Pranks They Play On New Servers

This is a video I posted a while back on TikTok and forgot to post here!

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[goodikarma]

at the start of my training, i got send on a walk with a lobster
head chef convinced me lobsters need to move regularly before being cooked.
good times

[my-chemical-romance]

My sister got sent to find a bacon stretcher on her first day but she knew about the trick so she just went on a long lunch and then came back and pretended the 'got' her

[sam-pgrl]

One time we told a new line cook he had to chop up the flour so we could use it during our dinner rush…man was putting a knife to powder for a good two hours…he’s been with us for 4 years now and does it to all the newbies.

[josephewing]

Just had this on Sunday. We were completely dead, like nothing for the past two hours dead, so we handed one of the younger bussers our brulee torch and told him we needed to burn the ice. We let him go for twenty minutes before our bar tender walked in and asked what he was doing.

[A-N-]

My favorite one Chef always did was ask the newest employees during a huge rush, when they walked by him, “Hey so-&-so’s name, go find me the left handed spatula please!”
He says it so urgently everyone believes him for different amounts of time 😅

[patrickzingler]

One of my favorite memories as a chef is when we tolf the trainee to wash the salt. His face when it disappeared in the water bucket was just glorious.

[hiighbythebeach]

At my old job the boys would always prank the newbies by asking them to mop the freezer. It wouldn't be long before the mop would get stuck to the ground and they'd have to scrape it off. 😭

[gerald]

With how crazy the last 2 years went, I wouldn't question the "air sample" one second. It's right in line.

[Nevamistaken]

Imagine filling up 2 pitchers of hot water before being told it's a prank. That 1st joke definitely sparked a fire in my soul that shall burn forever deep! 😭

[harryscull]

We used to always ask new servers to find us some salmon legs. Head chef once got a very gullible person to go to the local fishmonger with petty cash and ask them for some.

[LordTuyen]

We had a server rotate the ice machine. He scoops the ice from the bottom and dumps it back in the top. Managed to get one person to do that for 15 minutes before he realized he was being hazed

[overcassgaming]

My favorite for new line cooks is “hey man, can you grab the egg polish?”

[MS-ksfg]

In my first week they had pranked me like three times. One was, they told me to go to another restaurant to get a "special"kind of wine cuz they were out, joke being all the restaurant were in on it and they would keep sending you to the next one. Luckily at the second resaurant the bartender clued me in on it, so i decided to take a long ass break instead before going back( had a half hour phonecall with mom). They got were pissed that i was gone so long, even though they send me out on the run to find something that didnt existed. I just told that i just kept being redirected 🤣They never pranked me again.

[mleavit]

My favorite I was working on events at a hotel. We sometimes do outdoor events. Of course we have to make sure the venue is clean before and after the event. One time we told a guy he needed to go vacuum the grass for the event to get it clean. All of us thought it was a joke and moved on. Later he came to us asking where the outdoor plug was so he could vacuum and the vacuum is sitting outside. He's never lived it down

[mamarana]

We lost a cook & i asked my boss where he went. Told me he had made "Top Chef". So, for six months I looked forward to the season. Chris did not make "Top Chef". 😒

[facethestrangeyearsago]

First day in the butchers I got sent for a long stand. So I went to the pub for two hours. When I got back my new boss was fuming, he'd stopped laughing and wanted to know where I'd been. I said I'd been everywhere looking for it.

[turtl]

To this day I still can’t find the squeegee sharpener

[acjimenez]

Coincidentally also how my coworkers found out I’m lazy

“Can you empty the hot water from the coffee machine?”

“Oh yeah already did it. I’ll just grab my tips and clock out now :)”

[Brian]

If you got time to prank the new guy you got time to clean, come on now, push the fish push the fish

[Forgottenmellon]

I’ve sent many young and new chefs/servers to the bottle shop to get a “long wait” saying it was a local craft beer, and my mate who ran the shop would proceed to help other customers instead, thus giving them a “long wait” for help