Just got fired for refusing to cook at closing time.
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I work at a somewhat decent restaurant, but we always have people ordering up until closing. Now the kitchen hours are 4-10.
Tonight I get a ticket at 10:00. I refuse to make it since the kitchen is closed, and everything is shut off. My boss comes to me and tells me to make it, and I said sorry the kitchen closes at 10:00, not during 10:00, not after 10:00, at 10:00.
She goes off on me telling me that I have to make food, up until 10:01. This is all new to me since, I’ve been leaving at 10:00 for years.
Am I in the wrong here? I’ve always assumed if a kitchen was open until 10:00 they closed at 10:00 on the dot.
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Netizens’ comments
- Worked in a kitchen for years. I shut shit down ten till after telling front of house. No one ever complained
- F the customer and people agreeing, bunch of momos in here
- Understandable hope you find a new job soon
- I had a GM many years ago that insisted that our hours were “we SEAT customers from 15 minutes before opening to 15 minutes after close”. So technically the customer could sit down at 11:14 pm, bullshit and have drinks for half an hour, then order dinner, which didn’t happen all the time, but when it did, not a damn thing we could do about it. But that was our store policy, and told to us when we were hired and trained. It still sucked though.
- Anyone that comes in within like 5 to 10 minutes of closing time and expects to sit down and eat an entire meal while make everyone stay longer to clean up afterwards should also expect spit in their food, let alone coming in at closing time and expecting you to turn everything back on for a single customer.
- Never worked in a kitchen, but I always followed “last call” at bars rule. IE, Bar closes at 2am, last call is always 1:40-1:45, maybe 1:50-ish on a slow night.
- If the kitchen is closed at 10 orders should stop being taken at like 9.30/40. It’s not last orders at 10. it’s CLOSED at 10. As in no more food is coming out.