June 2019

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Server Informs Cooks That Kitchen Is Hot

SAN JOSE, CA – Molly Jenkins, a server at Purgatory’s Kitchen, walked from the dining room to the pass in front of the kitchen last Thursday during happy hour, when she exclaimed to the kitchen staff that she was “sweating”…

Sauce On the SideJune 30, 2019

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Ambulance On Standby Outside Perkins For 4:15 Dinner Rush

ORLANDO, FL -- The EMTs for Florida Hospital have been posted up in the Starbucks across the street from Perkins for about twenty minutes, just waiting for the inevitable calls to stream in. “It’s the same shit every afternoon. People…

Greg ParkerJune 29, 2019

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Kitchen Gets InterClock-In

JACKSON, MS -- In a startling and arguably unconstitutional action, a Judge in Hinds County found cause to issue a restaurant-wide interlock device for the time clock at Git ‘Er Crumb, a decoupage menagerie of French delicacies on Jackson’s Southside.…

Jack MilkyJune 27, 2019

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Is New Hire Terrible Or Traumatized?

BATON ROUGE, LA -- No one on staff at Steak It Out knows what’s going on with the busboy they just hired and they’re not sure if they want to. Derrick Swanson is 35 years old, covered in tattoos, unable…

Eric MadsenJune 23, 2019

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No One Has Stories Because They Were All At The Same Party

ANAHEIM, CA -- The crew of Et Tu Elote gradually arrived, clocked in, and set to work on Saturday. All of them had the kind of hangover that lingers just behind your eyes and forces you to wonder if you…

Connor IvesJune 22, 2019

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Female Line Cook Tired of Being Asked if She’s a Server

RENO, NV – Annie Farnsworth, a line cook at Raising the Steaks Steakhouse, walked out of the kitchen briefly last Friday for her only two-minute break in her 14 hour shift, when she was stopped dead in her tracks by…

Sauce On the SideJune 21, 2019

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Server Regrets Being “One of the Guys”

AKRON, OH -- When Sarah Carpenter started working at Chez La Vie, she was sure that the kitchen boys were just misunderstood. She had this dream in her head that, one day, she could be friends with them and personally…

Greg ParkerJune 20, 2019

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Dad Wonders Why He’s “Hated” Every Meal Since 2003

SAINT PAUL, MN -- Greg Smith stares out into the rain as his coffee grows cold, trapped in the midst of an existential crisis. At dinner last night, for the umpteenth time, he and his familiy’s server came up and…

Eric MadsenJune 16, 2019

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Line Cooks Uncomfortable With New Chef’s Jokes About Her Vagina

CLEVELAND, OH -- Chef Tamara Blaine walked into her first shift at The Chive Turkey having been warned that her new employees were “crude, lewd, rude, and occasionally semi-nude.” Having worked in the industry for years, this warning didn’t concern…

Greg ParkerJune 15, 2019

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Cook Wonders When Parents Will Grow Up, Work On Saturdays Like An Adult

BIRMINGHAM, AL -- Tyler Lawrence is on his last nerve with his parents. Every single weekend he works his ass off, while his parents send him text messages like: “Want to get lunch with us?”, “Could you make it to…

Sean RussellJune 14, 2019

Server Informs Cooks That Kitchen Is Hot

Ambulance On Standby Outside Perkins For 4:15 Dinner Rush

Kitchen Gets InterClock-In

Is New Hire Terrible Or Traumatized?

No One Has Stories Because They Were All At The Same Party

Female Line Cook Tired of Being Asked if She’s a Server

Server Regrets Being “One of the Guys”

Dad Wonders Why He’s “Hated” Every Meal Since 2003

Line Cooks Uncomfortable With New Chef’s Jokes About Her Vagina

Cook Wonders When Parents Will Grow Up, Work On Saturdays Like An Adult

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