While we sit back, relax and enjoy the slow-passing time at a restaurant table, slowly devouring a savory appetizer, impatiently dreaming of the meal we’re about to be served fresh straight from the kitchen, things can go wrong on the other side of the curtain. Although we’d like to think we are 100 percent sure of the restaurant’s quality, freshness, and hygiene—after all, it’s buzzing with people and you couldn’t trick them, right?—this is not always the case.

In fact, the restaurant industry and especially the very core of it—the holy kitchen—is notorious for keeping its secrets tight shut. The good and the bad ones. From reheated shrimp cocktail to restaurant staff having nicknames for regular customers, to a chef that cooks expensive meals 11 hours a day only to have dino nuggies at home.

Thanks to the subreddit “Kitchen Confidential,” there are a lot of stories to discover about the daily bread and butter of food industry professionals, so we selected the most interesting ones below. Scroll down and after you’re done, be sure to check out more kitchen confidential posts right here!

#1 Heard

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#2 Seems Accurate

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#3 So Many Orders, So Few Tips

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#4 I Don’t Want That Ham If It’s Been Processed, I’m Trying To Eat Healthier

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#5 I’m On My Last Few Days At The Industrial Bakery I Manage. Our 160qt Mixer, Pete, Broke Down So We Won’t Be Able To Use It. I Did The One Thing I’ve Been Dying To Do For Years Since He Arrived

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#6 They’re Not Wrong

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#7 One Of My Employees Keeps This So Clean, He Did This After A 26k Saturday Night. Show My Guy Darian Some Love He Deserves It And Doesn’t Get Enough

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#8 Flipping Burgers

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#9 I’m With The Boomers On This

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#10 I Don’t Disagree With This

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#11 Just A Friendly Reminder That It’s Ok To Quit Your Job

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#12 Makes Me Sick

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#13 Line Cooks – This Is Probably Old But It’s New To Me. A Friend Just Sent This My Way

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#14 This One Stung A Little

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#15 Saw This

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#16 Accurate

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#17 The Exact Moment I Realized This Is My Kitchen And My Menu! After Years Of Being Told To, I Pulled The Trigger And Dived All In

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#18 Cook Expensive Meals For 10-11 Hours A Day, Come Home And Eat Dino Nuggies

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#19 Important Notice From My Friends Restaurant

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#20 Good Work, Tyler!

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#21 Strip Club Food Gets Hate But I Took Pride In Everything I Would Do. I Made The Brioche Bread, No Frozen Patties Either. Everything Was Fresh

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#22 Found On The Facebook

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#23 Soup Du Jour

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#24 Who Else ?

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#25 Does My Supplier Hate Me? We Ordered 150 Lbs Of Halibut For The Weekend, We Got One 152lb. Fish. I Wanted A Few Collars Man!

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#26 Story Of The Year.. Every Year

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#27 She’s Been With Me Ten Years, Through Four Head Chefs. Today, She Clicked Her Last Clack

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#28 I Feel This

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#29 I Need Cut Gloves Made Of Tomato Skin

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#30 Please Tell Us In Your Own Words

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#31 May This Person Find Their Special Pickle

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#32 Our Sous Just Walked In

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#33 I Have Gone From Being Drunk In Kitchens, To Recovering Through Them. It’s Been A Wild Journey But I’m Extremely Proud Of Myself. To Anyone Struggling With Addiction, Just Know There Is Hope

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#34 Day 1 Of Our New Dishie, Bless His Innocent Soul

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#35 The Drain At My Job Has Been Clogged For A Week And We’ve Been Using The Bars Tiny Sink Plus Filling The Sink With Water And Then Emptying It To The Toilet With Buckets,for Full Freaking Week

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#36 $16/Hr

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#37 I Want To Know, Who Was That Client And What Their Nickname?

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#38 Found On Instagram. I Love This Note Though And Thought You All Would Appreciate

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#39 Insane Plating

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#40 Taco Bell™ Manager: Serve Spoiled Food Or Be Fired

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#41 Was Handed This Allergy List By A Customer. Things Went Downhill From There

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#42 How’s Your Day Going?

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#43 Talk About A Trial By Fire

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#44 A Local Bar In A Small Beach Tourist Town I Live At Made Merch Out Of Some Bad Reviews

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#45 Head Chef Cutting Bread On The Same Spot. Finally Getting Through The Board

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#46 How My Chef Plates The Cheesecakes At One The Most Expensive Wedding Venues In My City. ‘Crème Anglaise’ With Smuckers Strawberry And Chocolate Sunday Sauce, Oh And If The Crème Anglais Looks Foamy To You It’s Because Its Just Ice Cream He Left Out

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#47 20 Minutes Past Morning Arrival. Only Cook In The Building. Same 3 Have Called Out The Entire Week. Still Gonna Make Killer Food

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#48 I Wanna Meet The Guy Who Wrote This Recipe

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#49 Damn

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#50 My Chef Sent Me This. He’s Taking Care Of Himself On His Day Off

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#51 Guy Last Night Ordered Flank Extra Extra Extra Well Done … And Burnt. He Said This Was Perfect

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#52 Gm Harassing Me Over Being Late For 2 Minutes After Doing 63 Hours In Last 7 Days

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#53 Ex-Coworker Gave Us A Cake Today

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#54 Nfckff

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#55 Chef Said He Needed 100 Lb Pomegranate Seeds For Thanksgiving Salads. Four Hours Later We Delivered

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#56 You Know When The Burger Will Be Way Too Expensive

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#57 Not As Good As Some I’ve Seen, But It’s Mine And I’m Proud

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#58 Schucking 28,000 Oysters For An Event!!!

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#59 “Your Employees Won’t F**k Me 1/5 Stars”

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#60 No More Broken Wrap Boxes!

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#61 Walked In After A Day Closed And The Freezer Was At 50 Degrees. Thanks Sysco. Love Throwing Away $1000 Of Inventory

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#62 I’ve Had This Saved For Over A Year. Finally A Sub That Will Appreciate It

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#63 Pastry Chefs Are At War So One Labels Everything In French To Flex

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#64 This Review Has Me Rolling. Also, So True Bestie

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#65 Yes! Follow Suit

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#66 I Guess My Serving Job Thinks They Own Us?

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#67 Canceled My Holidays Due To Covid And Every Plan Falling Apart. Decided To Prepare Myself Some Nice Christmas Dinner At Home By Myself. Dropped The Knife While Doing The Dishes. F**k Me. Never Seen A Knife Like That

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#68 Heres A Little Laugh For You All. I Accidentally Ordered 5 Cases Of Buttermilk Instead Of 5 Litres

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#69 Got A Vac Sealer At Work. My Boss Goes Overboard So I Decided To One Up Him

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#70 My Ravioli Special This Weekend

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#71 I Cook Catering Style Food For Fraternities, And My Big Boss Likes Garnishes On Everything, From Chicken Strips To Garlic Bread. Heard

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#72 Jojo Pdx

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#73 Oh Boy, Have I Got News For You

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#74 Just Turned 17, 2 Months At This New Kitchen And I Can Run This F**kin Grill Like Nobody’s Business. I Love Cooking Been Doing It Sense I Was 14

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#75 Right!?

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#76 I Dont Even Know Where To Start With This One

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#77 Sure, Let’s Just Stack 220 Pounds Of Flour On Top Of Spring Mix, It Should Be Fine

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#78 If You’re Opening A Restaurant Please For The Love Of God Don’t Use Tiles

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#79 If Another Newbie Throws Sharps In The Soak Sink Again Imma Pop, Thanks For Coming To My Ted Talk

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#80 Line Cooks Be All Like “Just Scrape It Off”

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#81 Any Other People Have Compost Buckets At Their Restaurant? Ours Is For A Coworker With Chickens, They Eat Everything We Put In The Buckets Except Onions

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#82 Costumer Request Of The Night: Provolone On Prime Rib

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#83 Show Me Your Ticket Stab Etiquette

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#84 Coconut Cube, Round Bucket. Cannabis Chef Not Amused

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#85 Never Realized Something You See Everyday Is Mind Blowing To Thousands Of People

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#86 Im A Private School Chef And I Love It

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#87 Two Of My Chefs Quit Tonight In The Middle Of A Theater Rush And I Dont Even Blame Them. Heres Some Meat I Made While Drinking Tequila Straight Out Of The Bottle. Cheers

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#88 I Thought I Was Unworthy But Today I Was Given A Sign From The Great Cube

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#89 The Fryers Are Dropped But The Tickets Don’t Stop (Certified Osha Moment)

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#90 Thoughts?

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#91 I Don’t Think Anyone Has Cleaned Under Our Can Opener In A While

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#92 All The Other Food Cubes Can Sit The F Down. That’s Veal Demi

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#93 Catastrophic Failure At Work Tonight

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#94 They Really Asked For A Raw Steak Huh

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#95 Behold, Chicken Cube

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#96 Honestly, F**k This Guy

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#97 Every Kitchen Has Atleast One

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#98 No

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#99 Anyone Else Slightly Impressed By This?

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#100 From Dishie, To “Prep B**ch” And Now I’m Officially On The Line! Can I Get A Heard For The New Promotion?

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#101 Foh Didn’t Turn Off Online Ordering While We Were Closed For The Holidays

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#102 Game Day Wing Bar. Getting Ready

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#103 Happy Holidays Guys

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#104 Would’ve Walked Out Long Time Ago If It Wasn’t For Music

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#105 When Was A Time Your Chef Went Too Far?

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#106 See, It’s Funny… Because It’s Bigger Than A Normal Hat

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#107 I Work In An Australian Roadhouse Mainly Serving Tradesmen. This Is A Burger With ‘The Lot’

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#108 All My Line Cooks Get Paid $20/Hr And I Still Find Things Like This All The Time On The Open

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#109 Apparently The Other Chefs And I Drink So Much Espresso That The Foh Decided To Keep A Tally. Not Sure When They Started Counting, But I’m Willing To Bet It Was Only A Few Hours Ago

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#110 Havent Seen A Green Cube Yet

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#111 Alright, Which One Of You Troglodytes Did This?

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