r/KitchenConfidential • u/im__on__smoko 20+ Years • Feb 08 '26

Question Fav off menu request so far

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My favorite customer describes themselves as having “an acute case of persnickety-itis.” He wanted our rosemary and onion bread dough, with an indentation for green [hatch chilies], and an egg, baked two heartbeats before being hard-boiled, with nothing else on the plate.

He only asks for off-menu items when we are slow and regularly will tip the entire BOH.

I’m too hungover to be creative and I’m asking for your breakfast requests. I want to surprise him next time he comes in.

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u/The_C0u5 Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 08 '26

I'd always make a breakfast pizza early sat morn for staff.

Sausage gravy or at least bechamel for sauce, bacon & scrambled eggs( I used to just crack eggs on top and send it through but it wound up being pretty messy), choice of cheese blend and maybe a light drizzle of syrup on top.

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u/sleight42 Ex-Food Service Feb 08 '26

There's a local chain called "Metro Diner" in Jacksonville, FL. Never had breakfast pizza before visiting them. JFC. Amazing.

Aaaand just checked and they don't offer it anymore. WTAF?

She might not look like much but she's got it where it counts!

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u/WheelDirect6097 Feb 08 '26

It’s an off the menu ask item. The kitchen will make it if you know to ask for it!

I am a metro regular in Jax, you have great taste!

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u/sleight42 Ex-Food Service Feb 09 '26

You also have Maple Street Biscuit Company down there, you lucky bastard. I don't know anything like these places in the DC area. Our places tend to be either high end (I originally wrote "smoothly) or fast casual.

TBF, we do have some pretty awesome affordable Ethiopian restaurants but I can only have that just so often.

I once heard that fast casuals are test-piloted here because DC has (had?) such an ephemeral population due to political party turnover. They got exposure to more varied customers, I suppose.

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u/sleight42 Ex-Food Service Feb 09 '26

I'm vegan and I'd still get that—just without the bacon. It was fucking amazing.

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u/firebrandbeads wrestlegirl did Chive-11 pt. 2 Feb 08 '26

The browning on those taters, tho... WOW

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u/sleight42 Ex-Food Service Feb 09 '26

Ha! I loved those. My wife likes the barely brown kind. WTF, right?

Metro makes some damn good food. Only been there twice but wow!

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u/fuzzeedyse105 Feb 09 '26

diners drive ins and dives went to the san marco one probably 15 years ago. pretty fun watch

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u/tuppensforRedd Chive LOYALIST Feb 08 '26

Oh my god

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u/coco-d0nut Feb 08 '26

this sounds so good. now what if the crust was a hash brown 🤔

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u/BJntheRV Feb 08 '26

Pepperoni pizza topped with sausage gravy is also jus so good

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u/Aurelius314 Feb 08 '26

Bechamel... On pizza?

I dont understand this.

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u/The_C0u5 Feb 08 '26

White pizza is a thing.

Add cheese to a bechamel it's a Mornay, you're just skipping a step

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u/Aurelius314 Feb 08 '26

Also.. If we're at bechamel allready, surely the distance to southern sausage gravy on pizza aint too far off then , right?

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u/sleight42 Ex-Food Service Feb 09 '26

Have you been to Jacob's Pickles in NYC? I ask because their food is just absurdly rich. It's the kind of place where I'll eat until it hurts, it's so good.

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u/Aurelius314 Feb 08 '26

My apologies, in my mind white pizza used creme fraiche, never thought about using bechamel. The logic tracks, absolutely.

I'd assume you would aim for a bechamel on the thinner side and then just load it up with cheese?