Why do restaurant cooks insist on getting off at their scheduled time?

In any other industry, once your end time comes, you finish any further work you have and then clock out. But cooks are like, "Nah, I'm not serving you because I get off in 5 minutes." Why?

I used to work at a restaurant. Even though I wasn't a cook, customers had all of my time and attention until I was done serving them.

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TinyViolins · 31-35, M

As a former line cook, it's because we're pressured to have everything clean, shut off, and safely put away by the end of the shift. Having to start a new dish means we have to fire things back up, take out the food we just put away, and then clean it all up afterwards. Not to mention the time it takes to cook something.

Just one extra customer can add up to 30 minutes to our shift. Since most cooks get cut after the dinner rush, there's usually a bare bones crew at the end of the night. Coming in last minute means we have to stay even longer than we would have if they had come in 10 or 15 minutes earlier, because a lot of our progress would have to get undone and then redone.

If it was something easy I wouldn't have minded it, but they usually want a well-done steak or burger, a bunch of different appetizers, or something with a million different ingredients. At some point, these late orders mean you're taking our time away from us.

If it's in the middle of the day however, they're probably just being a prick. Kitchens attract a lot of egos

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SinlessOnslaught · 26-30, M

@TinyViolins I just got something from a restaurant, brought it home, and found a hair in it. I went back to the restaurant 10 minutes before close and no one was there to serve me. That wasn't my fault. No last call is gonna fix that issue.

TinyViolins · 31-35, M

@SinlessOnslaught You probably wouldn't want anything made in the last 10 minutes anyway. It'll be cooked with pure anger and slapped together out of spite. Basically the worst version of that dish that could exist

SinlessOnslaught · 26-30, M

@TinyViolins Yeah. Like I said, food companies need to step it up. If they close in 10 minutes, they close in 10 minutes. Not now.

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