How many people wanted restaruants to open up so they could be assholes to staff? Seems like a lot.
I’ve worked on and off in the restaurant world for years. I deeply hate it, and feel like it’s gotten worse over the last ten years now that “chefs are the new rock stars” (gross) and everyone is a foodie or mixologist or whatever. Abuse of all sorts is seen as part of the job (typical chef move in my experience is to get yelled at all shift and then at the end told “good job” like yr my abusive boyfriend or something) and if you move up you are expected to abuse those beneath you. People (not me, fuck that shit) work 50-70 hr weeks and glorify that dumb ass grind mentality.
I keep hearing restaurant owners and chefs in my town crying about how no one wants to work anymore. Fuuuck them
As former restaurant staff, I enjoy Kitchen Nightmares because almost without fail at some point Gordon will scream at the restaurant owner for either disrespecting or not listening to their restaurant staff (or both) and these small business tyrants who have never had to speak respectfully to anyone have to just sit there and take it.
The waitstaff that throw the management under the bus are the true heroes of that show.
Gordon usually yells at the right people for the right reasons on kitchen nightmare.
I love how the majority of the businesses on kitchen nightmares close after the appearance on the show lmao
Ironically a lot of the people I’ve spoken to that have done this have said the only reason they’re able to do this is because they can easily pick up gig work as an alternative.
It’s not much better work but it is very funny that gig work is now fucking over other industries that it’s not even supposed to be “disrupting”.
Great point. Gig work, for how shitty and exploitative it is, has probably the shortest time from application to paycheck of any job.
It’s interesting in a way. They have created something that’s not only damaging to society but to themselves as well. It enables workers to just straight up leave their jobs on a whim knowing that gig work will exist as a temporary measure until they find something else.
That seems like a gross oversight in the systems that are designed to constrain the workers. Something that nobody foresaw when it came to pushing this “gig economy” shit.
Bad for workers. But bad for petty-boug tyrants as well. They have always operated on the very edge of employee retention levels. Creating anything that decreases employee retention further causes hell for the industries that operate on low retention of employees.
The only way they’ll be able to survive is by change the speed at which they can find and on-board new employees. OR by improving the standard of work to retain employees better.
It becomes more understandable when you consider that “they” in terms of the capitalists aren’t a monolith, and though they all have the same broad goal of extracting as much value and profit as possible, each’s pursuit of that goal will inevitably bring them into conflict with each other as they all try to become the fattest pig. Gig companies don’t care if they’re hurting restaurants, it’s just business.
