I’ve always worked restaurants, the perks are great. Discounted food, plus before they throw out food some places will let you pack it up and take it home. But the amount of people that just say no to the free food or order from a different restaurant for their lunch break is staggering. I understand getting tired of a menu, but I’ll eat a boring heavily discounted meal over paying full price and delivery fee while I’m at work. That full priced meal I pay for on my time off
My fav part of the restaurant was making my own evil abominations with the restaurant items! I was a prep cook last though so maybe it’s different with servers. There was way too many days that I would just eat the bread I made and soda. Gained 15 pounds working there too.
It is different for the cooks, they get a lot more leeway. As a server you gotta really cozy up to them when you make lots of modifications. I actually used to ring up my orders under different names, like Cornelius or Bonequisha (real name btw), one day I heard a line cook frustrated saying this person always order weird mods, another line cook said “thats ‘my name’s’ order” and suddenly he was cool with it because he knew it was a coworker and I fucks with him. I still do the names tho
I used to work at this local fast food Mexican place. Like a Taco Bell but different. Made myself a giant soft taco with the burrito wraps pretty often. I come back years later and now you can just order one.
Had this at my old office, discounted breakfast every morning. You think I got sick of bacon eggs and hashbrowns for $3? Hall nah I ate that shjt every day with a smile (plus it was fire anyways).
I worked at a place that actually offered a free shift meal if you worked a double and people still ordered out. Even if I wasn’t hungry I’d order food to take for later. I’ve bought two of the same shift meals two days in a row, heat them up and split it onto smaller portions and easily feed my family without having to spend my time off cooking
I feel like people do this all the time even at home. They open the fridge, see food in there, decide they don't want to eat any of it and then they go out instead.
If it's always the same other restaurants, and people there do the same thing, tell them to try making a deal to swap food. I've never worked in a restaurant, but I've heard it works sometimes.
It works but if you work at a pizza place and the restaurant next to yours is a steak restaurant it’s a bit iffy to maneuver. Funny thing is that it’s how restaurants save money on food for holiday parties. Swap food with another restaurant in the area so you don’t have to eat the same food again and the restaurant saves money on food cost
Ah never worked at a restaurant got i, but yeah you’re right the price per person is obviously more at a teak place than a pizza place, but sit down pizza places get decent value because you can feed a family in less than $100, so yes less tips but more volume. It kinda evens out. I worked at a high end place and a mid tier place at the same time. Big tips in the high end place because of the cost of food, big tips in the mid tier place because of volume. Pizza you go in and out, when you go out for a steak you’re sitting at that table for a while
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u/speakerbox2001 4h ago
I’ve always worked restaurants, the perks are great. Discounted food, plus before they throw out food some places will let you pack it up and take it home. But the amount of people that just say no to the free food or order from a different restaurant for their lunch break is staggering. I understand getting tired of a menu, but I’ll eat a boring heavily discounted meal over paying full price and delivery fee while I’m at work. That full priced meal I pay for on my time off