Richie being as quiet as he’s ever been. Taking it in and understanding the implication of owning up to the smudge. He knows as well as everyone else that admitting that mistake will cost you your job. Every second counts
I love how you can scroll over to clips of the movie 'Waiting' and everyone is like "Thats so accurate!', then you come to clips like this and everyone's like 'thats so accurate!'. I want to know which resteraunts are taking my mack and cheese seriously and which resteraunts are farting in my French fries.
Here after watching season 3. I truly hope that Sydney stay at The Bear and that Carmen realizes that he’s traumatizing her the same way he was traumatized by chef David and apologizes to her. If Sydney goes to work with chef Adam I feel like it’ll be even worse
If the US military can function well with a more laid-back attitude (and it does) then you're probably taking your food cooking job a bit too seriously. This top restaurant stuff is just absurd
I mean the general military isn’t an apt comparison for fine dining. Wouldn’t more elite forces be more similar in how strict they are? These establishments don’t have good margins at all so they gotta be strict.
@@EspressDelivery I’ve worked on that and I can tell you it’s a GREAT ability to cultivate. I’ve been on the PTA board and my condo board and sometimes people just need to get pissed at somebody. If you can be that somebody and not take it all personal boy it makes you feel good and later those people admire the hell out of you. And it costs you almost nothing. Look at Garrett in this scene - he comes off looking strong, resilient, dedicated to making things work.
For anyone having doubts, Garrett is 100% taking responsibility for his staff’s mistake here because he’s a person with standards who knows that blame falls on the leadership first (something that Carmen could do very well to learn).
I think Carm absorbs too much responsibility, if anything. He spent the entire first two seasons (season 2 especially) trying to get his staff up to his standards. He succeeded, they were able to function at a high level without him, but the second he was locked in the freezer, he had a panic attack because he assumed everything would go wrong without him there to oversee.
Captain takes responsibility for his troops and troops actions. If they lack discipline, responsibility falls on those responsible for managing their team.
That’s what you realize when you work in a kitchen kitchen. Unless you really fuck up, no chef is gonna waste their time yelling at an individual. That’s someone else’s job, that fuck you was a message sent thru Garrett.
@@4ksandknives if you're directing this towards carmey taking responsibilty...he quite literally just began working there and has no reason to take responsibility for adults that were trained poorly by someone who is now gone
Fun fact: the lady at 0:44 is actually a hospitality for a real top restaurant. She served as the adviser for this whole episode. Meaning this whole charade does happen in real life.
@@danielsappore3423 Did that during my Uni days. Also spot on. Yet we didn't make mistakes that made it out to the table :) Also "slightly" less sparkly-posh menu ... but still 7ish+ courses. Good times.
Very funny to come back to this after S3 and this guy's offer for a "better alternative" to Sydney. She doesn't know she's about to step into another viper pit.
Not necessarily since he said he would be the owner and she would be the head chef, basically the role he had right here in this scene at Ever. But you're right that it might still be a viper pit. He might expect Sydney to act just like he does in this scene lol Edit:: if my explanation is actually what you were meaning then ignore me! I agree with you then!
@@EdenMcCoy-rt9hp that's a good point, he might not be in the kitchen much and not fuck with Sydney's MO. It's hard to really know because sometimes people's behaviour does not line up with the perception of the title/role. Like how a film producer might step into the director's space and unilaterally enforce creative decisions.
There is a huge diffrence about those two restaurants, in The Bear restaurant there is no respect for her ideas and to what she brings to the table- she is beeing deprived of possibilites to be imaginative, and it's accepted behaviour. You could clearly see that in ( i think) last episode where she's talking to Carmy who tries to come up with the new menu for the day and changes every ingridient she proposes. And here everything we saw was about someone in the team not having enough respect for others working there to owning up to their mistake. What is clearly not accepted behaviour. At least thats how i saw that fragment. And about Fuck Garret i think he's resposible for all the staff and as one he will be mainly held responsible for it.
@@IGI282heres my question: almost all the chefs shown in the show have had to go thru some form of trial by fire and hazing, particularly carmy, yet sydney comes in and expects a level of treatment amd collaboration she hasnt earned. Carmy never really questioned the chefs he worked under yet she questions him all the time? She just seems super ungrateful to me.
I love Garrett, he's my favorite minor character. Yes chef, fuck me. Garrett knew he needed to be the lightning rod to the chef's anger in that moment, and he excelled. It goes to show the level this restaurant is operating on. Chef's flipping out over 47 seconds. This is a level of perfection the vast majority of people would never even want to attempt to aspire to. But they do it in Ever, and it makes all the difference. It turns Richie from a self-centered asshole, into someone who wants to genuinely make a difference in people's lives. To be the reason they had a better than average day. And The Bear is his opportunity to provide that to Chicago. Love this show. Can't wait for season 3!
@@thedivineliar8513that's normal in a workplace though. If anybody who's under your supervision fucks up you are responsible for that fuck up not the person that made it. It's your job to make that person not fuck up. It's very rare for people to take that responsibility and not go for the I'm not paid enough for this shit way.
I would imagine garrett took him outside and argued with him that the smudge isnt worth having this many meetings over, kind of like an inverse conversation that he had with richie
Looks like Sydney’s gonna work for two very different chefs next season: one that takes no accountability for bullshit and blames everyone else, and one that takes accountability for everything, even when it’s not his responsibility.
Fucking lost it laughing at his delivery of "yes chef, fuck me". I love how you can tell from this scene that the chef de cuisine has a reputation for being this neurotic, self-important geek, and that the rest of the staff isn't remotely scared of him, only annoyed or amused. Even the way he "modified" the deep-dish pizza (blasphemously, I'm told) felt so goddamn pretentious.
I disagree. Chefs can get really angry because they're in a high-stress job and people don't look down on them for it. I never worked at this level but when I worked in a kitchen I could go mental at the waiting staff for seemingly simple things. Little things can have a massive impact when they threaten to disrupt the workflow. I saw my head chef and the restaurant manager screaming at each other over things that were neither of their faults and neither could change until one left in tears. Outside of the shift they were best friends.
I think you missed the part in the show on multiple occasions that drives home the fact that this kinda behaviour only stays inside the kitchen - it’s how high stress environments operate; and none of the animosity while on duty stays over outside of work or is in anyway personal.
@@HalfJapMarine Carmy has PTSD, period. Carmy has a whole host of issues and none of them can be attributed to a single factor, that’s not the point of the show. Restaurants are an incredibly stressful business where standards and details need to be scrutinised or else all of it falls apart; different people use different tactics to get shit done, doesn’t mean they’re necessarily bad people.
So this scene actually really reminds me of an OR. Basically the chef that comes in shouting is exactly how surgeons can be. The staff tolerates him/her not only because of their skill level but due to the tremendous nature of their work. I don't think they are amused/annoyed, I think it's more of a, "alright I need step it up next time," type of emotion.
I felt like it was this meeting that sent Richie on a real redemptive character arc. He connected with the detailed care displayed at the restaurant which made the audience care with Richie caring. “I wear suits now.”
@@Jason21012All of my first jobs were working in kitchens until I got into working for Krispy Kreme. The show does a very good job of capturing how toxic and dysfunctional working at a restaurant can be, but also at the same time the very close familial bonds you can form with your coworkers.
I never worked in a restaurant of this caliber, but I did work in various restaurants for 8 years and you will not find more direct talk than you will working at a restaurant. I have told off many of my old coworkers straight to their face and was told off myself by many of my old coworkers and at the end of the shift we all say goodbye to each other and get back to work the next day.
@@plushiepenguin We'll have to wait and see if this has any follow-through in S4. Maybe it starts with Syd starting the new restaurant Chef Adam and realizing the grass isn't always greener.
Spent waaaay too long in the industry. I can't watch this show. I try to dip my toe in a bit with these clips - but I swear it triggers some sort of PTSD that makes me want to seeth while sucking down a cigarette next to a dumpster. I hear the show is amazing.
Same. Working boh brought me back to smoking and increased my drinking. I didn't rightly give a shit about the 'elevated dining' experiences, the skill in creation and execution was the cause, and most of the customers could rightly go eat a dick; I think the irony of it all being made by myself and a bunch of self-aware fuckups who landed in the same hot pile together is what made us all family. A big, drunk, substance-abusing, chain smoking, microwave potpie on the days off because it makes no dishes eating, heartattack at 33 having, 2 pair of pants owning, drain clogging misfit family of brothers and sisters. I can only bring myself to snack on these little sippets myself
I like the idea that the chef is Garrett's friend, but no one else knows that, and that, "FUCK YOU, GARRETT," was just parting shot of brotherly love that is only between them.
I think most people take it as the smudge is from his team, so the chef was literally insulting him as Garrett is ultimately responsible. At least judging by the comments.
in order to stay consistent with the presentation of the dish, the chefs had to intentionally smudge the other three plates so that the diner who got the original smudged plate wouldnt think it was dirty.
This reminds me of working in the oil field when someone has a safety close call. They talk about it and beat that DeadHorse until another safety infraction happens.
kimda seems like the chef is freaking out over the smudge not necessarily because it was somebody's fault or not but simply because it happened. and that fuck you at garret felt more like a "i just have to tell someone to fuck off, nothing personal". obviously im way off here but thats just what this isolated clip looks to me
the main take away is that Front of House fucked up and Back of House had to pay for it. The cook dude explained why he was pissed and even said that he sounds ridiculous even saying what he was saying. His point was that they (front of house) fucked up and the chef/cooks had to pay for it with last minute changes that ended up costing them time that they didn't/couldn't afford to lose. I don't know why the cook singled out that particular host; but I can assume he was the one responsible for the smudge that ended up fucking up their whole thing. Either way; its super high stress shit, I bet that cook hasn't been outside to see the light of day that wasn't from a kitchen with a window in a very long time. shits fucked up
It’s not fully explained why Garrett was singled out, but it’s implied he is in charge of the FOH people or at least some of the people wiping forks/plates. Garrett might not have smudged the plate, but is covering for or purporsely not investigating who is responsible because he is purposely taking the blame. As the leader, he technically is responsible for the mistakes of the people under him.
@@whoreblender yes, you are lol. Garrett is in charge of the front of house. thats why he got yelled at. its his team that fucked up. as simple as that.
I just kinda figured the cook had a hardon for hating Garrett for no reason in particular and always ended things with a "Fuck you Garrett!" Kind of like how Cato would always end his orations with "Carthage must be destroyed!".
@@NuttyV2 Feels pretty real to me, he wanted to better himself for years as shown in the previous episode where he asks uncle jimmy for a job/mentoring, it just came about in a way he wasn't expecting
Noooo I thought the whole episode was a dream too. The way he walked in out of nowhere, we had no context whatsoever about what richie was doing, and then he walks into a dark hallway with weird garbage hanging from the ceiling (i was not high while watching but i was pulling an all-nighter to work on a presentation after a hangover the night before lol)
@@babylejI honestly thought I skipped an episode by mistake. Then I thought maybe Richie went to check on Carmy's former restaurant to understand what was all the fuss about, and maybe people thought Richie was another staff member? Or maybe Richie was just dreaming about all of it. I rewatched the episode with my dad just to make sure later.
Majority of the people on this scene are, esp the Asian head chef that lecturing about honesty and smudge, are either the writers, production crew, and their chef and restaurant resource people who works behind camera..
@@manuelito1233yeah he says “smudged the persimmon glaze” which most likely there was a glaze they spread on a plate for presentation and someone accidentally smudged it with their finger when they grabbed the plate.
It's not about food. It's about occupation, place in the society, aspirations, duties, respect and excellency. This is how civilization progresses. By striving for more, in all directions.
@@sophiaroda5216the biggest of big brain takes. how many of your RU-vid comments have been pinned by channels? since that's the corresponding benchmark ya dingus
