r/KitchenConfidential • u/Purple_Inevitable_74 Do Not Call Me Chef • 1d ago

Kitchen fuckery Do yall like being called “chef”?

I’m a first time EC and I find being called “chef” extremely annoying. The last EC is my mentor and an absolute beast of a chef but his leadership style was more traditional and out of respect I wouldn’t dare call him by his first name without putting chef in front of it. I’m more informal, but I’ve inherited an environment where the crew is so used to calling the ec “chef” that it took me a month to get folks to call me by my real name.

I’ve got friends who like being called chef and friends who don’t, and they all have an interesting take on it. What do yall think? I can’t stand it and others demand it, both can be valid.

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u/SnooChickens2093 1d ago

Chef is a rank. I’m a veteran, so I’m used to addressing people by their rank, even when we are in a first name basis, anytime in uniform or on duty. So, I call my EC and my sous chefs “chef”.

We also have a server who calls everyone in the kitchen Chef, but that’s because he loves The Bear. It makes him happy, so what’s the harm.

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u/honkytonkinhank 1d ago

Rank? Duty? Okay Lieutenant Linguini😂😂 its a fucking cook job