'Kitchens are workplaces that should be both professional and safe—I think a lot of people could be reminded of that a lot more often.'
Of all the high-stress jobs in the world, restaurant kitchens are uniquely demanding. Workers wrangle fire and knives, communicating under pressure as the orders pour in. And, on top of these built-in demands, kitchen culture has notoriously included aggression and abuse, and queer workers have been especially vulnerable.
in the food industry. Later I learned that my mother worked as a waitress at this chain Mexican restaurant Chi-Chi’s after migrating to the U.S. from Haiti. When I took random catering gigs in undergrad, I was often stereotyped as "one of the boys" because of my presentation. Instead of not saying the misogynistic things, the guys I worked with would make offensive jokes and expect me to laugh along.
The constellation of businesses that support restaurants themselves is much more traditional than actual restaurants in the city. So dealing with reps and suppliers, sometimes they feel super, super square and don’t always get it. You can’t spend your whole working life trying to explain to people who you are, so that’s why it’s really important to choose when you take a beat and talk to someone that you work with because they said something that didn’t sit well with you.
I started working as a dishwasher, waiter, and prep cook in my godmother’s Indian restaurant in Tokyo, Japan when I was 20 years old. The most frequent stereotype I’ve received as a female butcher is people asking, “Are you sure you’re strong enough to carry that?” or a male customer looking right over my head to get confirmation from my male employee/apprentice that what I am saying is in fact correct.
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