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food-bev Chefs Dish It Out

I'ma buy a nice Henkel serrated knife for the gal I work with in the kitchen.

She and her husband have an autistic kid and lots of doctor bills and she has no $$ for her own knives.

The knives the restaurant has might as well be spoons.

A spoon doesn't cut tomato's very well.

They use one of those metal stripping pass thru wombats to "sharpen" their knives.

They don't know what a steel is or what a stone is for.

The gal does a great job so investing in her is an investment in myself.

Do something to help somebody out today for no damn reason.

It feels good.
 
texas blues said:
I'ma buy a nice Henkel serrated knife for the gal I work with in the kitchen.

She and her husband have an autistic kid and lots of doctor bills and she has no $$ for her own knives.

The knives the restaurant has might as well be spoons.

A spoon doesn't cut tomato's very well.

They use one of those metal stripping pass thru wombats to "sharpen" their knives.

They don't know what a steel is or what a stone is for.

The gal does a great job so investing in her is an investment in myself.

Do something to help somebody out today for no damn reason.

It feels good.
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That right there is why you are one of my favorite people on the planet.
 
There you have it.

The 'Feel Good Post of the year'.

That's awesome TB, actions like that have a ripple effect that can't be measured. Thank you sir!
 
Muchas gracias but any one of y'all would have done the same thing.

'Sides...I'm gettin' older so I have to find new and creative ways to get into heaven when the time comes.

Treachery and narcissism can only get me so far.

Maybe I'll move to florida next....aka God's waiting room.
 
Yeah JayT, but it's just that SoFlo GETS to spend more time there.

Hold on whilst I go get some firewood, start a fire and start up my snowblower, snow-rake my roof and unplug the block heater from my truck, just to get all dressed to drive to the store with my hubs turned in to get me some eggs and hhwiskey.

The wind blows there once in a while... HARD.
 
I was a young chick who'd just opened a breakfast and lunch cafe. Total "hole-in-the-wall"..we had 6 booths, and 4 small 4-tops.

Never had no culinary school training, it was all OTJ. This is kinda convoluted but just follow it...



Leftover thick soup was put into 1 gallon glass jar, nicely full, capped and put into the freezer. [sub](totally not [/sub][sub]the proper procedures as we know them now, but this was back'in'the'day!!!)[/sub]

Basic physics, what happens? Expansion? Product in glass? So, after the jar has been frozen it's now time to thaw it out......



.... it was just after closing, and I picked up the glass jar containing the now partially frozen soup. The bottom 90% of the jar dropped, causing my hands (holding the collar and lid) to bounce up, then down, where my 2 pinky fingers hit the perfectly severed glass around the top of the broken jar... resulting in 2 very nice lacerations BLEEDING PROFUSELY!

Just then, the produce delivery guy comes in the back door, I'm standing there, holding 2 hands with lacerations, but I'm all alone in a restaurant, after hours.... and I ask the guy, "Do you wanna playing doctor?"










I'm pretty sure he forgot to leave the invoice for that delivery----

True Story.
 
So the boss invites me over to his and his wife's (the owner's) casa saturday night for their Christmas party.

Thing is, they don't close their joint until 9pm.

Owner: So why don't you and your wife stop on by for the party!

TB: I dunno' if I can.

Owner: Why not? We'll have lots of booze!

TB: Sure but I won't be able to drink any of it.

Owner: Why not?

TB: Because I have to get up at 4am to come work for you and open the joint.

Owner: Uhm...yeah...but you could still come by anyway.

TB: What time is it?

Owner: Oh people will start showing up after 9pm.

TB: I dunno'...

Owner: C'mon man! It'll be a blast!

TB: I'm usually in bed by 9pm.

Owner: Really? Why so early?

TB: Because I have to get up at 4 am to come work for you and open up the joint.

Owner: Oh yeah.


True story.

WTF?
 
Justaguy said:
Durrr. TB, he does own the joint right? lol
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Yes he does.

I can work drunk just fine.

But I don't like doing it after only a couple hours of sleep.

The bizarro 'thang is he hired me so he could get rid of the drunk fool cook he had before.

That guy carried around an ass pocket o' whiskey bottle and drank and was drunk while on the job.

Weird shit-o-meter factor of 9.5 on the party invite if you ask moi.
 
TB, it's not weird to get invited to a holiday party, even if you have to work at 4 am. It would be weirder if you were the only one not invited. Decline if you must, but the invite shows you are part of their fam.
 
The Hot Pepper said:
TB, it's not weird to get invited to a holiday party, even if you have to work at 4 am. It would be weirder if you were the only one not invited. Decline if you must, but the invite shows you are part of their fam.
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I know that.

I just can't do it.

For me its ALL business.

I like to keep it that way.

I don't schmooze with the help or the owners.

I might have to fire one or both someday.
 
You're just gonna miss that sloppy PDA kiss with waitress Tracy, and then Flo will get jealous, and you'll breakdance with the Boss' hammer pants on your head. Good times!
 
JayT said:
Yeah and that awkward moment when boss' wife has had WAY too much eggnog and professes her love for you outside the bathroom...
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In this case there would be waaaaaay too many awkward moments.

Too many of their friends going to the party are single/divorced middle aged cougar types or like to think they are.

One in particular is 50 something with orange, blond, and brown hair.

From behind it looks like someone threw up on her head.

If I had to talk to her I'm pretty sure I would lose the will to live in about 20 seconds.

And I can just see both owners rolling up Sunday morning all kung pao'd from the party.

The wife/owner likes to help me in the kitchen on weekends.

She's too slow, talks too much, and I constantly have to go behind her work and fix it.

Like taking the cold plate she just handed me to plate hot food on and putting it down and walking over to her steam table and grabbing a hot plate from the stack I have warming there.

I'll probably have to boot them both from the kitchen and have them work front of the house.

Where they can blow their stale whiskey breath all over their customers.

Bon appetite breakfast eaters!



Still.

I like these folks but I gotta' talk some smack about 'em.

I'm having too much fun.

Follow up:

The gal I bought the knives for??

What took her 45 minutes to do with crappy knives before, as of today it takes her about 8 minutes.

With crappy knives she was just another sad kitchen wench.

With the Henkels I got her she is now a Culinary Bitch Goddess!

Very proud of her I am.
 
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