"Sweetbitter" on Starz.....Bring up Old Memories for Any former restaurant workers here??

The work was hard as hell but I loved working in kitchens in college. Not sure I've ever had more laughs.

 

My child has worked in a restaurant the past three years, during his senior year in HS and his first two years of college, busing tables, doing deliveries, etc. He's ready to quit, but has made excellent money.

A semester in the kitchen cleaning dishes, pots and pans at St. Christopher's School while in college convinced me I wanted nothing whatsoever to do with food prep. A lot of my fraternity brothers worked there over the years. We had a lot of laughs but it wasn't even worth the free dinner. Delivering the RTD to the dorms at 6 a.m. every morning or mind-numbing production-line work at the Janosco Food Equipment Corporation in beautiful Midlothian was easier, and paid better.

 

My first job was at Red Lobster. I know they weren't technically screaming, but that's a hard sound to shake.

EDIT: I think I just wrote the start of a novel.

 

Cigarette butts never bothered me. Maybe because I smoked from about age 12 until about 2 years ago.
Grossest experience was not on dish station but bussing.

Guy dined alone. Had red sauce mussels with linguine. Place I worked at was an old-school family Italian place in the Pine Hill-Lindenwold area in South Jersey. Had a bar up front, too.
Anyway, this guy ate alone in a booth. Made quite a mess, too.
We had cloth napkins, and he used a bunch.
As I'm grabbing them up, I've got slime all over my hand.
He'd blown his nose in one of the cloth napkins. It was all over my hand.

Based on the abundance, consistency and color - he must have had a head cold or something.

 

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Take it to the incel thread.

 

That might have been @SpeedTchr. Later that night, he blew chunks.

 

First job was server and dishwasher in my high school cafeteria.

I volunteered in food roles at nonprofits for 20 years. I was a newspaper food editor. I now run food service for a nonprofit that serves 35,000 meals a year.

And in my life, I have never cooked in a restaurant.

 

Newspaper unemployed 20-some years ago, I worked in the nicest restaurant in town as a busboy and part-time dishwasher. Went in fairly drunk one night and had all the waitresses laughing their asses off — not laughing at me but with me. I made a few bucks, got a free meal, drank Scotch at the bar. It was better than a hickory sprout to the nuts.

 

I agree, bartenders had an easier time, but at least where I worked, waiters made most $$ in house, more than even managers. Great gig for 20-22.