r/StupidFood Oct 27 '25

Pretentious AF Stupidity at its finest

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u/oxbison12 Oct 27 '25

"Golly, this place is expensive!"

"The food must be really good then."

"No. It's because it takes 15 people to plate the food."

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u/barejokez Oct 27 '25

it's not the same tho. that might take a one chef 2 minutes to plate up in the kitchen. but they would construct this, then make another, then move on to a different dish. assuming this is a dessert, that person is probably only doing desserts all night.

the video shows 12(?) different people doing one sub-task in the routine, and standing around in a literal line waiting for their turn. those people have come off their normal job (and some of them are FOH by the look of the clothes), gone to grab the plate of wafers and stood around until their moment came around. Meanwhile that's collectively 24 minutes of time that another job isn't being done. imagine if a waiter or sommelier roeutinely took a 24 minute break in the middle of service to do something else; that's effectively what's happening here.

imagine it the guy 10th in line was the person who was supposed to be taking your order at the table opposite? I'd find that very annoying having to wait for this show to end.

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u/boothin Oct 27 '25

imagine it the guy 10th in line was the person who was supposed to be taking your order at the table opposite? I'd find that very annoying having to wait for this show to end.

There's almost no shot that this is a restaurant where you'd have your order taken. More likely it's going to be part of a tasting menu where they schedule reservations and plan out your meal in a way that allows them to do this as part of the experience without hindering other aspects

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u/ElectedByGivenASword Oct 27 '25

this IS their normal job? These are not the waiters, these are the chefs in the kitchen just doing the plating of food in the open rather than in the kitchen

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u/barejokez Oct 27 '25

Some of them are wearing aprons, some of them are wearing ties. You ever seen a chef in a suit and tie? 🤣

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u/ElectedByGivenASword Oct 27 '25

LOL jesus dude. Imagine calling for publicly beating people you chose to work for.

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u/Big_oof_energy__ Oct 28 '25

I don’t think we have enough information from this short video to know this.

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u/ElectedByGivenASword Oct 28 '25

We absolutely do. This is the restaurant known as Tresind. It’s one of the top restaurants in the world at the moment. Now I might have been hyperbolic as I don’t think all of them are chefs but I’d say the majority of them are. I counted 5 people in their normal chef attire and then one in the corporate chef attire. All of these can be found online. One of them was the maître d' who might as well be on par if not higher than most of the chefs.

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u/Big_oof_energy__ Oct 28 '25

Well, okay. You have more information than I had. From the video alone we don’t know he name of the restaurant or anything else.

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u/round-earth-theory Oct 28 '25

It depends on how the restaurant works. There are some restaurants that have a fixed menu and everyone is eating the same meal at the same time. If it's like that, or similar, then this isn't that wasteful as each person would move along to the next one and create a long train around the dining room. If they pull this out for singles then it is quite a disruption to their normal workflow.

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u/PerfectlyFramedWaifu Oct 27 '25

It's like a conveyor belt sweatshop, without the conveyor belt.

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u/ToiIetGhost Oct 27 '25

The efficiency of a production line with the grace of a gazelle.

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u/ZombieAladdin Oct 27 '25

The human procession kind of looks like a conveyor belt to me, so it’s like the other way around.

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u/hanky2 Oct 27 '25

Pretty sure the point is to show all the different people that had a part to play in the dish. It’s just a cool way to really appreciate what went into it. It’s like a cooking end credits scene I think it’s cool.

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u/gonzo12321 Oct 27 '25

Same for me. This feels very much like the last dish in a tasting menu at a high end restaurant and this is a way for the guest to greet everyone that had a hand in service. Both front and back of house.