Private vs. Corporate

I was pondering some of the differences between a corporate restaurant and a privately owned restaurant....here are a couple that I came up with for now.....



Uniforms:

Private restaurant- Black pants, Long-sleeved black shirt that buttons, blue tie, any shade or pattern, black shoes, short black apron. Nice, concise.

Corporate restaurant- Black pants, Long-sleeved white shirt that buttons, with button-down collar (must be 100 percent cotton, like they're gonna know), tie, white t-shirt, black belt, black shoes (must be polishable), black socks,long black apron, $20.00 bank, 3 black pens, crumber,lighter, wine key, 1 pair of earrings, no larger than a quarter, I think there may be more....maybe some rules about hair color.....


Food:

Private restaurant- Help yourself to all the soup, salad and bread you want.....anytime you want.....

Corporate restaurant- Like everything else here, soup and salad are pretty much under lock and key....we have to get the soup from the cooks, and the salad from the pantry people....they tell us it is because the soup is expensive.....c'mon, lobster bisque is made from shrimp shells and maybe the occasional lobster shell....I'm pretty sure those are by-products, come to think of it....soup itself is mostly a by- product...

salad...who knows...but the pantry people don'tspeak much English...so they usually just give us what we want...so we occasionally snag a few salads

but the bread...don't even try to tell us it's expensive...so don't even go there....no wait a min....please....oh shit...fast foward to a pre-shift meeting....."Our bread costs are some of the highest in the company, so that means you guys are eating too much bread, stop eating the bread".....