Belly up, fired, and retired

hutch wrote:
Why do restaurants close in this sudden manner? It’s a shitty thing to do to your staff and it’s weird.

Also, fascists with machine guns kidnapping your staff and intimidating your customers.

Dang, this is just like The Bear (i got bored halfway through and stopped to do something else)

sweetcell wrote:

hutch wrote:
Why do restaurants close in this sudden manner? It’s a shitty thing to do to your staff and it’s weird.

because a restaurant owner/operator/manager has to.  restaurants open and close every week, the restaurant biz is very transient.  anyone who makes a career working on the floor - cooks/chefs, waiters, kitchen staff, bartenders, cleaners, etc. - needs to be transient as well.  they have to look out for themselves because their bosses aren't.  as soon as they hear that their current employer isn't doing well, they immediately start looking for their next employer.  they don't go down with the ship, they cut bait ASAP. 

so an owner/operator/manager can never let on that things aren't going well.  they need to maintain a facade of "everything is fine" until the last second, otherwise their staff will leave you and they'll be forced to shut down not by creditors, but by the lack of people on the floor.  the rumor that you might shut down will shut you down.  it's shitty, but it's the nature of the biz.  bourdain goes into this in kitchen confidential (a great read, if you haven't already). 

(also, back in college i i was lucky enough to get hired at a shmancy french restaurant in toronto's theater district so i experienced this dynamic first-hand.  i was a kid who didn't belong there in the first place, so i was grateful just to have the gig.  the lifers, on the other hand, would always have feelers out for which other joints were doing good/better and someone would inevitably leave as soon as sales slumped for more than a week - they didn't wait for the pink slip.)

so, agreed that it's shitty and weird, but the alternative is to be transparent and lose everyone as soon as things aren't perfect.

nkotb wrote:
Dang, this is just like The Bear (i got bored halfway through and stopped to do something else)

sweetcell wrote:

hutch wrote:
Why do restaurants close in this sudden manner? It’s a shitty thing to do to your staff and it’s weird.

because a restaurant owner/operator/manager has to.  restaurants open and close every week, the restaurant biz is very transient.  anyone who makes a career working on the floor - cooks/chefs, waiters, kitchen staff, bartenders, cleaners, etc. - needs to be transient as well.  they have to look out for themselves because their bosses aren't.  as soon as they hear that their current employer isn't doing well, they immediately start looking for their next employer.  they don't go down with the ship, they cut bait ASAP. 

so an owner/operator/manager can never let on that things aren't going well.  they need to maintain a facade of "everything is fine" until the last second, otherwise their staff will leave you and they'll be forced to shut down not by creditors, but by the lack of people on the floor.  the rumor that you might shut down will shut you down.  it's shitty, but it's the nature of the biz.  bourdain goes into this in kitchen confidential (a great read, if you haven't already). 

(also, back in college i i was lucky enough to get hired at a shmancy french restaurant in toronto's theater district so i experienced this dynamic first-hand.  i was a kid who didn't belong there in the first place, so i was grateful just to have the gig.  the lifers, on the other hand, would always have feelers out for which other joints were doing good/better and someone would inevitably leave as soon as sales slumped for more than a week - they didn't wait for the pink slip.)

so, agreed that it's shitty and weird, but the alternative is to be transparent and lose everyone as soon as things aren't perfect.

When I was reading it this morning while eating my Raisin Bran, I almost replied "Thanks Chef."

The wildest thing about The Bear is they’ve milked “will an employee sign their offer letter” as a plot point for like two seasons.

I swear, one of the seasons (maybe 3?) was like 90% clips from previous episodes! Oh, Carm is in a field harvesting flowers?  Oh he's learning how to drizzle chocolate or something?  No shit…YOU ALREADY SHOWED ME THOSE EPISODES IN THEIR ENTIRETY

Love that show

nkotb wrote:
I swear, one of the seasons (maybe 3?) was like 90% clips from previous episodes! Oh, Carm is in a field harvesting flowers?  Oh he's learning how to drizzle chocolate or something?  No shit…YOU ALREADY SHOWED ME THOSE EPISODES IN THEIR ENTIRETY

Yeah… I didn't make it through season three.

I got shut out on the Radiohead ticket lottery for Madrid….

Space wrote:
I got shut out on the Radiohead ticket lottery for Madrid….

We are all really proud that you advocated for yourself and tried to get some.

Julian, wrote:

Space wrote:
I got shut out on the Radiohead ticket lottery for Madrid….

We are all really proud that you advocated for yourself and tried to get some.

My wife decided the Radiohead show would be worth a go when she realized how many likes she'd get on Instagram. Alas, people are going to have to like pictures of art and food instead.

Space wrote:

Julian, wrote:

Space wrote:
I got shut out on the Radiohead ticket lottery for Madrid….

We are all really proud that you advocated for yourself and tried to get some.

My wife decided the Radiohead show would be worth a go when she realized how many likes she'd get on Instagram. Alas, people are going to have to like pictures of art and food instead.

I mean there is nothing stopping her from taking someone elses photo of that show and posting it like she went
likes for a fraction of the price
only you, her and the board would know  (is it me or is that a good band name)

“Only you, her, and the board would know” IS an amazing band name.

Justin wrote:
[Trump] Center fires head of jazz programming, adding to a string of staff exits

I could see trump doing something like a reverse DEI "why are their no white jazz performers on the bill"

gonna be a whole new cast next season….and Kenan Thomson


Ego Nwodim exits SNL

Jerry Greenfield

Jimmy Kimmel

Yada wrote:
Jimmy Kimmel

and then there was one

silencing the comedians…scary times

FREE SPEECH

oh wait never mind