very first shift

>>8405480
Practice cutting vegetables, boning poultry and meat, filleting fish and preparing shellfish, preparing cold deserts, salads, stocks and sauces etc.
Depends on what sort of quality the restaurant is but your job will mainly be preparation and some of the less advanced cookery.

>Chef
>Never worked in a kitchen

>>8405480
Did you lie about your qualifications or can you actually cook?

Either way, don't panic and work hard. Most importantly, listen

>>8405480
>got my first trial shift as a commis chef
>I've never worked in a kitchen before

In other words, you work as a dishwasher in a small restaurant out in the mountains, and the head "chef" recently came down with a mild case of herpes. They desperately needed someone to work the fryer, and you were the only one they saw who occasionally washed their hands.

>>8405480
find the biggest guy there and punch him right in the face to show everyone your not one to be fucked with

>>8405605
That's great advice when you begin anything new involving other people. Even if he ends up kicking your ass, no one will ever fuck with you afterwards.