r/KitchenConfidential • u/straingenius • Aug 22 '26

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Yes, I shoved em all in one pan respectively.

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u/Tech-n0 Aug 22 '26

No it means you can’t order any food after 8:30 but they won’t ask you to leave until 9 if you’re still eating and finishing your drinks.

Very common in my country, kitchen closes before the restaurant closes so you can still finish your wine / order a coffee or whatever

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u/Nodima Aug 22 '26

"Ask you to leave" is a funny sentiment in most of America, at least the Midwest. Unless it's a bar where laws prevent you from serving customers at certain hours, closing time has always meant "last opportunity to be seated", not "we're closed". We're closed when the last customer walks out the door. And asking the customer to leave would be rude.

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u/sleepylilblackcat Aug 22 '26

yes, working at a restaurant in the midwest meant we couldn't ask the customers to leave. we technically "closed" at 10pm, but once i had a 15 person party stay from 8 to 11:30pm. i asked the manager what to do, and he said he couldn't kick them out or boss would be pissed. so we just fucking waiting til they got drunk enough they all had to go home.

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u/East-Win7450 Aug 22 '26

So I come in with 6 people at 8:25 get sat let’s say you get my order in at 8:30 takes 10 minutes to make you want us to finish our food and be gone by 9? 20 mins for 6 people? 

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u/jacobsme96 Aug 22 '26

I think thats exactly the point, worked in kitchens for 15 years, it is very common practice for a "last call" to be made 15-30 minutes before close depending on how busy it is, because the OWNERS also do not want to have to pay their workers for an extra hour so your rude ass can sit in their lobby after they are closed

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u/East-Win7450 Aug 22 '26

I hope one day you’ll have a better understanding of the hospitality industry. I imagine you’re bitter towards the industry as a whole cause you never made it 

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u/jacobsme96 Aug 22 '26

Mate, I ran kitchens, and it is completely normal for last calls to be made. The world does not revolve around your 6 top deciding a place needs to stay open so you can chat and eat, find a place thats got the time for you and your cohorts to enjoy your meal and talk, without making others overextend their time. You wouldn't last a year in a kitchen, the abuse and exhaustion from long shifts, so yeah that last part of the day people wanna get out

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u/East-Win7450 Aug 22 '26

lol I was cdc of a 2 star in nyc. You have no idea what it means to be a hospitality professional. 

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u/jacobsme96 Aug 22 '26

Okay buddy. Im guessing your place catered to finer dining? Totally different atmosphere to casual dining and 95% of other culinary experiences. In fine dining the staying open is more acceptable as you are providing an entire experience, but the mindset of hospitality being catering to the convenience of the average entitled prick is why the average restaurant has an turnover rate of 8 months or less nowadays. The entitlement and mindset that its the customer 1st always leaves a place full of people that know that they will always be thought of last, and won't stay

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u/suenamiho Aug 22 '26

yes, the world doesn’t revolve around your convenience. go to a restaurant that’s open longer.

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u/East-Win7450 Aug 22 '26

That’s exactly what the point of a restaurant is. It exists to provide a convenience for customers.