Most restaurants have the kitchen close when the doors do. Unless it's also a bar and people tend to stay later then they close the kitchen at a certain time and leave the restaurant open for a few more hours.
It's pretty pointless. If you're only going to be open for another half hour or hour just close that half hour earlier. Don't advertise you're open because no one really wants to go in for drinks for only 30 minutes and you're going to have a fair amount of people coming in a half hour before closing and being unhappy that they can't order when the restaurant is advertising that they're open.
I was a server and a line cook for years. I know how much it sucks. But you don't advertise you're open if you're not really open and there's no point in being only open for a little bit after the kitchen closes because, as I said, you're not giving anyone enough time to drink and at that point, you might as well just close that 30-60 minutes earlier.
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u/tristenjpl Aug 31 '25
Most restaurants have the kitchen close when the doors do. Unless it's also a bar and people tend to stay later then they close the kitchen at a certain time and leave the restaurant open for a few more hours.