r/KitchenConfidential May 21 '25

Kitchen fuckery Hoity-Toity

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u/nelrond18 May 21 '25 edited May 22 '25

That labour is slutty af

Edit: seems buddy nuked his account. Wild

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u/nelrond18 May 21 '25

Most places I've been keep their ideal labour between 10-15%.

I could not imagine how frequent the turns, and how intense that volume, was.

Your team has my respect. I'm curious what your food cost is like lol

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u/screaminginprotest1 May 21 '25

Bruh if he got labor to less than 10% he can afford food to be like 40% lmao if he can do 60k a day, his on hand inventory can be like 100k+ depending on delivery frequency. If I ever had labor this low and numbers this big my district manager woulda sucked me and the whole kitchen crew off like a sloppy thot

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u/nelrond18 May 21 '25

Right? I can't imagine the labour distribution to hit <1%.

Did you just have 3 cooks, single seating, 1k guests? Hammer out 1k salads, then rotate to mains, then finish desert at $150 set menu or something?

I would love to be the roach on the pass for that evening just to see how it was done lol

Or maybe half the crew forgot to clock in? 😂😂

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u/screaminginprotest1 May 21 '25

Idk, I just did the math, at .86% labor and 61k for the day, he spent 524$ on labor. Sounds like huge cap to me. At florida minimum wage thats 40 labor hours. That's 5 employees for an 8 hour shift, or 9 for a 4.5 hour shift, at minimum wage. Doing 60k in a shift. Idk thats big if true, but im not sure thats actually doable unless it was mostly alcohol sales and there were some high rollers dropping grands. Lowest labor I've seen in fine dining was when 4 dolphin linebackers came in and spent 45k for a table of 8, but it was like 42k of alcohols and like 3 grand worth of steaks and shit. But even then we had like 25 people on staff cause its a fancy place and people expect super quick service, so labor was at 7% or so for the day. And that was still fucking stupid low.

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u/nelrond18 May 22 '25

Can you not post to imgur and then share a link?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25

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u/nelrond18 May 22 '25

Oh, it's a free image hosting site. Kinda like Photobucket back in the day.

imgur.com it's a handy service for sharing images in places that won't let you upload, but will allow you to share urls.

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u/nelrond18 May 22 '25

Have an energetic golf clap.

Also, am I reading that right, and your labour was 1.5% the day before?

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u/nelrond18 May 22 '25

I feel ya. Figured I could give you the choice

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u/screaminginprotest1 May 22 '25

Why buddy delete all his responds?

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u/Vonbalthier May 22 '25

I used to work for a five guys and around Christmas we would get so busy our labor dipped down to like 6-7% for a few weeks. It was a......but much. Never before or since have I fried myself out of breath

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u/screaminginprotest1 May 22 '25

Yeah, buddy deleted all his posts, I think it was big cap lol