KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

enough to go around. Bartenders, waiters, managers, cooks, dishwashers, porters tell him everything. Somehow he ...

If I did half the things that Steven does regularly—and I'm not even talking about the felonies, just the ...

sweating and cursing to move orders out without falling in the weeds. We had only a few moments of peace to g ...

your fucking meez, or I come back there and fuck you in the culo" means "Pardon me, comrade, but I am ...

street tag, whether you chose it or not. I've been flaco and cadavro, probably borracho. That's just ...

kitchen can do it in Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, Bengali and English. Like all great performances, it's ...

rack where dupes or tickets containing orders hang. So one could say, "What orders do I have hanging?" ...

experience"—which by itself translates to "lots of work and no money"—are quickly tagged as FNG (Fucking New G ...

"What pain!" The slide, when full of dupes, is called the board, as in, "The board is full". Food curren ...

aims of their former comrades. I like wide-bodied, highly motivated runners. My runners, particularly ...

when it comes to questions of judgment or strategy. Their mission? Get that food out there and get ...

Though nominally floor staff, in time, as runners become comfortable with the customs and practices of the kitc ...

some interesting goodies in the employee locker-room as well, fallen from hastily removed uniforms, so an enter ...

another, is also useful for gathering interesting tidbits of intelligence. He is also privy, at times, to t ...

treated like a pasha: free snackies, maybe some free desserts, a visit from the chef, fawning, pe ...

in here!" "Dude . . . . I've got like . . . a situation here, man. And like . . . I j ...

brand, he probably stole it from the restaurant) and now he's out of money. He doesn't have enough for a c ...

greatness? Why, of all his creatures, did He choose this loud, dirty, unkempt, obnoxious, uncontrollable, megaloma ...

card from heaven, I imagine, and negotiations probably went something like this. "Bless me, father, for ...

ever tasted. It ensures that your customers, when examining their bread baskets, will exclaim, "Where ...