That is just plate swapping. I saw a guy walk up to a giant bowl of chicken wings, one small plate in each hand, and then sandwich about 150 of them with the plates, and then walk off.

Congrats on the ruby. "You're killing it!" "Pimpin' ain't easy." "You're da bomb!" "Ain't no thing but a chicken wing." And all the other standard congratulations...

Monday, Thursday and Sunday, I wake up whenever I want, and leave for work at about 4:30 to start my shift at 5:30 as a line cook. Those three days I'm "Pre-close", so for about 3 hours I stay in my section and cook food in an oven (Things like Quesadillas, Nacho platters, etc.) Then around 8ish, we start getting rid of the other cooks and I take over two more sections, fryers (cook things like chicken wings / fingers / coconut shrimp, etc.) and Pantry (Mostly salads and deserts) until around 10:30, when I have to start cleaning my half of the line (the three sections I mentioned) and then I'll be done anywhere between 11-1AM depending on how busy the night was.

On Friday and Saturday, I work splits. I'll have to wake up at 11 AM, shower etc. And leave by about 11:30, it takes me about 8 minutes to get to the restaurant and once there, I start clearing out the dish pit, once that's under control I'll either head on line and help out cooking with the lunch rush or go back and help out our prep department. If I'm helping prep, I'll either prepare food for later use in the night, or portion something that's already been made. That'll last anywhere between 1-4 PM, giving me a break before the second half of my split starts at 5, where I'll come back and work until it's less busy, and will be cut anywhere between 7-10 PM.

What worst from my perspective as a cook as well, is how the servers then run back to the kitchen and begin to scream like banshee's at the grill guy/or expo(usually same position in a lot of restaurants), about how their app didn't come out on time and they didn't get their tip.

>> ^Shepppard:

@Skeeve
It's a decent thought process.
A lot of people would blame the servers for things not coming when they're supposed to, but they actually have almost nothing to do with anything.
Think of going to a restaurant. You sit, you order drinks, then it goes one of two ways: You order an appetizer while you decide what to eat, or you order an appetizer WITH your meal, but expect it to be out first (that is, of course, if you order an appetizer).
The server goes and essentially relays your order to the kitchen staff, and after that, it's completely out of their hands.
As a cook, I can tell you that Apps are supposed to be out in 7-10 minutes, and meals 10-15 (at least, at my restaurant) but shit happens. If there's 4 of you, and you divide your order up over different sections, it only takes one person to fuck up and cause your food not to go out on time.
Say you order Chicken Wings, your friend orders a pasta, another friend orders a hamburger, and your last friend orders a salad. That's an order for the person working the Deep Fryers, Grill, Saute station, and Pantry section. 4 different people come together to make one tables order of food, but if it's not up in time, and the entire thing is delayed..
..you blame your server.
Worst part about that, is they're the ones working off tips, while the kitchen staff is making full wage in the back.

@Skeeve

It's a decent thought process.

A lot of people would blame the servers for things not coming when they're supposed to, but they actually have almost nothing to do with anything.

Think of going to a restaurant. You sit, you order drinks, then it goes one of two ways: You order an appetizer while you decide what to eat, or you order an appetizer WITH your meal, but expect it to be out first (that is, of course, if you order an appetizer).

The server goes and essentially relays your order to the kitchen staff, and after that, it's completely out of their hands.

As a cook, I can tell you that Apps are supposed to be out in 7-10 minutes, and meals 10-15 (at least, at my restaurant) but shit happens. If there's 4 of you, and you divide your order up over different sections, it only takes one person to fuck up and cause your food not to go out on time.

Say you order Chicken Wings, your friend orders a pasta, another friend orders a hamburger, and your last friend orders a salad. That's an order for the person working the Deep Fryers, Grill, Saute station, and Pantry section. 4 different people come together to make one tables order of food, but if it's not up in time, and the entire thing is delayed..

..you blame your server.

Worst part about that, is they're the ones working off tips, while the kitchen staff is making full wage in the back.

The Backstory:
Here’s a way not to respond to charges that police officers in your town harassed, abused and brought false charges against Latino residents: by telling a reporter that you might eat tacos to help Latinos out.

Asked this week by WPIX reporter Mario Diaz what he would do for the Latino community, East Haven, Connecticut Mayor Joseph Maturo said he “might have tacos when I go home.”

Four officers in the town were charged by the Justice Department this week with conspiring to violate and violating the civil rights of Latino residents of the city. One officer allegedly said he “likes” harassing people who “have drifted into this county on rafts made of chicken wings.”

Maturo has subsequently apologized for his “insensitive and stupid answer.”

*PROMOTE!

As I sit here eating chicken wings.

Crazy.

Compare that - http://www.pizzahut.com.cn/phdi/index.aspx#!handler/content.ashx?&tagid=32&proid=426

To our fine delicatessen selection - http://www.pizzahut.com.au/pizza-hut-menu/>> ^steroidg:

I went to Beijing for about 6 weeks this year and I don't think I've ever seen any home delivery for Chinese restaurants. Pizza hut claim to home deliver though, but I've never got their web page working.
Interestingly, the menu in the Chinese pizza hut has an awesome selection compare to the Aussie ones. You can get stakes, ribs, chicken wings and even alcohol: Chinese pizza hut menu.
>> ^Peroxide:
Anywhere else in the world? What about in China?

I went to Beijing for about 6 weeks this year and I don't think I've ever seen any home delivery for Chinese restaurants. Pizza hut claim to home deliver though, but I've never got their web page working.

Interestingly, the menu in the Chinese pizza hut has an awesome selection compare to the Aussie ones. You can get stakes, ribs, chicken wings and even alcohol: Chinese pizza hut menu.

>> ^Peroxide:

Anywhere else in the world? What about in China?

Ain't no thing but a chicken wing.

^cosmovitelli:If you can't see how letting people get body slammed for abstract localised unspecifiable silent body movements can't lead to getting dragged off to jail for dropping gum then you need to start hiding your gum.




*sigh* again, no one was getting slammed for dancing. The cops werent running around saying "hey, that dude is dancing, crossface chicken wing that motherfucker! ya! DX for life!! SUCK IT" and then slamming their crossed arms on their crotch.

the only "bodyslam" that took place (in the video at least, the rest is speculation) was on kokesh (pretty sure it was him). If you can objectively watch that video and then with a straight face insist he was slammed for dancing you are out of your fucking mind. He was being placed under arrest and then repeatedly and forcefully resisted arrest. THAT is what he was taken down for. The arresting officer gave him two "last" warnings before the takedown but all you saw was the bodyslam huh?

if you can objectively watch the video and then with a straight face insist that those arrested were not disturbing the peace and were acting civilly then you are out of your fucking mind.

their first warning even was "if you demonstrate by dancing" but all you heard was dancing huh?

officer calmly and politely explains to them they are in violation of the demonstration ordinance and gave them ample warning to knock it off. what do they do? argue the semantics of dancing with them? continue to demonstrate and then act outraged that they got arrested? MLK would be proud

the fact that everyone keeps latching on to the dancing aspect and willfully ignores the fact that they were demonstrating shows a certain selectiveness of what we are seeing here. Ive been trying to be as objective as possible in viewing both of these videos. but we see what we wanna see huh?

>> ^rychan:

The advice might be good but the reasoning they're using to justify it is false. Things are much more complicated than they make out.
Why not take their third grade reasoning to the extreme and propose that you should run with zero bounce? If you tried this you'd find it requires very unnatural and inefficient movements.


Things don't need to be complicated if you don't go into the metabolism side of things. Running is different from walking in that both of you feet are off the ground at the same time. You're basically flying through the air most of the time, or should be. Bouncing too much shows that you make contact with the ground for too long. By simply landing on the balls of your feet (not your toes or, worse, your heels) without trying to push yourself forward (i.e. with legs straight down under you at the instant your whole foot is contacting the ground and then pulling the foot up instead of pushing out with your toes), you can create a spring like reaction in your leg muscle that will give you just enough vertical energy to stay level with the ground, reducing the bounce to a theoretical minimum of zero. What makes you advance forward is your previous momentum combined with gravity making your slightly forward-leaning body fall at an angle (the lean will need to be more pronounced the faster you want to run). With good form, you can easily create a very constant stride without bounce since you do not rely on your leg muscles to propel yourself, but only to keep you up in the air for the longest possible proportion of time (resulting in less friction, more energy transfer from gravity, etc.). Look at horses : their hind legs are bent backwards for propulsion, yet they still have no bounce (we feel a bounce because we ride in the middle, but in absolutes they do not bounce). Plus, their front legs always hit the ground at a 90 degree angle right under them. In human terms, the front legs are our legs, the hind legs are our slight forward lean. If we had not adapted this way, we'd either be running like kangaroos, i.e. by actually bouncing, or we'd not be able to run at all, like monkeys.

tl;dr : landing on the balls of your feet keeps you in the air at a stable, constant height; leaning slightly forward allows gravity to pull you forward.

Walking though is very different. Here you want the pendulum effect created by the arms to conserve energy, but the same principle applies for maximum efficiency : land with the legs at 90 degrees to the ground, under your center of gravity and don't push with your toes. Of course there are ways to walk/run faster with less efficiency, it all depends whether you're in a marathon or a race.

>> ^Sagemind:

After ripping my knee out in a dirt-bike accident (think snapping a chicken wing in two), I don't run.
Having said that, I think it's crazy that man has reduced a basic function of the human body down to scientific knowhow! Should we tell our tribal ancestors they've been doing it all wrong all this time??


On the contrary, they're the ones who have been doing it right all along. Mass consumerism + fad marketing destroyed our feet with "running" shoes. Plus, scientists have assumed for a long time that everyone knows instinctively how to run properly. They were wrong. Just as we learn how to walk we must learn how to run. Some can learn on their own, some copy others like Angua1 and some just can't run or end up copying bad running forms from people who "unlearned" how to run thanks to padded "running" shoes. Our ancestors learned how to run properly because for them it was a vital skill, just like using a bow, a knife or a sling. Plus they didn't have padded shoes, medical treatment or motorized locomotion so running badly was not an option if they were to survive long enough to reproduce.

That said, the video is bullshit. Go look for the POSE method of running for accurate information. This method also addresses the crossover problems.

After ripping my knee out in a dirt-bike accident (think snapping a chicken wing in two), I don't run.

Having said that, I think it's crazy that man has reduced a basic function of the human body down to scientific knowhow! Should we tell our tribal ancestors they've been doing it all wrong all this time??

>> ^silvercord:

>> ^Pprt:
Killing animals is brutal? Who knew.
Your steaks must taste pretty salty with those tears streaming down your face.

I doubt you're talking to me. I'm a vegan.


So am I.

I'm talking about the vast portion of the populace that condemns this while enjoying a bucket of chicken wings on the side.

Thanks for the promote!

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*promote tired of underfed bitchas