Take it back!

[Jinx]

I only send it back if it's absolutely positively smurfed the smurf up. Like if I ordered a steak medium rare and it comes out well. Take that trout back, rape the cook with it and have him do it the right way.

issed:

*laughs* Yeah, try to take on a cook while they're in the weeds just try it. You will be on the losing end of that one.

Wtf does this even mean?

"In the weeds" is a common expression used in kitchens to refer to the fact that they are extremely busy. Put it this way, at my work in the summer we do around 200 covers on a busy night. That means we feed 200 people in one night. Now service is between 6pm-11pm, but most of these 200 people are being fed between 7pm-9pm. So yeah, that is a lot of food. It is high stress and high pressure. You are being called orders from all over, not to mentioned occasionally yelled at for whatever reason (sometimes deserved, sometimes not), the last thing a cook needs is a smart-mouthed client. My point is that when cooks are in the weeds, we are trying to get a lot of work done at once and are already stressed. Tempers run high and quick. And we have knives, sharp knives nearby.

EDIT: That's 200 who are usually having an appetizer and a main course. Some are having two rounds of appetizers and a main course. Some are having just three rounds of appetizers. Some are just having main courses. On top of that some people will be having desserts. Also, there are 6 cooks during those nights, the sous-chef or chef at the pass expediting and two dishwashers. It gets intense.

Has anyone else noticed that anytime we ever have one of those "describe your job" threads the people who work in restaurants are by far the most borderline insane/ready to snap?

Work in a restaurant during rush-hour when you've got 10 tables of 3-4 people seated, and a party of 6, and people keep asking you for things and you just want to cry.

THEN YOU CAN HAVE AN OPINION ON OUR INSANITY.

(I am never, ever working in the service industry again.)

[Pike]

Work in a restaurant during rush-hour when you've got 10 tables of 3-4 people seated, and a party of 6, and people keep asking you for things and you just want to cry.

THEN YOU CAN HAVE AN OPINION ON OUR INSANITY.

I wasn't having an opinion or judging the industry/workers, I was making an observation

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

There is a degree of insanity required to work in kitchens. No doubt about it.

[Setzer the Gambler]

I already sent back a dish 4 times once, but that was a bad case of "I'm not cooking your pasta right". Maybe the chef was mad that day. The food was cold, so I asked them to reheat it, when it came back, some of the pasta was stuck solidly together and felt undercooked, so I sent it back again. The third time, I realized there was no chicken in my chicken alfredo and lastly, I sent it back because there was little to no sauce left on the dish. In the end, I just told them my appetite was gone (blame it on the bread sticks on the table... grrr).

I also resend a sandwich from a restaurant 3 times because the person gave me the wrong sandwich 3 times, lol.

[Pheesh]

Usually it's just something small like onions on a burger, something that I can easily take care of myself. If it's a restaurant dish then I will usually trust that the chef has made the ingredient blend well with everything else on the plate, or if it's something I am sure I will not like then I just don't order that dish. The only no-no is an overcooked piece of meat or something that is brought out too cold.

[fire_of_avalon]

I don't think I've ever done this at all. Lucky me!

[chionos]

Lucky easy-to-please Megan.