Free drinks is just part of working in the back of a restaurant- insinuating that drinks COST the retail price tells me that this boss has DEEP brainworms (other than this insane whiteboard shit). soda and stuff is so cheap as to basically be free, and they make a mint off of it, give it to the staff for free.

Shit like this always reads as someone who owns restaurants, but has never worked in a restaurant. When you are in food service from the bottom up, you typically understand what actually makes a restaurant work, versus what makes the most money. Every shitty kitchen I've worked in was managed by profit-seekers, every good kitchen by someone who started washing dishes.