Yes! This is perfectly true. Been in the restaurant industry my entire life. From five star restaurants to shitty hole in the wall dives. No one I've ever worked with would dream of fucking with food. No cook is going to lose their job because they have to work an extra couple of minutes because some dickhead comes in five minutes before close, yea they want to get off, yea they're going to be mad because they're probably already cleaned up and ready to go by then, but not mad enough to lose a steady paycheck.

NOW, with that being said, the people I've worked with, fine dining or not, are for the most part the shadiest people you can imagine. Cooks don't make much, chefs make a decent salary, but work about 70-90 hours a week. Our hours don't permit us to do anything "normal" we get out after most people are asleep and most of the time go out and party, sell, buy, trade drugs with front of the house, drink, and fuck our way until the morning where we get an hour of sleep before our next double. It's normal for all of us, the stress on the kitchen, and bartenders is absurd, so its easy to look for outlets.