I tried to explain this on another discussion, but your description is spot-on. Depressed people are not necessarily sad. Also, the danger with clinically depressed people is on the uptake of drugs. A lot of times people are too depressed to kill themselves until medication or therapy bring them up to the point of…

And yes, she did eat the salad.

I think she was in shock from my sheer ignorance that she probably mistook it for brass balls.

The thinking that artificial sweetener was salt was definitely a mentally challenged move. Instead of telling you some of the dumb-fuckery that I have seen from customers, I will tell you the absolute most retarded thing that I have ever done in a restaurant that worked.

I'm fine with that. The end result is all that matters. I would rather have refreshed fries than soggy fries.

We would do it because we could generally count on 5-10 orders coming in within a half-hour. You have to reconcile both food cost and ticket times, so things can linger longer in the window than one would like. Which is my point, a lot of places that serve a ton of fries make a ton of fries so that they are not…

That should say "both front of house and back of house." My auto spellcheck has a mind of its own.

I've worked in several small and large fine dining independent establishments, both in and back of house, and unless you worked at some 15 table place, I would almost guarantee that it was more that julienned potatoes that were pre-cooked. Rice, pasta, and just about any kind of baked dish are generally par-cooked,…

That is not the case everywhere, and especially during non-peak hours. Pretty much anything that you serve a lot of in a restaurant is made in bulk, or at least partially cooked before you order it. Ticket times would be astronomical if this weren't the case. I worked as an expediter at a fine dining place that served…

A lot of people do this so that their fries are fresh. Any place that serves a lot of fries make them in bulk and salt the whole batch, and by ordering fries without salt the restaurant has to make a new batch.