adaliabooks: Honestly?
Yes. That's exactly what it's like. Professional cooking can be ridiculously stressful when it's busy, I work in street food so it's probably not quite as hectic as a full kitchen but when you have a queue 10 metres long and everyone wants their food five minutes ago it's pretty damn tough.
catpower1980: Even better: when 120 customers (checked with the cash registration paper) don't even bother making a queue and just all rush to your counter at the same time to eat "NOW!" :o)
That reminds me half a year ago when I went to buy a Sub from a nearby Subway. There was a trickle of people coming there, and the young woman there had to apologize from each individually that she is out of many of the ingredients but she will see what she can offer, and she may have to close soon (because soon she will have nothing more to sell).
I was surprised a place like that could run out of stuff, so I asked what had happened, a shipment didn't come or just a busy day. The latter, apparently there had been some junior football tournament at the field next to it, and suddenly countless hungry football players (and possibly some audience) had come to buy subs. I presume we are talking about hundreds rather than mere dozens. There was also a small drive-in McDonalds nearby too where many probably also went, but I am sure that Subway got lots of action that day.
I felt sorry for her, it was Sunday and she had been working alone in the Subway, and she had probably expected a slow day at work. Oh well, at least she apparently got home early if she really ran out of main ingredients to sell, like she suggested.