…..After him we had a chef who would never show up on time and we would have to break into the kitchen to start work. I prayed one day I'd get arrested while I was crawling thru the dish return.

One chef I worked with went crazy and just left one day said "nice knowing you" and walked out. He really should have never been a head chef. If we got a tiny rush he would freak out, the best time was when he shouted "WE ARE GOING TO RUN OUT IF CHICKEN!!" He rushed to the freezer and pulled out a crazy big block of…

Not one but two of the four Brooklyn chefs I know have been sent to prison for stone cold stabbing a dude. Separate incidents. Even for Brooklyn that seems like a high average.

I'm in Canada, all our avocados are small and expensive. :)

I was a server at a super crappy "family restaurant" type place one summer in college - though this incident didn't happen when I worked there - it happened the following summer when a friend of mine was a server there. Anyway, a group of four was eating there and when they were done, two went out to the car while the…

Another tale,

I worked as a baker in a grocery store that was supposed to be high end but did the cheapest, shadiest shit... Anyway, it had a kitchen area and would serve hot meals.

When I was 19, I lived with an apprentice chef and a fully qualified chef in an amazing share house on a beach in Australia. We all worked 5 minutes walk from the house at a very popular tourist destination for rich Sydney siders. I was putting myself through University working retail and the chefs were running a…

I was trying to figure out how sturdy the table was.

The thing that scares me the most about the first one is how fucking hard did he swing that champagne bottle? They're extra thick & tough to deal with the pressure - to be able to break the bottom of one off...? Yikes.

This is sort of on-topic, cuz we ordered "guacamole and chips" at a restaurant yesterday and it came to the table, orange, and mealy. When we asked what it was we were told it was made with kirikiri and chickpeas... so its hummus? Oh no, its guacamole. O_o

Hah, I was accused of being hungover/drunk when I got sick as a server too! It wasn't from their food (probably), I had a stomach flu of some kind, but it was still funny to show up, start heaving into the trash, realize I shouldn't be serving food, and be told by the manager at the time "I know you kids and I know…

Two stories:

All my first jobs were in kitchens. I think most chefs are a little crazy. My first cooking job was at a four star French joint. They'd advertise French chef's but really they'd just promote the dishwashers up to prep up to chef.

I love food, and I love cooking, but I'm pretty sure that if I worked as a chef in a commercial kitchen I would be driven to pull this type of stunt as well. This is just based on the levels of rage I can attain when I am trying to get dinner on the table and there are PEOPLE in my damn KITCHEN. It's gotten to the…

I love chef stories! An ex of mine went to culinary school, and the things some of his bosses have said to him are insane. One pretty famous chef told him he should have been his mother's abortion when he fucked up the risotto. I admire the work he does, but damn you couldn't pay me enough to do it. I'm content with…

I feel like Chef #1 needs to meet my friend's late opa, who was also a chef. Opa was raised in Germany, forced into the SS at 16, and sneaked out of Germany to emigrate to America. He worked in the Hamptons and took shit from no one. Not much of a yeller, but he was abrupt and had an ice cold stare. I wish he was…

I worked in the kitchen at my childhood summer camp as a general dogsbody/food prep/dishwasher person; the kitchen was run by this utterly terrifying battleax of a woman from the nearby mountain community. Some anecdotes:

I once had an evil evil manager that was a former server but once she was promoted went power mad and actively tried to ruin my life for a while.

I am dating a chef and while he is this amazing, loving, luminous person, I would be lying if I said chefs weren't a whole other breed of people.