Music in the kitchen

Music is a pesonal thing, what I like is not the same as everyone else, and I'm the boss......

So for me, music goes off unless one guy is working alone.

If you're prepping alone, by all means, crank up the tunes.

The last thing you need in a busy kitchen with the ventilation system going, fridge compressors kicking in, Chef yelling out orders, and regular noise, is more noise.

And that is what music is when you don't want it, noise.

If there's more than two people in the kitchen, no music.

Ya gotta respect the others, and respect your own sanity.

What happens in a kitchen is not mindless work, you need to focus, need to concentrate and need a clear mind.

It's not everyone hoisting stone blocks onto an Egyptian pyramid 

Yes it's team work, but every member has a different job.

I like what I like, and hate what I hate.

Some of thing I hate are:

Opera--in all of it's 3 forms: European, Chinese, and 'mericun (Broadway musicals)

Anythng with hand organs or bag pipes

Solo singers

My kitchen, my tunes. End of story. I would relinquish control to the boys at the end of the night when they were cleaning up.

Then it went to rap or spanish. I'll listen to just about anything but rap.

My kitchen, my music.

Classical on Sunday brunch

Classic Rock during prep

No music during service, gotta concentrate on what I'm doing

clean up time is usually whatever the crew wants......I'm in the office doing paperwork

Hey Geoff,

  I certainly didn't mean to hyjack your previous thread. I apologize.

When younger. I had a tape of classical cuts I always played. Not to soothe me though.

From favorite movie scenes. Beethoven's 9th from a clockwork orange and

Wagner's Flight of the Valkyries from apocolypse  now etc.

My kitchen, my box, my tape.sorry.

back in the pit--tejano

panini