pranks

[monpetitchoux]

Okay. What's the funniest prank you ever witnessed, pulled, or were the target of in the restaurant?

I didn't close the cap all the way on the creme anglaise squeeze bottle. It was funny because the pastry chef fills the bottles so he thought it was his own mistake. Never suspected me. Don't worry, the sauce goes on the plate first so there was no waste of dessert. Hee hee. Trying to figure out a good one to pull on the floor manager.

[Pastachef]

Well, my prank wasn't in a restraunt. It was in the dining room filled with college girls where I work. I had a large envelope that I placed on one of the dining room tables at lunch time. It was marked, 'Rattlesnake eggs.' Inside there was a sling shot device with a metal washer in the middle of the rubber band. When would up tightly and placed inside the envelope it was motionless. If anyone opened the envelope the washer spun so quickly it sounded like a rattlesnake. I knew curiosity would get the best of them. A whole table full of girls tried to run through a cinder block wall!

[Pastachef]

Restaurant! See, I can spell. It's just time for old folks to be in bed. LOL!

[mofo1]

Man, where do you start? The classics: sending new guy to competitor across the street for a bucket of steam. Sending new guy to basement for something. (no basement) Throwing water balloons at guy on dough rolling table in old high school pizza job. Unbelievable mess. Tossing empty pizza box at unsuspecting delivery guy. They'll kill themselves trying to catch the darn thing. Loosening the lid on 1 gal yogurt containers and then watching the idiot that you've told a dozen times not to pick it up by the lid do just that. AKA the yogurt bomb. Pocket Buddies. These are eggs or other nasties dropped into jacket pockets and then smashed. Freezing various articles of street clothing, either seperately or, preferably, in one giant block of ice. Jalapeno pickling juice poured down front or rear of pants. (TRUST ME, not pleasant). I'll think of more.

[mofo1]

By the way, I am a reasonably responsible adult. No, really.

[shroomgirl]

MOFO you are naughty!!!
Setting clocks an hour ahead. Icing styrafoam

LOL Shroom! hehe

[coolJ]

Getting your prep cook to find you the bacon stretcher.

Sending the dishwasher to the office for the long 'wait'.(weight)

mixing hard boiled eggs in with the raw ones for the breakfast station.

this one's kinda lame, but I did it anyway, on our tickets when someone orders ice cream for their pie, it says add two scoops, so this one time I went and got two portion scoops and put them on a dessert plate and sent them out.

having the new cook dice the flour, or wash the salt.

asking for a pound of elbow grease.

that's about all I can think of.

I remembered one more, I was actually the victim of this one, this guy put tabasco down my straw, mind you he never did it again after I faked a severe allergic reaction.

[ May 02, 2001: Message edited by: coolJ ]

[Pastachef]

OMG! These are so funny! You didn't really send a new guy across the street for a bucket of steam, did you? ROFL!!! Did he actually go?

[foodnfoto]

OK, Here goes..
When I was an exec. chef, my pitifully small office had one desk which, when seated behind it allowed me to look out the door at the bulletin board across the hallway where I posted the schedule and daily work assignments.
One day, I arrived at work, greeted my two (male) sous chefs as they were suiting up for the day and proceded to my desk.
On my next look out the office door, I saw my 2 sous (with toques, jackets and aprons on) sidle up to the board and casually turn to check the posted assignments. I saw toques, jackets, neatly tied aprons, and four cute little buns bouncing above hairy legs, socks and safety shoes.
Not an unpleasant view, but surprising to be sure!

[Pastachef]

OMG! That is hilarious, foodnfoto!

[Pastachef]

I guess I could tell you all what I did to our grouchy old milkman. We have a bag in the box machine. Once a week the milkman, (who has the personality of a slug) came into our kitchen and changed the milk boxes, setting the machine up for use. It was about a week before halloween, and on this particular day when he was due to deliver I put a couple of drops of red food coloring in the spill tray on the outside of the milk machine. When he opened the machine he found Count Dracula's head!

[mofo1]

Pastachef,
Yeah THEY usually do it. I've only had two that actually got all the way over and asked. The rest figured it out on the way. It is all in the way you say it. The technique is this: Be doing something that LOOKS really important, but keep an eye on new guy. When he/she looks confused and lost say "DAMMIT" kinda to yourself but loud enough for new guy to hear. Look at new guy and say, "Hey New Guy, I needja to run across the street for a bucket of steam. I'm out and I've got to get this sh*t done. It goes in the green bucket in back!!!" The last part is the kicker. I mean, it's got it's own bucket right? This must all be said quickly and with great urgency. You can even throw in a few "Hurry ups" Of course New Guy wants to make a good impression so he just shuts off the ol brain and goes into action. AAh! FNG's, gotta love em.

[shahar]

Pranks: Writing the morning shift note in mirror code(You need to look with a mirror to figure it out).
Note again - "Yo geoff you really screwed it up this time. You should have seen the chef's face last nite. You better fix it before he comes" and so forth without actually saying what's wrong.
Giving a new guy a pot of milk and telling him to thicken it on the stove, CAREFULLY(I admit this one was done on me, it took me thirty minutes to figure out there's no eggs in the cream)
Army Prank - Sending a new guy to the office(3 miles away in 5 minutes - GO!!!) to get the tank's keys.

Tanks don't have keys.

Not pranks but i worked with a chef that encouraged food fights to let of steam!!! You should have seen those unbaked buns flyinh through the air, cherry tomatoes catapults, you name it!!!

[ May 03, 2001: Message edited by: shahar S Lubin ]

[Anneke]

No food fights here, just ice. 5 points down the jacket. 10 points if if goes down the pants. 50 points if it doesn't come out from the bottom...