 4:15 for a 4:00 shift. Go figure.

would you ever confront them about the 15 mins of tardiness or are you concerned about being presented with an artful warning with a butterfly knife

"15 minutes? Go polish ya forks ya bitch!"

96583UP wrote:would you ever confront them about the 15 mins of tardiness or are you concerned about being presented with an artful warning with a butterfly knife

Reid’s no Richie Jerimovich.

96583UP wrote:would you ever confront them about the 15 mins of tardiness or are you concerned about being presented with an artful warning with a butterfly knife

I'm pretty laissez faire about tardiness in general as long as it's not a blatant inconvenience and the quality of work is good when they're on. People have lives outside of work, yanno.

washing machine wrote: People have lives outside of work, yanno.

Yeah, he was probably out to eat with his family and the meal was late because the cook wasn't there.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

washing machine wrote: People have lives outside of work, yanno.

Yeah, he was probably out to eat with his family and the meal was late because the cook wasn't there.

Line cooks will aux in a 4 hour Nirvana playlist from low quality YouTube channel on a Tuesday night.

So a cool thing I do for my line cooks is leave the kitchen iPad permanently logged into my personal Spotify.

I don't really get into the whole "Spotify wrapped" thing, but I'll be sure to congratulate them for taking Bad Bunny to the top of my lists.

More like line kooks, amirite?

Imagine having to work with a line kook who's obsessed with The Kooks. That band was so aggressively average.

I've always wondered if that band name was a Hunky Dory reference.

On a similar note, I once worked for a hospitality group who named one of their restaurants "Hunky Dory" because that was the only CD in their test kitchen that didn't skip.

Love that album

One of the most useful phrases I've learned from the line cooks is "poner las pilas." It's handy when you need someone to move with more urgency.