so had my working interview this weekend at a big restaurant in newport this weekend.
for those of you that have never worked in the restaurant business, its a crazy industry! long hours, no weekends off, no holidays off, your "weekend" is usually Tuesday and Wednesday which isnt a bad thing once you get use to it.
the restaurnt was a complete disaster, basically like organized confusion with a lot of running around, yelling and crying.
watched one the line cooks get into an arguement with one of the managers, he walked in the middle of lunch.
then shortly after that another line cook made a comment about the sous chefs lack of skills, they get into a screaming pissing match, he walks out.
The line had 5 people on it now down to 3, madness. it was a complete cluster f$$$, and its april and not in the busy season.
we did a 12,450 lunch!!!! again its april.
at 4 oclock i sit down with managers and go over the day, they told me that a typical saturday in the summer is about $45,000!!
They went over all the protocol, 19 pages worth, just crazy, told me that its not "usually" like this. But from what i was told by the sous chef and food vendors its always like that.
They made me an offer with was good, not great, sounded a lot better in the first interview, some things were not included like parking which they said was.
It was a lot of fluff and no filler.
I turned the offer the down and decided to take another executive chef position in Providence which includes paid parking, health and dental, house expense and two weeks paid vacation, plus a healthy pay raise.
I thanked them for the oppurtunity and wished them a lot of luck in the upcoming season, which there going to need.
The final thing was watching a waitress go running by me crying her eyes out cause she messed up an order and they yelled at her.
So glad I went and checked it out and made it easier to make the decision of which job to take.