“Kitchen Confidential”: Restaurant Workers Describe What Their Job Is Like In 80 Funny Posts

It's hard to work in a restaurant and not become a cynic. I mean, have you seen Kitchen Nightmares? Owners doing drugs on the premises; stealing their own stock from business partners and family members; taking tips from hardworking staff to stuff their own pockets; chefs having to pay suppliers themselves as accounts are closed; customers bringing their own bells for when they need the server's attention; bailiffs appearing on the premises... The list goes on. I'm not saying every establishment is toxic. Just that you never know what's happening behind the counter. However, there's a perfect place to learn — a subreddit called r/KitchenConfidential. It has 378k members, constantly making honest and funny posts about the industry, and they paint quite the picture!

#1 Triggered

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#2 Karen Brings Her Own Bell For When She Needs Her Servers Attention

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#3 Closed At 10, And Then This Happens

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#4 Do You Guys Have Banned Music?

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#5 Wonderful Weather We’re Having Huh?

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#6 I Stole This Picture For Karma

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#7 Sodium Chloride

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#8 Truth

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#9 She Uses Hot Water To Defrost Food, And Then Asks Why I Don’t Eat At Work

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#10 How Do You Really Feel?

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#11 Lost My Job As A Receptionist Due To Covid And Got A Job As A Dishwasher To Make Ends Meet

Today, during rush hour, the chef guided me into making these because he was swamped. I know it's not much, but I'm proud. I've discovered a passion. He's helping me pick out a government culinary school.

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#12 Covid Crying

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#13 I Mean

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#14 This Made It So Much Easier To Cook For This Customer

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#15 Does It Need A Title?

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#16 Preach!

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#17 Restaurant Food Is Low Risk For Transmitting Covid-19

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#18 Watching My Online Graduation During Prep, Hopefully They Read My Name Before Service Starts

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#19 When The Servers Start Flirting

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#20 Everyone Needs This Experience

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#21 Or They're A Benedict Arnold

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#22 Sorry Chef

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#23 This Is How My Dish Crew Brought In The New Year

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#24 All My Dishies Know What I’m Talking About

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#25 Thank You For Your Service

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#26 Can I Do My Prep In The Walk-N?

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#27 Friend Sent Me This, Thought Of You Boys. Wash Ya Damn Hands And Stay Safe Out There

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#28 Every Damn Time...

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#29 I Don't Want To Be Here Anymore Today

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#30 Anyone Else?

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#31 Polishing Myself With A Towel When I Get Out And Rolling Myself Up In My Bed

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#32 Shots Have Been Fired

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#33 Am I Wrong Tho?

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#34 7 Months Ago I Quit My S**tty Fast Food Job To Wash Dishes In The Local Steakhouse. Today They Put Me On Salads. Dreams Do Come True

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#35 My Dad Just Sent This To Me Asking “Is This True?”

This picture really hit home with me.

I cook over 1k plates a week for people to enjoy dinner with their families and friends. And this is how i usually eat dinner. Like this or hunched over a garbage can. So if you have a chef in your life keep this picture in mind and maybe cook them a meal, sit down with them and have a nice dinner. Something like this may seem small to others but it means a lot to people like us.

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#36 Every Freakin Time! At My House Anyway

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#37 What's Your State Or Regional Garbage Food That's Great? Here's Mine

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#38 Promoted A Dishwasher To Prep Cook, She Worked Her Ass Off, Promoted Her To Line Cook, Continued To Crush It. Tomorrow I’m Giving Her, Her First Knife Of Her Own For Her Hard Work

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#39 Happy Birthday!!!!

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#40 560 Pounds Of Chicken I Butterflied This Morning, Where My Prep Cook Homies At?

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#41 Yes Please

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#42 Currently Work In It, Worked As A Line Cook For Years. This Similarity Occured To Me The Other Day

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#43 Chef Cut Himself So Badly Yesterday He Had To Go To The Hospital And Take The Day Off. We Set Up His Station This Morning With His Safety In Mind

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#44 Job Interviews Tend To Be Pretty Silent

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#45 All Restaurants Should Do This, Almost Makes Me Want To Ask For An Application. 8 Upvotes And I’ll Buy Boh A Drink

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#46 It's The Fry Trays For Me

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#47 Some Meals Are More Hateful Than Others

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#48 New Kid Said He Wanted Some More Hours, Told Him To Go Clean The Grill. I Did Not Expect This When I Walked Back Over There.... Kids Gonna Get Some More Hours

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#49 Ain’t It?

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#50 My Mouth Dropped When I Read This. Every Resturant Should Do This. [veggie Galaxy In Boston]

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#51 Good Luck To All Of Our Kitchen Comrades Who Have To Work Tonight/Tomorrow Night In The USA

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#52 Miss It

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#53 Restaurant Owners Looking For Cooks Right Now

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#54 Anthony Bourdain Stopped By My Mom’s Kitchen While Filming When I Was A Kid. She Mentioned That We Tried To Go To His Book Signing The Night Before But Couldn’t. So He Grabbed An Envelope Out Of The Trash And Signed It For Me

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#55 Felt This

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#56 Always Remember Where You Came From. 9 Years Ago On My First Day In The Kitchen As A Dishwasher vs. Where I Am Today. Never Underestimate Yourself

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#57 I Love Our Customers

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#58 I'm Kinda Gonna Miss Mothers Day Breakfast

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#59 Well It’s Official, We Cut Ourselves On The Same Day So Now We’re Married By Kitchen Law

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#60 Seriously Worried About You Guys

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#61 It’s A Wage Shortage

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#62 My Cook Is Supposed To Be In Tomorrow At 7am And He Just Woke Up From A Nap. He Thought He Lost His Job

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#63 We Do Like 8-10x Normal Business On “Nice Days”

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#64 I Love Seeing Signs Of Restaurants Not Opening Because They Won't Pay

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#65 Hey, Crabman

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#66 All Our Hard Work, Ruined

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#67 Only Needs Changing When You Have 10 Other Things Going On

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#68 A Constant Lather

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#69 I Mean He Ain’t Wrong

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#70 Better Than A High School Reunion

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#71 It's Magical, When It Happens

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#72 Industry Stuff

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#73 Everyone Pitched In To Buy A Nice Knife For Him. He Always Gives It His All And Is The Sweetest Person!

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#74 I’m A 16 Year Old Cook, Chef Put Me In Charge Of Butchering, I Was Very Nervous But I’m Getting Pretty Freakin Good

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#75 They’ve Kept Us Alive Really

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#76 Alisa Was A S**tty Manager

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#77 While There Is A Lower Class, I Am In It

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#78 Somebody's Got A Birthday

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#79 Currently Work In It, Worked As A Line Cook For Years. This Similarity Occured To Me The Other Day

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#80 I Love Pulling This Joke

Whenever a BOH coworker comes in a date to dine. Keep bringing them plates of edible bullsh*t. Chef to table style. Let it pile up in front of them until they have at least 6 plates of miso mayo and peanuts. Every plate must look good but make 0 sense. Explain nothing.

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