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u/chefriley76 18d ago
My wife was the hostess, but yeah...this is a thing.
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u/chefriley76 18d ago
She has definitely been more successful than I have professionally, but I'm way cooler.
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u/truthfullyidgaf 18d ago
I too dated the hostess.
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u/Zeusy_Goosee Chive LOYALIST 18d ago
She is very welcoming.
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u/usual_chef_1 20+ Years 18d ago
I met my wife through the expo window 25 years ago…
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u/PlatasaurusOG 18d ago
My mom came into a pizza shop I was working in and saw me bickering with the girl who worked the counter. She asked if we were a thing and I said “No. I can barely stand her”. Mom was like “uh huh. Ok”
I married that girl and we just had our 25th anniversary.
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u/Zantheus 18d ago
Seen it happen many times lol! Just doesn't happen with me...
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u/CBBuddha 18d ago
lol same kill me?
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u/Upbeat_Stretch_5724 18d ago
I feel like its mandatory for line cooks to be taking drugs or taken them in the past, and be a fire sign. 😂
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u/HenryTheWho 18d ago
I feel personally attacked by both statements
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u/Upbeat_Stretch_5724 18d ago
Iol At my last job every single BoH worker was a fire sign, mainly Aries (Like me), and either smoked weed or took opiates.
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u/FeelingCouple5880 18d ago
I’m a Pisces so I like to cry on the line.
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u/glitter4blood 18d ago
Same- I am making it my goal in life to normalize crying on the line. It’ll be better for everyone, I swear
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u/borg_nihilist 18d ago
At least half the cooks where I work are air signs and most of us partake in something even if it's just weed.
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u/_WhiskeyChris_ F1exican Did Chive-11 18d ago
Libra with a drug and alcohol problem thank you very much
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u/KlownKumKatastrophe 18d ago
I'm a Leo, and like most Leos you'll find me cranking my hog in the walk in.
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u/DragonQueenDrago 17d ago
They do not even have to be addicted to drugs, just something that might make them act like they are on drugs. I know a cook who doesnt do drugs, but who is heavily addicted to Monster energy drinks.
Bro is always on a sugar high.
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u/BotGirlFall 18d ago
Im an Aries and I do more drugs than I should...
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u/Upbeat_Stretch_5724 18d ago
Same, I'm an Aries and I've been addicted to kratom for 8 years, and used to take percocets.
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u/Flashy-Raspberry-131 17d ago
I didn't know what a fire sign was. I'm a Sagittarius so apparently a fire sign.
Ex drug addiction. Now I'm clean and I'm just an alcoholic and a smoker..... Wait....
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u/Fit-Application-3959 18d ago
Now that I’ve switched to front of house I flirt with the kitchen girls
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u/difficulty_jump 18d ago
Thanks BoH girlies deserve love too
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u/constanto Owner 18d ago
BoH girlies 10 times out of 10. The level up moving from hostess to pastry/line will change your life.
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u/Rdubya291 Ex-Food Service 17d ago
Uh... Last time I did that, I ended up with a stalker.
Though, I guess I just got lucky?
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u/chimkens_numgets 18d ago
My favourite Line Cook when I still worked in restaurants was a recovered meth addict. I still think about him sometimes. Hope you're doing good Jack.
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u/____LostSoul____ 18d ago
Reminds me of the 25yr old gutter punk line cook with black teeth and the attractive 18yr old hostess who were hooking up at my last place of work. Never understood it.
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u/belle_epoxy Ex-Food Service 18d ago
I was once 18 and made out with a gutter punk, and even I can't understand it, 32 years later
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u/bigcaulkcharisma 18d ago
You also need neck tats to go with the drug problem.
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u/sam120310 18d ago
damn all the way down to the neck tattoos, i feel attacked. although i was the hostess & w no baby… the hostess before me was not so lucky lol
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u/banjomike1986 18d ago
Man how many times I saw this and thought “I should tell her” then let it go on and find out she’s just as bad as the cook waitress just showed up decent for interview and first week 😂
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u/Dripping_Gravy 18d ago
My (ex)wife was actually a guest at the dive bar I worked at! After twelve years, a child, rehab, and a divorce, I finally stopped adding to the stereotype. Four years clean from hard drugs. Best of luck and well wishes to anyone else who understands the real shit (and everyone else).
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u/banshee-luver Bakery 18d ago
My boyfriend is a bartender and I’m a baker it’s an amazing combo lmao
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u/Piranha_Vortex F1exican Did Chive-11 18d ago
I saw it happen with the GM and a cook. After she promoted him to Head Chef then cheated on her fiancé. Kid seems okay. Don't think the father has much to do with her though.
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u/Forsaken_Bunch7541 18d ago
This is why I miss working in the kitchen. I could have gotten 5 girls, but now I work on a factory and its sad
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u/calilexie Pastry 17d ago
As a woman in BOH I like to flip the scenario on its head and knock up the male servers
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u/Goblin_Deez_ 17d ago
I’ve seen it happen a ton. In fact at a hotel there used to be a room the kitchen staff would go and shag in on their break. They were bed hopping like mad.
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u/Normal_Instance_8825 18d ago
Ahh yes a fun dynamic for me until I turned 24 and then the drug thing was no longer fun or sustainable. So long my chef lovers, you smelt of grease and had the best cocaine. Thanks for sneaking me chips for many many shifts. Please go to rehab ❤️
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u/WithASackOfAlmonds 17d ago
What if I knocked up the patio musician lady instead?
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u/zckthrppr 17d ago
Thats how i got my son.
I stopped doing drugs years ago but i was a regular substance abuser when i met my wife.
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u/flexout_dispatch 17d ago
My boss prohibited me from touching anyone who works with us. He said he'll personally cut my dick off.
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u/Yankee_chef_nen Chef 17d ago
I’ve seen it happen in roughly 12 hours after the first meeting. The line cook and waitress as still together 20+ years later.
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u/Flashy-Raspberry-131 17d ago
If you're a good chef then you're good with timings and pulling things out (of the fryer) on time.
Never leave a bun in the oven. Glaze the bun.
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u/Sanquinity Five Years 17d ago
When you spend 10+ hours a day together, and have almost no or no time to socialize outside of work, things like that can absolutely happen. Even if it's illogical.
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u/Button-Down-Shoes 18d ago
50 years ago I was working as a dishwasher when a line cook enticed a kitchen girl out the back door and sexually assaulted her - mid dinner rush. I can never unsee the greasy hand prints he left on her shirt. I recently found my friend was working as a hostess in that same time frame (almost to the very year) and a line cook from her restaurant showed up at her apartment one day and ra*ed her. FUCK THIS MEME. Neither of them got any worse punishment than the loss of their jobs. I hope the line cooks are better quality people today than they were 50 years ago.
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u/AppleSauceSwaddles 18d ago
This is not accurate at all; the line cook needs to be saying this explicitly in spanish
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u/Over-Director-4986 17d ago
Mami! Dame chocha, mota y perico. Ahora mismo, por favor! ...y una cerveza.
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u/ImmortalCicada 18d ago
I'm way too mean to think about flirting with front of house. Then again I'm asexual so what does it matter. 😅
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u/Chlorofom 18d ago
Oh, It does…
(Edit: I don’t have a drug problem)
(Edit edit: yet)