As a line cook, cutting up everything before a pan gets turned on is just good mise en place. You shouldn’t start cooking until you know you’re ready and haven’t forgotten anything. The whole process is way easier and more relaxed when you’ve got all the components together in advance

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Definitely depends on the crowd nowadays. I personally see about a 50/50 split between smoking vs vaping among people in the restaurant industry, and those of us who don’t do either are definitely the minority. Hopefully tabacco/nicotine products will stop being socially acceptable someday, but I can’t imagine it’s going to be any time soon with how popular vaping is.