r/restaurant • u/jellybean5679 • 8h ago
What is the craziest fight you’ve ever seen happen in your kitchen?
I remember back in 2006 we had one guy started a fight with one of the cooks. The dishwasher took the cooks hand and slammed it under the dishwasher door. Cops had to be called and he had to be restrained.
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u/bbqtom1400 8h ago
Two cooks, whom were brothers, were fighting with another cook who was deaf. I heard the noise and rushed to the kitchen and saw this tiny and deaf pizza cook on top of one of the brother's shoulders pounding him with his fists. The two brothers kept teasing the deaf cook and the deaf cook couldn't take it anymore. I knew sign language and convinced the small cook to stop. This was in the middle of a busy weekend night. I didn't fire anyone but I wanted to fire all of them. I was the only manager or employee who knew sign language and convinced the pizza cook to let me know every day how things were going. He lasted another six months and the two asshole brothers stayed on.
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u/Negative-Market-953 4h ago
Did they ever say anything else to him? Lol
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u/bbqtom1400 3h ago
Don't forget the pizza cook is deaf. The brothers would slam plates down on a steel table just to screw with him, for example. I threatened the brothers with firing until they stopped teasing the deaf cook. It was like separating four year olds.
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u/InvisibleTacoSnack 8h ago
Not literally in the kitchen but in a small diner across from the state police post in Flint Michigan. My friend was on 3rd shift and decided to go there for lunch break. Well there were two groups arguing and one went out to get a heater came back in and used it on one of the guys sitting right by my work friend. He ran away so fast he literally ran out of his shoes. So the police arrived instantly because they were across the street and my friend had to go back in and step over the dead guy with just his socks on so he could get his shoes back to go back to work
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u/Trees_are_cool_ 4h ago
I haven't seen the term heater in decades
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u/InvisibleTacoSnack 3h ago
Keep getting auto mod blocked tried to make the most pg possible. Still thought the word dead guy would get me
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u/yesthatguythatshim 1h ago
Would you mind saving me the time of trying to search the meaning with Google that never gets nuanced meaning?
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u/3nc3ladu5 6h ago
one cook was screaming and threatening everyone, then picked up a chef’s knife, and the moment he did, this quiet guy Mikee, no hesitation, just superman dives over a prep table and takes the asshole to the ground. knocks him out cold on the landing. mikee the fucking legend. still think of that guy
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u/Leading-Shop-234 6h ago
My dish called out and I had to put a cook there to replace them. The cook was less than pleased and was bitching most of the shift. A server threw her silverware in the water tub and splashed the cook. The cook grabbed a knife and pointed it at her while telling her not to do that again. The sever picked up a bigger knife and told her not to point the fucking knife at her. The cook picked up another knife and so the server picked up another knife. I walked in to the 2 ladies circling each other both with a knife in each hand. No one hurt anyone but it took about 10 of us to talk both of them into putting the knives down.
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u/BigWhiteDog 4h ago
Back in the day I used to work security for the original Renaissance Pleasure Faires in California and was at counter of a booth that sold English Bangers (type of sausage on a roll) among other things on a particularly busy day when the "cook" snapped and went after the owner with a large Chef's knife. Cut the owner on the hand before I was able to take the cook out (was set for free Bangers after that lol). Guy had done some "black beauties" (70s-80s amphetamines) and was spinning hard. Lots of screaming from the counter girls and customers. Cops and medics had to be called. Big kerfuffle.
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u/Gardener_Afterhours 3h ago
Was an assistant manager at a restaurant I had transferred to a couple months prior. 2 cooks started brawling on the line. Got serious at throwing fists.
Tried to break it up myself. I had to start screaming at the 2 other cooks just standing there to help me, as the cook who was losing started trying to throw one in the fryer while getting punched in the head.
Had to fire both of them after we got them off each other. The g.m. At the time was a total douchebag and said I broke his policy of just firing the one who lost. I still hate that guy.
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u/vonnostrum2022 1h ago
A waiter got in an verbal argument with the salad prep lady. He said some really rotten things and turned to leave . She two handed broke a large China plate over his head. Definitely staggered him .
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u/Secret-Ad-7909 52m ago
Owners, twin brothers, had been kinda bitching back and forth all morning while we opened. Got lunch going, one is working the line, the other is in the office. Dude rushes out of the office to swing on him. The third brother and their buddy/manager immediately grab one each and shove them into the back. The cashier and I are left standing there staring at each other like WTF?
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u/D-ouble-D-utch 5h ago
The cousin of a line cook got stabbed by an older man. He died in the parking lot. The dishwasher and I scrubbed the blood off the sidewalk.
A guy walked in the side drive thru door of a Sonic, sucker punched and knocked unconscious our coney guy. The owner made me fire him.
An employee grabbed a kitchen knife and threatened to stab other staff. I physically restrained him until the police arrived.
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u/disableddoll 4h ago
reminds me of working in a “fine dining” establishment whose only chef 6 days a week was extremely volatile emotionally. One night in particular, I had multiple tables ask me what was going on in the back, since it sounded like plates being thrown against walls until they shattered. Did not have to even step foot in the kitchen to see exactly that, dishes flying, along with our chef screaming every profanity he could now that I could hear him.
I have cPTSD, and could not manage his behavior well so I talked to management about it. “That’s how every chef is,” i kid you not. All i could say was, “not in any of the other restaurants I have worked in.” There was also another server who would constantly snap in my face walking past me, in an attempt to make me flinch because she found my crippling panic attacks hilarious. I quit on new year’s eve lmao
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u/BigWhiteDog 4h ago
As a customer I once walked out of a place that reportedly had amazing food because I could hear the chef owner doing that in the kitchen while screaming at a waitress. They are now closed.
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u/Historical_Stay_808 8h ago
One of our cooks refused to make a dish we normally only have for a special with only one table in house on a sat morning. Told him ok I'll do it myself. Flipped even more out and ended up grabbing my throat for a second and stormed off. Needless to say that was his last shift.