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- PhantomGremlin 5y ago1999. A look behind the scenes, written by a celebrity chef. Anthony Bourdain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain
- jvanderbot 5y agoHits home for me. I've had a lot of weird jobs, but working in a pizza restaurant was probably one of the best. Mostly for the weirdos, care-free attitude, and trauma bonding.
- retox 5y agoNothing like a 100 pizza order from the local highschool at the start of the 10am Saturday shift! Even after restricting the orders to cheese or pepperoni it's not something I'd like to do again.
- jfengel 5y agoI can't help but think that Bourdain found an industry full of unpleasant people because that's what he brought to it. Working in a kitchen is hard, hot, and loud. You work very fast on a lot of things at once. The margins are tight, the customers often difficult, and your coworkers unreliable. The hours are very long and the pay is lousy. Most restaurants don't survive long. But it doesn't have to be abusive. Chefs don't have to yell. You don't need hazing rituals. People jump jobs because owners don't give them any reason to want to stay. What Bourdain reported definitely happened. A lot. But I suspect it happened more where Bourdain was than in other places. Open-kitchen restaurant designs have become more popular and you can watch the cooks operating under circumstances more like you'd expect: quickly but carefully, and without abuse. Bourdain liked the adrenaline, and made sure there was lots of it around him. That makes the difficult job of cooking worse. I'm glad I don't work in a kitchen any more. And I'm really, really, really glad I never worked in one of his.