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Anyone ever work fast food? Post some stories in here

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I have a small paper to due and it focuses on what it is like behind the counter at a fast food restaurant. We are supposed to ask someone who works in fast food, so since I don't know anybody in real life, ATOT is the answer 🙂

If you could just post some experiences such as your first day, or worst day, etc, that would really help.

Thanks in advance
 
My best friend worked at Taco Bell, and you wouldn't believe some of the crazy shit that happened.
 
At Mcdonald's, the industrial strength microwave ovens will actually light a GI Joe on fire after approx 45 secs.


Straws melt quite effectively when placed in the frier.

When making pancakes, cooking one side, flipping, then slathering the cooked side in melted butter makes for better pancakes than I possibly have ever eaten anywhere else.

I can't think of much else. We were pretty tame.
 
one time I had a guy yell at me for picking up a donut wrong and I started crying (I was 16). Then another customer told him to back off and then they went to the parking lot to fight and then the police came and I got to go home early. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: eakers
one time I had a guy yell at me for picking up a donut wrong and I started crying (I was 16). Then another customer told him to back off and then they went to the parking lot to fight and then the police came and I got to go home early. 🙂
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Were they there for the fight or the donuts?
 
Started at DQ when 15, made $3.85 an hour when the minimum wage was something like $4.25. I guess there are exemptions to the rule Worked the front counter until I turned 16, and then was able to cook. Overall, I consider it a good experience as it was a fast paced environment and challenged me to do better.

Good enough that I am considering buying into a franchise as I near retirement (20+ years away, lol).

 
I worked at burger king during high school... I don't really have any stories. it was all just unbelievably boring.

punch in, do literally the exact same things every day, take a required break, go back to doing the exact same things, and punch out on the dot. managers (and anyone over the age of 18 who wasn't either illegal or infirm) were dicks, and customers were generally condescending assholes. I remember this one lady got my manager to write me up because I wasn't looking friendly enough. it was pretty tiring too, since you weren't able to sit down unless you were on a break ("if you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean"). conditions inside were clean enough, but I hated having to go out back by the dumpsters to break boxes.

the only perk was getting together with the other high school kids after work and getting drunk / breaking into empty houses. I went to an all-boys private high school, so my BK coworkers were my only real interaction with actual public school kids (everyone in my high school was like a huge meganerd). also, fresh burgers right off the grill aren't half bad... they're a ton better than anything that's been sitting in the warmer.

it's been like 9 years and I still prepare condiments on my burgers in the exact same way that it was drilled into me without even thinking about it.
 
We put bugs is the fryer. You wouldn't belive how many drugs get used at a fast food resturaunt. Sometimes we would run out of soap....and no could wash their hands.
 
My friends would always get shitfaced on Friday and Saturday in the back of Taco Bell. A big scary lesbian had sex with her girlfriend in the freezer. She always wore a big 12 inch strap-on. The same lesbian pissed in the jalepenos, which they gave to asshole customers and cops. A former employee snuck up into the ceiling through the bathroom and stole money after it closed. An employee did meth in the bathroom. One of the jocks from my high school had a thing with the manager (gay). Oh yeah, the steamer had alot of mold in it.
 
Originally posted by: nkgreen
My friends would always get shitfaced on Friday and Saturday in the back of Taco Bell. A big scary lesbian had sex with her girlfriend in the freezer. She always wore a big 12 inch strap-on. The same lesbian pissed in the jalepenos, which they gave to asshole customers and cops. A former employee snuck up into the ceiling through the bathroom and stole money after it closed. An employee did meth in the bathroom. One of the jocks from my high school had a thing with the manager (gay). Oh yeah, the steamer had alot of mold in it.
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Thanks but I don't think I can use any of that in my paper.... 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Quintox
Originally posted by: nkgreen
My friends would always get shitfaced on Friday and Saturday in the back of Taco Bell. A big scary lesbian had sex with her girlfriend in the freezer. She always wore a big 12 inch strap-on. The same lesbian pissed in the jalepenos, which they gave to asshole customers and cops. A former employee snuck up into the ceiling through the bathroom and stole money after it closed. An employee did meth in the bathroom. One of the jocks from my high school had a thing with the manager (gay). Oh yeah, the steamer had alot of mold in it.
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Thanks but I don't think I can use any of that in my paper.... 🙂
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What? Your professor won't like 12 inch strap ons? It's all about keeping the reader enticed 😉

haha 😛
 
I worked at a fast food joint for a little over a year. Your job description really isnt clarified much when you hired. My work varied from:

Pushing peoples non-running cars out of the drive thru

Replacing someones tire with a spare

Cleaning the always gross bathrooms

Fishing various things out of the frier

Becoming burnt by grease splashes by dumbasses working at the frier

Having to work with, and communicate with complete idiots

Getting drunk at the annual christmas party

Having the manager slip a little alcohol in your drink every once in a while

Eating fast food twice a day, most days, and not getting fat, sick, unhealthy, developing a strange illness, or having chemotherapy from a crippling cancer.

You get a lot of variety of people around. From the people you work with (which are probably dumbasses, ex-cons, or some other type of shady person), to people though the drive thru (which range from the strangest family ive seen, really crappy cars, to the extremely rare hot chick)

Why do I call my co-workers dumb(im not leaving myself out, im as dumb as the rest of them)? We all took shitty jobs that started around $.25 above minimum wage. We were either too lazy, had a bad background, or were to stupid to realize there were better jobs.

You also meet some real losers. My manager who aspired, it seemed, from the age of 15 to be the manager of this shitty place. An ex-con who, at the age of 55, is back working for $9 and hour.

Fast food sucks. Next time you go through the drive thru, give the person working it a tip, or at least say something encouraging. If they give you a weird look or just go "Okaayy" well, its probably because everyone else treats them like dirt.
 
I used to work at McDs in high school.

In case you don't know McDs and other fast food places keep "floats" of food stuffs that has been cooked for 15-30 mins. We used to get bitched at by management for having lots of waste so at night many employees in kitchen would just keep stuff in the heated cabinet for hours (side note: never order a filet o fish at closing time--it's likely to have sat there for a few hours).

One day while I was working there from dinner to close, some chicken nuggets fell on the floor when someone was scooping them off the rack (around dinner time). The rest of the shift people in the kitchen played floor hockey with them and kicked them around all over -- under the island food prep area (all dusty and nasty), over the soapy floors...everywhere.

Towards closing timesomeone who came through and ordered a 9pack of nuggets. We came up short and the douchebags I was working with didn't want to cook anymore because they were too lazy. One dude reached under the cabinet to where the nuggets had gone, picked them up, dusted em down and put them in the box then sent them on their merry way :laugh:

 
I got robbed at gunpoint right before closing. I guy with a halloween mask came in and stuck a gun in my face. I couldnt understand what he was saying and I thought it was my buddies playing a joke on me. When it dawned on me this was real I offered the cash and the coins. I was calm until I locked the door, then scared as hell.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
("if you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean")..
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*snip*

Hahaha my managers used to use the same expression. They'd never be happy even if it was clean, so you'd end up waving those towels around on the stainless steel for hours when it wasn't busy.

Wasn't that in Fast Times at Ridgemont High or something?

Did you ever get that nasty onion, mustard and pickle smell stained into your hands? I'd close one night and the next morning after showering for school I'd still have the nasty groady hands for the day.
 
Originally posted by: mattocs
You wouldn't belive how many drugs get used at a fast food resturaunt.
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:laugh:

We had one manager who always worked closing shift. He was a total pothead but looked completely respectable (he took the job so serious). Had kids, a wife, the whole thing. Around 40 years old.

At close he'd take us back to the walk in freezer area where there were no windows (not in the freezer itself mind you) and smoke us up a joint. We'd then run around high making all the food we could and play heavy metal with the night cleaning crew. Fun times :laugh:
 
I used to work at a Boston Market (used to be called Boston Chicken). The scandalous thing I remember is that a lot of the combo meals added up to be more expensive than if you bought the items all separately.
 
Originally posted by: Flyback
Originally posted by: mattocs
You wouldn't belive how many drugs get used at a fast food resturaunt.
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:laugh:

We had one manager who always worked closing shift. He was a total pothead but looked completely respectable (he took the job so serious). Had kids, a wife, the whole thing. Around 40 years old.

At close he'd take us back to the walk in freezer area where there were no windows (not in the freezer itself mind you) and smoke us up a joint. We'd then run around high making all the food we could and play heavy metal with the night cleaning crew. Fun times :laugh:
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Ah, food service.
 
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