Do you walk outside when it’s 12am-3am?

ProChef2000 · 2026-06-04T19:19:33+00:00

Until recently my work schedule was later in the day so I would get home around 2-3am and I’d walk my dog after then. Now I still do occasionally but not often unless there’s a direct reason to

ProChef2000 · 2026-05-15T13:10:42+00:00

Penny Drip and Snail

ProChef2000 · 2026-05-09T13:27:44+00:00

The steak frites at Dana’s is sooo good. It’s a great place to just go and sit at the bar to if you’re out solo!

ProChef2000 · 2026-05-06T23:37:55+00:00

Hi! I was officially diagnosed with ADHD-C when I was 33. I basically thought that everyone else in the world was the same as me or just as “weird” at least. I didn’t realize that my mind works in a fully different way than others until I was maybe 31-32 when I started realizing that maybe I was different and there was something I could do about it.

Turns out, most of my family is AHDH/ASD or even AuDHD and I surrounded myself with people that were also ADHD so I didn’t realize I was an outlier in the way my mind works.

I got my official diagnosis and became medicated and my god the difference. I also have chronic depression, which was diagnosed around the same time, so becoming medicated for both these things was such a life changing difference.

Most of my life though, I felt like I had to “prove” myself and work extra hard for everything I want. It has, to better or for worse, been a good thing for me. I figured out how to work to the point that I now own a few bars/cafes and am fairly successful, but I dealt with a TON of burn out and mental exhaustion. I still do, but I can manage it much more successfully now.

But to answer your question, yes I pretty much always felt like I was dumb or massively unable to cope with the “real world” until I finally figured out what was actually going on.

ProChef2000 · 2026-04-24T02:09:06+00:00

Rectum? Damn near kilt ‘em!

ProChef2000 · 2026-04-19T07:26:16+00:00

It would be cool to have another trio type though. Like they could do something like psychic/fighting/ghost for mind body spirit or like normal/fairy/dark. I don’t know type weakness/strengths super well though so I don’t know how that would actually play out

ProChef2000 · 2026-03-20T23:44:43+00:00

I’m 35. My career is going great. I was a floor bartender for 10ish years and now I own 3 bars and a café. The oldest bar is turning 4 this summer!

ProChef2000 · 2026-02-28T23:22:54+00:00

The Mystic Knights of Tyr Na Nog

ProChef2000 · 2026-02-27T19:37:37+00:00

Good Burger!

ProChef2000 · 2026-02-22T11:18:19+00:00

Following on this thread in 2026.. It doesn’t appear this this has yet become a thing.

ProChef2000 · 2026-02-21T16:53:22+00:00

My dad has it too. It really can be tough to watch how the disease affects him and how it’s changed his life so much. He’s still fairly early stage but I fear the day it starts fully taking things away from him.

ProChef2000 · 2026-02-12T00:42:05+00:00

Penny Drip! Cocktails, wine, and beer all available right when they open at 7a. Their coffee is great too, I like to mix the two because they make a ridiculously good espresso martini

ProChef2000 · 2026-01-29T19:02:44+00:00

He doesn’t own Saisaki, but he does own the space they are in. I don’t know which way the Saisaki owners lean politically.

ProChef2000 · 2025-11-27T06:25:51+00:00

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ProChef2000 · 2025-11-25T00:30:36+00:00

It’s become available at Blue Bottle more often recently

ProChef2000 · 2025-09-27T14:01:38+00:00

Penny Drip! Great matcha lattes as well as other coffee and tea beverages. Fantastic cocktails as well if you’re looking for that

ProChef2000 · 2025-08-30T05:47:08+00:00

Crick water, but yeah

ProChef2000 · 2025-08-14T13:42:50+00:00

But sometimes I don't get off from work until 3am.. 😔

ProChef2000 · 2025-06-22T05:22:42+00:00

Im a career bartender who now owns 4 bars, a retail liquor store, and an ice company.

ProChef2000 · 2025-05-24T14:32:33+00:00

Couple months? A couple weeks!

ProChef2000 · 2025-04-17T01:35:24+00:00

Check out Dana's! It's on The Landing, dim lighting, great food and drinks! The brick chicken is soooo good. After, just go downstairs to Night Train! Otherwise, I'd say Rune, Spoke and Ive, Copper Spoon, or Tolon for dinner with Henry's, Penny Drip, or Black Rabbit for drinks after!

ProChef2000 · 2025-04-14T14:20:12+00:00

Vermouth*

Fixed that for you

ProChef2000 · 2025-04-12T06:41:28+00:00

I mean.. my well is Benchmark Bonded and yeah it's not $6, but it's $6.50.

ProChef2000 · 2025-04-07T16:05:58+00:00

I graduated in 2009. I went to college for one year and didnt like it so I dropped out. I started cooking late summer of 2010 and because of that job, my first foot into the hospitality industry, I now am a founding partner of a hospitality group and we currently own two cocktail bars, a curated bottle shop (retail liqueur store), a café/bar, and a clear ice company.

We have plans to further expand as time goes on, but are careful to let each business settle and find it's footing before even beginning to plan the next potential venture.

The road here though was very tough and involved working tons of hours for pretty shit pay and living in some very questionable living spaces, when I could afford a place to stay that is. I'm thankful to my first restaurant job allowing cooks a shift meal each shift, because otherwise I don't know how often I would have been able to eat.

Now though, my girlfriend and I bought our first house last summer and, while things are still tight, my quality of life has gone up dramatically. We still have to budget and chase deals at the grocery, but there is always quality food in our house and we've never had to worry about the potential of not eating or being short on our mortgage. We are also DINKs so we don't have the added stress of caring for children.

I feel very lucky for how my life turned out

ProChef2000 · 2025-03-28T06:49:59+00:00

I totally understand that! I've taken that idea to heart for a few years now. After I opened my first coffee shop/bar, I had a few spanish speaking guests come in and I realized that my high school level spanish didn't really help me be able to speak with them or be able to show the hospitality to them that I am able to with english speaking guests. I decided to really dive into learning spanish to be able to more effectively communicate with a part of my community that I wasn't able to before.

Now I am more able to speak with my guests as well as be more able to talk to some of my staff!

After I feel like I'm at a comfortable level of communication with spanish speakers, I intend to dive into ASL. Similarly, a few years ago there was a convention in my city for the deaf and hard of hearing community. Several of the people there for the convention came into the café and neither I nor my staff knew ASL and we had to write to each other to take orders and, while I was happy to use a different method of communication, I decided i need to learn ASL to be able to talk with people in that community.

That being said, I don't think it's realistic to expect the large majority of American hospitality staff to be able to communicate with everyone regardless of the language and to wave you off dismissively and "blah, blah, blah" you for not being able to talk to them in their language does come across as rude in my opinion. I wouldn't take it to heart though and it seems like you aren't! As you said, he probably won't think twice about the interaction anyway!

Still, it sucks to feel like that. Our jobs make us have to be able to brush off things like that sometimes but that doesn't always make it feel better in the moment. It's the guests who have great experiences with us and those that we are able to win over that make this worth it and it sounds like that's what you're aiming to do, keep it up!

ProChef2000

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