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The night we ran out of every clean pan by 7pm on a Saturday
Three hours before close, dishwasher machine breaks down. Line cook calls out sick. We had one guy on dish duty with a sprayer and a prayer. By 7pm we were washing saute pans by hand mid-service just to keep going. Tickets kept printing. Chef yelled at me for using a hotel pan to sear a steak. I yelled back that physics doesn't care about his feelings. We survived somehow. Has anyone else had a service where the whole kitchen just fell apart and you still made it through?
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jade22124d ago
That garden hose move is some real "we're not closing no matter what" energy. I've seen guys rig a similar setup with a spray nozzle from the utility sink and it somehow worked well enough to get through the rush.
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lisa83924d ago
I read a post from a cook in Chicago last week who said their dishwasher walked out mid-shift and they had to handwash everything with a garden hose hooked up to the mop sink. Sounds like every kitchen I've ever worked in honestly lol. As long as the tickets stopped printing eventually you won.
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