re: Six Things Customers Do to Tick Off a Chef

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I don't think they feel entitled but they are probably cranky because they have to work all weekend nights and holidays. How bad would that suck?

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I don't think that's it. Chefs are in their profession because they love it, and love cooking and creating, not because they have to, or desire a 9-5 job, but because they are enthralled with the culinary arts. They are artistic, and want other people to share in appreciation of their art, or at the least, just order from the menu and trust that they know what they are doing in their art. You can do no better than to compliment a chef on his work because that's what it about for them, for people to appreciate what they are trying to do in a culinary sense. But sadly, anyone who's ever worked in the service industry, retail, or sales can tell you that the masses are asses. That is to say that there are a whole lot of unreasonable ego maniac pricks in the general public that are authorities on everything and desire to feed their egos by being asses and speaking out their asses about shite they simply have half knowledge of, and no more so than now with the internet at our fingertips, and unless you've worked in these fields, you have no idea.