I actually have to side with her on this one. Maybe get a different job, but for damn sure, don't go into food service. It's a nightmare.

Dude, 6 months ago I quit my job, left my truck with my best friend, picked up a shitty ruck-sack and started walking. Hundreds of miles later and living in a tent (can still hold a job) I have NEVER regretted leaving. Fuck your brain. Follow your heart.

What if you could get yourself out to do private catering-type stuff? I have a lovely dear friend who started out catering smallish parties (my SIL's baby shower, for instance) and has managed to work his way into catering for big stuff like weddings. He's a genius cook and loves what he's doing.

THIS IS MY KIND OF PLACE.

it is just so obvious that your palate is just not refined. I feel sorry for your bourgeois taste buds. When I have a cup of "distinct" coffee it is like a unicorn peed in my mouth. Just so you know, that's a good thing.

"Just talking about something small-scale and laid back"

How is there pork in everything at a sushi place? Shouldn't it be mostly fish, with maybe some imitation crab meat if there's California rolls?

Dude, I've gotten hot cocoa at a coffee shop before. I didn't wait the lawsuit mandated 20 minutes for it to cool to drinkable. It was like having my mouth blasted out by the devil himself. I don't know anything about "approachable" coffee, but I completely appreciate the concept of "Kids temperature milk". Sometimes…

I've only worked a couple of short stints in the restaurant biz when I was in high school, so what do I know other than what I read? However, the thought occurred to me that you might consider a catering business, rather than a restaurant. Less (potentially very little) overhead, control over what events you accept,…

I spent two years as the head (*cough* ONLY *cough*) for a locally owned Family Restaurant in my town that was known for it's breakfasts. We we're only open for breakfast and lunch, which is why I was the lone cook: because she couldn't afford to pay anyone past 8hrs, despite being loaded from how busy we always…

maybe like, not hipster FOR SEATTLE.

I told one of my small-town high school buddies it was "very spicy, like horseradish."
"Oh, good! I love spicy food!" he said, cutting the ball in half with a chopstick and spreading it on the piece of tuna roll like it was cream cheese on a bagel.
"Yeah, that's kind of too much there...you might want to scrape some…

I'm Italian and didn't understand it either

I'm guessing that "distinct" means something like "tastes like campfires and cigarette butts", while "approachable" means "tastes like delicious caffeinated ambrosia". I'm just spit-ballin', though.

my dad told Me it was guacamole my first time seeing wasabi. So I ate the whole thing :( Mexican old men and little girls are fooled by the wasabi.

I had a FRIEND trap me the first time (and I really didn't do anything to deserve that!) we went to Düsseldorf and she got a box of supermarket sushi and told me that sauce was totally delicious... >.>

No one in this story came out looking good. No one.

Like I do not understand the entire first paragraph of that story. And I live in Seattle.

Have you ever seen Wasabi with Jean Reno?

Several jobs ago, I ordered a sushi appetizer at a nice company dinner. The president/CEO's secretary (who I later learned was having an affair with him) was a woman of extremely limited education and experience, and she was hyper-aware of this fact and constantly paranoid that other people were making fun of her. She…