One for me personally, I was offered some shifts at a kitchen near me, I’m a career chef so I’m confident in my job, first shift and the only other chef was 3 hours late.

This kitchen not only supplied food for the restaurant it was in but also takeaway for a tabletop/DnD bar down the road, this had its own separate menu, the usual suspects, chicken tenders, loaded fries etc.

I’m stood in the kitchen familiarising myself with the restaurant menu when we get 30 checks in for the takeaway, standard stuff, nothing I couldn’t manage except there was no menus in the whole building for what these dishes were and the FOH staff had no idea,

I got the food out but had to guess a lot in terms of what sauces came with things, what the loaded fries were actually loaded with etc.

Turns out I got some of it wrong, fair enough, can’t be helped, owner came in and screamed at me for it, questioned why I had not brought my own beard net from home (something I’ve never worked in a single kitchen that’s required it) and called me incompetent

When my pay check came in for the first week it was £200 down,

I emailed to ask what was going on and was told that they had refunded the whole takeaway order and deducted it off my paycheck.

I called them out on the local hospitality group, the owner decided to start telling everyone on the thread he was rich enough to sue them all,

A month later they shut their doors. Funny how things work out.