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Back in the late 90s I was working in a nightclub in the UK. It was my first time when I had to use a 'professional' dishwasher. That thing could wash 50-70 gla
by HenryBemis 2y ago
Back in the late 90s I was working in a nightclub in the UK. It was my first time when I had to use a 'professional' dishwasher. That thing could wash 50-70 glasses in 3-4 mins and I remember that when I was pulling out that tray it was hotter than the sun. We had 5-6 trays for each dishwasher of them and at any given time 1-2 trays were out filled with glasses cooling down.
These were like tiny ovens (same horizontal dimensions but only 40-50cm tall)
I haven't worked in a restaurant so I don't know about that complexity (cutlery, porcelain wearing out) but glasses.. oh man we had 99% mostly pint glasses (beer/UK) and shot glasses and 1% wine and champagne glasses, and considering people breaking them we had to restock (replace broken or replace worn out) every week.
- edu 2y agoThe article is about people, actual human beings washing the dishes by hand.
- ripe 2y agoYes, and yet... Guzman says he's a better chef for having cleaned pots and pans and worked his way up in the kitchen. “Cooking school doesn’t prepare you for a broken dishwasher,” he says.
- pfdietz 2y agoAt one point West Virginia had a very large glass industry, including production of drinking glasses for eastern cities. Sustained breakage ensured a large steady market. https://www.glassonline.com/usa-opinions-differ-on-decline-of-west-virginia-glass-industry/ https://www.glassonline.com/usa-opinions-differ-on-decline-o... "One hundred years ago, by one historian's estimate, the bars, hotels and restaurants of New York City broke 500,000 glass tumblers every day." (2003)
- wodenokoto 2y agoI’ve never worked at a place where we broke 1 glas a day on average, let alone 1 tumbler. That would put my estimate at over a million bars, hotels and restaurants in New York in 1903.
- ambicapter 2y agoYou could work at plenty of places that don't break 1 glass a day and the average could still be 1 glass/day.
- pfdietz 2y agoI'm guessing there must have been significant deliberate breakage.
- latchkey 2y agoRecently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41173177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41173177 East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses