Can someone explain to me why
>They
Keep trying to convince us working in a restaurant is difficult? Any fricking fair with two hands can do it. Being a garbage man or mailman is harder than working at a restaurant. Inb4
>Muh dinner rush
Aww poor baby has to work under pressure for an hour. Frick off.
Kitchen work is fricking hard.
That being said, this show is for fast food workers who think lip is literally them. Kitchen confidential fricks who think being an butthole is excusable and use their job to rationalize shitty behavior. They take neurotic comfort in this show, the same way people who love the office.
>Kitchen work is fricking hard
It's really not. Go work in a brick or concrete factory and then come back and tell me working in a kitchen is hard work you fricking onions boy
Any job where you deal with the general public is a hard job. People have turned into entitled c**ts since covid ended. I work in car sales and you wouldn’t believe how many idiots think they can get a car with sub 580 credit scores with no money down.
People are so soft these days. There's a million things harder than standing over a stove or chopping some big objects into small objects
As if it's hard to work in factory, children did it back in the 1800's....
Kek.
I actually worked in both fields, kitchen can be harder with longer hours and mental stress.
I worked for 2 years in "cleaning and rebuild" the last layer of the clinkers and other type of industrial maintenance and is really simple work, is just physically demanding, hammering down with a 9kg pneumatic hammer for 10/12 hours.
A kitchen is a sprint every day, while a concrete factory is a marathon.
>your job isnt hard, this other job is!!!!!
one job being more difficult than the other doesnt invalidate the other one from being difficult dipship. "oh you think getting kicked in the nuts hurts, try giving birth!!!" theyre both painful in their own way, and in a lot of ways birth is more painful. it doesnt mean getting kicked in the nuts doesnt hurt now does it?
There's working at McDonald's then there's working at places like this.
When you have "bought in" to the place and it's mission and you're dedicated you start performing at a whole different level. It has to be perfect. Even the smallest issue feels like a giant disaster.
The show does a great job at expressing that feeling.
carmys not an butthole though, he's really nice to his staff
Strangely I work in a high-pressure office job and I take comfort in seeing something like this onscreen.
I don't really know why as food is something that you can actually be passionate about while stressing yourself to death whereas corporate stuff is largely just pointless nonsense done for $$$
But I like it. It's like watching that SUPER BUSY mde sketch, something about it rings true if you work a stressful job
the fruits of your labour has a real human connection, especially if you interact with the diners through their experience.
corpo job is what? you made a bunch of people money so they go off and spend it on their own? you have no personal attachment to those you serve in being a corpo. that being said you will be significantly less stressed and more successful relative to the carmys of the world
>significantly less stressed
Carmy would be at home in a bank or consulting house, I'll just say that
i mean relative to the job/earnings potential but yeah i see your point. stubborn autist/sociopath would be good in finsec
I mean the
>long hours
>relentless pressure
>need for very quick decision making
>need for attention to detail while doing the job exhausted and under pressure
is pretty similar to what you encounter in a banking or consulting. Just a different environment but seeing people like the River Cottage guy become a chef after having been a banker in london makes total sense - those jobs are very good for learning to cope under pressure
Honestly if banks wanted to git gud they should probably start hiring from kitchens instead of MBA programs (iirc Salomon Brothers used to intentionally hire ambitious poor people for this reason)
interesting, ive never really met a finsec guy long enough to see these parallels, but now that you mention it like that it makes perfect sense. should i transition to finsec then? i miss the kitchen's pressure and dynamics but i hate the work.
Unironically if you can handle pressure and long hours like that, that's the basic skill needed to be a consultant. You'll always be working with a gun to your head, never have enough knowledge to be comfortable, and will always be tired, but you do learn to manage that and make quick decisions despite it.
You get junior guys burning out (or freaking out from stress on the client site, which is a big no-no) from it, it's kind of a meat grinder, but you'll earn good money from Big 4, they always need bodies.
Never worked as a front office banker but their hours can be sleeping-in-the-office level, plus the stress of actually consequentially losing money if you frick up. But again, if you can get in and can do it, you'll earn.
But getting in the hard part. Typically doing an MBA as a way of resetting your career is the tried-and-tested way but ymmv. You may also hate corporate work but you won't be stuck for cash - only time to spend it (and tbf you will also find ways to spend it so you can work more, like getting cleaners, ordering food, dry cleaning etc)
Pic related (guy who wrote this comic was in what is now called Accenture)
man it really does feel like different sides of the same coin
>tbf you will also find ways to spend it so you can work more, like getting cleaners, ordering food, dry cleaning etc
you just replace those things with coping mechanisms and thats your avg line cook
good food for thought though. i bought in kitchen mentality before but dropped out cause the pay is abysmal. i think i might be down for the corpo koolaid if it means im not impoverished.
>you just replace those things with coping mechanisms and thats your avg line cook
Yes 100%, there is a non-zero risk of me becoming an alcoholic from this. It's already on my mind a bit.
>i bought in kitchen mentality before but dropped out cause the pay is abysmal
Why is that though? It always surprises me. Is it just that the margins from needing so many people to prepare and serve it are too thin to pay much?
>corpo koolaid
There's as much of that as you can drink, really. Most places don't take it seriously but you always get some True Believers in there.
Richie is right though - you do feel different in a suit, and people treat you differently. Shouldn't be that way but there you go.
Anyway, could be worth thinking about if you already have pretty serious training in handling extreme stress and long hours
>Why is that though? It always surprises me. Is it just that the margins from needing so many people to prepare and serve it are too thin to pay much?
my perspective is from a big corpro casual fine dining chain.
>Is it just that the margins from needing so many people to prepare and serve it are too thin to pay much?
pretty much this, most of the menu's margins are small to just okay, then your big ticket items have huge gaps like steaks and alcohol. when all that is sold, you gotta pay the 100+ people that worked there that night. im in canada so you gotta pay servers here minimum just like the kitchen AND tip them out. its really operational costs cause a lot of good kitchens just turn cheap fresh stuff + something kind of expensive into an overall good dish
>Anyway, could be worth thinking about if you already have pretty serious training in handling extreme stress and long hours
i worked with a german guy in dish who said i would be perfect for the military. idk if that was a compliment or not but i think about it sometimes. i dont want to throw my life away for some jackoff.
I get told that all the time I worked for a bank for almost 7years during my 20s before becoming a chef, people always say why not go back into finance? its so much easier. Well frick off that was soul destroying shit at least now I get this
it makes a difference and I can still be working numbers constantly just different numbers for very real and tangible results
Consultant here
I dream about being able to make food all day and serve people I made that makes them happy, and make sure they have a nice time
I feel trapped by the need to make $X because I'm afraid if I do something different I'll just be poor, my kids will grow up poor, and I'll have blown all my parents hard work paying for a good upbringing and education for nothing. I know it's dumb to work in something soul-destroying just because of the money (I watched my father do it for years, and he watched his father do it) but I don't know anything else.
How did you make the change to food from banking?
not a banker, but if you have a few investments that can keep you a float during the transitionary period thats a start. getting a good corpo cook/chef job can get you paid relatively well with good working conditions. if anything you can just start your own resto and try to carmy it up
I did not have kids I was fairly vocal to close friends and family how much I hated it, one older brother of one of my friends had been a chef for 20+ years very high end private chef for millionaires etc. went to that famous french culinary scholl in america the name escapes me now etc, had been working as a head chef of a 2 star recently and he had had enough of it too he wanted to open his own place that was a bit more chill he knew i could cook and all so he offered to take me on as apprentice, it was just the right timing I gave my notice that monday
>hated it
*hated banking
just to clarify
That's great, sounds like the stars aligned on that one. Did you end up going to any kind of culinary school for it?
yes thats what apprenticing to a real highly qualified chef means, he sent me 3 days a week then would teach me himself the rest of the week at work, of course after i got my cheffing license and all his father died and he had a mental breakdown, I ran his restaurant for another 2 years kept it all going until moving on felt I owed him that much at least, he is now running some little kitchen at a bar across the street from where he lives, he seems happy last we spoke
>Kitchen work is fricking hard.
It is not. It can be stressful, but it's not hard. Once you learn the menu you basically go on autopilot. Worked a kitchen for years and the only hard part was dealing with some of the moronic waitstaff.
its not hard if all you are doing is showing up for dinner service I don't hate you guys but you really have no fricking clue
fine dining has a lotta moving parts, it has to be tightly run or it all collapses
>Dude you gotta like cook the food and then put it on a plate and then put that plate on another table
yeah they have to cook like 40 different things with 50 different ingredients. Not the hardest thing in the world but it can get pretty intense. You would know if you actually cooked and didn't just gulp slop all the time. pathetic burgerhomosexual
You might have a valid point if they worked at a star restaurant but they worked at a fricking take out joint. And not even a complicated one. They served one item. Pit beef. It was a glorified hot dog stand
fair but consider the fact that the main chef from NOMA probably made the dishes more complicated, they were a pretty chill sandwich place run by like 8 people before he arrived from the looks of it.
They turn it into a fine dining place in season 2 anyway.
Sounds moronic. I'm out.
Oh no, whatever will they do
ah no, they did mash they did plated meals their signature was the beef sandwich it wasn't the entire menu
No need to seethe. Your life’s work is meaningless and you’re a little b***h about it.
>yeah they have to cook like 40 different things with 50 different ingredients.
Most high end restaurants have two to four options per course, and a lot of the work is prepped out in advance, usually in the morning or after lunch. There's a bit of training to be familiar with a menu you're selling and to get the timings down, but after that it's pretty rote.
yeah if your kitchen is as chatoic as the bears and your not a pos failing sandwich shop, your in a shit kitchen.
White people will pay for the DUMBEST shit. That’ll be 78 dollars plus tip.
I think the hardest part is coming up with menus.
Yeah it’s hard to be that fricking pretentious, it takes work.
Front of house is kino.
You WILL frick loose waitresses.
Everyone thinks their job is hard
Most people today don't have a hard job at all.
I would say easily 80-90% of people have very easy jobs but they don't like working.
It's easy in the sense that it doesn't require any advanced skill, but it's hard in the sense that it's very taxing and tiring work with insane hours.
As someone who has worked as a kitchen porter in his teens and early 20's I'm forever astounded that the very worst dispositioned, bad attitude, incapable of handling pressure, types of people gravitate towards a job in hospitality. Chefs, managers, kitchen staff, even waiters sometimes, they are always neurotic, with chefs in particular being completely unstable and liable to tantrums at the drop of a hat.
A lot of it is a restaurant culture that accepts those behaviors in its chief and a lot of is that we accept shitty behavior from customers. A restaurant staff can be firing on all cylinders and staying positive, then some group of buttholes come in complaining about the food, the service, they take it way too far and get legitimately angry and boss you around. So there’s always some sort of negative feedback that just isn’t really acceptable in the personal matter it is in hospitality. People think they can treat hospitality workers like shit and they the workers take it out on each other, or sometimes you end up with a chef who’s everything you described but is capable of getting a level of work out of the team that minimizes those disappointing encounters with the customers
Restaurant owners are the most power tripping buttholes on the planet
No clue how anyone could treat this kinda work like a destination and not a stepping stone to something that doesn't suck ass
Some people like predictable, monotone, but high tempo work, the hours just fly away and afterwards you are still on a roll for something else. I used to have a job like that, but the pay was shit and I could keep up because I was in my 20s.
>Yes chef
Like they're in the military or something lmao. This shit is so fricking cringe.
It’s called communication, dipshit. Everyone has to be on the same page at the same time so it makes sense to communicate that way because it’s the most efficient to show you’re all on the same page. You wouldn’t know that though would you homosexual
you have to know that the person you spoke to heard and understood, hence yes chef or heard
That style of cooking is called French brigade. It's literally a style of cooking developed by the military.
It's a really good season
Claire bear was banging carmy is straight loco to ditch her. The fact that they were able to cope with him in the walk in just shows that Patton Oswald was wrong.
The Christmas episode was great. Carmys relationship with food and cooking in context of all that was revealing.
Also loved how they spent some time on the other characters like Ritchie, Marcus and Tina
Richie's episode was also great. You can see his arc now.
Someone explain why this needed a second season? First was great and should've ended on that note
The answer starts with m and ends in oney
I'm liking the season, but the incest subplot is a bit icky and feels completely unnecesary.
>but the incest subplot
?
Sugar is having an affair with her uncle.
That would actually be interesting, so there’s no way the hacks that write this shit will ever do it.
What was her character? What did she bring? Why Lip had to give literally everything and she gave only her time?
Because if she wasn't there whitey would be in charge. Can't have that.
Lip?
Carmy's character on Shameless
ah thanks never watched it could not understand why various posters where calling him lip, cheers
Also she's got a lot of opinions and attitude too for someone who didn't even put a dollar in. If the restaurant fails she loses nothing and can just go work at another restaurant
shes the only other properly qualified chef in the place, also she ran her own restaurant, failed sure still gives her leagues more experience then anyone but carmy
>also she ran her own restaurant
She never did this, she ran a catering business out of her dad's garage that failed.
no you literally see the flashbacks to her failed restaurant this season when the fire safety officer is testing the gas line, unless I forgot some s1 stuff that is likely
shes cute in an ugly way. ya know?
She's a reminder of how the Bear was before shit went up, and therefore she's the passion, the need for approval, the need for the star and success, but also how they both can't handle pressure and in the end is pointless.
Guys, it's not that hard to interpret characters.
Moving on, hope the rest of the seasons don't go full shameless where there's no progress for the characters, really liked how it was going just for the end to kinda smash things between Lip, Cousin and the whole "profit in 18 months".
Jamie Lee Curtis going to get an easy Emmy as a guest star.
>Jamie Lee Curtis
Dude that character is so close to my mom it kind of freaked me out, looks, mannerisms, sound of her voice. It was fricking weird.
your mom sounds fire chef
>Jamie Lee Curtis going to get an easy Emmy as a guest star.
Holy shit. I now recognise JLC
Don’t forget the winner of Christmas dinner!! He’s daring you to throw that fricking fork.
Who's that, I don't recognise him?
He's in witness protection, don't worry about it
That’s Saul Goodman man.
Oh frick I didn't even know that was her
She was honestly great as BPD Italian Mother
She is Michael Burnham but not in space
>working for no paycheck for 6 months
could you explain to me why you keep posting this for 3 days now?
>nooooo stop talking about a tv show in my movies and tv show board!!!!!!!!!!1
It's a good show, which is extremely rare these days
sure is doing gods work then anon well done
People aren't on here 24/7. Also, people who hadn't seen the show three days ago and only saw it last night might still want to discuss the show.
>people who hadn't seen the show three days ago and only saw it last night might still want to discuss the show
ME! ME! ME! I'm on episode 5 right now of the second season.
there's going to be spoilers itt.
Don't care.
dude, ep 6 is a trial very worth it but it is a trial, ep 7 is just beautiful though so its ok but getting through 6 will be tough
no why do you post that exact post over and over, try something new, that exact post has been in every Bear thread for 3 days, I know its tradition to be a lazy gay who just copy pastas but try OP just try
>but try OP just try
...No
fair
Bro, the Black is having such a hard time in culinary school. I feel for him.
he's got arthritis yea its sad
Does Sydney has a stubble or is just her black skin?
Her pore situation is not great
Why did they give Lip a gf this season? This is incel erasure. We have a right to be represented in media too.
That shit was so WRONG. Last season he said he never had gfs and he only hanged out with his brother Mike, but now there's some wench thirsting for his dick? Frick this show. I'm done watching.
This homie really thinks being a garbage man or mailman is hard. You must be underage, aren’t ya kiddo
Was it me or Richie's daughter is kind of demonic?
is the cheap paramedic from the previous thread posting here? i want to keep bullying him for being cheap
>that episode where everyone is telling Sydney to be careful not to get fricked over by her partner
homie, what the frick. Lip is the one investing all the money. He literally cannot frick her over. Worst case scenario the restaurant closes and he loses al his money and she has to find work somewhere else.
I work in a kitchen and I make $13 an hour to wash dishes. Nobody gave me a drug test and I didn't have to fill out a stupid application. The head chef is a big jolly lesbian who lets me do whatever I want.
Working in a kitchen is awesome.
>The head chef is a big jolly lesbian who lets me do whatever I want
Is she hot?
Being a dishwasher is literally an NPC monkey job.
like any other job, yes.
getting the dishes clean feels good because autism
Being a cook/diswasher/janitor is comfy because your responsibilities are minimal and all you have to do is not frick it up. Being a head chef or anyone with actual stake in the business that their output personally affects their career is where it gets stressful.
eh they're only comfy depending on the place. restaurant managers on power trips ruin the entire environment and it's even worse if the owners are cheap. like working dish pit alone with nobody bussing sucks or being in a tense kitchen when people work better loose without some butthole on a different wavelength.
Yeah but the problem with the easy going hands off owners is that the staff will begin stealing fricking everything. I used to work at a place where any time anyone paid with cash the ticket got trashed and the waitress would just take the cash. Restaurant people are hands down some of the worst fricking people I’ve ever met. Then there’s all the massive amount of drug use.
>depending on the place
Depending on your mental state you mean. If your boss is going to come down your throat because if his own mistake and you think working 10x harder is gonna solve it then thats on you. It's not your job to work 10x harder than a regular minimum wage worker, just do your job and leave it at that. Not saying to purposefully loaf around but these places excel at overworking employees that have a million different options. I've literally laughed in the face at one of the chefs who tried to take their day out on me before. Imagine malding over some dishes because of a problem that's entirely on you.
Once you truly realize how little falls on you it truly is comfy. Dishwashing is perfect for autists or potheads. Cooking is great for people that always like to move or alcoholics. Unless you're in a high level restaurant being paid well, theres no reason to stress yourself out.
really depends on who you work with. ive cooked in places where there was always some petty bullshit going on between the waiters and the kitchen staff and it gets really hostile and stressful
Why did they have to remodel the entire place instead of just changing the menu?
You’ve never worked in a restaurant.
This seasono wasn't nearly as good as last one, even if Sydney was much less grating.
I still skipped half of her scenes. It is pretty blessed how literally everyone upgraded their skills and can operate fine but her cause she's a straight up moron
I thought it was better
How come everyone on this show thinks acting just means shouting? Not a single one of them ever asks anyone why they're shouting either
The only one perpetuating this competition is you. Nowhere in the show do they insist this is the hardest job on the planet. Nobody is even particularly skilled outside of the main 2 people either.
>Main 2
All the black chick does is criticize people, eat at random restaurants, and frick up dishes. Oh yeah and expect half of the business without putting ANY capital of her own in any way. But hey I guess being black and just showing up on time (a miracle) is enough.
none of this is true she holds it all together when carmy is way to busy to do it, shes the sous she does her job, and idk why this "half the business" shit keeps getting repeated, shes not a partner
>she holds it all together when carmy is way to busy to do it
No she doesn’t, what she does do though is endlessly criticize the person who actually is holding it all together - Sugar. I can’t think of one thing she did that someone else didn’t already start and I just watched this show last night. Also she went and asked all her different restaurant contacts about what she needed to worry about with her “partner” and the black dyke told her to hang on to her money. You’re just wrong.
you are just flat out ignoring all the shit she does, what you are doing is cherry picking and you seem to forget she's the one that hired sugar in the first place, I watched it today
Sugar was already helping with the beef place and Carm asked to stay on and all Sydney did was beg her to stay and make her the worlds shittiest omelette.
>cherry picking
Okay then fine, give me one thing that she did for the restaurant that wasn’t started by someone else. Should be easy right? I mean you just watched it today and all.
Are you black? I've noticed that the people who defend Sydney are always either black or women.
no i'm not you idiot
I did in my last post, also one major thing she did apart from train the staff is save them when the power went out last season, so theirs 3
>no i'm not you idiot
Bro, you're totally black. No shame in admitting it.
god your stupid i'm white i'm australian i'm a chef and i manage a restaurant, fricking idiot
>i'm australian
Spiritually black.
fricking idiot
frick off nu-homosexual leave my board and don't come back
>i'm a chef and i manage a restaurant,
Petit-bourgeois freak
>I did in my last post
This isn’t Reddit dummy
>train the staff
You mean by having Carm pay to send them to school and use his contacts to train the pastry chef and use his other contacts to train Ritchie?
>power went out
Wow she did the job she was paid to do for the LAST restaurant (a beef place one step up from a food truck)
Anything else?
>this isn't reddit
are you fricking stupid nu-gay? the post that you were replying to you moron, and no i'm talking about training them s1
I was just hoping for your sake you weren’t talking about her doing her job of a sous chef at a fricking Italian beef place but fine, she does her job poorly and with shit tons of criticism for everyone except herself.
>she trained people in the first season
Even if that were true (it isn’t, all she did is yell at and freak out at all of her coworkers) that STILL doesn’t fricking apply to what she’s done for the remodel of the new restaurant. If you can think of something you get back to me buddy. You can do anything you put that room temperature IQ to.
she saved opening night, checkmate atheist
Nope that was Ritchie, again all she did was stand around and yell at her coworkers.
ritchie called the line, she plated, she was literally doing carmys job
>she plated
Oh so anything as long as it wasn’t cooking? You know the job she was hired for?
you really don't understand how a kitchen works at all do you their are the 2 most important jobs plating and calling the line, hence why she was calling and carmy was plating did you notice in the 3 star place it worked the same? no of course you didn't because you have no idea how this industry works
>2 most important job
So let’s let the fork polishing moron a week out from knocking holes in the wall do it. Great. Still haven’t explained how she’s responsible for doing more than complaining and fricking up. Oh and let’s add puking all over the parking lot that.
no you idiot the most important is the plating the 2d most important is line
So again let’s let Ritchie do it? She’s a fricking idiot and if she wasn’t black you racists would have no problem admitting it.
he was the best option, she called the old black lady first who said she couldn't she was on the crayfish, so ritchie was the best option
I’d would have picked the meth guy, meth guys get shit DONE, and honestly if they wanted to be accurate they should have had everyone doing meth, or at least coke.
no in that marcus was right, you get the meth heads on chopping veg, they can't do the line, you need to be really focused I've literally experienced an ice addict calling the line it was hell
I watched the kitchen manager at an Outback Steakhouse go though an 8 ball of coke one night and not miss a single fricking call.
yea coke not ice, their is a difference trust me on this
Yeah I know. Meth people are fricking gross.
aye
she was hired to be the sous thats what she was doing, her job
Bro she literally cracked opening night, not only did Cousin say they were going way too slowly with the food and getting backed up, he had to fricking step onto the line for her while she ran outside to throw up.
yea I don't entirely disagree I just think everyone is being too harsh on syd, she pulled through she almost cracked but she didn't
she didn't go throw up until after service was done, she plated until it was done, but yes obviously cousin was the hero of the whole event
Bro, you're talking to a black person. He will not get it. He will just defend her because he has a tribal mind.
i'm not a Black person you moron, really head on back
Are you mad that wagner wasn't pulling a coup in the first place?
are you upset you are completely lost on a board and on a site you have no understanding of? yea figured
>she didn't do anything
>heres things she did
>nah uh those don't count because...well they just don't ok
homosexual
>homosexual
Lol you’re the guy from the other Bear post aren’t you?
lol no homosexual, go back if the word upsets you your going to see it a lot here, homosexual
>upsets
The only way you could upset me is to film your own suicide and let us watch. Let’s try.
paramedic is that you? stiull triggered eh? homosexual
Nah it’s bed time in India, he had to put his kids to floor.
Lol it’s easier when you can ban someone instead of defend your points, maybe you should just go back.
I was expecting the episode about the Black in Denmark to be cringe kino, but it was comfy kino.
Yeah it was weirdly great. I think Richie had the best solo ep but that was a close second
Can someone explain to me why
>NEETs
Keep trying to act like they know what working any job is like?
Is it me or Sydney is not that good looking? Everyone in the show is like yo, check that cutie out! But honestly I don't see it.
Black chicks are always gross. Most people don’t know that black women only wash those braids like once every six months, they ALWAYS smell bad.
>Everyone in the show is like yo, check that cutie out!
This doesn't happen.
I once saw an upscale restaurant chef pov/gopro stream. There is apparently one person that just assembles the plate. People send him the ingredients and he puts it on a plate and put on sauce. He did that for six hours straight.
Was Lip's actor busy filming a movie or something? I feel like he isn't the main character anymore.
kitchen work is considered hard because it is staffed by degenerate drug addicts who come in hung over. Work is much harder when you are a fricking loser moron
the shitty hours turn people into alcoholics
i read 1 sentence of your post to tell you you are a moron and never had a real job
Where did Claire come up from? Last season Carmy said he never had friends growing up other than Mickey.
They needed a love interest for Carm so he could frick it up because that’s what Jeremy Allen White does best- tortured heart broken loser.
She's fricking annoying
https://twitter.com/barbiekenroy/status/1671903697071378434?s=20
This one scene is why Cinemaphile shits on the show. They haven't seen anything past it.
There were some goofy bits in S1 that didn't work too well imo
Like the other guy says every fricking Cinemaphile poster saw this, got their panties in a twist, and turned it off. This is also why they spend their days making threads about LE HARD COOKING, fricking SEETHING their dicks off about how successfull this show has been.
>the other guy says
{X}
This screams, I work in an office and have never done hard work in my life. I'd rather work construction (which I've done) than work in a kitchen. It's a shit work environment.
>Twitter seething over carmy not wanting to frick the ugly groid
Sydney is hideous in the inside and outside, but Claire was annoying as frick too. You could tell she was written by a soicuck as his ideal quirky gf.
This didn't happen either.
It did
Negresses are throwing Twitter chimpouts.
Who cares if Claire is annoying. She’s cute and white. She doesn’t need to be interesting.
Do you think they will pair carm and syd up? I can’t tell if they’re writing he being into him into the show because the Syd is such a fricking autist. At times she seems jealous of Claire.
she is jealous of the attention I don't think she's into carm but she was very clearly jealous of the attention
Are you tard? Syd already has a love interest
That she completely and totally rejected. If you’re talking about Marcus that is.
You wanted everything to happen in a season? C'mon, that's how TV works.
She already put down lip from his pedestal that she put in S1
Yeah she sure showed Lip, the Michelin star chef that she’s better than for some reason.
she is not better then why do you even think that she even fricked up one of his recipe's and he taught her a simple means to apologize
???
You didn't watch the show and skipped some parts, right? The whole Syd arc was that she would be at a level head as a partner into the culinary part of The Bear, that's why she's not the Sous anymore she's the Executive. S1 was all about "oh my god you are my idol, how do you get 3 starts" while S2 is all about "I'm gonna make this work, we are partners, am getting that star"
She's the Lip of the past, not that hard to grasp that she can't handle the pressure, as he couldn't and still can't.
The writers already stated they weren’t going in that direction.
It didn't though.
so why are community actors showing up? first Jeff lol, then britta, are we getting annie next season?
i like lip,micro and oliver platt. the rest of the cast not so much.
>micro
Is that Cousin?
Finished S2, Jeff. Here is my review:
>S1 is all over the place tonally - it goes from Deep Meaningful Conversation to slapstick to conflict in like 5 seconds every ep. Possibly this is intentional
>S1 is stresskino, S2 is inspiring kino
>Sidney was a dumb b***h and I don't know why Carm put up with her.
>Carm was right to frick up the black guy's donut, he had told him multiple times to stop doing that and focus on his tasks
>I am grateful that the black guy wasn't gay with the english guy. When he said "just be confident and jam it in there" I was 100% sure this was foreshadowing for him becoming a Down Low Brother in denmark but it didn't happen
>Carm's gf is beautiful. Their dynamic where she's more like the man in the relationship is strange
>Bernthal was a strange choice but he did really well
>Everyone cried and pissed their pants about the episode where Bernthal Burns Global but imo the Richie episode was the highlight of the whole series. The Stage should have been much longer for him to have had that profound a change though, he was only there a few days
>The whole show feels like the writers have spent too long in therapy. And I say that as someone who found therapy very beneficial.
>Sidney is the only bad part of the show. She takes 30 seconds to get every line out of her mouth because she's doing the Smart Black Girl character, it's irritating
>Somalian guy just kind of fricks off for no reason and then comes back. I didn't really get his arc
>This show is a good example of the Media Competence Hierarchy, where when a man is onscreen with a woman, the men become bumbling idiots, same thing with white/black people etc
>Some of the side characters like the black guy's roommate were fun. I thought the sister's husband was a credit to the costume dept, they did a good job of making him look visually out of place the whole time
>Sidney's omlette looked fricking disgusting, I could shit a better omlette out of my ass. FRICK I hate Sidney
I don't think people realize he spent a month their, first week was forks, but yes that was my favorite ep too, after the hell of ep 6 it was so nice
Didn't they only say he was there for forks (i.e. the first week)?
A month would be more reasonable tbf
no his first week was forks, pay attention to the time line it is literally shown on screen, his second week he graduated to foh understudy
FRICK YOU GARRETT
lets cool it on the language please
also when sid plated that omlet I was pissed too, its a so sloppy for a french omlet on the other hand adding boursin and and onion thins, really not a bad I gotta try that sometime, but yea I can make a better french omelet then that
I was fine with the playing, I just hated the tube of slop she put in the middle
that was boursin, its good shit, try it sometime
Yes jeff
She’s not very good at the cooking parts (or any of the other parts either).
The only reason Carm keeps her around is because she's cute. If she were ugly, no one would tolerate her bullshit.
Oh also
>S2 starts *very* weak
>From the Copenhagen ep onwards is pure foodkino
>Christmas ep was their stresskino ep
>Honestly though the most stressful scene was Carm debating whether or not to take Claire's call
>S1 ending was great - Carm just going from 0 to 100 when the orders start coming in was great
>I like that Richie wears suits after getting his shit together but black/black/black is a very white trash way to wear a suit. Navy suit/white shirt just looks much more presentable imho
its cousins first time wearing suits give him a break, also black black is preferable for the maître d which is what he is now even though no ones said it
'tell me you're a NEET cuckold without saying that you're a NEET cuckold'
that shit cousin pulled with the fork and the napkin was sick, I'm gonna try that next interview
It doesn’t work if you’re trying to hire people for a TGIFridays.
but i'm not it would only work in fine dining, which is where I and everyone else is interviewing staff its a good idea it would drive me mental too and i literally would not be able to help myself I would have to fix it
I know Richie's actor is a israelite, but he's fantastic. Wish they gave him better scenes.
Yeah they just made him the doofus character for like 4 eps and then gave him the most kino ep out of nowhere
Also why did his ex-wife say she loved him after saying she was marrying another guy? What's that about
we don't know for sure and his daughter is still alive so we do not know what the frick happened, originally I and I think everyone else assumed the daughter died and thats why they broke up but no its something else
Wait though- the Burn Local christmas ep was only a year prior and she was pregnant right?
His daughter is like 4 or 5. So maybe the baby died or something and they broke up
Pretty fricking tragic, that didn't strike me. Explains why Richie is such a mess tbf
>256 weeks
>one year prior
no really pay some fricking attention to the time stamps, heard?
No jeff I was (unironically) focused on making cinnamon rolls
They're actually kind of hard to get right. Think I used a shit recipe
baking sucks, pastry chefs who do it long time really are full autist like marcus, it takes a lot of patience and a lot of practice and even then if you don't fully understand the quirks of your oven you will frick it up anyway, or do every single thing right, and it will still frick up because god hates bakers
Heard, chef. I actually have that problem with my current oven. In my old apartment I used a portable oven which cooked god-tier bread, but my current one is gas and heats from the bottom, I can never get bread right. It fricking sucks.
It does well for brownies though which I'm happy about
you never will with an oven like that try top tray and extend baking time, but yea its not ever going to work right, still good on you for trying I believe in you
Yeah I think I'll try moving it up a big higher again - honestly I never expected to miss my toaster oven after getting a real one but there you go
Thanks though senpai, I'm going to try and get some pastry recipes working right.
and godspeed
Christmas episode takes place in 2015
Chef it was because I wasn't paying attention chef
Fair enough buddy, you’ll do better next time fren. I’m a nice chef.
Yes jeff 🙂
Why do you think it was only a year prior? It said 293 weeks to open, that’s like 5 and a half years.
math is hard jeff
She loves him because he was her first love and they have a child together, but he's just a huge fricking mess and wasn't good for her
working in a restaurant is hard because people that work in restaurants are dysfunctional mentally ill drug addicts
Tina was such a b***h at the start of season 1, but now she's one of my favorites. Enjoy all her scenes. She even makes her scenes with Sydney bearable.
She's a pretty good actress to be honest
old black lady, yea I like her now, shes great
get them eyes check jeff, tina is a wetback
really? not a burger so tough to separate the difference you are telling me old black lady is a beaner?
Yes that's why she sings in spanish and her son is called Luis
oh right that makes a lot of sense now huh
Yeah she’s definitely got some black in her.
I've got something black right here for you chief
Spit it out of your mouth when you’re done with it.
Jokes on you I cant bend that much yet
So you have to make the guy stand on a step stool? That’s okay buddy you’ll suck BBC like a champ some day. I believe in you.
Thanks chef, I appreciate you
sure, but the second she speaks you can assume her name is consuela or some shit
Ehhhhh that nose is awfully flared, I’m betting at least a quarter Black.
Why did this turn into some romance drama show? I do not give a frick about your love lives man, why does everything I love have to turn into shit, romance is the worst genre in any kind of media I won't be watching this shit further
>turn into
Tbf Sidney sperged out and rejected the black pastry guy, and our boy Carm is about to blow it big time with his beautiful doctor gf in the next season
The only people who found lasting romance was the roommate character (and the fat guy's brother? I wasn't sure)
Why would it matter if it's about lasting romance? It doesn't make a difference because it will still have so many scenes focusing on this shit, it's so pointless
Personally I don't mind if they have more scenes with hot doctor in it but that's just me
Yeah majority of people don't mind it I'm just a fricking loveless moron for disliking this
Unironically when you find a nice girl who makes you feel happy then you stop hating this kind of shit so much in my experience.
I'm glad Carm has a nice gf and I hate that he's going to ruin it next season
I don't dislike that Carm has a gf, but I wish the writing wasn't so awful. She's the worst written character after Sydney.
she has a really nice butt
I am thankful that they didn't have Carm kissing Sidney under the table
I liked the part in Copenhagen where Will Poulter's character talks about his rivalry with a chef who turned out to be way better than him. And then the reveal later that the chef he was talking about was Carmine.
Lmao shit I'm moronic, I saw the picture of them but didn't put it together
lol you might also remember in s1 carm would talk about destroying up and coming chefs who came to work he would target and ruin them
I think he meant more like he would just outwork them rather than frick up their careers
But yeah come to think of it that was good foreshadowing
you can do it to another chef on the line very eay, and no its not trying to sabotage them or anything you just outpreform them in ever single area especially the ones they thought they were really good at and you do it relentlessly until they crack, its a fricked up thing to do but not uncommon I've done it, its not a good thing to do
>until they crack
like what, quit?
or have a mental breakdown when their ego shatters
ive seen a chef once throw a mixing bowl accross the line into the fryer cause he couldnt keep it together during a heavy dinner rush lol
eh that comes after, first they lose it make a big show of having their sperg out usually embarrass themselves in front of everyone frick up BIG TIME, and then yea quit, while you are calmly still plating orders with a quiet small grin on your face, its not a good thing its kinda psycho
Carm is literally me, except I'm not a genius at anything, nor I own a business, and there isn't a pretty girl thirsting for my dick for no reason. But like his personality. He's literally me.
It is hard. Much harder than the described roles.
I liked that the show had like 4 black characters but race wasn't brought up once, everyone just focused on their jobs.
I feel like that's an extremely rare thing in modern tv and movies in current year + 8
It feels weirdly 90s/00s, like a throwback to when we were, well, supposed to not give a shit
Fakbros where you at?
I thought they were calling him 'Fat' for the entire first season
Weird. He's not fat at all. He's also the only one cast who is actually a jeff.
>not fat at all
Are we talking about the same guy?
>Are we talking about the same guy?
Skinny, handsome, good looking. Yes, that's him.
Oh I get it, this body is something to work towards for Americans.
are you trying to be funny? what is this reddit shit? hes fat as frick
he is obese what the frick do you mean?
You misspelled "thin"
Claire is taken out straight from one of those Sundance indie movies with a quirky romantic interest for the shy main character. KINO!
I'm onto Cousin's episode, he finally upgraded from polishing forks.
Cousin's episode is kino
enjoy
Episode 6 is the Uncut Gems of the series, just screaming and stress from start to finish
everyone who works in food service is legit moronic
So is it confirmed that Mikey just didn't let Carm work with him to force him to go do something better?
And why did Mikey kill himself? I liked the contrast of the hysterical mother getting tons of attention while Mikey didn't have anyone to ask if he was all right, but it was just never really addressed
Why did they dress Sidney's dad up like a 1930s mechanic
Because if they dressed him a real black guy they’d be called racists .
How old are the siblings supposed to be? Bernthal is like 50.
Early to late 30s I believe. Cousin and bernthal are probably the same age and cousin is 44 in present day
Mikey would've been like, 44 ish when he died. As for Carm and Sugar, 32 and 36. I assume they go by real life ages.
Yeah he was a bit miscast for that role I think, though he did a great job at it
I think Carm is supposed to be in his late 20s, so guessing Mikey is like 40 or so (similar age to cousin)
Doesn't make too much sense but I guess that does happen
michael states hes "45 years old polishing spoons"
its only difficult because you have to work with literal moronic drug addicts, if people acted right it would be pretty good job. in every restaurant ive worked in, people constantly talk shit about the customers when really most customers arent even 1% as shitty as the people you have to work with everyday.
everytime i leave a restaurant its because i just dont want to work with someone, and the manager or owner is always like
>OKAY but please dont quit, cant you just work days away from this person?
but i dont trust them, they are all full of shit and always just want to keep you on and you end up working with the same stupid jackasses.
its also kind of a nice thing though because i can quit jobs whenever i feel like it and still come out of it with a pretty good reference for my next job because i just act normal and dont spaz out. ive never even given 2 weeks notice, i just say
>if i could keep working here another day, i wouldnt be quitting at all, but thats just not possible at this point because i dont trust this person/dont feel safe/whatever
and they are always like
>yeah....
of course this situation works for me mainly bc im not trapped in any job, im single and no dependents and good credit and stuff, i live in a place with tons of restaurant/food service jobs. if you are trapped somewhere i can imagine that it would be hell.
I hate Jamie Lee Curtis for being a satanist child rapist, but she was amazing on ep 6. Didn't know she could act this well.
Bros, I want Richie to turn around his life and get his wife back. It's not okay he's getting cucked.
Frick that cheating b***h. I hope /ourguy/ gets a teenage gf to make his ex wife jealous.
frick you that little girl needs her family. i wish the best for mikey and his prostitute wife.
richie is going to frick the 3 star sous chef
>that photo of Carmy and Luca together
Cute.
>now Olivia Colman is here
Man, so many cameos this season.
that was cool showing the head chef like that
Yeah I liked the message of
>actually I was kind of a frickup in my late 30s
>but then I tried again and it worked out
Basically the exact thing Richie needed to hear was possible
aye
>Some shitty dive that got mentioned in a local newspaper for being pretty good
>All of a sudden it starts to get run like a concentration camp as if they were exclusively feeding politicians and debutants
I worked in two restaurants like this and it all boils down the the head chef's/owner's ego being inflated to an impossible size. They see a crumb of exposure and try to twist what is mainly an alright small kitchen into something it was never designed to be and could never be without sweeping changes that would nuke their original customer base.
>nuke the original customer base
this was the overriding conflict s1, but they have the service window and arthritis guy to sell the sandwiches
Can I get a QRD on this show?
Is it good?
Is it pozzed?
no you can't frick off watch it or don't who cares
It’s not good and it is pozzed. Just like 99.999% of media made in the last 10 years. Just watch older stuff.
>The bath still not working
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh i fricking this shit
Burnt is 1000 times better than this liberal horse shit. They actually do a decent job of presenting Michelin Star Restaurants to poor people.
burnt sucks balls its all about him having a breakdown over fricking sous vide, its not a movie its an advertisement for a shitty shortcut way of cooking
Is Michelle uncle Jimmy's daughter?
Nevermind. She just called him uncle.
ok so the actual reasionships between the family on the show are not clear on purpose or instants its clear cousino isn't actually thier cousion but clarebear and him did grow up together, saul is the moms 2nd husband? maybe who knows thats part of it the dynamics of bears family are fricked and drip fed to us bit by bit all the rest too no-one knew baker autist has a dying mom how I assume is now atucally dead becuase of the sms's he was getting from the nurse or syd never had one etc, thats how it works in a kitchen as well by the way, you get these little hints of other peoples lives but not the full story
Is it me or Stevie is a massive butthole? I bet he's a libtard cuck too.
Michelle is such a fricking b***h, trying to poach Carm from his family. If she hadn't brought Carm to New York Mickey would still be alive.
dude I have a large family and some fricked up chirstmases, that was beyond, she was right to offer him some sanctuary and peace
Mikey was an opiate junkie and like all opiate junkies he burned the happy centers out of his fricking head, guys like Mikey always self destruct, Carm being there would have made zero difference. Michelle was literally the only positive in Carms family.