Many years ago, my family went to a restaurant for breakfast and the server asked my little brother (he was probably 8 or 9 at the time) how he wanted his eggs done. After some pondering, he replied "deviled". I'm still laughing about that all these years later. Especially cause he truly was a little devil child.

Yeah... I've worked at places where food is rung in and it's a "mistake". If abused like that, it can become a serious food cost problem. Therefore, it's understandable using the "one bad apple" rule (pun Intended).

Fake Yelp reviews?

Just write "Not enough vegan options." on EVERYTHING.

It's not being sanctimonious. I always make sure that ALL my staff whether FOH or BOH have a meal and the time to eat it for each and every shift they work. I also provide more food on long or particularly hard shifts or services. We just don't eat dead food in my kitchen. I never had a problem with grazing or eating…

some chefs (myself included) ban this as there are servers who consistently get orders wrong and then eat the dead food. Letting FOH eat their mistakes is rewarding then for costing the business money and putting unneeded stress on the kitchen. I bin all dead food

No way in hell was I including that.

Yay for camping the right way! I worked at a place that allowed, even encouraged, servers to close out or transfer tabs at shift change, and it was HEAVEN. If my replacement was a jerk, I would just ask the tables to close out. If it was a sweetie, I would transfer it so they would get the tip...knowing they would tip…

When I worked at a restaurant in SF that had an open kitchen, the guys in the kitchen used to check out any hot girls walking by. Because it was an open kitchen (and a 3 1/2 star restaurant) they used to talk in code. Hence a hottie was known by the phrase "check out the plates." The women's eqivalent was "le…

Sooo, on the subject of camping, here's something I've done just a couple of times and I'd like to know if it could get my server in trouble and they're just too nice to say anything. I trust you all to be honest with me.

I assumed in the weeds was derived from the golfing term - basically meaning you're fucked/hard to find a way out.

That's a good point, actually. If I had two jars of white crystallized substances on the counter I would probably think one was sugar and the other salt. Not one was sugar and the other one lye.

I don't think you can call the employee dumb for that. They were in a kitchen, working with food. They were probably testing to see if it was salt or sugar. It's outside the bounds of credulity to think someone would leave lye in a kitchen like that.

"his first review contains seemingly legitimate concerns — the cook is high on meth?"

and furthermore, chef Daily is a personal friend of mine, and he'd be shocked you make his special like this.

This made me laugh for the first time today.

I don't care if it IS a lie, I love it. I've been periodically chuckling to myself for about 20 minutes, ever since my wife read your comment to me, and I had to log in to support you! I am definitely saying this at some point in the future.

Oh my God.

What a gem of a comment.

It's always a winning move whenever I play Cards Players Against Humanity.