We had a pub and restaurant for eight years back in the nineties so I know a fair bit about what goes on in a busy kitchen and I doubt a brigade that small would have coped with the number of covers even if they’d all had their heads down and actually worked! Mucking about, banter and general lack of concentration just wouldn’t have been allowed although I thank my lucky stars there were no mobile phones back in the day.
Boiling Point was boring and I had to rely on subtitles to know what was going on but then every workplace is boring if you’re just a spectator . I was going to say fly on the wall but hopefully they’d have a zapper!