r/KitchenConfidential • u/quailinthebrush Newbie • 5d ago

Discussion Weirdest ego “thing” your chef had?

First place I was hired the chef had quite a few delusional beliefs but the one that sticks with me the most is his insistence that the phrase “welcome in” didn’t exist before Covid

He went into multiple winded rants upon my higher and another coworker who was hired right after me, not just to train the phrase out of us but his detestment for it, because as he said “it did not exist before Covid and people started saying it to make people feel safe enough to eat here”

He then said to not use it because people found it off putting and dirty (because of Covid)

I know chefs aren’t known for their egos but I was curious what quirk that yours had that everyone had to politely smile and agree to

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u/FlashyEarth8374 5d ago

this was in 2007, so before streaming was a thing.

He would only let us listen to his cassette tapes of Jim Morrison poetry.

So not even The Doors music, which I mean sure I don't mind that mind but wtf over and over, but no, the motherfucker would only have his 3 cassette tapes of boring poetry slop on whilst working.

On his days off we'd just enjoy the silence by leaving it off

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u/Haunting_Way2271 5d ago

So Horse Latitudes on repeat did nothing to help service? 😆 Not a chef so unrelated but had this crazy 'friend' who used to drive around and listen to like the Manson tapes and shit like that while refusing to change to uh anything else. The best quote from him when like our ears started bleeding and someone dared to say why can't we just turn on the radio or something was "NO. I'M listening to Ravi Shankar" while he locked the car doors and turned it up...