| | jazzy | As a Chef, one of your responsibilities is ordering food for the restaurant. This can be tricky. The restaurant business if anything is unpredictable. You could have what looks to be a slow night, with nothing on the books, and wind up doing 100 covers. On the flip side, you could have a full book, have no shows, and wind up with less than you anticipated. It’s a guessing game. The last thing you want is to 86 half your menu, or be sitting on a bunch of perishable food.
Usually once you’ve been at one place long enough you kind of get a feel for what you will need. However, even the best at this guessing game is bound to run out of stuff every now and again.
I’ve always dreaded the ol’ 86. The reason I say this is because they usually come at worst possible time. For instance, you sell your last tuna, just as someone else is taking an order for one. Now, the server has to go back to the table and tell the customer (who always had their heart set on this one dish, and act as if you just told them they have a terminal illness) that they need to order something else.
Sometimes I think the perception of the customer is that the kitchen is a fairy land, not unlike Santa’s magically bottomless toy sack, where the supply of food is endless. They probably think elves are preparing their meals too. I don’t know.
“Patience”…
There are some phrases, jokes, etc. that are universal in any and every kitchen.
I’m willing to bet there’s not a Chef out there, in the heat of frustration, when asked,
“What are we out of?’
They didn’t reply,
“Patience”
-Posted on May 26, 2008 |
| User: Lupinus | | 5 | | seriously, customers can be BAD; especially when they go on with talking shit to the crew cuz their crazy demands weren`t met in that impossible short time that they imagine is ``more than enough`` to prepare their order. That`s why I prefer to work in the kitchen - it maybe hectic, but at least no customers are to be found there... -Posted on Apr 12, 2009 | | User: AmaiR | | | | Customers can be nuts about that. Like it's personal, or that while no one else can get any we could just, for them, find some. Or ones who walk out because after taking twenty minutes to decide what they want, and finding we don't have it, they can't just change their mind. -Posted on Apr 07, 2009 | | User: harryq | | 5 | | your dialog feels so real, I sometimes wonder how many of them are verbatim exchanges that really happened. Excellent as always! -Posted on May 26, 2008 | Only registered members may vote. Sign up here! | |
