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re: Calling each other chef in the restaurant industry
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:00 am to Jimbeaux
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:00 am to Jimbeaux
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I like the industry uniqueness of this practice.
you don't refer to your doctor as "doc" or equivalent ? you've never heard someone called "nurse" ? it fits several jobs where the person is actually called a title, not a name
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Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:00 am to RoosterCogburn585
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Is how they portray it on TV in the movies really how it is in the restaurant biz?
My back-of-house experience is from 3 decades ago but especially if the kitchen is brigade based the normal response to someone higher up in the hierarchy would be "yes chef" or "oui chef" if it had a French-trained head or CDC or I suppose one that wanted some French flair.
I never heard station chefs aka line cooks or chef de parties address each using "yes chef" just "heard" instead.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:01 am to RoosterCogburn585
I first heard this word in 1999 in Columbia, South Carolina at Ridgeview High.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:04 am to RoosterCogburn585
Being called chef is a sign of respect and used to boost moral in the kitchen.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:08 am to slinger1317
quote:I imagine the producer demands that every contestant call the personalities "chef" to make them seem more legit.
And the egomaniac chefs demand to be addressed this way.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:13 am to GrammarKnotsi
quote:
you don't refer to your doctor as "doc" or equivalent ? you've never heard someone called "nurse" ? it fits several jobs where the person is actually called a title, not a name
Durr!! I did not know dat!!! Tank youse!
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:14 am to RoosterCogburn585
Yes, Master Chef
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:15 am to RoosterCogburn585
Owned a restaurant for 10 years, mostly worked in the back, head cook, not chef. Friend of mine would always walk back to the kitchen and ask for Chef Ptomaine.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:22 am to RoosterCogburn585
Depends on the restaurant. Personally, I am not calling someone chef who hasn't gone to school to be a chef. That being said, if you have a traditional French brigade then you might do it. Looks for New Orleans to become more pretentious as the Michelin Star moves into the area
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:28 am to supadave3
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Yep, I haven't worked in a kitchen in a long time and still stay 'behind you' when behind someone.
We always just shouted "coming up your rear"
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:31 am to RoosterCogburn585
I only worked at Canes so we obviously didn't do that. You're damn right we used corner, behind, hands, and other kitchen lingos though.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:41 am to Obtuse1
So the "heard" thing is legit lingo too?
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:43 am to RoosterCogburn585
GRT calls her husband “chef” in the bedroom 
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:46 am to Tyga Woods
quote:he calls me that
GRT calls her husband “chef” in the bedroom
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:48 am to GreenRockTiger
“scattered, smothered, and covered”
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:55 am to Tyga Woods
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:58 am to supadave3
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Yep, I haven't worked in a kitchen in a long time and still stay 'behind you' when behind someone. 'corner' fell from my habit long ago. "Hot food" "hot food'
Knife
Posted on 7/14/23 at 10:03 am to RoosterCogburn585
Guess it's the same as calling a coach... coach
Posted on 7/14/23 at 10:09 am to RoosterCogburn585
Posted on 7/14/23 at 10:10 am to RoosterCogburn585
quote:
Calling each other chef
There's only one chef in the kitchen, if any. If everyone else calls him 'chef', you call him 'chef'.
So in that sense, cooks in the same kitchen generally don't call each other 'chef'.
You know what they say, too many chefs...
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