Side Piece Kitchen

Never forget that Side Piece Kitchen is all about that action, baby 💥 this is old school Tacoma

You aren’t going to believe this because we don’t even believe our last 24 hours. from JUST FREAKING ATE HERE AND WHAT IS THIS LIFE?!!!

MY FREAKING WRESTLING NERD STAFF IS LOSING IT RIGHT NOW

The Red Hot in Tacoma is looking to fill one kitchen position, Wednesday-Saturday 4pm-close (kitchen stops serving 10pm, doors close 11pm). Opportunities to pickup/cover shifts. Schedule is set/fixed/does not rotate. This is a permanent position. We do not do breakfast or brunch here. There are no fryers here. We do have an air conditioned kitchen. We use 7shifts (email/text based) for scheduling. Position starts $17.59/hour, plus tips (current averages wage+tips right now: Wednesdays are averaging approximately $24/hr total, and approximately $31/hr total on Thu/Fri/Sat shifts). No processing fees for cc tips taken out, & cash tips available next day/not issued on check. PTO is accrued at 1 hour earned per 40 worked, with compounding step increases annually, and can be rolled over/saved. Basic comped food and drink plan to start, expands after 30-days to include off-hours comp food & drink plan. After one year on staff, Simple IRA retirement plan offered with up to 3% matching funds. Position pays every two weeks with direct deposit available. Some commercial kitchen experience preferred. Job available October 2. Please drop off resume (this isn’t a corporate office, a simple work history with your contact info is fine) at bar, or email to hello at redhottacoma dot com

Womp womp 🤷🏼‍♀️
This week you can grab biscuits, biscuits & gravy, cheesecakes, and the Becky. You can grab those on the limited days we are open, then you can take it wherever you want as long as it’s not Side Piece.

It’s the big anniversary week this week and we opted to celebrate by doing a 7 course dinner, then it sold out so we opted to add another night. Then that sold out. So we added another seating, then that sold out.. so we added another two seatings on another night, then that sold out. It’s pretty rad and ridiculously humbling to have such overwhelming support. We are immensely grateful and totally know you’ll understand when we tell you we aren’t rocking regular service this week.

I mean, how the hell would we rock 5 full regular services in tandem of 5 dinner services.. we aren’t down to pull 18 hour days and we know you’d never want us to 😘

I’m really excited to cook something other than brunch & cheesecakes for yall. It’s been a minutes since I’ve got to do my thing. I hope those lucky folks with tickets enjoy yourselves. Take lots of photos, post them everywhere, if it all goes as planned who knows- maybe one day there’s something like 🤫

I’ve thought long and hard about posting something like this but have decided that the potential disagreement with my stance is outweighed by the impact this has on our community. This isn’t about business, this is about the safety of all of our community members regardless of economic status, housing status, or any other factor.

The complacency to what’s going on around us has perpetuated the problem- furthermore, the August 2024 election yielded a 38% voter turnout for our county. Complaining without actively staying informed and participating in these local elections is just silly.

I’ll be at the next council meeting to address these issues in the 90 seconds they allow me.

The final slide of this post is a real text I received from the spouse of one of my employees. If anything ever happened to any of my crew members.. I don’t know what I would do but I know if I failed to speak out and do my part, I’d be guilty of contributing to whatever happened.

We can do better than this.

We MADE IT to and even though never noticed us, there’s no one else I’d rather care about and be here with. Crew, you are all a few deep and won’t see this for a while. I love you all so much and you make this job worth it. I hope you have so much fun tonight.

Currently is serenading us with Come Back King and yall are going wild. You have no idea how much joy you ironic as****es bring me.

Anyways, we are closed tomorrow.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GOATS

RedHot Tacoma, thank you for being a role model in this community and for constantly supporting us in ways you don’t even realize. Chris and the crew, yall are incredible

Seventeen years ago today I unlocked our front door to sell beer and hot dogs in Tacoma. It’s so crazy. It’s never not humbling the support this city has shown us. A huge thank you to our crew for giving this place some of its soul, and thanks to all of our pals for coming in and keeping the lights on. Beer garden this Sunday. You are all the best. Thank you.

SOLD OUT IN 2 MINUTES

The anniversary dinner sold out during presale so we added another date with 2 more seatings. Tickets go on general sale tonight at 6:30 and can be purchased online only www.sidepiecekitchen.com/tickets

This is going to be rad af 💗😅

Now that they posted it too, it’s extra official haha

Heads up, we MAY be a little busier than usual this weekend 😅

Everybody wants a piece of Tacoma's Side Piece Kitchen Some serious grit and a whole lot of YouTube instructional videos helped the owners remodel the popular restaurant

We got to be on the news!! How freaking cool!

Did you see us on KING 5 Evening? Didn't we look so cute!

Everybody wants a piece of Tacoma's Side Piece Kitchen Some serious grit and a whole lot of YouTube instructional videos helped the owners remodel the popular restaurant

Just a little update
It may not look like it, but everything remaining to complete for the expansion is pretty tame or superficial.
Thankfully a walkway existed previously in the exact spot we needed it and the removal of a bad framing and drywall job was all that needed to be done to re-expose it.

We should be on track to open for dine in next Wednesday with our new addition, pending the following:
1) the final inspection next Tuesday
2) tomorrow’s delivery of the last of 3 brand new coolers
3) someone helping us install the new audio system 😅 no serious, if you know how to install commercial audio systems and want to help me out, DM me, we will pay you and hook you up with Side Piece credit

I don’t see this opening date changing. I feel good about it.
A major thanks to my crew for being so patient and holding down the fort when I decided to take on a construction project with a 5 month old business.
Thank you Pepe, you are an amazing father in law and I’m so grateful for all your help through this.
Thank you to Dante, my husband & business partner who has dealt with my insanity, and supported my decision to expand a young less than 1 year old business. I love you.

And thanks to yall for your flexibility, patience, and your support that has made all this happen. 2 years ago I was just a girl in a commissary kitchen with an Instagram and a bad website. I will not be building or expanding anything for a hot minute after this. I need a break from new projects 😂

We sold out today! We will open preorders for tomorrow up a little later tonight. Thanks for a great day to all our hipsters and warmongers 💗

Opening at 8:30 today because someone had the bright idea to open a restaurant and buy the cheapest prep coolers of all time and they give us nothing but issues and choose to go out overnight before service making us lose product and sanity.