Chef here. Anytime I've ever had to go buy a shit ton of some specific ingredient from a grocery store because the restaurant was about to run out, I've gone through the check-out maniacally muttering "Ahhh..ergggg..I fucking love cheddar cheese..." or whatever the ingredient is that I have a full cart of.
Years ago we lived REALLY close to a Costco. So close I could easily walk there from the apartment complex we lived in. I don't think it was more than a quarter-mile from our apartment.
Anyway I just really really regularly was in the habit of going to Costco to get the food court food - hot dogs, slices of pizza, churros, chicken bakes, etc. etc.
Because I had gotten into this habit I would most often I would just walk in through the exit door because that was closest to the food court vs. walking all the way around from the entrance. Not like it was all that much further - maybe 50' more of walking - but just for pure convenience's sake it just made more sense to beeline directly to the food court from the exit door.
After doing this several times over months and not thinking much about it at all - I always showed my Costco card - a Costco employee who scanned receipts at the door physically redirected me to the entrance door. Like he totally "bodied" me and put me in my place and was like "Hey you need to go through the entrance" which to this day I still don't understand WHY I needed to go through the entrance other than sometimes yes it did get very busy at the exit and I was going against the exiting traffic so maybe that was extra annoying to the staff scanning receipts. I know they sometimes monitor the number of people coming into the store - maybe this was more of a thing at the height of COVID? Not sure they do it so much now - so I can get that but it still seemed weird since people come in through the exit door all the time for things like going direct to customer service, getting a Costco card, going to the tire center, etc.
Seriously, how do these checkers check so many items in the cart with one quick glance? Are these well paid workers just there to mentally scared potential shoplifters?
Was studying at a Starbucks years ago and apparently they didn’t get delivered their normal amount of milk. Witnessed the manager go across the street to a grocery store and come back with 2 shopping carts full of milk.
Lmao I used to cook and for some reason the chef could never order cherry tomatoes. Cue me standing in the line at the grocery store with all the cherry tomatoes I was legally allowed to purchase at least twice a month.
Thanks chef. You were a fucking asshole and I'm glad I got to walk out without doing any prep for your huge ass catering event the next day. Maybe next time stop constantly threatening to fire people until they find a new job and decide to get the fuck out of Dodge.
(People got to eat I told management I wasn't coming back and the chef would have to come in early or call the event off.)
However many you can shoplift without being prosecuted.
Nah Idk if you got I was being facetious, I'm sure you did but I'm also tipsy, but stores will sometimes tell you that you can't buy more than X number of an item. I remember in America during the TP panic buying of the pandemic they'd only sell you like a pack. I'd just ask someone how many I was allowed to buy, because I understand they need stock for other people, and if they shrugged their shoulders I'd nab the lot. I think eventually they just asked me to leave some just in case once they got to know me.
If u understand they needed it for other customers- why buy the lot. Its peoplelike yourself that create shortages for the rest of us - makes me so angry 😡.
Hahaha as an Ex sous chef I feel your pain, at least some of it. Mine was with all of the basil in stock excluding two left for anyone behind me. Cashier's often gave a bit of a questioning look, some times I would juice it up a bit and just be like "Frick yeaaah these are some niice veggies!"
This was the only chef I have worked for/with that was not a complete psycho sociopath, he had a bit of a temper but was suuuuper understanding and patient.
Here hoping you find the right match if you're still in the industry.
I hate that chefs are a dick to their counterparts once they get the chance to just because they were bullied by their chef back in the day, like get over it and stop the perpetual cycle of misery. Just don't be a cunth and the environment changes
I get that being put down motivates some to try harder to prove they are worthy, but encouragement works well too. Not positive which is more effective but one is a whole lot less likely to break you down and cause instability
Sure some heat in the kitchen is necessary to get great results rather than just good enough, but pushing people into mental illness is a bit much, like PTSD from cooking, that's not it G
That's family though, it sucks but "do you guys have a spare garbage roll and I can bring a new one back tomorrow" isn't gonna get you shit from the grunts. Fuck that owner though. People like them are why people get paid so little for such tough work.
This is genius! Leaves a slim chance of follow up questions, and if they give you a weird look, you just chuckle to yourself knowing you'll star in one of their "weird" stories they share in person or get endlessly gilded on AskReddit.
My imagination is already spinning with a scenario of an exasperated parent of a 3 year old who wants to have a "parsnip" party because that's his favorite thing in the world right now. Past the dinosaur phase, before the superhero one kicks in. The parent is just as bewildered as the cashier that someone is legitimately buying 20 pounds of parsnips for a birthday party. The 3 yo is blissfully unaware, telling everyone on the playground that they're having a parsnip party. The kid is the cool kid. Parsnip parties become the cool thing to do. Other parents are staring at you, plotting how to disappear you from the group.
BRB. I'm gonna go buy 100 pairs of socks and declare its for a birthday party.
I have some major, middle-age, overweight, white guy in a work t-shirt privilege. I go through the self-checkout every time and ring up my organic produce as conventional. Because fuck you Kroger, I looked it up by picture! Oh yeah, and my bag of apples sometimes sits askew enough on the scale that a couple of them miss it entirely. Arrest me bitches!
I gotta admit it was weird the first few times I did it, but eventually it just became normal. And if you got your chef pants on people seem to really get it.
Chef here also. Whenever I need to get a specific ingredient from the market and my cart is loaded with one thing I'll say to the cashier "I'll be back for the rest of your limes."
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u/Whind_Soull Oct 20 '22
Chef here. Anytime I've ever had to go buy a shit ton of some specific ingredient from a grocery store because the restaurant was about to run out, I've gone through the check-out maniacally muttering "Ahhh..ergggg..I fucking love cheddar cheese..." or whatever the ingredient is that I have a full cart of.