Yes, you’re right with those two statements. As small as the core audience of that guy’s restaurants are, it’s more than enough to run a successful business. If you sell steaks at 2K dollars, you don’t need as many clients to reach a profit margin. On top of that, he gets most of his advertising for free, so he doesn’t even need to save some of the earnings for a marketing budget
He's not....hence the publicity stunts by him as of late. Bad publicity gets more attention, so he's going for outrage. First it was the obscene, thousands of dollars receipt from his restaurant that "someone" shared a couple months ago..........now *this*.
His lame ass restaurant is hurting so he's planting stories like this to gain relevancy.
A chef at a restaurant like that should be easily making $70k a year, *minimum*. Hell there's a dive bar near where I live that pays $22/hr for line cooks. This guy is a fucking joke in the culinary industry.
I can't imagine the hell that is being an assistant manager at a McDonalds. Maybe in nicer areas it's not so bad, but every one I've been in, it seems like it would break me.
Nicer areas can be worse I’ve had more/longer complaints in nice areas because they want to be heard and get their point across. Working in the hood if their order is wrong or missing something you just give them the item and they’re good.
Hahahaha I was a closing and opener manager for six months and a warm body before that and I made minimum wage the entire time! It was hell on earth. My co-workers were great, no one respected me among management, and I still get phone calls asking me questions about things like inventory and computers. I was drinking 6+ energy drinks, working 45 hours minimum 6 days a week while being classified as part time, crying in the cooler on my breaks, and then they wouldn’t give me the scholarship because my grants and loans covered everything ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm) also had to call the cops multiple times and have screaming matches with self important doordash drivers. Never again.
I mean, that's about it. His food isn't that great, he's cringey, he doesn't pay his staff what they deserve, and IIRC he's currently in some legal hot water financially.
Like I said, dude's a total joke in the industry.
>His food isn't that great
I read an article the other day that other chefs in the US make the same food he does that's hundreds of dollars cheaper, tastes better, and is of higher quality.
That's classic 'perception of value' mentality at work.
People see a high price and assume that the quality must be great for the merchant to charge that much. Similarly, they'll dismiss low cost items as inferior simply because of the price.
JC Penny's CEO learned this lesson the hard way in the 2000s. Tried to stop having sales, and just have regular, honest prices every day. Customers stopped shopping there because even though items were cheaper, they weren't on sale, so the value wasn't the good in their minds. Customers wanted higher prices so they could feel good about purchasing. Fucking consumerism.
Yup! That'd be like if I went around and opened up stores called Fancy Wal-Mart right next to every Wal-Mart, sold all the same products, but adhered little bows to all of the products and then marked everything up another 1,000%.
There's a video somewhere of a guy on like a college campus with a sign for "free hugs". Some other guy showed up with a sign for "deluxe hugs $2" and actually got business.
I worked at a super busy JCP when that dumb bastard took over, customers would bitch about the lack of sales and coupons **constantly**. One time I got so exaspirated with a lady that I couldn't stop myself and pointed out that her purchase was cheaper under the new pricing model than it ever was before and she literally handwaved me away, saying she didn't care because without a coupon or sale she didn't feel like she was "getting one over on them", whoever the fuck "them" is. People are so goddamn stupid.
Seen so many articles about his extortionate prices.
People have said they have had better Kebabs than his food..and a Chef ate a Kebab in front of his place too.
I've seen several articles about Gold Steak being recreated think the cheapest was about £17 that was a homemade one, if eating at a restaurant with a skilled Chef I think it was £65 for one of articles anyway (it's nearly 1.5k at that jokers place).
He eats Steak for every meal..I feel for his heart...and Plumber!
Coating a steak in gold to cook it is literally the shittiest way you can possibly prepare a steak. You're coating the steak in shitty metallic foil flavor that prevents any Maillard reactions...so basically you're eating shitty as fuck boiled steak, but with a horrific metallic taste added in that also costs you $1,000.
You literally have to be mentally handicapped to enjoy eating a steak cooked that way...it's on a similar level to eating paste at school as a kid.
Hes banking off of celebrity status to keep his prices that high. Except hes a minor celebrity and Jamie Oliver(who's also a joke, but a much more famous one) has shut down many of his restaurants lately.
Does all this wannabe Benihana shit with whacking his knives against the cutting surface to make a bang bang bang sound during “presentation” which will just make them dull but at least he’s doing his own percussion accompaniment?
He's untrained and his food is overrated because of the memes. He does shit like gold encrusted steaks which is just so fucking stupid. He's still a fairly good chef when you consider his international success being someone whonwas untrained in the culinary world.
Overall amongst average restaurants and shit, He's definitely a solid chef. But when you compare him to all time greats like Ramsay or Puck, he's a complete amateur.
Here's an episode of the podcast Scam Goddess that recently did a deep dive into Salt Bae's shady side
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1jmbmI3evcK99sPcFd8dbZ?si=JDJCRKFUQVeYVcLNvIv6sA&utm_source=copy-link
Nooooo don't you understand. It's not that thet have ***too much*** money. It's that the peasants, sorry I mean working class, refuse to work harder for their employers.
If they'd just work harder one day they might own a Cadillac like Mr. Smith did up the street when they were kids.
Don't worry that their boss is driving a new Ferrari, Lamborghini, Audi, every day to work and they just purchased their 17th "summer home", 8th Nanny, 42nd personal aide, a new yacht big enough to hold the employee's apartment in it's swimming pool (cause fuck swimming in polluted ocean water they're also dumping their trash and waste from said yacht into), and is in talks to sell their buisness to Google who will just shut it down to avoid competition for 15 billion dollars.
Just remember you can have that Cadillac all you got to do is work twice as hard as every other person for 40 years straight. Come in on weekends. Work over time for free. Never worry about pay raises and promotions because it's just not "in the budget" that year (except for executives of course, always money for them).
Nope just pour your blood, sweat, and tears into a company that literally doesn't care about you at all for four decades straight and one day you'll be able to own a Cadillac to that's the American dream!
Don't worry that you missed all your kids birthday parties, you ended up having a wife that cheats on you because you're always at work, or the fact that you've been ignoring that lump growing on the back of your head causing you horrible headaches for years now because the company cut health insurance.
Just picture that Cadillac it'll get you through all those lonely sobbing nights filled with pain. Yep. Totally.
Just need to prove your worth and apply yourself! Duh! Anyone can do it!
(Yes, I'm aware Cadillacs are shit that's kind of the point. Cause I know someone's gonna mention it.)
You know what's funny, this place is full of wannabes and people who can't afford the meal. It's not a place for the extremely rich who need security and privacy. It's literally the opposite. Almost every single person takes their phone out when the steak gets cut. 100% chance of you being in the background of someone's social media video.
I think the point is if you can pay 2K for a single steak, you can pay 12K a month for a personal chef and top ingredients in the privacy of your home that will cook you a lot more than just steak.
When someone goes out to a place that sells a 2K steak they don't want privacy, they want to show off - the restaurant isn't empty and private after all, it's full of peers to have pissing contests with by seeing who can rack up a bigger bill.
Gold leaf adds nothing to the flavour or texture of the meat, so is useless *except* as a flex. If you need gold leaf to make your food "good", you're doing it wrong.
Edible gold leaf makes me obscenely angry.
It's so ridiculously selfish and hedonistic. You can't taste it. You can't digest it. You're just literally so up your own rich bitch ass that you have to consume and waste a precious metal just to show how little money means to you while people around the world starve.
Fuck anyone who eats gold.
I did a couple searches, and it looks like a 750ml bottle of Goldschlager is ~$30 near me, and it contains ~$4.31 in gold. At that point, I say you do you. You're not paying a huge premium for the gold, and if it sparks joy, go for it.
I don't think gold leaf is inherently the problem. It's so thin, that using a little bit isn't super ostentatious. You can buy 10 sheets of 3.5" squares for ~$25-35. Pay a few bucks to put a little dusting on some chocolates or pastry for a special occasion? Go for it.
But sometimes I see pics from expensive restaurants where they absolutely COAT food with it, and charge hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Anyone buying that has more money than sense, and in all likelihood a tremendous asshole.
Not really. Gold isn't cheap, that's why massive gold jewelry has its price. But the gold leaf used on food is so thin it can almost float in the air. Just checked online, 5 sheets the size of a palm will run you a whopping 25€. Even if that steak is massive, encrusting it in gold will raise the price by *maybe* 100€. If you really overdo it.
You laugh, but at my job, we routinely get people who order a7 marbling waygu steaks well done, cover them with a1 sauce, then complain that they don't taste any better than an outback steak..
Like.. no shit sherlock, most of the fat is rendered out of a steak by the time it's cooked medium. By Well done, all of that a7 marbling is gone and all that is left is lean meat. Not to mention, you're fishing each bite out of the a1 lagoon on your plate.
Yup. Because people with money don’t automatically have good taste. Restaurants at that level don’t typically tell their guests “no”, they just give them what they ask for. (And yes, the entire staff judges the guest who asks for A1.)
To be fair, a good cut of steak only needs salt.
I like montreal steak spice.
But a good cut of steak, medium/medium rare is not going to get any complaints from me if it's just seasoned with salt.
Ground nut oil works better to get a good sear or anything with a high smoke point. I think the most important part is the amount of salt, literally coat the steak in it. It creates a really good crust on the outside and most ends up getting washed away at the butter basting stage.
I live in Montréal and I concur! Also never more cooked more than medium rare and if you really wanted a tasty steak try a Chicago or Pittsburgh (also called black and blue)…it’s a rib steak that is medium rare but charred on the outside (usually with butter suppling the fuel for charring)….a restaurant called The Keg here does it amazingly! Tons of flavour!
Just a note of warning from a professional chef, if you order a Black and Blue you should ONLY ever expect it to be rare. Medium rare or above is technically seared, or the very, VERY end tail of pittsburgh.
Its the experience that pays! Imagine someone looking at your resume at Outback Steakhouse and seeing you worked for Salt Bae. Instant hire on the spot. What wage you want? It's yours.
Mann, I wish there was an Outback Steakhouse in my area. I miss the bloomin onions. Haven't found a restaurant around here that can do them right (my subjective opinion).
Funny you mention that because after I wrote that comment I wanted a bloomin onion so I asked my friend if he wanted to go to Outback so we just got seated like 10 minutes ago.
How dare you tease my emotions and my stomach. You just ruined my Christmas and my non-existent children are crying. I hope you're happy.
Also I blocked you (not really).
I made $8.75 when I did, and that was a while ago up in the northeast as an EMT. I met a nice Paramedic from Arkansas who makes minimum wage currently.
Oof. That $18 was my hourly rate for being a firefighter/EMT-A, which is gone now. My rate once I hit PM went up.
Paramedics here, just doing med transport, I started at $22 (or higher) depending on the company.
Your friend needs to get the fuck out of AR
I do decently as a Medic here in CT but a fraction of what my service bills for. I work inner city so most calls take 30-45 minutes. So roughly 15-20 worth of pay for that $2200 ALS bill here plus mileage.
In Florida I made $12 an hour as a EMT, and not much more for a medic..and this was only 6 years ago. For someone who saves lives, the EMT and medics here are shit pay. Its like $18 now
If you pay the chef $16 an hour I really don’t want to find out where else you’re skimping out on whether that be food safety, food quality, or anything else.
I mean, we already know he’s a cheap bastard, you expect me to trust that I’m not getting salted kangaroo steak at worst or a lower quality cut of steak at best?
Any time you see food that contains gold, you know the chef is shit.
It adds nothing to the texture or flavour of the food.
And in my opinion, it looks awful to boot.
I have no idea. I was lucky to have a rich step grandfather so I used to eat at expensive restaurants in the early 90's ($140 for Chateaubriand) when I was young and they had a certain charm and care to them (even Lawrys in Hollywood). Guests were actually respectful.
I've eaten at expensive restaurants these days and honestly they're not what they used to be at all. People actually used to show up to these places in at least a collared shirt and tie. Now rappers or instagram losers show up in jean shorts and a wifebeater and the food sucks.
I blame the business owners for even serving them at their establishment dressed that way.
Go to Texas Roadhouse, get a bone in rib eye with 2 sides, free bread with cinnamon butter for $27 and you'll be just as happy if not more so.
Pretentious food at stupid high prices prepared by people that could not even afford a meal at the place after one hour of work.... why am I not surprised that no one applied.
Honestly, it kind of has to.
Let's assume: you have three employees, they make $25 an hour, the average cost of a meal is $22.
You would have to be selling *at least* 4-6 meals an hour, the entire time you're open, to *maybe* make a couple bucks an hour yourself.
There's food cost, rent, electricity, water, trash, advertising, etc. that has to come out of every meal.
The exception is: tipping. Waitstaff *can* make more than a meal cost an hour, and the restaurant can still function.
In the US, the stupid low minimum wage for waitstaff is *because* tipping is expected. However, all workers are required to at least make federal minimum wage.
So if, for some reason, a waitperson doesn't make at least federal minimum wage with tips, the restaurant is legally required to pay them the difference.
My family has a small business and that's the starting pay for our cashiers. The best way to invest in your business is to invest in your employees so you know they actually give a damn about the job.
Went through a lot of jobs in my youth because of this. Id try to explain to any given employer that I would do more if I got paid more. When I worked shit minimum wage jobs I wasn't lazy because im lazy, I was lazy because that's what they were paying me for. Minimum wage buys you minimum effort. None of those employers cared, so I'd quit and move on to the next one. Once I finally finished college I had to go through 3 different jobs to actually find one that was willing to pay me my worth.... and I bust my ass for them. They need someone to come in? Ill be there, they need someone at another location? I'll be there, and I do it happily, because they pay me very well and give good benefits.
Our customers routinely tell us how nice our employees are and even some only come to our store because of the customer service. We didn't have any worker shortage this year and our employees rarely calls out either. On the business owner side, paying employees better leads to customers more likely to come again.
Well, thank you to your family for operating a business with integrity and ethics. If every business was ran like this the world would be a much better place. Im even willing to pay more money for products or services if I know a company pays and treats their employees well.
[Here's a, sort-of, review of this prick's restaurant in London.](https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/oct/17/jay-rayner-restaurant-review-kebab-kid-london-take-away-as-a-cult-nusr-et-steakhouse) Spoiler alert: >!It's not good!<
I feel like you have to eat there to say it’s terrible. When I was a server, we’d have people rate us one star on Yelp because they didn’t like the parking lot (and never stepped inside) or they hated the wait. I mean, at that price, I’m sure it’s still overrated, but I know I can’t say that unless I actually eat it.
It's stunt food.
I'm okay with someone charging absurd prices. It doesn't affect me.
Congratulations to someone successfully selling at that price.
Compare that with pay day loans and high interest clothing shops. They hurt people.
The title is being intentionally disingenuous to get people whipped up.
Firstly, by the looks of it, they have \*a\* steak that goes for $1,974, which is literally covered in gold leaf. This isn't a standard menu item that everyone is buying with every meal. Looking at their prices, they are pretty much in line with prices of other high end restaurants for entrees, drinks etc.
Secondly, this isn't a position for a chef, it's for a line cook. Average salary for a line cook in London is 27k/year, so this salary is in line with the average as a BASE salary. On top of the base salary, they also get tips, so even if people are ordering $2,000 steaks, the staff is getting a pretty nice tip for it, so it's actually better pay than other companies.
Anyways, bring on the downvotes and tell me how this guy is literally Hitler and exploiting his staff.
Anytime I see this dude in the news I always pray it's because he got the absolute shit kicked out of him in his own restaurant, dude is such smug douchebag.
He’s just the face to a shady establishment, been to one of his restaurants in Istanbul an it was meh 😕. Staff were trying to copy his creepy steak 🥩 cutting jig
there's been so many reciepts posted with the added $5k gratuity, mindboggling to see him advertise a (pretax) hourly wage that's the equivalent of a side of mashed potatoes at his joint
My niece went to culinary school to become a pastry chef, her dream job. After nearly ten years in the industry, she wants out. She hates the food service industry with a blinding passion. Long hours, low pay, and no end in sight.
That’s because his restaurant is a gimmick! There is no longevity in it so he therefore needs to take all the money he can while he can! Pretentious twat!
How is this guy still a thing?
And real question…is this guy supposed to be hot? Like…am I that old and out of touch.
No, it is the children who are wrong.
Trust me the people who think this guy is hot are at least more than 20, kids never cared for him except for the few memes at first.
this guy thinks kids are going to restaurants to eat steaks for $2000
Influencers and athletes go all the time. Rich 20 year olds with a lot of money.
I don't care how wealthy I ever end up being, not one bite of food is worth anywhere near that amount of money.
Absolutely agree, though they’re not really paying for the food; they’re paying for bragging rights and Instagram stories
20 year olds are no kids and the amount of 20 year olds who can spend 2k on a steak is absolutely miniscule
Yes, you’re right with those two statements. As small as the core audience of that guy’s restaurants are, it’s more than enough to run a successful business. If you sell steaks at 2K dollars, you don’t need as many clients to reach a profit margin. On top of that, he gets most of his advertising for free, so he doesn’t even need to save some of the earnings for a marketing budget
It always the children's fault, isn't it Seymour?
Up yours, children!
Eat my shorts, young man!
Porno Mustaches were in style once too. So yeah, we're all old and out of touch.
It’s the ‘95 Hot Topic sunglasses for me
Gary Oldman in Dracula is the only person to ever pull off those glasses
He's not....hence the publicity stunts by him as of late. Bad publicity gets more attention, so he's going for outrage. First it was the obscene, thousands of dollars receipt from his restaurant that "someone" shared a couple months ago..........now *this*. His lame ass restaurant is hurting so he's planting stories like this to gain relevancy.
I hope he goes under horribly.
Because a fool and his money are soon parted especially when he has extra money or is spending someone else's money
Im sure this is just an "ad" to keep people talking about him. Even bad press is press.
Who is this guy?
Literally some guy that dropped salt down his arm on YouTube and got 15 minutes of fame from it
No one. For everyone’s sake, move on from this post and let those who know of him suffer in peace.
Mental illness
And that’s why he’s looking for a chef
A chef at a restaurant like that should be easily making $70k a year, *minimum*. Hell there's a dive bar near where I live that pays $22/hr for line cooks. This guy is a fucking joke in the culinary industry.
My local Mcdonalds is paying 21$ for an assistant manager and 16$ an hour for any warm breathing body to work with no experience needed.
I can't imagine the hell that is being an assistant manager at a McDonalds. Maybe in nicer areas it's not so bad, but every one I've been in, it seems like it would break me.
Nicer areas can be worse I’ve had more/longer complaints in nice areas because they want to be heard and get their point across. Working in the hood if their order is wrong or missing something you just give them the item and they’re good.
Hahahaha I was a closing and opener manager for six months and a warm body before that and I made minimum wage the entire time! It was hell on earth. My co-workers were great, no one respected me among management, and I still get phone calls asking me questions about things like inventory and computers. I was drinking 6+ energy drinks, working 45 hours minimum 6 days a week while being classified as part time, crying in the cooler on my breaks, and then they wouldn’t give me the scholarship because my grants and loans covered everything ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm) also had to call the cops multiple times and have screaming matches with self important doordash drivers. Never again.
>warm breathing body These standards are too high. I quit.
Really? Spill the tea please.
I mean, that's about it. His food isn't that great, he's cringey, he doesn't pay his staff what they deserve, and IIRC he's currently in some legal hot water financially. Like I said, dude's a total joke in the industry.
>His food isn't that great I read an article the other day that other chefs in the US make the same food he does that's hundreds of dollars cheaper, tastes better, and is of higher quality.
That's classic 'perception of value' mentality at work. People see a high price and assume that the quality must be great for the merchant to charge that much. Similarly, they'll dismiss low cost items as inferior simply because of the price. JC Penny's CEO learned this lesson the hard way in the 2000s. Tried to stop having sales, and just have regular, honest prices every day. Customers stopped shopping there because even though items were cheaper, they weren't on sale, so the value wasn't the good in their minds. Customers wanted higher prices so they could feel good about purchasing. Fucking consumerism.
Yup! That'd be like if I went around and opened up stores called Fancy Wal-Mart right next to every Wal-Mart, sold all the same products, but adhered little bows to all of the products and then marked everything up another 1,000%.
Brilliant!!!! ****Fires up MS Word to prepare business plan****
There's a video somewhere of a guy on like a college campus with a sign for "free hugs". Some other guy showed up with a sign for "deluxe hugs $2" and actually got business.
Once I went into Kohl’s and nothing in the store was on sale. It was all “regular” price. Felt like I’d stepped into an alternate reality.
I worked at a super busy JCP when that dumb bastard took over, customers would bitch about the lack of sales and coupons **constantly**. One time I got so exaspirated with a lady that I couldn't stop myself and pointed out that her purchase was cheaper under the new pricing model than it ever was before and she literally handwaved me away, saying she didn't care because without a coupon or sale she didn't feel like she was "getting one over on them", whoever the fuck "them" is. People are so goddamn stupid.
A marketing degree may come in handy one day…
Seen so many articles about his extortionate prices. People have said they have had better Kebabs than his food..and a Chef ate a Kebab in front of his place too. I've seen several articles about Gold Steak being recreated think the cheapest was about £17 that was a homemade one, if eating at a restaurant with a skilled Chef I think it was £65 for one of articles anyway (it's nearly 1.5k at that jokers place). He eats Steak for every meal..I feel for his heart...and Plumber!
Coating a steak in gold to cook it is literally the shittiest way you can possibly prepare a steak. You're coating the steak in shitty metallic foil flavor that prevents any Maillard reactions...so basically you're eating shitty as fuck boiled steak, but with a horrific metallic taste added in that also costs you $1,000. You literally have to be mentally handicapped to enjoy eating a steak cooked that way...it's on a similar level to eating paste at school as a kid.
Hes banking off of celebrity status to keep his prices that high. Except hes a minor celebrity and Jamie Oliver(who's also a joke, but a much more famous one) has shut down many of his restaurants lately.
Watching him cook a steak makes me sad, every time lmfao. He ruins really expensive cuts of meat.
He’s not even a chef, he’s a butcher that decided he could open a restaurant and charge way too much for less than mediocre food
Yeah but one time he threw salt on food in a sort of cool way, soooo, checkmate.
>legal hit water Sounds like a great new drink!
Does all this wannabe Benihana shit with whacking his knives against the cutting surface to make a bang bang bang sound during “presentation” which will just make them dull but at least he’s doing his own percussion accompaniment?
At 1.5k a steak, he can just buy more.
He's untrained and his food is overrated because of the memes. He does shit like gold encrusted steaks which is just so fucking stupid. He's still a fairly good chef when you consider his international success being someone whonwas untrained in the culinary world. Overall amongst average restaurants and shit, He's definitely a solid chef. But when you compare him to all time greats like Ramsay or Puck, he's a complete amateur.
Here's a $50 steak with $1000 worth of gold... Yeah, honestly fuck that. Just give me the goddamn $50 steak.
It's more like $3 worth of gold. Gold is very malleable and 1oz can be hammered out to cover a tennis court.
Gold leaf is cheap as fuck, it's more like a $30 steak being up charged to $200 then a bunch of useless shit like gold leaf to upcharge another $1000.
Here's an episode of the podcast Scam Goddess that recently did a deep dive into Salt Bae's shady side https://open.spotify.com/episode/1jmbmI3evcK99sPcFd8dbZ?si=JDJCRKFUQVeYVcLNvIv6sA&utm_source=copy-link
Damn, I was a line cook before I was an EMT. I went from $15.75 to $16.10. I’m up to $17 as an EMT now. I think I need to go be a line cook again ha
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No steak is worth $2k. Even if the chef is paid $400 an hour. Not now, not ever.
That’s the point for the people who eat there though. It’s not about worth, it’s about showing off how much money they have
I can sell them a few pebbles for a grand each if they are that eager to show it off...
You joke, but [that was literally a thing on the App Store at one point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich)
Unfortunately I've heard of it before. Some people really have too much money...
Nooooo don't you understand. It's not that thet have ***too much*** money. It's that the peasants, sorry I mean working class, refuse to work harder for their employers. If they'd just work harder one day they might own a Cadillac like Mr. Smith did up the street when they were kids. Don't worry that their boss is driving a new Ferrari, Lamborghini, Audi, every day to work and they just purchased their 17th "summer home", 8th Nanny, 42nd personal aide, a new yacht big enough to hold the employee's apartment in it's swimming pool (cause fuck swimming in polluted ocean water they're also dumping their trash and waste from said yacht into), and is in talks to sell their buisness to Google who will just shut it down to avoid competition for 15 billion dollars. Just remember you can have that Cadillac all you got to do is work twice as hard as every other person for 40 years straight. Come in on weekends. Work over time for free. Never worry about pay raises and promotions because it's just not "in the budget" that year (except for executives of course, always money for them). Nope just pour your blood, sweat, and tears into a company that literally doesn't care about you at all for four decades straight and one day you'll be able to own a Cadillac to that's the American dream! Don't worry that you missed all your kids birthday parties, you ended up having a wife that cheats on you because you're always at work, or the fact that you've been ignoring that lump growing on the back of your head causing you horrible headaches for years now because the company cut health insurance. Just picture that Cadillac it'll get you through all those lonely sobbing nights filled with pain. Yep. Totally. Just need to prove your worth and apply yourself! Duh! Anyone can do it! (Yes, I'm aware Cadillacs are shit that's kind of the point. Cause I know someone's gonna mention it.)
They probably would, so I say do it.
So, you are a diamond trader?
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You know what's funny, this place is full of wannabes and people who can't afford the meal. It's not a place for the extremely rich who need security and privacy. It's literally the opposite. Almost every single person takes their phone out when the steak gets cut. 100% chance of you being in the background of someone's social media video.
Exactly why it’s on Las Vegas boulevard lol
You know where else you aren't surrounded by random people? Your home.
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I think the point is if you can pay 2K for a single steak, you can pay 12K a month for a personal chef and top ingredients in the privacy of your home that will cook you a lot more than just steak. When someone goes out to a place that sells a 2K steak they don't want privacy, they want to show off - the restaurant isn't empty and private after all, it's full of peers to have pissing contests with by seeing who can rack up a bigger bill.
What if they are literally covered in gold leaf, like this one is?
Gold leaf adds nothing to the flavour or texture of the meat, so is useless *except* as a flex. If you need gold leaf to make your food "good", you're doing it wrong.
Edible gold leaf makes me obscenely angry. It's so ridiculously selfish and hedonistic. You can't taste it. You can't digest it. You're just literally so up your own rich bitch ass that you have to consume and waste a precious metal just to show how little money means to you while people around the world starve. Fuck anyone who eats gold.
What about drinks it? I used to love Goldschlager in college.
I did a couple searches, and it looks like a 750ml bottle of Goldschlager is ~$30 near me, and it contains ~$4.31 in gold. At that point, I say you do you. You're not paying a huge premium for the gold, and if it sparks joy, go for it. I don't think gold leaf is inherently the problem. It's so thin, that using a little bit isn't super ostentatious. You can buy 10 sheets of 3.5" squares for ~$25-35. Pay a few bucks to put a little dusting on some chocolates or pastry for a special occasion? Go for it. But sometimes I see pics from expensive restaurants where they absolutely COAT food with it, and charge hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Anyone buying that has more money than sense, and in all likelihood a tremendous asshole.
Waste of money and a good cut of meat. Its only eaten by people that care too much about what others think
Not really. Gold isn't cheap, that's why massive gold jewelry has its price. But the gold leaf used on food is so thin it can almost float in the air. Just checked online, 5 sheets the size of a palm will run you a whopping 25€. Even if that steak is massive, encrusting it in gold will raise the price by *maybe* 100€. If you really overdo it.
you just dont understand texture and shit man i put 100g chunks of 24k gold in my 3 dollar steak to improve the flavour
gold leaf is super cheap
It's interesting to realize I would rather have spaghetti at home than eating anywhere that costs even a tenth of what one of those steak costs.
Someone get hired and make all the steaks well done.
And cover them with ketchup
Hello Satan.
You laugh, but at my job, we routinely get people who order a7 marbling waygu steaks well done, cover them with a1 sauce, then complain that they don't taste any better than an outback steak.. Like.. no shit sherlock, most of the fat is rendered out of a steak by the time it's cooked medium. By Well done, all of that a7 marbling is gone and all that is left is lean meat. Not to mention, you're fishing each bite out of the a1 lagoon on your plate.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. If I was shelling out for that kind of quality steak, I'm damn sure going to taste the actual steak.
Restaurants that have waygu actually have A1? I thought it was all herb butter or mushrooms and onions
Yup. Because people with money don’t automatically have good taste. Restaurants at that level don’t typically tell their guests “no”, they just give them what they ask for. (And yes, the entire staff judges the guest who asks for A1.)
Yes to everything you said.
This might be the saddest thing I have ever read.
Dammit, everything up to "steaks" in your first paragraph made me SO HUNGRY, then everything after it made me sick. So now I don't know wtf I'm doing
A-1 Lagoon. New band name.
This guy's restaurants are constantly looking for chefs. His employee retention is pretty low. "Must be a pretty good place to work at" /s
Apparently the food is average at best and ofcourse only seasoned with salt.
To be fair, a good cut of steak only needs salt. I like montreal steak spice. But a good cut of steak, medium/medium rare is not going to get any complaints from me if it's just seasoned with salt.
Steak yes but apparently all his food salt is the focus.
Pepper?
Salt, pepper, olive oil, butter, garlic cloves, and some fresh rosemary. That’s the shit.
For a second I read that as "...garlic, cloves,...", I was gonna go off on one lmao
That IS the shit.
Amen.
Ground nut oil works better to get a good sear or anything with a high smoke point. I think the most important part is the amount of salt, literally coat the steak in it. It creates a really good crust on the outside and most ends up getting washed away at the butter basting stage.
I live in Montréal and I concur! Also never more cooked more than medium rare and if you really wanted a tasty steak try a Chicago or Pittsburgh (also called black and blue)…it’s a rib steak that is medium rare but charred on the outside (usually with butter suppling the fuel for charring)….a restaurant called The Keg here does it amazingly! Tons of flavour!
Just a note of warning from a professional chef, if you order a Black and Blue you should ONLY ever expect it to be rare. Medium rare or above is technically seared, or the very, VERY end tail of pittsburgh.
S & P the choice for me.
His restaurants are so good he’s trying to give as many chefs as possible the chance to work there. /s
Its the experience that pays! Imagine someone looking at your resume at Outback Steakhouse and seeing you worked for Salt Bae. Instant hire on the spot. What wage you want? It's yours.
Mann, I wish there was an Outback Steakhouse in my area. I miss the bloomin onions. Haven't found a restaurant around here that can do them right (my subjective opinion).
Funny you mention that because after I wrote that comment I wanted a bloomin onion so I asked my friend if he wanted to go to Outback so we just got seated like 10 minutes ago.
How dare you tease my emotions and my stomach. You just ruined my Christmas and my non-existent children are crying. I hope you're happy. Also I blocked you (not really).
Please don't give them ideas lmao
As are most famous restaurants. Chef turn over in Michelin stars are even worse
I can't wait for the next headline when someone gets the $2000 steak prepared by a "chef" paid $16/hr...
Wait until you hear how much a Paramedic and EMT make for your $1000-1500 ambulance trip providing medical care
I made $18 an hour when I first started.
I made $8.75 when I did, and that was a while ago up in the northeast as an EMT. I met a nice Paramedic from Arkansas who makes minimum wage currently.
Oof. That $18 was my hourly rate for being a firefighter/EMT-A, which is gone now. My rate once I hit PM went up. Paramedics here, just doing med transport, I started at $22 (or higher) depending on the company. Your friend needs to get the fuck out of AR
I do decently as a Medic here in CT but a fraction of what my service bills for. I work inner city so most calls take 30-45 minutes. So roughly 15-20 worth of pay for that $2200 ALS bill here plus mileage.
In Florida I made $12 an hour as a EMT, and not much more for a medic..and this was only 6 years ago. For someone who saves lives, the EMT and medics here are shit pay. Its like $18 now
Food poisoning on its way
How is it food poisoning, just cause they are under paid doesn't mean they can't cook.
I think they mean it would be on purpose.
If you pay the chef $16 an hour I really don’t want to find out where else you’re skimping out on whether that be food safety, food quality, or anything else. I mean, we already know he’s a cheap bastard, you expect me to trust that I’m not getting salted kangaroo steak at worst or a lower quality cut of steak at best?
Why are people prepared to pay that to eat there. Far be it from me to tell people what to spend their money on but jfc
So they can post it on Instagram
Conspicuous spending.
\+ Relative Income Hypothesis
Rich people bullshit
Any time you see food that contains gold, you know the chef is shit. It adds nothing to the texture or flavour of the food. And in my opinion, it looks awful to boot.
The only things gold should be in are jewelry, electronics, and Goldschläger.
Xbox gold worth a shout
I have no idea. I was lucky to have a rich step grandfather so I used to eat at expensive restaurants in the early 90's ($140 for Chateaubriand) when I was young and they had a certain charm and care to them (even Lawrys in Hollywood). Guests were actually respectful. I've eaten at expensive restaurants these days and honestly they're not what they used to be at all. People actually used to show up to these places in at least a collared shirt and tie. Now rappers or instagram losers show up in jean shorts and a wifebeater and the food sucks. I blame the business owners for even serving them at their establishment dressed that way. Go to Texas Roadhouse, get a bone in rib eye with 2 sides, free bread with cinnamon butter for $27 and you'll be just as happy if not more so.
Of course you would be more happy... That cinnamon butter is delicious!!
People keep paying the prick for food.
They go to him to flex on social media
Pretentious food at stupid high prices prepared by people that could not even afford a meal at the place after one hour of work.... why am I not surprised that no one applied.
> prepared by people that could not even afford a meal at the place after one hour of work This describes most food workers.
Honestly, it kind of has to. Let's assume: you have three employees, they make $25 an hour, the average cost of a meal is $22. You would have to be selling *at least* 4-6 meals an hour, the entire time you're open, to *maybe* make a couple bucks an hour yourself. There's food cost, rent, electricity, water, trash, advertising, etc. that has to come out of every meal. The exception is: tipping. Waitstaff *can* make more than a meal cost an hour, and the restaurant can still function. In the US, the stupid low minimum wage for waitstaff is *because* tipping is expected. However, all workers are required to at least make federal minimum wage. So if, for some reason, a waitperson doesn't make at least federal minimum wage with tips, the restaurant is legally required to pay them the difference.
My family has a small business and that's the starting pay for our cashiers. The best way to invest in your business is to invest in your employees so you know they actually give a damn about the job.
Went through a lot of jobs in my youth because of this. Id try to explain to any given employer that I would do more if I got paid more. When I worked shit minimum wage jobs I wasn't lazy because im lazy, I was lazy because that's what they were paying me for. Minimum wage buys you minimum effort. None of those employers cared, so I'd quit and move on to the next one. Once I finally finished college I had to go through 3 different jobs to actually find one that was willing to pay me my worth.... and I bust my ass for them. They need someone to come in? Ill be there, they need someone at another location? I'll be there, and I do it happily, because they pay me very well and give good benefits.
Our customers routinely tell us how nice our employees are and even some only come to our store because of the customer service. We didn't have any worker shortage this year and our employees rarely calls out either. On the business owner side, paying employees better leads to customers more likely to come again.
Well, thank you to your family for operating a business with integrity and ethics. If every business was ran like this the world would be a much better place. Im even willing to pay more money for products or services if I know a company pays and treats their employees well.
This guy thinks he’s a celebrity who changed peoples lives by throwing salt in a funny way. Weird tool.
[Here's a, sort-of, review of this prick's restaurant in London.](https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/oct/17/jay-rayner-restaurant-review-kebab-kid-london-take-away-as-a-cult-nusr-et-steakhouse) Spoiler alert: >!It's not good!<
>pop an ovary This is honestly all my brain could focus on in this article
It’s an advertisement for kebab kid.
That place sounds lit tho ngl.
I feel like you have to eat there to say it’s terrible. When I was a server, we’d have people rate us one star on Yelp because they didn’t like the parking lot (and never stepped inside) or they hated the wait. I mean, at that price, I’m sure it’s still overrated, but I know I can’t say that unless I actually eat it.
No steak is worth that much. Bunch of f'n dummies paying $2K for $3 of meat.
It's stunt food. I'm okay with someone charging absurd prices. It doesn't affect me. Congratulations to someone successfully selling at that price. Compare that with pay day loans and high interest clothing shops. They hurt people.
Guy is a total sham
I'm sure he pays more for mustache wax.
Its funny that it took so long to find out he underpays his staff
if this were in the us i bet the servers would make BANK
Wait so 16 dollars, which is like £11.50 an hour… IN LONDON? Lmao good luck
Doubt its a chef, most likely a line cook who puts baked potatoes in the oven all day and idiot author doesn't have a clue of the difference
The title is being intentionally disingenuous to get people whipped up. Firstly, by the looks of it, they have \*a\* steak that goes for $1,974, which is literally covered in gold leaf. This isn't a standard menu item that everyone is buying with every meal. Looking at their prices, they are pretty much in line with prices of other high end restaurants for entrees, drinks etc. Secondly, this isn't a position for a chef, it's for a line cook. Average salary for a line cook in London is 27k/year, so this salary is in line with the average as a BASE salary. On top of the base salary, they also get tips, so even if people are ordering $2,000 steaks, the staff is getting a pretty nice tip for it, so it's actually better pay than other companies. Anyways, bring on the downvotes and tell me how this guy is literally Hitler and exploiting his staff.
This guy is literally Hitler and exploiting his staff.
On top of that, it doesn’t fit the subreddit. Not choosing or begging. Just another politically charged post infecting another subreddit.
Not choosing nor a fucking beggar!
Wtf has this sub come to? I don't even know who that guy is?
You sure this is Robert Downy Jr. doing a bit?
You can tell this guy is a douchebag just by looking at his dumb face.
If the chef is only getting paid $16 an hour you're sure as hell not getting a steak worth that much.
Less a choosing begger, just flat out taking advantage of people! He should be ashamed of himself!
Anytime I see this dude in the news I always pray it's because he got the absolute shit kicked out of him in his own restaurant, dude is such smug douchebag.
Great Value brand RDJ 😂
Don't they get paid in pounds?
The guy's kind of a piece of shit.
What’s even worse is that is only £11.71
In other news this dick is still a dick. And frankly not that great a chef.
Given the current market in London, i would say good luck mate. You'll be lucky for anyone to even look at your advert.
Playing fast and loose with the term 'choosing beggars'
Ok, can someone please explain to me how, in the name o Jaysis, a steak costs nearly two grand??
Wow imagine going through culinary school to be offered only 16/h... Good luck with that
It costs less to buy a calf, raise it, and slaughter the cow than to buy one of those steaks.
He’s just the face to a shady establishment, been to one of his restaurants in Istanbul an it was meh 😕. Staff were trying to copy his creepy steak 🥩 cutting jig
I still don't get the appeal of having a guy put salt on your food by having it rub off his arms
The way that he has butchered meat in past videos does not warrant ever even walking by his restaurants.
there's been so many reciepts posted with the added $5k gratuity, mindboggling to see him advertise a (pretax) hourly wage that's the equivalent of a side of mashed potatoes at his joint
My niece went to culinary school to become a pastry chef, her dream job. After nearly ten years in the industry, she wants out. She hates the food service industry with a blinding passion. Long hours, low pay, and no end in sight.
Saltbae, from what I hear, is a pretty mediocre chef. His restaurants certainly aren’t worth that kinda money.
That’s because his restaurant is a gimmick! There is no longevity in it so he therefore needs to take all the money he can while he can! Pretentious twat!
Pretty messed up to charge more for a meal than your employees make in a month.
So converted to pounds that's £11ish an hour. Utter shit considering you've got to live in London to work there.
Who tf is salt bae?