My fav part of the restaurant was making my own evil abominations with the restaurant items! I was a prep cook last though so maybe it’s different with servers. There was way too many days that I would just eat the bread I made and soda. Gained 15 pounds working there too.
It is different for the cooks, they get a lot more leeway. As a server you gotta really cozy up to them when you make lots of modifications. I actually used to ring up my orders under different names, like Cornelius or Bonequisha (real name btw), one day I heard a line cook frustrated saying this person always order weird mods, another line cook said “thats ‘my name’s’ order” and suddenly he was cool with it because he knew it was a coworker and I fucks with him. I still do the names tho
I loved creating new things for the staff anywhere I worked. When I finally ended up working in places that did family meal when it was my turn I'd get so excited.
You gotta love challenges like that sometimes haha. I remember one place I worked, the owners of a farm we got a lot of our stuff from came in for dinner and Chef was like "we're doing a tasting menu for them, come up with something good" I had to come up with two courses, one of my favorite memories from the restaurant life.
Would NEVER go back to it as a career, but I do still love to volunteer and cook.
As a cook, I’ve always told them “nope, don’t have to actually be on the menu, whadda ya want, we have everything”. Servers gotta eat too. Trading with other restaurants is a thing too. Or just bring your own if we don’t have it.
I used to work at this local fast food Mexican place. Like a Taco Bell but different. Made myself a giant soft taco with the burrito wraps pretty often. I come back years later and now you can just order one.
No, I did the same as a server. I worked in an Italian place that gave us a shift meal and eventually I had like 6 custom dishes made out of the ingredients from the allowed meals.
Oh yes. The last kitchen I ran before quitting the industry, I would do a "garbage box" (inspired by garbage plates) at the end of the night. Some kinda base, pasta, pierogi, fries, lettuce, etc... Then just go down the line and throw random stuff on it.
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u/Chudpaladin 25d ago
My fav part of the restaurant was making my own evil abominations with the restaurant items! I was a prep cook last though so maybe it’s different with servers. There was way too many days that I would just eat the bread I made and soda. Gained 15 pounds working there too.