While we sit back, relax and enjoy the slow-passing time at a restaurant table, slowly devouring a savory appetizer, impatiently dreaming of the meal we’re about to be served fresh straight from the kitchen, things can go wrong on the other side of the curtain. Although we’d like to think we are 100 percent sure of the restaurant’s quality, freshness, and hygiene—after all, it’s buzzing with people and you couldn’t trick them, right?—this is not always the case.
In fact, the restaurant industry and especially the very core of it—the holy kitchen—is notorious for keeping its secrets tight shut. The good and the bad ones. From reheated shrimp cocktail to restaurant staff having nicknames for regular customers, to a chef that cooks expensive meals 11 hours a day only to have dino nuggies at home.
Thanks to the subreddit “Kitchen Confidential,” there are a lot of stories to discover about the daily bread and butter of food industry professionals, so we selected the most interesting ones below. Scroll down and after you’re done, be sure to check out more kitchen confidential posts right here!
#1 Heard
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#2 So Many Orders, So Few Tips
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#3 Seems Accurate
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#4 One Of My Employees Keeps This So Clean, He Did This After A 26k Saturday Night. Show My Guy Darian Some Love He Deserves It And Doesn’t Get Enough
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#5 I Don’t Want That Ham If It’s Been Processed, I’m Trying To Eat Healthier
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#6 Good Work, Tyler!
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#7 I’m With The Boomers On This
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#8 Not As Good As Some I’ve Seen, But It’s Mine And I’m Proud
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#9 I Don’t Disagree With This
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#10 I’m On My Last Few Days At The Industrial Bakery I Manage. Our 160qt Mixer, Pete, Broke Down So We Won’t Be Able To Use It. I Did The One Thing I’ve Been Dying To Do For Years Since He Arrived
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#11 Found On The Facebook
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#12 Just A Friendly Reminder That It’s Ok To Quit Your Job
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#13 Flipping Burgers
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#14 I Feel This
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#15 They’re Not Wrong
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#16 Makes Me Sick
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#17 Jojo Pdx
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#18 She’s Been With Me Ten Years, Through Four Head Chefs. Today, She Clicked Her Last Clack
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#19 Line Cooks – This Is Probably Old But It’s New To Me. A Friend Just Sent This My Way
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#20 Who Else ?
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#21 The Exact Moment I Realized This Is My Kitchen And My Menu! After Years Of Being Told To, I Pulled The Trigger And Dived All In
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#22 This One Stung A Little
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#23 Please Tell Us In Your Own Words
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#24 I Have Gone From Being Drunk In Kitchens, To Recovering Through Them. It’s Been A Wild Journey But I’m Extremely Proud Of Myself. To Anyone Struggling With Addiction, Just Know There Is Hope
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#25 Strip Club Food Gets Hate But I Took Pride In Everything I Would Do. I Made The Brioche Bread, No Frozen Patties Either. Everything Was Fresh
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#26 Story Of The Year.. Every Year
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#27 Soup Du Jour
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#28 From Dishie, To “Prep B**ch” And Now I’m Officially On The Line! Can I Get A Heard For The New Promotion?
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#29 Saw This
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#30 Important Notice From My Friends Restaurant
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#31 Cook Expensive Meals For 10-11 Hours A Day, Come Home And Eat Dino Nuggies
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#32 20 Minutes Past Morning Arrival. Only Cook In The Building. Same 3 Have Called Out The Entire Week. Still Gonna Make Killer Food
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#33 I’ve Had This Saved For Over A Year. Finally A Sub That Will Appreciate It
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#34 Accurate
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#35 Head Chef Cutting Bread On The Same Spot. Finally Getting Through The Board
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#36 May This Person Find Their Special Pickle
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#37 I Need Cut Gloves Made Of Tomato Skin
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#38 Day 1 Of Our New Dishie, Bless His Innocent Soul
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#39 Our Sous Just Walked In
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#40 Does My Supplier Hate Me? We Ordered 150 Lbs Of Halibut For The Weekend, We Got One 152lb. Fish. I Wanted A Few Collars Man!
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#41 Talk About A Trial By Fire
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#42 Taco Bell™ Manager: Serve Spoiled Food Or Be Fired
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#43 A Local Bar In A Small Beach Tourist Town I Live At Made Merch Out Of Some Bad Reviews
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#44 I Want To Know, Who Was That Client And What Their Nickname?
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#45 The Drain At My Job Has Been Clogged For A Week And We’ve Been Using The Bars Tiny Sink Plus Filling The Sink With Water And Then Emptying It To The Toilet With Buckets,for Full Freaking Week
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#46 Found On Instagram. I Love This Note Though And Thought You All Would Appreciate
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#47 You Know When The Burger Will Be Way Too Expensive
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#48 $16/Hr
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#49 Was Handed This Allergy List By A Customer. Things Went Downhill From There
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#50 Nfckff
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