Restaurant Staff Has Fun After-Work Ritual Where They Enable Each Other’s Alcoholism

BOSTON—Calling the routine a nice way of blowing off steam and building connections with each other, staff at the new American bistro Bad Wolf told reporters this week that they had a fun after-work ritual where they all enabled each other’s alcoholism. “Yeah, it’s great after a killer Friday shift to just head out with a few of the line cooks and normalize the fuck out of our chemical dependency on alcohol,” said server Laura Thompson, noting that the pressure cooker environment of the front-of-house was tough but that this only helped them bond more over their destructive patterns of behavior surrounding alcohol. “It’s cool—we work hard during the day, but then we all just go and lead each other further and further down this dark road afterwards. Sometimes, a few of us will even sneak a drink from the barback during family meal and start working on the liver damage early. Nice, y’know? It’s almost like we’re this big family of enablers who all have the same genetic predisposition toward substance abuse.” Thompson added that despite all of the staff’s difference, what keep them together was that ultimately, deep down, they all shared the same debilitating disease.