Line cook aesthetic

I'm sitting there, trying to enjoy my dinner, and I can hear it. A sound that makes my ears perk up, my heartbeat increase, and my pupils dialate. No one else that i'm with hears it--between the sounds of plates being stacked, diners chatting, and and music playing softly in the background, how could you? For me, it's programmed, deep in my brain. The sound of a ticket printer. One of the most unique, screaming, ugly sounds in the kitchen. It's like a continuous loop, sometimes quick…

If you work in a kitchen, your only excuse for missing a shift is you're dead, in jail, or in the hospital.

Turns out it's not so much what's in the water, but what the water is in.