Notes from my summer internship:
- The restaurant business is a tough grind but at the end of the day, if business is good, then it is a good day, particularly if you own the restaurant.
- After working in the kitchen, you will develop one of two mindset: one, you will never want to eat out ever again or two, you continue to eat out but only because you can ignore the horrors of what goes on in the kitchen.
- Wear Under Armour in the kitchen.
- You’ll meet all sorts of people (customers) working in a restaurant. Some of the more memorable people I met include: Frenchie, the Jamaican Wing Chun instructor, Mr. Doe, the Kung Fu researcher, the Drunken Cyclist, and Mr. Cornell, a HH resident and has traveled all over the world.
- The reason, and not the only reason, that it’s so hard to make money in the restaurant business is perishable inventory.
- Drink lots of Super Supau to stay hydrated in the kitchen. Nothing worse then fainting into a boiling cauldron of oil.