/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15085518]

Is there any better way of feeding a crowd than Costco pizza?

[Anonymous No.15085626]

No, there isn't. It's pretty bad pizza but if you take price and convenience into account it would be my choice if I had to feed a bunch of people on short notice. No one asks for costco pizza but no one is gonna complain about it either if it was free. Vegans would, but vegans can go fuck themselves.

[Anonymous No.15085639]

>>15085626
That’s rude man,I would just say no thanks and let them eat their food.

[Anonymous No.15085643]

>>15085626
>no one is gonna complain about it either if it was free
Can someone explain the obsession with free food to me? I'd rather take a hard pass on the free food and have something good later. This is why I hate free work lunches. I get a dollar or two worth of pizza while they get my nearly free labor to have a meeting or send me back to my desk for more work, when I could be out of the office.

[Anonymous No.15085651]

>>15085518
Walmart pizza. $8 for this pie.

[Anonymous No.15085653]

>>15085643
because it saves people spending money on a meal.

[Anonymous No.15085656]

>>15085518
do americans really eat this?

[Anonymous No.15085657]

[Anonymous No.15085658]

Any Costco workers around? Why aren't they bringing back the combo pizza despite all other major items returning?

[Anonymous No.15085662]

For me it's the chicken bake

[Anonymous No.15085668]

>>15085643
Free food simply tastes better. It's an objective fact. It isn't even a rich/poor thing, I make way more now than when I was a broke ass college student but I'll still get excited for a free lunch.

[Anonymous No.15085679]

>>15085653
You're missing the point here, unless you're making absolute minimum wage or barely over. Everyone in my office makes over ~$25 an hour, probably more (it's salaried so being rough, I make ~$45). We're allowed an hour lunch break.

Five Costco pizzas cost $50 or so, but they're getting hundreds of dollars of free labor in a meeting, or at least some percentage of that as people work at their desk with their food and work through an hour where your labor losses could have been in the thousands.

It's a huge fucking scam. I'd cater lunch every single day as a business owner and laugh my way to the bank.

[Anonymous No.15085683]

>>15085668
Because you don't understand the value of your time, sure. Seeing the sun for one hour a day in wintertime tastes better than cheap pizza.

[Anonymous No.15085684]

>>15085643
I'm talking about situations where you go with the expectation of "food and refreshments" being provided, and it turns out to be canned soda and Costco pizza. Like if you were volunteering or something, I guess you could fuck off and eat lunch by yourself but it's expected that you would stay there.

[Anonymous No.15085688]

Literally lil caesars pizza

[Anonymous No.15085689]

>>15085518
Floppy as fuck pizza. QT is literally better than this sloppa.

[Anonymous No.15085690]

>>15085643
Maybe it's just me, but I used to go hungry in my 20s so people just giving away food still makes me extremely grateful.

[Anonymous No.15085729]

>>15085684
If I were volunteering my time, sure, I guess I'd possibly eat. That'd be nice, and thoughtful.

>>15085690
I was literally homeless. That's why I fight for every inch of my money and freedom.
>giving away food
In a business setting, they're making a profit off of "giving it away."

I'm definitely being salty, but I've been a victim of it, and the guy who has proposed it in leadership.

[Anonymous No.15085768]

>>15085658
>Any Costco workers around? Why aren't they bringing back the combo pizza despite all other major items returning?

Costco's combo pizza used to be the best pizza-value in town. It's baffling why it was ever removed to begin with. We tried asking one of the food-courtiers about it, pointing out that since Costco still sells all of the ingredients separately (onions, sausage, etc), why couldn't they put it on a pizza? She explained that the pies are prepared elsewhere, not in store--but that really wasn't the point. It's the supply chain. The ingredients aren't being imported. What, were the combos being assembled in China? And if not, why stop selling what must have been their most popular pizza offering? (Does anyone over the age of five order pepperoni or plain cheese when a "classic combo" is offered for the same price? Has Costco been selling most of its pies to kindergarten teachers?)

If you want real answers and not "MUH COVID", you'll need to talk to someone at ((corporate)). Perhaps the combo pie had ceased being profitable and they were just looking for an excuse to axe it.

>>15085651

Not a fair comparison; we're talking about HOT large pies being sold for ten bucks. (Yes, probably previously-frozen. Yes, plus the amortized annual membership cost.) And that's real large, not Domino's "large". It's debatable whether paying someone else two bucks to put the pizza in the oven is convenience or laziness, but it does make a difference.

[Anonymous No.15085779]

>>15085679
>"people work at their desk with their food and work"
>not taking your free pizza and sneaking away to eat it on the toilet while browsing 4chan on your phone

shiggy diggy, ngmi

[Anonymous No.15085808]

>>15085768
>She explained that the pies are prepared elsewhere, not in store
wtf do they have a dough press and why do I see them making them in the back?

[Anonymous No.15085835]

>>15085808
>wtf do they have a dough press and why do I see them making them in the back?

Maybe your store works differently. Or maybe this particular worker was just stalling while pushing the panic button and waiting for Agent Smith to whisk me away for asking too many unsettling questions. The pizza truth is out there, anon.

[Anonymous No.15085839]

>>15085518
When I make pizza at home the crust doesn’t flop like that. I prefer crisp crust. Wether I make chewy fluffy crust or thin cracker like brittle crust it still holds shape.

[Anonymous No.15085843]

>>15085779
>taking your free pizza and sneaking away to eat it on the toilet while browsing 4chan on your phone
Dude you are literally eating food on the toilet to look at your phone in the same building you are going to be in for 8-10 hours. Go outside. Go for a walk. Do anything but stay in the same fucking building all day.

All of my thoughts are invalidated if you can leave early for working through lunch, or can't get away from a worksite or something.

[Anonymous No.15085853]

Can you wagecucks keep your depressing ass job tales off 4chan? I don’t want to read about what coping skills you have while slaving for mr shekelstein

[Anonymous No.15085871]

>>15085683
Then don't take the pizza you autistic spaz lmao

[Anonymous No.15085888]

>>15085843
what are you even saying you loser. just take the free food

[Anonymous No.15085912]

>>15085843
>Go outside. Go for a walk

Outside? Amongst the hobos and streetwalkers? Where I could get attacked by wild dogs or fall into a sinkhole? Why would I ever do that, when I could be comfortably ensconced on a porcelain throne, pants around my ankles and legs akimbo, free to scratch my balls between bites of totally FREE, no-strings-attached office pizza?

No anon, it is YOU who are deceived--or perhaps even the deceiver...

Wait--is this Karen from HR? The one who is trying to enforce a mandatory daily exercise period in exchange for decreased health-insurance premiums? So we meet again... You didn't succeed in stopping me from using the elevator for one-floor trips. You didn't succeed in preventing me from scooting my wheely-chair between meetings instead of walking. And now this?

You can take my free pizza when you storm into the men's toilet and pry it from my clammy, unwashed hands.

[Anonymous No.15085924]

>>15085768
>>15085808

[Anonymous No.15085931]

>>15085871
If lunch is catered, you can't leave, idiot. There's a reason it's there. (Okay, mostly, but you'll hear about it when you ducked out unless you gave a good reason.)

>>15085888
The free food is worth less than the value of your free work, dumbass. Unless you make minimum wage or are a clock in/clock out wagie.

[Anonymous No.15085951]

>>15085931
Seems like you're frustrated at your shit boss not the free food, why can't you eat at your desk and browse 4chan or take it outside since that seems important to you

[Anonymous No.15085954]

>>15085931
what?

[Anonymous No.15085959]

>>15085951
There's no way his internet at work isn't censored to death

poor guy probably can't even open google

[Anonymous No.15085970]

>>15085924

BASED
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Earlier in Perpetual Lockdown Year 1, the combo option was simply whited out. Then they got a newly-printed permanent sign without it. That's when we knew the ride was over.

Imagine trying to explain the combo pizza to your kids...

>Hey Johhny, did I ever tell you about the Costco combo pie?
>"C-combo?"
>Yeah, like "combination".
>"Like a combination of pepperoni and cheese? Don't they sell that now?"
>Yes, Johnny, but they used to combine pepperoni and cheese with... other ingredients.
>"O-other ingredients? What other ingredients? What else could possibly go on pizza?"

And later, when you stop by Costco for your weekly pallet of toilet paper, the guard stops you at the door. That little bastard Johnny, he ratted you out. There is no Costco combo pizza, and so there never was a Costco combo pizza. To say or even think otherwise demands... correction.

>"We're sorry, sir, but your membership to Costco has been by thine own hand revoked..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eZR0HBpYgM

[Anonymous No.15086008]

>>15085959

Checking those elusive four-digit dubs.

[Anonymous No.15086011]

>>15085970
Haha, nice XD have some reddit gold, friend!

[Anonymous No.15086017]

>>15086011
Sorry wrong pic

[Anonymous No.15086034]

>>15085951
I'm 11 years into my professional career over three different companies, it has nothing to do with one boss. But, at your desk, you work. You don't get to play Switch or fuck around off your computer. If anyone walked by, you'd be fired on the spot. You can go to the cafeteria, but still, everyone talks mostly work, maybe some minutia, and eating a packed lunch or sandwich doesn't take a full hour. Back to desk, back to work.

I'm Director level for a Fortune 500 and I still sit in an "open office" where everyone can see my monitors. Paid lunch is always a meeting, in every company. I can easily leave for as long as I want if there's no free food.

Like I said, I dropped the "pay for food" thing to more leadership and we know how profitable it is. People won't leave work or meetings if we pay for a tiny bit of pizzas.

>>15085959
Completely uncensored internet, but we monitor all employees' web traffic at all time.

Take your break. Go do something.

[Anonymous No.15086056]

>>15086011
>>15086017
>Sorry wrong pic

It's an easy mistake to make.

[Anonymous No.15086059]

>>15086034
>being this insecure

[Anonymous No.15086063]

>>15086059
>getting fired

[Anonymous No.15086116]

>>15085518
I'd rather just feed myself with one of those 1.50 dogs

[Anonymous No.15086133]

>>15086116
1.50 dog and soda
Can't beat it

[Anonymous No.15086259]

>>15085768
They don't even have onions or relish for the hotdogs at the store near me. Its just not the same.

[Anonymous No.15086268]

>>15086259
>They don't even have onions or relish for the hotdogs at the store near me. Its just not the same.

The ((mask industry)) doesn't want you to know about the onions & relish cure

[Anonymous No.15087071]

>>15085683
>Because you don't understand the value of your time, sure.

Literally what the fuck are you on about? I don't care about what your lame office job makes you do. I'm speaking of free food in general.

[Anonymous No.15087166]

>>15085518
getting every person there a costco hotdog and soda. storing them in a big chest cooler thing. means you can keep the hotdogs hot and keep the ice in the soda from melting at the same time.

[Anonymous No.15087174]

>>15085518
>Is there any better way of feeding a crowd than Costco pizza?
Yes 7/11 pizzas

[Anonymous No.15087375]

> people in this thread calling pizzas pie
Can you burgers pls not?

[Anonymous No.15087383]

Will Costco ever spinoff their pizza division into a separate chain?

[Anonymous No.15088577]

>>15087383
Probably never. They sell their pizzas at cost or at a loss as a draw to get shoppers in the warehouse

[Anonymous No.15088592]

Baskets of bread and fish. Can't argue with Jesus, my man.

[Anonymous No.15088614]

>>15085651
any time I'm at walmart and I see one of these on clearance I have to buy it

[Anonymous No.15089876]

>>15087166
This, I'm dead certain that costco hotdogs are sold at a loss, they're so comically cheap. Usually come with a massive drink too.

[Anonymous No.15089929]

>>15085518
I'm used to eating a whole pizza by myself.

[Anonymous No.15090990]

>>15089876
The price has been the same since the 1980s. They definitely are. And the drink is only 20oz
>>15089929
A Costco pizza is nearly 4500Cal

[Anonymous No.15091324]

>>15085970
glad you liked the oc costcocomboposter

[Anonymous No.15091345]

>>15086034
>11 years into my professional career
>at your desk, you work

TOP KEK I get that you're giddy that you're making close to six figures but jesus I can't imagine not being able to stand up for yourself about not working during lunch

[Anonymous No.15093002]

>>15085656
notice how I'm the only one who replied to your post

[Anonymous No.15093014]

>>15093002
Because they were asleep and are now waking up fucking retard?

[Anonymous No.15093027]

>>15093014
nope, because it was dumb

[Anonymous No.15093127]

>>15085835
Yeah, sounds like bullshit. The one I go to has windows where you can seem them make everything

[Anonymous No.15093148]

>>15085931
Makes sense, but only if you've never had a single original thought in your life. It works on paper, but its not like you're getting a full hour of real work during that catered lunch. Only absolute idiots think of profits like this

[Anonymous No.15093371]

>>15085518
Costco pizza is garbage. It's 90% shitty bread

[Anonymous No.15093453]

>>15091345
No, I take my lunch. I leave the building and go somewhere, whether I eat or not. I'm just saying I can't sit at my desk and eat in 20 minutes then spend the next 40 minutes reading a book or playing Nintendo Switch, I have to be looking active.

Not that I'd want to do any of those things anyways. I want to leave the building. I'm working remote because of covid right now, but in normal times, literally my only chance to see the sun in fall/winter is while on my lunch break. I arrive to work in mostly darkness and leave in darkness.

[Anonymous No.15093743]

>>15088577
So they say, but ready made food from grocery stores, Costco included, always use food that is older than their newest shipments. Most of that stuff would eventually be thrown out so even if they're not making money, it is still a way to recoup costs.

[Anonymous No.15093751]

>>15085518
I just make like 10 cups of rice and tell them to have at it.

[Anonymous No.15094178]

>>15085626
Most of the world is lactose intolerant.

I'm vegan btw.