I ask genuinely. I started a new kitchen job, but I don't think I'm good fit for it. I'm so afraid of messing up the food, I haven't been trained properly. I'm scheduled to work tomorrow.
This is my first proper kitchen experience, I was told it was just prep work with some cleaning and it turns out it's not. I may cook at home, but I don't have any line cook or restaurant cooking experience.
I'm being expected to learn to make these soups, stews and meat dishes but I haven't been told how. I don't know what goes in to any of them. There's no recipes to reference, no cheat sheets. I'm not told temperatures, how long things need to cook, nothing. Unless it's something I put in the microwave, I just get told to try to not over cook it.
I tried to reference the online menu, because it's the only menu I have access to, but it doesnt tell me enough. When I got home, I wrote down everything I could remember and I tried to find videos online to learn from but my God…
The training just isn't good. I have more questions than answers. I try to get answers, but it's almost no use. They're nice folks that own it, but I'm just not positive this is a good fit. I don't think I'm capable of learning any of this with the way they're teaching it. I'm thinking there's going to be too many mess ups on my end, and I don't want to cost them anything.
I was lucky the sous-chefs liked me, one of them even tried to help me out because he realized nobody was telling me anything useful. He straight asked me, “do you know what to do?”/”do you have any cook experience?”. Both of us were confused but he stayed friendly. He even told me to disregard what the female owner said about the sous chef windows, he said to take it to the window that it was asked for from, because one of the chefs gets grumpy over it. I was grateful for that.
Hell, the servers didn't like me at all and I hadn't even met them really. One kept giving me dirty looks and glares, and all I told him was hello.
I'm scheduled to work all day tomorrow, I'm feeling I should be honest but how do I tell them? I don't know what to do. This is honestly above my skills, I don't think I can do it.
if anyone wants to know, I've only worked one shift and it was for 5 hours. Tomorrow is a all day style shift. I feel obligated to go in, but I'm just painfully nervous and unsure about anything there after. I don't even know if I can last the entire day.