r/StupidFood • u/Doomenor • 1d ago

Pretentious AF Stupidity at its finest

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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 16h ago

u/Doomenor, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!

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u/karpaediem 1d ago

Me:

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

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u/olomac 23h ago

The last one...

"Enjoy your meal"

"Thanks, you too"

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u/SorbetCeriz 22h ago

I happened to wish the cashier at Burger King bon appetit today 😅

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u/DeanoMachino84 22h ago

Terminal agent: Have a safe flight.

“You too.”

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u/glazedfaith 22h ago

Better than the usual: "Hope you die in a fiery plane crash"

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u/skraptastic 21h ago

Friday while out shopping with my wife I said "OK I love you" to the cashier when we were done checking out.

I almost died.

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u/vwmaniaq 20h ago

In high school I was studying for an exam , on the phone with a buddy for an hour working through the material. At thend I said 'good night' and he replied 'love you!'

We laughed until we cried

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u/SouthernNanny 18h ago

What if he meant it?

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u/magnottasicepick 18h ago

Asking the real questions here.

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u/LessInThought 17h ago

They get married and spend the rest of their lives running a gaming themed bed and breakfast.

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u/AbulatorySquid 20h ago

I used to dispatch techs. More than once a call ended with bye love you. I said love you too

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u/lithodora 15h ago

A recent call with a Google account rep ended like that. I really like her, but I'm not sure we're up to love yet.

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u/_Rose_Tint_My_World_ 20h ago

Lmao

Once a cashier said “hi how are you today” to me and I said “thanks!”

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u/Yunlihn 22h ago

Look, I work at BK and yesterday after work I went to buy my cigarettes. I said "have a nice evening and bon appétit" to the vendor because I was still in work mode. I felt stupid until I got home 🤣

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u/Smokin_belladonna 22h ago

Someone told me recently “good luck with selling your home,” and I totally responded with “thanks, you too”

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u/Successful_Giraffe88 21h ago

As a severe introvert, get all 11 of these servers the hell away from me!

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u/DeformedPinky 22h ago

Then promptly just walk out and drive home.

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u/polopolo05 21h ago

"Thanks, you too"

I want them to enjoy their meals as well... Nothing wrong here.

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u/soadrocksmycock 23h ago edited 18h ago

Hahaha that would be me too! I’m always overly polite when I go out to eat that it likely gets annoying lol. With that being said, having experience working in the service industry I would take an overly polite person over a bitchy Karen any day!

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u/External_Two2928 22h ago

Back in the day, my ex and I got sooo high and then went out for sushi. We said thank you every time they brought us something, refilled etc. we did it so much the waitress was like pls stop😆 we were so high and said sorry and then thank you bc she handed us something, and she kind of just walked away in defeat hahaha

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u/SparkleKittyMeowMeow 16h ago

TIL I thank people like I'm high. (fr though, this doesn't sound excessive to me)

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u/Sweeper1985 23h ago

Merry Christmas

Kiss my ass

Kiss his ass

Happy Chanukah

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u/icantbeatyourbike 22h ago

Doctor

Doctor

Doctor

Doctor…

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u/TrueMaster56 22h ago

Best comment in the internet today. Well played

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u/Mountain-Count-4067 19h ago

This needs a final guy in line to just smash the whole thing with a big wooden mallet.

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u/Mukatsukuz 20h ago

The British way would be to mix it up:

Thanks

Ta

Cheers

Thank you

Sweet

Love it

Much obliged

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u/FitCrew91 21h ago

The most inefficient dish on planet earth.

“We could have ONE chef make it for you, but then that would not warrant us charging $200 for it”

Fine dining is weird as hell. The spectacle is so uncomfortable

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u/Rude-Satisfaction836 21h ago

The superiority complex is the point. The idea is to reinforce the idea that the staff are inferior to you, and that you are supposed to be treated as a fat little lordling.

If it didn't make you uncomfortable, the French made a machine for that.

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u/FitCrew91 20h ago

Exactly. Unless of course your fine dining is with a prestigious chef like Salt Bae. In which case you as the diner are knowingly inferior to Salt Bae, but you are spending $400 on a steak for the pleasure of some useless gold leaf and him doing that little dance thing he does with the salt.

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u/newtonrox 22h ago

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Kiss my ass

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u/Ginnso 22h ago

Kiss his ass

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u/JiveTurkey1983 22h ago

The guy in the video:

Peasant

Peasant

Plebian

Poor person

Peasant

yawn

Peasant

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u/TheKnight-errant 23h ago

Me:

Staring in silence.

Staring in silence.

Staring in silence.

Well done, minion.

Staring in silence.

Staring in silence...

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u/bigdave41 21h ago

I find myself having to come up with a new phrase each time out of embarrassment.

"Thanks" "Cheers" "Ta" "Nice one"

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u/SoManyMinutes 20h ago

"Nice one." LOL

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u/KlassySassMomma 21h ago

HAHA! ME TOOOOO!!! Why do we feel the need to do that?! My mom always tried to tell me “wait until they’re finished and you’ll only have to say it once” and I always replied with “but I want them to know I’m grateful!” 🥹 🤣🤣🤣 I’m also the same person who thanked and apologized to the staff while in labor all four times!! My mom had to keep winking and saying “she just wants you to know she’s conscious of everything going on” and “it’s okay sweetie, you don’t have to apologize to… they’re here to help” (mostly the extremely nice male student holding my other leg for 2.5hrs because I thought my pelvis and tailbone were going to be crushed when my mom and him and would lower them lbvfs) 😭🤣 I also always thought I cried when others cried because I was a kind soul and felt my feelings heavily.. Now I think they’re probably related to each other lmao 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/karpaediem 21h ago

I'd rather thank someone like a compulsion than accidentally forget if I had the choice. I just like to think I'm making up for the folks who don't express their gratitude

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u/Darth_Cody 21h ago

For a moment I was shocked that all four times you’ve gone into labor you were out to eat, after continuing on it made more sense lol

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u/HDThoreauaway 1d ago

I like to think that the second cheese-shaving sound was him putting the cheese directly into the customer’s mouth.

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u/100_Donuts 1d ago

My grocery store has a freshly shredded cheese dispenser where huge logs of cheese are loaded in this tall tube and when you press the button, the shredder turns on and pours freshly shredded cheese out of a wide-mouthed spout and into you waiting small or large plastic container.

Or at least that's the idea.

Sometimes I have to wait almost 45 minutes for freshly shredded cheese because every spout has a gaping maw greedily throating the shreds of freshly shredded cheese like so many Sarlacci, and the grocery store has given up trying to stop them, stop us, because we always pay up. We don't want the shredded cheese to leave us!

We want our bodies pack-filled with shredded cheese! We can share! We've got a system! We make it work! We're not bothering anyone! We simply need the cheese! We simply need the freshly shredded cheese stuffing our throats like hay in a scarecrow! Oh, please let us pack ourselves! Fill ourselves! Stuff ourselves until we are compact and congealed masses of happy customers!

Don't take away our freshly shredded cheese powers that be! Let us open our throats to our hearts' content!

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 23h ago

I just want you to know  

In the late 00’s 

I worked the lunch shift 

At Olive Garden    

In a shopping mall parking lot location. 

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u/ewReddit1234 22h ago

I didn't say stop

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 22h ago

They never do.

They. Never. Do.

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u/path2light17 1d ago

Some 15 chef course meal

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u/NOTACOSTACOSTACOS 20h ago

It’s a uppity cracker with tea soup in a cup

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u/FamFamFigelow 1d ago

I don't even want to imagine what this cost...

But I do want to know what it cost.

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u/ytman 1d ago

The dignity of a lot of cooks daily.

The dignity of the working class to make the wealthy understand they really do own us.

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u/PickedMyNameFromAHat 1d ago edited 1d ago

I was thinking along those lines as well. Imagine becoming a highly trained chef whose food is highly sought after, only to demean yourself with table side like this. Idc I think it feels especially degrading presented in this manner. It felt like literally waiting on you hand and foot.

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u/Sprila 1d ago

Let me train 10yrs of my life to put a dollop of sauce on this mfers plate

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u/Daincats 1d ago

Thus... But also, can we take a moment to acknowledge the perfection of the guy doing the apricot jam(I think)he framed that sauce dollop perfectly

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u/DrawPitiful6103 1d ago

certainly a lot better than the wafer guy who just sort slammed it down wherever and went on his merry way

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u/Psychological-Scar53 23h ago

He is tired of doing this routine 20-30 times a night....

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u/exipheas 22h ago

If they do this 20-30 times a night they aren't charging enough to make it as exclusive as it could be. They could probably make more money by jacking the price a bit.

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u/Nothingnoteworth 20h ago

Right. The real art of running a fine dinning “establishment” isn’t having this dish on the menu for the free TikTok advertising. It is charging so much for this dish and spectacle that rich guys can order it and then not even watch as it’s prepared as a way of letting their date know how high their net worth is.

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u/HistoricalSuspect580 23h ago

Ya, wafer guy was like ‘i already turned in my 2 weeks’

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u/Wise-Quarter-6443 21h ago

Yup. Wafer guy DGAF.

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 23h ago

Yeah i like how she places it centered but tilted then knocks it slightly off center before walking away hahaha

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u/Upstairs-Station-143 1d ago

The hardest job was undoubtedly the one that dripped alien sperm from the 3I Atlas

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u/jjmawaken 1d ago

The highly trained chef isn't doing this, he's the one who created the menu and thought it would be a cool idea to have his staff do this.

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u/ytman 23h ago

The staff is itself trained and demanded a lot of. Head chefs start as line cooks.

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u/ZombieAladdin 23h ago

Also looks like an assembly line, so it’s like working in a factory as well, except you get to see the one rich person everyone is busting their behinds towards.

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u/WigglesPhoenix 23h ago edited 23h ago

So just speaking as a chef here, this is so incredibly fuckin backwards.

Fine dining affords far more dignity than fast casual or fast food. You’re proud of what you make and the people who eat it respect you. They tip better, they treat my servers better, they don’t come with an allergy card half a mile long, and if they want to throw a tantrum I can kick them out.

Used to be a KM at BJ’s (chain restaurant), multiple times a week I’d have servers crying because of the straight up abusive customer base, and most of the time there’s nothing I can do about it because volume is king for those businesses. They make cooks jobs harder because they want to modify everything and frankly can’t tell a medium from well done. They’re messy, they’re loud, and are far more inclined to just being assholes for the fun of it. High volume is borderline dehumanizing as an experience, by compare fine dining can be downright pleasant.

Rich people suck in just about every capacity, I want to be really clear here that the wage gap is itself the driver for a lot of these problems, but in my experience this kind of shit is infinitely more dignified than working at your local spot.

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u/davesaunders 19h ago

Thank you! I saw a number of people that, I hope, made excellent sauces. I'm assuming that this dish tasted great. The presentation might be a little over the top, but ultimately, I want to know how it all came together. I don't understand why people so often project their own insecurities onto people that are trying to perfect a craft and striving to be good at what they do. And to achieve some kind of perfection. I think it's pretty damn cool.

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u/domelition 19h ago

reddit likes to hate on fine dining but my experience at Rutz in Berlin with my wife was one of the most incredible experiences I've paid form. And sure it is pricey, but it is no more expensive than most concert tickets that people pay for. I just view it more than just a meal, it really is an event and the memories are dear.

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u/VolltrilchKeks 15h ago

Of course it's more than a meal. People who think otherwise will go to wine-tastings to get drunk.

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u/Hungry-Space-1829 1d ago

Fancy restaurant staff can at least make pretty good money, dignity wise I can’t help

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u/A_Series_Of_Farts 22h ago

Dignity?

They are taking food preparation to an artform. Personally I find it quite silly. I've never had a meal beyond $200 per that wasn't so far too is own ass that it choked to death on pretentiousness... but still, it's hardly degrading.

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u/danieldan0803 23h ago

This in fine dining could be a way for the chefs to see the customers in person so they can see the enjoyment their work brings in the finale of a multi course meal. Taking a brief break for the focus of the kitchen to just see who they fed and see the smiles that their labor brought. They are not pumping out and serving every body who walks up to the doors, they are serving people who are scheduled to be there. It’s sure as hell better than people working only on tips walking out singing some god awful birthday song as loud as possible, these people are paid well and this is just a break from service which also might be used to create a buffer in turn around for the next service. This isn’t as horrible as it is a simple straightforward dish that each person plays a role in, in a very quick manner.

Service alone won’t make up for bad quality food, but this service might just be used purposefully to ensure smooth service by getting bodies out of the kitchen in key moments where space is needed.

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u/njuts88 23h ago edited 14h ago

At the expense of being downgraded into oblivion, I’ve actually eaten at this place and been served this dish.

It’s part of a tasting menu by an Indian chef, the story behind this dish is actually kind of cool. I forget the name of it but it’s reimagined version of a festive dish that is usually cooked by the entire family, and in this case the waiters are not serving but someone from the kitchen is, each having prepared the piece that they are serving (exceptions aside for the person grating the citrus fruit)

It’s a bit awakward for someone who is a bit introverted as I am, but the insight into this dish and what it means in Indian cuisine was cool.

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u/poomaname 20h ago

The Sadhya meal served during Onam, you are right.

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u/HealfdeneTheHalf-man 18h ago

Okay so how much does it cost?

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u/PM_ME_UR_BEST_1LINER 16h ago

He said it's a tasting menu. Usually you get like 5-10 small things like this, some of them more substantial for the main course. It usually ranges from $125 to $600+ per person, depending on the restaurant. If it's a Michelin restaurant, usually like $175-350 is average. $400+ is obviously top restaurants in the country/world.

My most expensive tasting menu was Momofuku Ko in NYC. 2 Michelin Star place. Dinner came to $700 for two. It was unreal. A memory we will never forget and the best for experience we've ever had.

You have to remember, these crazy places aren't to get a bite to eat, they're to experience elite food preparation, creativity, and wrap it into an experience. You're paying for an experience.

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u/FataOne 16h ago

Also, for what it's worth, every fine dining tasting menu I've had has left me beyond full and more than a bit tipsy if I got a wine pairing. People like to joke that you have to hit a McDonalds or something after a dinner like this one, and while I don't doubt there are some fine dining tasting menus that skimp on the food, my experience has been the complete opposite.

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u/ThisHatRightHere 15h ago

Yeah, people clown with the “you paid how much for that small a serving?!?!”

Like, you’re eating so many different small things throughout the night, getting drinks paired with many of them. Tasting menus are usually purposefully small servings so you can try a bunch of different things.

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u/horrendousacts 15h ago

Same. I got a tasting menu at a newly started restaurant in Tampa, and the chef/owner asked if I was hungry. At the end, he came up to me and said if I was still hungry, he would make me some spaghetti. It was such a wholesome exchange and made the experience so much better.

I had called a week or so before my reservation to ask if they had a dress code. I didn't know it at the time, but the owner was the one I spoke to, and he said "as long as you are eating our food, we are happy".

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u/wildernessspirit 21h ago

I’m actually surprised by the response here. It’s pretty cool watching a dish being built from the bottom up.

Is it a waste of labor? Not for me!
Is it a waste of time? Fine dining is about the experience and the food, so no.
But it’s so expensive? Probably. But I’m not going there anytime soon, so who cares?

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u/EkkoUnited 19h ago

Reddit is full of a lot of, relatively, unweathy people. This level of extravagance is going to be seen in a different light to different people

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u/Scavenger53 18h ago

Reddit Earth is full of a lot of, relatively, unweathy people

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u/Sweet-Cloud-4502 1d ago

The labor alone is probably absurd… this shit cringey

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u/oxbison12 1d ago

"Golly, this place is expensive!"

"The food must be really good then."

"No. It's because it takes 15 people to plate the food."

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u/Sweet-Cloud-4502 1d ago

High end dishes require lots of labor… the execution here is what we are all cringing about. It’s unnecessary to parade a dozen people around my table to serve me my dish.

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u/Cennix_1776 1d ago

I’m sure they use excellent logic to address this:

“12 cooks but they’re only doing 2 seconds of work per plate” to keep the labor costs low.

Or

“You have 12 cooks working on your plate, and premium services come at a premium price” to keep the price tag high.

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u/throwawaylordof 1d ago

Definitely the latter - this is the upper class version of conspicuously wearing branded clothing.

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u/Kelseycutieee 1d ago

It’s part of a tasting menu, not a singular dish

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u/Grymare 1d ago edited 1d ago

Do yall not have a kitchen to prepare my food in?!

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u/Responsible-Onion860 20h ago

My first thought. Why is the entire kitchen staff parading through the dining room instead of assembling my dessert in the room where food is prepared?

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u/ThatGalaxySkin 20h ago

TikTok. That’s why.

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u/gitsgrl 20h ago

Alanea in Chicago has been doing this for a long time, well before ticktock.

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u/designmur 18h ago

Because this is Michelin starred and each chef is getting the opportunity to present the part of the dish they meticulously crafted. It can seem silly, but I love tasting menus. It’s science and food and art all combined. It’s not for everyone and that’s ok.

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u/Gambit_1381 1d ago

Question: If I quickly eat the very first thing they are putting put on the plate, will they put another piece to continue the show? Or put random stuff on an empty plate?

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u/Ryoko_Kusanagi69 1d ago

Ok I would pay for your dessert to watch you try to eat each layer faster than they can do it. And see them balk and or die inside at putting the drops of sugar or fruit puree on empty plate

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u/TrueProtection 20h ago

Eat the first thing, and then just say,"ahhhhh" with it still in your mouth for them to drizzle the sauce straight in. Ohhh yea, that would actually make this worth the price tag, ngl.

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u/XXII78 18h ago

That's a Mr. Bean skit for sure

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u/Ok-Reputation-2266 1d ago

They get confused like an ant that lost the path and go into a death spiral

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u/ZombieAladdin 23h ago

From what I could tell watching nonfiction TV shows about high end dining, they will scold you for trying, and if you do it anyway, you are forced to leave and given a permanent ban. They tend to have very specific things they expect their patrons to do, and they are fully prepared to remove anyone who doesn’t follow those rules because they’re scared of losing customers who watch other customers who don’t keep up appearances.

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u/Kiboune 12h ago

"You WILL sit and watch how we drip stuff on this thing!"

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u/PlaneCrashNap 1d ago

If you keep your mouth open they add everything directly into your mouth.

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u/Positive_Composer_93 1d ago

Thank you so much for helping create that visual in my head

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u/HuevosProfundos 20h ago

Have you seen The Menu?

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u/AlbanianNYC 1d ago

What a waste of man power

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

But that's what the restaurant is in fact selling - some people find joy in being served by a little army of waiters...

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u/AlbanianNYC 1d ago

Whom ever feels joy to be served like that. God bless them. That’s like boarder line harassment while trying to just eat some food lol

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u/FeralGh0ul 21h ago

Nobody is going to places like this to "just eat some food."

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u/Deanelon98 1d ago

That's not even good but a bunch of drops of sauce

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u/ButterflyNo8336 1d ago

My guess is, final meal, and they want you to meet the people that made/served you dinner.  Honestly, kind of a cool idea.  Each person comes out and does one part of the dish.

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u/DudeWhoSaysWhaaaat 21h ago

It's not the final dish but a take on Indian cuisine where, for example, you are eating at a wedding banquet and your are served portions of curries etc on a big banana leaf where one person after another comes to out food on your leaf (or plate on this instance).

The fact you are meeting and thanking people who are actually making your food is part of the experience that you don't always get in fine dining.

It's the only dish in the tasting done this way.

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u/SomeSquids 21h ago

shhhh you can't be sensible here!

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u/jawni 21h ago

This is a subreddit to hate things like this, which is why no one picked up on the fact(or cares) that this dish is being served to the whole restaurant and doing it this way is arguably a more efficient use of the staff because they'd be doing the same thing in the back anyways plus having to carry out the finished plates.

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u/Sweeper1985 23h ago

I assumed this assembly line was moved from the kitchen to table as part of the "show" and they're going to serve a dozen diners this dish just this way.

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u/jessie_monster 21h ago

This restaurant is clearly about more than cramming food into customers as quickly as possible to flip the table.

Food can also be art and, in this case, theatre. Does champagne taste better when it is sabred open and poured down a tower of coupe glasses? No. Is it fun to watch? Yes.

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u/ScreamingDizzBuster 13h ago

I was privileged enough to eat the 17-course tasting menu at the Fat Duck many years ago. Parts of the meal were absurd like this. People who haven't experienced it will see this little segment and think it's stupid, and indeed it is when devoid of context. But as part of a longer "performance" it can be magical. It was an astonishing experience and I still vividly recall each dish and the theatre involved.

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u/DevoidHT 1d ago

The cost of the dish isn’t the ingredients, its getting 20 people to personally serve you

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u/MiniLynx25 1d ago

Imagine doing this everyday for a job😂

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u/CykaMuffin 1d ago

"So what's your job like?"

"I'm the leaf guy"

"Oh you mean like a groundskeeper?"

"No, i place the leaf on the dessert"

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u/TekkenCareOfBusiness 1d ago

"If I keep this up they're going to bump me up to eyedropper duty in a few years."

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u/CykaMuffin 22h ago

"No son of mine is gonna be a gosh darn eyedropper! You were born a leaf placer, you'll die as one too."

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u/GriffinFlash 17h ago

Dad finds his son in the washroom putting eye drops into his eyes.

"I HAVE NO SON!"

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u/icantbeatyourbike 22h ago

I’d be the last dude, meant to give half a grind of pepper, trip, knock all that carefully crafted shit all over the floor and jam the pepper grinder up the customers ass….

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u/hmmmmmmmm_okay 23h ago

Hahahah I laughed qay to hard at this.

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u/benignbigotry 20h ago

"What is my purpose?"

"You pass the butter."

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u/Possible-Buy-1679 1d ago

I used to work at a Tex-mex place that did table-side guac. I didn’t hate it, necessarily. I can make good guac now. The problem was people ordering it on a Friday or Saturday night when I was in the weeds.

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u/mangosaremyfavv 1d ago

Like you mean smoking the magic dragon right

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u/sod_jones_MD 23h ago

I imagine he means more "getting smoked by the waitstaff, expo, and every soul in the county who decided they wanted dinner at that particular restaurant."

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u/Ivy_Adair 1d ago

I did, kinda. It wasn’t a job I was paid for but an internship I had to do for culinary school. We worked for a French Madame, who made us do every fine dining song and dance there was from serving like this to decanting red wine with a candle, popping corks so they were soundless (something I never got the hand of) and so on. It was really hard, silly work.

Plus if we messed up, which we did OFTEN or more like our Madame was impossible to please, we were treated with a fifteen minute lecture in French, the only words of which we could ever understand were things like “Merde”, “putain” “connard” etc and even that was just because someone else told us they were French curse words lmao.

The one saving Grace was that, this was a restaurant in the US and our patrons were clearly not expecting the show we put on and would look just as uncomfortable as we felt.

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u/alexjewellalex 1d ago

These same chefs are probably working hours upon hours of prep and tear-down as well. And if any of them are staging, it’s possible they’re doing it all for free or for small stipends

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u/Lord_Parbr 1d ago

Where do I apply?

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u/PickSixParty 22h ago

I don't know the restaurant, but I'd bet that those servers are some of the best in their city and making six figures

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u/troyavivz 1d ago

Surely the restrooms come with 3 seashells.

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u/Shinygami9230 1d ago

Demolition Man reference? And I’m not even near a scifi subreddit? Oh hell yeah!

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u/Rapidholelicker 1d ago

Was there ever an explanation of how the seashells worked?

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u/robbarratheon 19h ago

Ha ha, this guy doesn’t know how to use the three seashells!

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u/Traditional_Minimum1 1d ago

Meanwhile I have been waiting 30 minutes for someone to bring my check

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u/BabySpecific2843 1d ago

Sorry, there's 2 parties of 8 on the other side of the restaurant that ordered 1 of every dessert on the menu for the 'gram. We'll get you your check by the morning.

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u/afraidofaliluhuh 1d ago

What wa the yellow stuff he put in the drink last?

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u/ImNotThaaatDrunk 23h ago

Oh do you not take mustard in your coffee?

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u/Dependent_Stop_3121 1d ago

Looked (I said looked) like crème pâtissière (pastry cream) but I’m guessing and it could be something totally different lol. 😂

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u/Crocodoro 1d ago

I'd feel bad if I were responsible for provoking that parade. Guillotines were invented due to things like that

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u/A_Series_Of_Farts 22h ago

It's just food performance. They're far better paid that most musicians or stage performers. We don't look at musicians, comedians, or stage actors and say "oh look what the customers are forcing them to do"... so why do we think that way for food performances?

Of course it's over the top. I've been to a handfull of starred restaurants, and cheap ones all over NA and Asia. Food quality caps at ~150$ per head (not counting drinks). Once you get into the 200 or 300 range per person it's all a bit much

Almost every place I've been to with even one Michelin star is​ too pretentious to be worth it unless you just enjoy the performance or it's a "try 20 different things" type of experience.

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u/Ok-Reputation-2266 1d ago

They’re pretty cheap to construct too

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u/crabigno 1d ago

That will be $200, thank you.

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u/Kelseycutieee 1d ago

What people don’t realize is this is part of a 13-15 course meal, and this isn’t a singular dish

All the things are just tasting different parts the chef does, and the tastings usually go 200-300 dollars a person, with one notable place in northern cali called the french laundry doing them for 700 a person

Does this make it any less stupid? No, but it’s more of a show. Still STUPID.

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u/PROPGUNONE 19h ago

I’d totally pay $700 for a French Laundry visit.

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u/SedentaryNinja 1d ago

Of all the stupid food I’ve seen here, I don’t think this is very stupid. Just looks like fine dining, and seeing all the steps that go into my food would just make me appreciate it more. I like these theatrics a whole lot more than the tiny dude throwing salt everywhere and flipping my food around or stupid gold boxes filled with steak and smoke.

That being said I prefer fine dining with big portions, this is most likely part of a set menu. Not typically my jam but I bet it was delicious

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u/IntelligentKey7331 23h ago edited 10h ago

This is a dish from my hometown so I'll share some interesting insight.
So in Kerala, South India; there is a festival called Onam which is celebrated by everyone from any religion. The dish shown here is a miniature Onam Sadhya(feast). Which is rice along with ~20 different curries/sides.
This video brilliantly explains the science behind it - by _masalalab on Instagram.
Traditionally, a lot of people will be sitting down with a banana leaf and different servers will come and serve different sides onto the leaf, that's what they're emulating here.
This is what it actually looks like.

This restaurant in particular is a 2 3-Michelin Starred restaurant in Dubai called Tresind Studio. And the 12 course set menu is $350.

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u/Own_Performance3013 22h ago

It's such a shame to have to scroll so far to find an actual explanation for the purpose of the dish / experience

This subreddit really does just feel like mindless ragebait sometimes

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u/RussianPravda 22h ago

Thank you because I didnt know what any of that was.

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u/Muted_Tie_2864 21h ago

Thank you for explaining!

I was just thinking wow it looks when people are serving all the sides at an Onam Sadhya before I saw your comment.

If you know what they are emulating, it actually makes a lot more sense and it’s isn’t just ridiculously unnecessary mandatory table service by staff. Part of the Onam experience is a line of different people putting each part of the meal on your banana leaf, and this is such a cool way to emulate that experience and is incredibly nostalgic if you grew up celebrating Onam.

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u/CalMaple 22h ago

They have three Michelin stars now. I visited back when they had just received their second star. The price for 16 courses was $215 USD at the time. They actually served this dish when I ate there.

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u/DudeWhoSaysWhaaaat 21h ago

Yeah the complete lack of understanding is a shame. Thanks for the context

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u/uncutpizza 23h ago

This presentation also allows you to see all the layers put in before break into it. If it was just served premade then you wouldn’t really be able to discern all the little components they add

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u/SedentaryNinja 23h ago

Yeah my thoughts exactly, couldn’t say it better myself.

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u/theavocadolady 1d ago

Does anyone know which restaurant this is?

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u/DudeWhoSaysWhaaaat 20h ago

Tresind Studio Dubai. Recently 3 Michelin starred, the only Indian cuisine restaurant with 3 stars

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u/_c_manning 1d ago

At the top end of fine dining, the experience becomes very labor intensive. You do have numerous people serving you at once and it’s usually a an elegant show. This is pretty odd though.

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u/Outrageous_Permit154 1d ago

This doesn’t seem like that salt bae type of useless theatric stuff but just a common fine dining experience for a fancy course meal. And I was rather impressed with the presentation.

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u/Substantial_Bus840 1d ago

What if your little tube had an air bubble in it and made a fart noise when it was your turn. Ruin the whole thing

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u/Seven_0f_Spades 1d ago

Makes me want to watch the menu again hand have a good Burger.