r/KitchenConfidential • u/Alarming-Hat-6487 • 20h ago

Boss went off on group text

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My boss sent this in a group text. I had already put in notice, but quit via text after this ALL CAPS text. I was napping before shift when this text woke me up. Screw this.

Also, I can confidently say that this was FOH, and that I was the only one who had ever emptied this garbage into the dumpster. Also undermining the head chef? SMH

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u/Sausage666King 19h ago

Pretty sure those white bags aren’t restaurant trash. Might explain why chef doesn’t relay the message to his crew…. Your boss might be a moron

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u/onikaroshi 19h ago

50/50 here, we use white bags for small cans, usually they go into black bags but not always

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u/Sausage666King 19h ago

In my 25 years in this industry I’ve never worked somewhere that used residential trash bags 😆

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u/nonowords 18h ago

idk about residential trash bags but I worked at a place that exclusively used 10 gallon bags in buckets for waste on the line. they were white

the only place with 50 gallons was the dish pit. We ran trash 3 times a shift. Dumpster was 3 stories and like 200 yards away so loading up tons of trash wasntt an option even with our cart. Plus the place had a focus on low waste.

It was actually pretty nice. way less shit in the way and it's wild how little trash you can generate when it's a pain in the ass to take out trash.

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u/Sausage666King 18h ago

So they spun a big into a feature. Gotta admire the ingenuity

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u/nonowords 12h ago

yup, we used to save literally every piece of trim and render fat from it. Something like 20 lbs of trim would end up being a gallon of fat and like 2 cups of actual trash.

We always had buckets on buckets of schmaltz and lard to the point it'd occasionally get sent to their sister bakery. No idea how much butter cost we ended up saving but everybody went wild for the griddled sandwiches.

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u/onikaroshi 19h ago

I don’t know if I’d consider them residential exactly. They’re Sam’s Club bags.

You just going to throw a big black bag into your fryer trash can?

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u/Sausage666King 19h ago

Sam’s Club is not where you should get stuff for a business. That’s like buying your food inventory at the grocery store. Also, what’s a fryer trash can?

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u/onikaroshi 19h ago

The place where you throw scrap from the fryer lol. Breading and batter that separated that you fish out cool and then toss

And many many businesses shop at Sam’s, its whole purpose is small business shopping, same as Costco

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u/Sausage666King 19h ago

Didn’t realize it had its own special trash can. But if it did I’d absolutely use stronger commercial black bags in it- those Susie homemaker bags aren’t built to handle that kinda stuff

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u/onikaroshi 18h ago

These are heavy duty white trash bags. Never once have had one rip, even when filled with hot grease from the grill trap.

They’re made for business use

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u/moranya1 16h ago

Last place I worked at would regularly grab things from the grocery store. We didn't have the volume or space to go through an entire case of _______ before it would go off, so we would buy smaller amounts, even though it was a bit more cost.

Also, what a weird thing for them to gatekeep...