/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6875677
Not a worker but still have a story
>be me
>at White Castle
>sitting with gf
>Stranger comes up and gives me my cup filled with ice I left at the counter when I was getting my food
>I thank him and say "Well that was sure ICE of you"
>He looks a little upset
>"Hey man, don't give me the cold shoulder"
>Girlfriend gives me a dead stare
>Everyone in restaurant has gone quiet
>"I'm sorry, making bad puns is one of my ICES"
>My girlfriend looks at me with shock and disgust
>Guy at the counter throws off his hat and yells "YOU THINK THAT SORT OF THING IS FUNNY DOUCHENOZZLE"
>Grabs me by the collar
>Takes me outside, huge crowd gathers around
>People start taking turns beating me on the ground
>I'm crying and I've shit myself
>Even my girlfriend joins in
>Once they stop I'm literally crying blood
>Without thinking I ask for some ice
>Spend the next four days in the emergency room

Fuck White Castle tbh
pic unrelated

>Long-term bf just broke up with me
>At coffee shop trying to think of how to get my shit together
>notice cute guy is has been looking at me for some time
>smile at him and wave a little
>go back to staring at my coffee
>lock up to see him sitting next to me
>asks me what’s wrong
>little reluctant, think it’s a trick
>It isn’t
>feelsgoodgirl.jpg
>he was dumped recently too
>accidentally stare at his pecs as he’s talking
>start to get wet
>feel a hand run up my leg
>see him breathing a bit hard
>asks if I like what I see
>guide his hand to my zipper
>he unzips my fanny pack by mistake
>spaghetti falls out
>try to clean it up with my sock
>start to cry
>get embarrassed and fart watery diarrhea all over my skirt
>smear shit all over the window and ask him to marry me
>mfw he said no

I hate my life but at least I have a job

>>6875759
I used to hate going to work on a beautiful day. Now I work outside, so I don't feel like killing myself anymore.

>>6875677
I work at McD's.
Our number 1 customers are old Korean people. They almost always get coffee (a senior coffee is 86 cents with tax, p good deal tbh). I get so offended when they ask me if I'm a new guy, since I'm always double-checking their orders. They're just so hard to understand sometimes.

A "feesh bugga" is a Filet-o-Fish. It also sounds a lot like how they say "cheese burger". "Ice cream" and "iced tea" sound the same, along with "cup", "cone", and "Coke". A "cup" could be either water or a fountain drink. When they order a combo by a number, it could be the meal or just the sandwich.

I don't have any outrageous or horrible stories, thankfully.

>>6875749
>things that never happened

>work at mcds
>mfw someone orders a big mac with no onions even though there are onions in the big mac sauce

>>6875753
>>he unzips my fanny pack by mistake
Every time.

>>6875760
Are you the dude from office space?

>>6875833
EVERY FUCKING TIME

i work at mcds and people really dont give a flying fuck here. i have seen people drop food and pick it up and serve it like nothing happened.

At BK we'd make cini-minis once a week, and kept them under the fry bin to keep them warm and 'soft', so when someone ordered them, we could just plop it in the microwave

The 'trough' beneath the mayo and lettuce and other things to make burgers isn't refrigerated, its just filled with ice to keep stuff cold.
Sometimes when its busy, the ice isn't changed, and you'll have a 4-6 hour stretch where they're serving you room temperature mayo and lettuce on your burgers.

>>6875793
They're probably talking you down because everyone else talks their accent down.
Or perhaps you personally struggle with the accident. I used to, but then I learned to understand their nuances.

The problem I had back in the day was with ordinary white people and them asking for Fries.. or a Sprite. They rhyme m8, try hearing that on my end of the technical garble.

>>6875833
Or pickles lmao

Maybe they think the extra onions are too much.

we served expired lettuce and tomatoes once at mc Donalds. the lettuce looked all slimy and shiny i was surprised not one customer complained about it

>>6875887
>room temperature mayo

well there's probably enough preservatives in there for them to be fine for a week

i work at kroger and I just hate it.
the companies whole shtick is basically "pay them a little extra and they'll deal with more bullshit".
all the focus is on the front end while behind the scenes deli/bakery/produce/meat is always a chaotic mess. none of the managers want to take responsibility for shit but will always accept undeserved praise. i guess thats just how these places are but things didnt start going to the shits until after our hr person quit.

>>6875753
GO BACK TO CGL

>>6876027
no u

>>6875887
At the BK I work at it's even worse. We only put ice under the cheese. Nothing else. I'm also one of the only people who mixes up the mayo, gets this congealed layer on the top that's yellow if you don't. quite nasty

>>6875930
Worked at Kroger for two years and change. Hated it by the third month. Finally got frustrated and quit on my own terms.

I was moving at the time anyway. Pharmacy was full of elitist fucks who needed to be taken a few pegs down. It was my first job and I learned a lot about myself, how things really work in the world and people especially, though I didn't like people to begin with. Get out as soon as you can.

>>6875833
>>6875904
>Maybe they think the extra onions are too much.
This is exactly why I get the onions taken off.

>>6875807
not him but I worked at that white castle and can confirm it's true

>>6875833
sounds like a good reason to not put even more onions on a burger that already has onions

>>6876138
>>6876187
its just shredded onions, and we only put a pinch of it in the sandwich, it literally makes no difference

>>6875677
I worked at a shitty pizza buffet for about two years. the only 'horror' I witnessed was the way workers are treated by employers when they're utterly replaceable. such is the fate of the unskilled worker. and, the willingness of the average person (myself included) to eat food that isn't good, it's just salt/sugar/fat, over and over.

>>6876192
It makes all the difference. I don't care for onions. I'll eat them in small amounts, but they can overpower a meal very quickly. If you don't get the onions removed, they overpower the big mac.

>>6875904
pickles have a weird texture for me, feels like a bug so makes me gag.
>captcha select all burgers

>>6876119
>>6875930
Former Kroger Deli and Pharmacy employee here. Truly horrible.

I worked at Wendy's in high school (now thankful I have a cushy office job). The "fresh, never frozen" burger patties often came to us frozen.

But no horror stories. I worked there for a year and tbh it wasnt that bad. Wendy's is one of the few fast food restaurants I actually trust eating at

I worked at dominos. The only horror was everyone sleeping with everyone.

>>6877005

Except you?

taco bueno is terrible

recently had a tainted meat lot recalled on their busiest 49 cent taco day. we were told to keep serving what we had instead of shutting the store down for a bit until we got new meat because people would get mad and it seems like the company's main priority is to keep people from getting mad and complaining even if it makes them sick

>>6877026

I used to work at Subway's
>One afternoon, I was washing my things
>A 30ish years old man enter, he's mad as fuck
>He's mad as fuck
>He's almost screaming at me "I TOOK A CHILDREN'S MEAL AND I HAD NO BEVERAGE, WHAT THE FUCK"
>I can see that the guy had to come back because of the little shit's juice
>I answer "In the children's meal, you can have a boxed juice or a small fountain drink. What did you take?"
>"Boxed juice"
>"Sorry, but the boxed juice is in the fridge right by the entrance."
>The guy looks at me, mad as fuck, he tries to insult me or whatever but realizes it's his mistake, take the juice and leave
>mfw

Just had my welcome meeting at Maccies here in the UK. What am I in for?

>>6877207
Are you a bobblehead?

>>6877635
A lifetime of regret and shame

>>6877005
I know someone who used to work at a Dominos and they said the same thing. Sonic was notorious for everyone banging everyone (sometimes in the store after close). Weird.

9 years with Sonic, currently 9 months at Carl's Jr.

Never had anything too horrible pertaining to food, surprisingly. The only thing (at Carl's) is touching their phones with gloves on and not changing them, grabbing meat with their gloves and not changing them and scooping ice with cups.

The GM here at Carl's is aloof as fuck. We're so short handed, only 4 of us managers and 13 crew; he let's the high school kids call in all the time without repercussion and let's them use their phones. I just moved up a couple of months ago and can't change the phone problems to policy because our management team is not a team, no one will jump on board with correcting the things Iisted up top.

I'm just biding my time there until I'm completely certified at Carl's so I can go back to Sonic proving that I'm still good and my alcoholism is not (much of) a problem anymore. Hell, go to a brand new company after being out of work for 2 years and moving up after 7 months, pretty dang good.

>>6876239
you sound like a pussy ass nigga

>>6875677
Tales of horror! Worked at a large chain here in the south. Manager was slinging cocaine to all the cooks. After he was fired, lots of fights and irritable staff.

jack in the box or ihop? they both offered me

>>6877850
Ah, there was a Sonic I had to go to to train brand new employees. The GM there sold all kinds of shit right at the dt window. He was our supervisor's son, so the super turned a blind eye. The GM also had screwed tons of his employees, but one became his girlfriend and broke up his marriage. NEedless to say, she moved up and eventually got her own store (which I ended up working at as her assistant) and couldn't run it for shit. She'd always cry to me about how she'd find dating sites on his laptop, too stupid to realize that of course he'd be cheating on her no matter how fat her ass was. I heard tales of them (when they worked together in his store) fucking on the grill, prep table and where ever else.

I've dated many co-workers, but never screwed in a store. To me, it would be right under doing it in a church.

>>6877969
Nothing wrong with fucking in a church, fucking in a kitchen is unsanitary though so fuck that.

>>6877027
If its just some kind of bacteria its no big deal if its properly cooked. The recalls are for dumb people who treat ground meat like steak and want a pink center.

>>6875749
I honestly don't get the joke of that story.

>>6876955
the wendy's in my town shut down because it was dirty

>>6877702
when i worked at sonic it was like that too. the one day i was there and this girl was about to clock in but the cook aasked if he could clock out for a couple minutes and if she could clock in late so they could bang. manager said yeah.

I was a cashier at McDonalds when i was a teenager. What i remember the most was when a Scottish guy gave me a $5 tip (the only tip i ever got there) and a family of giants. everyone in that family was at least 7 feet tall, no joke.

>>6878089
he gave you a family of giants?

>>6878169
ha ha, look at this loser, he doesn't have a family of giants.

>>6875749
I liked this.

>>6875887
are you the furry?

>>6876104
or are you the inuasha man?

United Deli here.

Leaking roofs. No hot water on a regular basis. Mold. Mice. Roaches. 'Preventative maintenance' was not in our vocabulary.

Hot bar food was bland, and would either sit out for too long, or come out undercooked since nobody would tell our fry cook they needed more stuff until they ran out. Not that any customers seemed to care or notice.

The custom breakfast burritos during opening shift are pretty good, especially with the habanero salsa. That's probably the only good thing about them that comes to mind.

>>6875749
That was almost good

>>6875887
>we could just plop it in the microwave
just like everything else

>be me
>be bouncer at the BK lounge
>be working second window
>anyone else that works there is too slow or retarded to make time goals.
>3 hr lunch, 13 people on the floor.
>lunch slows down, relaxing a little bit
>fat grandma walks in with kid in tow
>she's furious, face is literally red.
>storms over to me
>"WHAT THE FUCK YOU IDIOTS ARE RETARDED YOU FORGOT MY FUCKING CHICKEN TENDERS BLAH BLAH BLAH I HAD TO COME ALL THE WAY BACK BLAH BLAH BLAH"
>literally slams kids meal bag onto the front counter
>I casually look into the bag
>and pull out the chicken tenders
>she immediately deflates
>"oh"
>takes her kids meal and leaves

Fuck fast food man, its bullshit. Glad I work in a real restaurant now.

>>6875753
This story is only funny when told from a male perspective. please leave.

>>6878715
no u

>>6878089
I had a lady give me a box of chocolates through the drive thru window on Valentine's Day when I worked at McDonald's. Was nice.
I never had any horror stories, just an endless sea of dealing with mindless idiots on both sides of the counter.

I worked at Wendy's for a while I'm high school and college. One time a guy came in to complain and the bottom of his bad broke and his food fell on the floor which was funny. Also once tried throwing nuggets into a lady's car's moon roof from the drive thru to see if her dog would eat one. Didn't get any in tho. Worked with mostly cool people but there were a few autists and a few people who you could tell were going nowhere in life. Almost made me feel bad to work with them when I was just doing it while waiting for my internships to start and I could get on with my relatively successful life when they would be stuck there forever. Few of them ended up getting married and having kids tho which is kind of nice.

Worst part was not being able to sit down at all and having to stand for hours at a time covered in grease and shit. But I was getting paid. And most of that money was going to weed.

>>6875833
i order big mac without pickles
not because i dont like pickles
but because i dont want you faggots to give me some shitty stale old burger that has been sitting there for 15 minutes
go make a fresh one for me

>>6877026
I did, just wasn't as bad as others

>>6875887
This is why I NEVER EVER get vegetables on my fast food sandwiches, and someone ALWAYS gives me a hard time.

>Order a sandwich plain/only sauce
>LOL anon don't you like vegetables

No, I worked at BK for three years, I KNOW what a shitshow that condiment trough is. At least the burgers are fucking microwaved so I wont get ebola from them.

>>6879118
The burgers are made to order with stale old meat patties that has been sitting there for 15 minutes, so jokes on you, sucker.

Next time order the burger with no salt on the meat. Or just ask them to make the meat fresh and stop trying to be a smart-ass.

>>6879137

fucking this

>whenever I get a hankering for mcd's
>two hamburgers
>just ketchup please
>fries with no salt
>sir please pull into a parking lot
>play AC/DC like a jay and silent bob solo crew of faggots
>fresh everything

I don't give a fuck if it's a pain in the ass, I've had stale old food and work in a restaurant where I know what kinds of shit goes down. I take no chances.

Sometimes when I feel particularly asshole-ish because my life sucks, I'll ask for salt packets.

>>6879191
you are an asshole.

>>6879137
same here, and whenever i point this out to friends they say "well i don't want them to spit in my food!!!"

i'd rather have somebody spit on my burger than eat soggy lettuce thats been at room temp for 4 hours

Panera worker here.
We are considered fast casual, but I still consider it fast food. I work on the line primarily. It is easy because we don't have to cook anything but we have to make everything to order. The line is considered foh. I hate that part. Nothing like having middle aged men condescendingly stare you down as you make their food. Sometimes it kills me inside to give some people their order and tell them to have a nice day and not to go fuck themselves. It's always people with huge orders that expect their food to be done as fast as small orders. I had one woman bitch at me because she got a sandwhich she didn't order in addition to the rest of her food. She bitched at me over a free sandwhich.

I worked at Chipotle for a year or so and the closest thing I have to a horror story is when a hamplanet walked in and asked "Do you have any meat that WAS raised with antibiotics so it's not SICK?"

I was so taken aback I just said "wat" and she repeated her ridiculous question, at which point I gave her some line about our animals being raised in natural conditions that were more sanitary than factory farming, and that antibiotics are mostly used to stimulate growth anyway.

The silly cunt still ordered a massive double meat burrito and ate the whole thing, so there you go. On the whole the restaurant was very good about sanitation, but the management could be pretty fucking bad depending on who was scheduled.

I've done time at McDs (twice), Fazoli's, Taco Bell, Taco Bell/KFC, Dunkin Donuts, and Skyline Chili. Ask away.

>>6879289
which was your favorite?

also i was thinking about going to taco bell but it doesn't seem like a regulat kitchen looks like a shit ton of machinery... did you like it?

>>6879293
WA LA!

>>6879295

>>6875749
lmao I kek'd, good job anon

>>6879277
As a grocery store manager I can relate. I love sitting in the back of the freezer or cooler just stocking stuff, the second I go outside I just get stressed by customers complaining or asking 50 questions when I have a real time crunch

Not really there fault, been trying not to hate people as much lately but grocery/food-service just really shows how rude and disgusting humans are

Some little shit was sneezing on my yogurts today, and yesterday some fat hog with FIVE children was just waddling around smiling as her children screeched at the top of their lungs. Fat, lazy mothers just make me lose so much hope

>>6879343
Their*

not even paying attention while I type lately

>>6878751
Ill fite u

Not fast food persay, but I worked at a Renaissance Fair over the summer where the food was all really overpriced, basic Sysco shit that had maybe even less care than fast food taken into preparation. Would anyone care to hear some highlights?

>>6879378
Yes

Do tacos bells really have trash back rooms?

>>6879378
Interesting. I worked a Ren Faire some years ago and we made everything fresh. Still overpriced though :)

>>6879343
I've been trying to work on my kindness. I have no problems with my coworkers. I can get annoyed at certain cashiers though because they fuck up ringing things in and we have to deal with the angry customer. I love when I get the chance to go make croutons or put stuff in pans in the back. Gives me time away from the front. We get huge rushes when there are soccer games because we are the "healthy alternative". Just last weekend we had a line out the door for hours. The ticket times were hitting 20 minutes when we are supposed to keep them under 3. That was the worst I've ever seen them and we had our best people on line. Customers would come up asking if their order was ready and their order wouldn't even be on screen yet because we were backed up. During the worst part someone called in a catering order because the catering hub wouldn't accept it because it was too late. There were also whole teams getting rung up on one ticket.
Like what are people thinking when they see a huge line. If course it's gonna be a while. That's when you can really tell who has worked in the service industry. I've gotten so used to working at high speed that I get compliments on it from customers during our slow or even normal rushes.

>>6879293
I've heard nothing good about any taco hell. ive had multiple friends turn to drugs to cope with shit they go through there, but of course all locations are different

>>6879378
>>6879392

Ooh boy, I've got some stuff to tell you guys then.
Bit more background info first: As an employee you have to wear costumes at all times, even when cooking the food, even if you're in one of the buildings where no one can see you cooking (understandable I guess, but, as someone with a vagina carrying burning hot trays of food up steps while wearing 2 skirts and a corset isn't exactly safe. I just secretly stopped wearing the second one after a while.) I was a floater which basically meant I got put whatever the fuck, but because they have to be authentically sexist in roles, that mainly meant I got food ones. Half of the time i was doing turkey legs, then another quarter I was doing baked potatoes and kebobs, and the last, I was doing little things like bathroom duty and serving water, I was starting to get foliculitis or something because of how of how long I'd sweat in my costume. (At least I got some tips doing that.)

Anyway, stay tuned, green-text coming up in whatever order I remember soon.

>>6879416
where was this? socal?

>>6879416
Okay

>>6879416
Okay:

>Arrive at turkey leg station one morning
>assigned shift had been from 10-6:30
>supervisor says I'm here an hour early
>apparently they changed my shift from 11-7 without notifying me
>got payed more that day but still had to stay the extra half hour and lost half an hour of pay a day from thereon
>oh well
>she assigns me to the grill that morning
>the turkey legs are really just frozen, cooked in an oven, and placed on a low-heat tin foiled grill to keep them hot
>we take out the sauce
>hot and barbecue, if they're lucky the customers will get Sweet Baby Ray's for barbecue but it's almost always Sysco shit
>there's a bowl of hotsauce leftover from last week
>we ladel the sauce above the turkey legs in these bowls once they're cooked, sometimes dip
>also it's often buttered-down if we're running short
>it's just been covered in tinfoil in the walk-in fridge
>supervisor insists on us using it
>we open the bowl up
>sauce has crusted up on the edge
>just doesn't look right
>Labor-Jesus, the health inspector, was thankfully walking around that day, and came to us soon after we took the foil off
>looks in the bowl
>says it's mold
>has to show supervisor and photograph it in front of her

The customers were saved some food poisoning that day, but if only he had come around more than just once...
Another day there one of the sinks in back was leaking and had a bucket under it and there was just a dead mouse floating in it that whole day.

(More to come)

>>6879423
Nah, Sterling.

Also clarification, we did have hotboxes, the legs would be in, but the ones immediately being ready to serve to the customers were on the grill.

>come to turkey leg station again one day
>got notified I'd be on register that day finally
>once I arrive the rumor is the blonde running the one register at our station had been rumored to have stolen $200-$300 from the register
>gets put on bathroom duty while they try to prove this
>bathroom duty is one of the few places people actually get tipped, ??? (Tipping at this place is a whole other story, let me know if you wanna hear)
>there;s now 3 grills including myself at our station and because the other one working register had been there the year before they rotate me out between food work and register every other day
>fast forward to some day a few weekends ahead of that
>one of our first few customers or so is this man, maybe 40
>bright yellow shirt, kinda walked a bit funny, line of sight might've been a bit crooked but I'm respectful
>"Good day sir, what can I do for thee?"
>he orders his food
>says something like "Hey, you look pretty in that"
>hoping he's not a creeper but thank him anyway, at least in hopes he'll tip me if I play along
>getting his change
>he asks me out of nowhere "Do you have anyone?"
>it caught me off guard so I break my accent and go "Yeah"
>actually did (a-at the time), not that it matters
>turn around and get him his disgustingly overpriced turkey leg
>oh by the way they charged $9.50USD for them this year
>nigga didn't leave me a tip
>after he walks away say something to other register grill quick
>apparently he was here earlier before my shift started and tried the same thing on her and others

Where to next...

>>6879450
>>6879483

Wuh-oh, forgot to reply to my post there.

>supervisor told me I'd be with her doing turkey legs permanently now
>one day they notify me I'm being moved to another building on site
>building does pizzas, pretzels for the hawkers, kebobs over rice, baked potatoes, and sweet and regular fries
>everything that can be is still frozen and/or from sysco
>be inside the building
>slots to outside are only tall enough to where I can see the cashiers' & everyone else's waists at my eye-level
>fuck standing over this fryer in costume with 0 ventilation sucks
>have to work besides 16 year old grill
>later found out she lied and she's really 15
>seemed helpful enough at first with telling me how to prepare the different types of potatoes
>this then evolves into her trying to boss me around
>who the fuck are you?
>just try to do my own thing and try not to argue with the little shit
>have to open big can of cheese sauce (Sysco of course) because we're running out
>supervisor finds neglected can opener after a minute of searching
>try to use it
>dull as hell, can took a couple minutes to open
>as I begin to open it more notice some things in the sauce
>the can opener is so old and rusty that the rust is flaking off into the sauce
>know I don't have a say int his dysfunctional place
>keep trying to open it
>top of sauce is now dusted with rust flakes
>supervisor asks me what I'm doing as I try to spoon out the top layer of cheese into the trash
>she seems a bit grossed out herself but gives me a "Well I would've had to make you do it anyway" look
>pour what I can into the small vat and hope to God nobody gets sick

That supervisor also could only get, if any, 2 hour of sleep max a night because she was convinced her room was haunted (she lived alone in some really small rented room or house?) so she was always really out of it. Actually there were two for whatever reason, the other was some heavily Irish guy that awkwardly flirted with every girl of age.

>>6879525

>be back in potato hell
>Department of Labor was apparently on site that day
>place is dysfunctional and near-violates rules as is (yet another story) so everyone in management is freaking out
>Irish supervisor tells me all nervously that morning that the little shit can't work with anything hot or sharp that day because of them coming around
>relieved because I can take more control
>nervous because realistically I can't make potatoes and do a fryer in costume at an acceptable speed
>15 year-old can't do anything basically because all of the potatoes are hot, the fryers are hot, and the small sharp butter knife is legally too sharp for her apparently
>gets made to salt pretzels or something but that only keeps her busy for like 5 minutes
>management guy I see a lot literally runs into our building asking how old we all our and notifying the underageb&s they can't touch anything sharp or hot
>frantically asks me
>is relieved to hear I'm 18+
>tells me to make sure they don't touch anything hot or sharp like it's my job
>damn this place has no order
>15 year old starts getting grustrated she can barely do anything
>tries to cut potatoes in my small rushes
>do have to tell her she can't be doing some of that
>kinda told her that moreso because she was getting in the way and being frustrated but if anyone came in it would be trouble
>starts going on about how she just feel so useless
>well no shit we all do you're underage and we're all being paid minimum wage, if not barely above it
>as the day goes on it starts to get too much with the heat and rush I'm in
>truly am getting a rash on my back from the heat, take the opportunity during break to vising the EMT
>go home like 5-6 hours early because it was getting so bad
>can only imagine the chaos that ensued as they tried to keep 15 year old off the grill

She tried to tell me she was being made to do the potatoes and fryer beforehand as it is, maybe that's why they switched me in there.

>>6875887
When I took my ServSafe class my instructor says that mayo can be left out for a little while longer than most people think since its got so much vinegar in it. Nothing would be able to grow in an environment that acidic.

worked at mcdonalds for 3 years.

>scratch butthole at home and go to work with shit stained fingers
>wipes hands on inner no mans land and around ball sack at home for vinigar smelling cheese sweat
>literally never ever wash my hands, ever
>touch food as much as i can while preparing
>dropped food on the ground and still used it
>never gave a fuck tbh fam

>>6879557

I feel like there's more, but I gotta get to sleep, there's more interesting things but it's not closely enough related to food-labor practices or food in general. I guess that's it for now.

>>6875930
Sounds exactly like Mariano's. Pay extra to have us lick your anus and kiss it dry.

Used to be better before the ipo, then it all went to shit. Mr MarryAnus himself isn't a bad guy (gave me an 11 dollar tub of aloe when I burned myself and we had no burn cream, probably because I was the only one who made his oatmeal right), but he knows how to make money and exploit workers.

That, and you do any customer a favor, give em a little extra or make it special or be extra nice that day, and they'll throw a shit fit when you don't do it every time. People are so fucking entitled. Three years wasted in that shit hole. Missing college classes to cover shifts or get there on time. Fucked over my gpa.

>>6879397
Honestly, after working in catering I am so tolerant of slow service anywhere, especially fast food places.

When I go to dinner with my parents, and they complain about the service or don't tip, I make sure I tip.

>>6879563
fam that only made it better tbh

>>6879483
>Sterling.
i have always wanted to hit up the sterling one, i'm in rochester about an hour away.

how is it? i've never really been to a renaissance festival

might hit up last daze this weekend

>>6879563

>>6875677

>Work for large pizza chain
>No horrors to speak of

Some of our new employees are fucking awful and it being football season really pisses me off cus I actually give a fuck about my job and doing well I can get promoted already and stop making fuckboy dollars.

I worked at a pizza place and never did anything bad, but I did almost throw up every time I had to make a hawaiin pizza. that shit is deplorable

>>6875749
>be me

who else would you be?
and that line was completely irrelevant and unnecessary

>>6876239
you's a pussy ass picky eater beta nigga

>>6882510
newfag

>>6879191
"I'll have two hamburgers and an order of fries. Can you make the hamburgers and fries fresh, please?"

You're a dummy.

>>6877005
Same with the Jimmy John's I used go work at. Worked there for six months, slept with four different employees, knocked one up and got crabs twice.

Sluts be working at places like that I tell you.

>>6878886
>successful life
>weed

don't think so, cletus.

>>6875677
>work at mcdickers at night,construction on the weekend
>mcdonalds in my area is completely over run with angry low income black people who are constantly doing dumb shit
>Friday night, just me and two other guys running entire store.
>doing drivethru/mccafe/front line at the same time
>kid comes up
>"ay nigga I spilt my shake can I have another one"
> look
>shake is covering the window and the floor
>he clearly threw it at his friend
>tell him no
>he gets butt blasted
> starts raging the fuck out
>throws the food, that he paid for,all over the floor. Just laugh because cleaning that shits gonna be overnights job
>he starts flipping ottomans over. Just lock the door when hes in sidelobby,call cops
>"AY BITCH I'M GONNA COME FUCK YOU UP IF YOU DON'T OPEN THIS MUHFUCKIN DOOR"
side note, I carry a spyderco civilian and another just edc knife for situations exactly like this. My coworkers do the same. One of them being a 75 year old Vietnamese man we all call daddy who I've personally seen knock someone the fuck out
>daddy starts antagonizing the guy
>keeps calling him well done dark meat,both sides.
>we have to shut down drive thru because his friends were joining in
>wherearethefuckingcops
>tell king negro that if he comes over the counter that bad shit is going to go down and to just sit and be quiet
>he starts trying to open the crew door
>everyone's freaking the fuck out.
>cops show up,kids try to jump over the counter
>daddy comes out of fucking no where with the trash stomper. A long ass metal rod with a heavy metal piece at the end and he's screaming in Vietnamese
>we let the cops in through the side door.
>everyone got arrested for aggrevated assault, destruction of property and some other shit
Nothing like that has happened since then.

>work at mcdonalds
>one of the people who manages nightshift with me is a known drug dealer. Smokes in his car,will often go to the maintenance closet and snort
>one day a cop comes in asking to talk to him
>he freaks the fuck out and tried to climb out the drive thru window
>cop ends up beating the shit out of him,while a customer just watches
>he went to prison and a bunch of people got fired in relation to him

Also my last GM was a heroin addict.would wear long sleeve shirts in the middle of a Florida summer. Would come in fucked up all the time,promoing off gift cards and 40-50$ worth of food. Ended up getting demoted to a shift manager,not even fucking fired.

>>6878886
Be 14-17: Work McDs
decide I want a desk job
Be 18-23: Big 10 Univ
Be me now, 7 yrs after graduation
buy Varidesk so I don't sit all day and get fatter
FFS

>work at a place that will sell gluten free food when asked
>rich white neighborhood so stacey and her sluts all order gluten free because muh "sensitivity"
>anytime a ticket comes up asking for gluten free I make sure to make it regularly and not gluten free
>been a year and a half, no complaints

how have you guys been victimized by the gluten free meme?

>mfw someone asks for unsalted fries
>get upset when this adds another min to their order

>>6877207

I remember how my friend working in subway told that his title was ''sandwich stylist''. Is it a thing everywhere?

>>6879557
These are kinda boring, you should make them more concise

Okay, I guess it's not necessarily "fast food", but I was a Barista at a local coffee shop for a year and saw and dealt with some terrible shit. This story is always on the top of my mind when asked about my job.

>Slow day, so I decide to go clean up the bathroom a bit
>Notice the floor was dirty, so I go and get the mop and start mopping it
>My back was towards the door, and I hear someone breathing super heavily with their mouth open
>Turn around, and it's this 40+ year old tard whose constantly coming in to buy a soda and sits out front literally all day, everyday
>Tell him, "Hey man, sorry. I'm about done mopping this up real fast. If you wanna sit down, I'll only be a-"
>Tard yells, "NO. I NEED TO GO NOW. I CANNOT SIT DOWN OR I'LL MAKE A MESS."
>"Okay, okay... let me move this out of the way.."
>Move mop and bucket aside and tard rushes in to use the bathroom. Decide to go wash my hands and make myself a drink.
>While standing around waiting, I see the tard booking it out of the bathroom, and stands out front
>"Alright... hopefully he didn't make too much of a- OH MY FUCKING GOD."
>I walked over to the bathroom and noticed there was GALLONS OF LIQUID, SHIT COVERING THE TOILET AND FLOOR
>Some was even spattered on the walls. It was fucking disgusting and I puked in my mouth numerous times
>Our lady manager comes over and sees it, FREAKS the fuck out and yells at the top of her lungs
>One of our cooks, Stefan, comes over and gawks at it for a second before charging outside to yell and threaten the tard to get the fuck away and never come back
>Lady manager and I have to clean it up. Both pissed the rest of the fucking day.

Aside from that, not much bad stuff happened besides drama from fucking everyone. I was the only male barista and worked with at least 5 different qt's and I fucked 3 of them. I quit after realizing the job was a shithole and nobody got paid more than minimum wage. Kinda miss the free food and drinks, but it was worth it for my sanity.

>>6883064
I hear this is a trick to guarantee that your fries are freshly made, and then you add salt to them yourself when you receive them.
Getting mad over waiting means they were probably just retards, though.

>>6878715
they could be gay fuck idiot

Working at Chipotle was a pleasant experience. 9.00 an hour, great coworkers, easy learning curve, only a mild amount of assholes who come in, plus tips every night.
Free food on a shift, and 50% off at all times, it was great.

say hello to mechanically separated chicken

>Work at Subway
>Often work late
>One night, about 2am
>Nobody has entered for some time
>Suddenly some fat asshole comes in by himself
>Drunkenly stumbles over
>''I... WOOOOULLD LIKE... A FOOTLONG... MEATBALL MARIANA.. ON TOASTED ITALIAN BREAD''
>ok
>statr making it
>he looks at me
>''HEY.. ARE YOU A SANDWICH ARTIST?''
>mumble that yes I am
>''WELL THEN PAINT. PAINT WITH THE BRUSH YOU ARE MAKING';
>stand and stare at him
>he looks aggressively at me
>''PAINT MR ARTIST''
>looks at the dripping end of the meatball sub
>I don't know what to do
>use the sandwich to paint a picture of a smiley face on the microwave oven
>drunk guy laughs
>tells me to eat the paint
>I lick the sauce from the oven
>he then makes me pretend to suffer from paitn poisoning and drop to the floor
>walks off as i am laying down
>I eat the sandwich in tears

never working nights again

>>6883067
everywhere

>>6883128

Not fast food related, but I work at a Big Lots on the edge of Detroit. Jesus fuck the bathrooms, specially the fucking ladies room.

>Fat black lady who spent what seemed like an hour in there yells at me that bathroom is dirty.
>Go take a peak.
>TP everywhere.
>Piss puddles everywhere.
>Shit all over ALL 3 of the toilet seats.
>All 3 toilets also filled with shit or clogged.
>Bloody tampons hidden behind the toilets.
>Trash can empty.

This happens pretty much weekly too.

>>6879415
>mom worked at a Taco Bell in Georgia
>did it to get more money for home improvement projects
>worked for 5 months
>almost immediately became assistant manager
>got accused of stealing money from the safe by her black manager when one of the managers friends probably did it
>fired
Some people are just cunts to people better off than them

>>6879191

>person orders no salt fries
>ok guy
>dump one order of already salted fries into the fryer for like ten seconds
>put them in carton without salting them

So technically you are getting what you ordered but they are not as fresh as you might think. Also literally the only people who ask for everything fresh are niggers to whom eating fast food is apparently a treat.

>>6875753
fucking kek'd

>>6882832
lol... one day some poor inbred gluten intolerant dude is going to order from you and then die of super aids because of feminist vegan cunts

>>6885204
>Go to mcdonalds in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night
>Some fatass trucker in there eating a burger
>Otherwise completely deserted
>Stand there like a retard waiting for a McDicks™ Service Representative™ to show up
>One filipino midget suddenly appears behind the counter
>Order large fries
>"It wheel take 5 minute"
>ok
>5 minutes later, "fresh" fries
its not hard to get fresh fries as long as you play your cards right

>>6885309

That's true. The method I described only works for the drive thru.

>>6883570

Did you actually read the post?

>feelsgoodgirl.jpg
>get wet
>my skirt

I'll grant the skirt could be worn by a man but still.

>>6885369
>implying they aren't a man in a skirt
>implying they didn't mean wet with precum

>>6885369
AWETWISUM

>>6882715
>a 75 year old Vietnamese man we all call daddy

>>6875833
>>6879118
>>6876187
>>6876138
>>6875904
>>6875864

Its a very common trick to get your burger made fresh. Or at least, as fresh as Mickey D's can be.

>>6885733
Do they still not make every burger fresh in some areas? In Australia nothing gets made until it's ordered anymore.

Well, apart from chips/fries. There's always a batch of those cooking regardless.

I remember them lining up ready-made Cheeseburgers and Big Macs in advance when I was a kid. Seems pretty awful in retrospect.

>>6879450
>>6879525
>>6879557
Thank God I never order anything when I visit these overpriced shit holes.

>>6885740
These days everything will be assembled as ordered/when ordered outside of weird corner cases. The major chains have gotten their logistics and training so tight that they can usually prepare things as fast as they are ordered. Sometimes patties are old but their grill numbers are normally tight, oldness is more of a problem with things like rarely-ordered fish sandwiches.

>>6883663
>tells me to eat the paint
>I lick the sauce from the oven
>he then makes me pretend to suffer from paitn poisoning and drop to the floor
someone please draw this

>>6875930
Currently work at a Kroger owned stores deli, and I can confirm the exact same. They usually put afternoon shift workers on 4/5 hour shifts but expect us to always have backup cold chicken and salads full so "their" counters look good. We may get a few dollars better pay than most retail, but it's shit when you're only scheduled around 20 hours a week but always having to stay over your shift an hour or two just to make sure you have enough production done to "make it look good".

They also ride the customers dick so fucking hard. We technically have stickers that will be put on a product to give out for free just so no customer right or wrong gets upset. Seriously, act pissy about some brand item being out of stock and we'll give you another like-item for free. Just make sure it's under $20.

Back in April they also tried to "raise employees spirits and engage with customers" by playing music over the radio speakers and forcing us to dance to it. I threw a bitch-fit so hard about it that thankfully they've never tried that stunt again.

Just quit my job at Panera Bread. Ask me anything if you want. Here are some recommended dont's:

>don't order soup or salad in the early morning hours or last 30 minutes before closing
>all pastas are microwaved and has incredible amounts of salt
>if you want to big a huge faggot and cause chaos, order a huge meal 5 minutes before closing
>lettuce usually isn't fresh
>soups and sauces are always reused the following day no matter what type of mixing
>caesar and fuji apple dressing is not legit dressing

other than that the place is ok. really just depends on the location, some paneras are an absolute disaster

WHO SUBWAY HERE?
Im actually on my break right now. Any grave workers here? How do you guys get sleep?

>>6875882
Only the immunosuppressed (only alive due to 21st century technology) would have a problem with this

Taco Hell grave yard shift grunt here. AMA.
I'm about to sleep since I work a closing shift today, but I'll check the thread when I wake up. I've been doing this for 3 years now and I'm really getting tired of it.

>>6878886
Standing, being on my feet and rushing while still gettig things out in a quality way is what I live for. I don't understand how people can sit at a desk for 8 hours. That shit sounds boring as fuck. I'd be sleepy the entire time.

>>6882510
>Some colossal fruitcake needs this explained EVERY TIME someone posts "be me"

>>6877207
somebody told me you guys are supposed to be called "sandwich craftsmen" what kind of bullshit is that?

>>6886120
what the fuck is happening to their sandwich quality? when i first started eating there it looked like an actual sandwich, now everytime i eat there its dunkin donuts tier shit. Do you guys microwave your food? Are the ingredients mainly frozen?

>>6878232
don't shame the giant-less; society won't give them a chance

>>6877969
Not a restaurant but I worked in a grocery store as a teenager and the manager would fuck bitches in the produce cooler and add hours onto their check. When they finally caught him he quit so fast they couldn't fire him

>Work at an ice cream store
>Have to clean out soft serve machines every week
>Absolutely disgusting
>mfw people are ingesting mechanical lubricant and sanitizing chemicals in their ice cream

>>6887891
sorry to say I work at Wendy's and same deal. Black lubricant comes off those pieces every night.

Better than when I worked at McDonald's and they made someone clean the ice cream machine maybe twice a month.

>>6886282
oh man, you haven't seen some of the work environments where food is prepared. i work at a grocery store and see the back room where they do the hands on work with the produce. i won't ever buy handled produce there. i drop my plate out in the woods camping? just brush off the twigs, pine needles and dirt and finish my meal. but eating something dropped on that floor would put you in the hospital.

even just imagine the parking lot that taco bell worker walks across to come into work or take out the trash. those shoes are going to be on that floor as well.

Worked target's food store for three months before they converted into a star bux, ask me anything.

>>6875749
>first day on 4chan
>WOW I SHOULD GO OVER TO /CK/ AND WRITE ONE OF THOSE FUNNY "GREEN-TEXT STORIES I SEE ON IMIGR AND REDDIT ALL THE TIME, I MIGHT EVEN GET SCREENCAPPED AND PUT ON THE FRONT PAGE
>I'VE BEEN ON /B/ ALL DAY, SO I THINK I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING

lurk more, asshole, not every board is looking for funny greentext stories, and forcing memes so it could be up there with "mom's spaghetti".
this isn't /b/ you faggot.

>>6875749
>>6879309
>>6882520
>>6876179
i really hope this is bait.

>>6886135
There are Subways open past ten? I guess wasted at 2AM is the only time a sandwich from there would be good

kek I forgot Taco Bell employees are called Food Champions and Service Champions

How degrading. Worse than "Sandwich Artist."

i worked at Mcdonalds and i shit you not there was a guy working in kitchen that had bronchitis and no one cared not even the store manger. the kid was coughing up everywhere, including the food

>>6885733
except its not where did you get this information from?

>>6877207
>>6883067
>>6886135
>>6883663

>work at subway
>butthole is finally heal because jared fired


today was a good day

>>6889132
Don't remind me. It's a dumb title since anyone competent learns everything. I'm a food champion and I know all the service champion shit. I'm actually at work now doing drive thru. It's actually the mangers drawer, but he likes to smoke every 15 fucking minutes so I'm stuck here. The other 2 people we have tonight are too dumb to learn register. Don't ever work here.

What's the best way to fuck with someone who works at subway?

>>6889275
meatball marinara, extra everything, on a 12 inch flatbread, no avocados, triple toasted. then when they managed to wrap it ask for avocados

>>6889294
Is it possible to order over the phone?
He knows my face.

>>6889301
i think you can do online ordering now

>>6889312
Awesome.

>>6886045
this too,
restocking the shelves at 9pm when the store closes at 12 is beyond excessive but morning shift INSISTS its vital for a "good opening"
also,
i dont know what the hell it is with daytime and morning shift. I guess they're literally scratching their asses all day long because when i get there at 4/5pm not a damn thing has been finished.

does anyone have any ihop stories? that place always smells kinda sour, like the carpets are always wet or never cleaned.

>>6879137
lmao you're still eating shit, stop acting like you "know better"

>>6889294
>triple toasted

The fuck? As someone who goes to subway about once a week. Why are people so lazy with the advocado? Sometimes if I'm lucky they spread that shit, sometimes they scrape what's at the bottom and just fuckmyshitupfam.

>>6889125
I work at a Subway in a casino. I get a lot of tweakers, drunks, and foreign people.

>>6887891
There shouldn't be any lube where the product goes and the sanitizer can be fixed by running water through the machine like you're supposed to, you ass.

>me ooga booga
>GF dooga dooga
>me chooga
>everybody walk the dinosaur

xD

>>6883663

Fucking crying