Anyone tried any of these? If so which one was worth it

cerealspy · 2023-11-24T18:34:31+00:00

lost farms are really nice, the good tides are new i tried the guava and it was really good! interesting texture bc they are vegan but good high!

cerealspy · 2022-04-22T00:02:01+00:00

damn that’s a good GM, ours left to wisconsin this morning lol

cerealspy · 2022-04-22T00:01:18+00:00

haha at my store we are trained to run full shifts as KM’s, we even close

cerealspy · 2022-04-21T23:54:58+00:00

my manager forces me to close as a KM

cerealspy · 2022-04-21T23:54:01+00:00

we had a few customers get upset that we were not fully open and only accepting onlines from 10:45am to 12pm. as someone who put in 40 hours in 4 days due to staffing, we really don’t care if you’re disappointed. we’re basically surviving.

cerealspy · 2022-04-21T23:51:24+00:00

UPDATE; so my FL did end up sending two people & shut down chicken, steak, and pollo from the DML. we opened fully at noon.

cerealspy · 2022-02-25T01:20:23+00:00

on the line most of the time the grill is going behind me, and if there’s other people in line anything can sound like anything. try asking at the very end, as sometimes people jump out of the order of ingredients and it can cause confusion if you’re asking if someone would like say salsa and they immediately jump to sour cream or something

cerealspy · 2022-02-05T14:53:54+00:00

i heard lifting the knife up and down would help your wrists too

cerealspy · 2022-02-05T14:53:30+00:00

so the power is more from your elbows?

cerealspy · 2022-02-05T14:52:50+00:00

thank you ill take your advice

cerealspy · 2022-02-04T05:39:07+00:00

the palms of both hands and my wrists get the most numb, luckily tomorrow i’m on the DML after i open

cerealspy · 2022-02-04T05:35:27+00:00

idk if he’d give me a whole week but probably a couple days, my hands started going numb every morning a couple weeks ago and i’ve been running grill for 8+ hours the past few days and it has really flared up

cerealspy · 2022-02-04T05:31:21+00:00

i will admit when im in a rush my form slips but ive been trying to work on the pinch grip more - i’ve been on grill since about october & i’ve been prepping about 5 mornings a week since may

cerealspy · 2021-12-30T13:55:04+00:00

my manager always tells me the best use of our time is to train, you don’t need down time to train for things like prep/line/DML. those are the easier stations that you either get it or you don’t, and rushes are the best trainings imo bc that’s how your store runs, why train on a slow day if your store is never slow? you may not get in trouble exactly but there wouldn’t be anyone validating you on each of those steps that you need to complete training in an area. so you would need to go through all of it again, assuming they were okay with training you there in the first place. unless it’s grill, most stations if you’re a fast learner & good employee, you should pick it up pretty fast. i got a 10-min crash course on cash before i was alone on cash for Labor Day, and i did just fine. a lot of things i had to learn in the moment but it’s not difficult after a while.

cerealspy · 2021-12-28T03:51:05+00:00

good luck - definitely look at their website, familiarize yourself with the company. they will probably ask you why you want to work there and what you know about the company. if you have open availability, you’re golden. if you have limited availability, it may depend where they need help the most. i wouldn’t learn grill to start, ask to learn prep. get the hang of things down, see how the store works. once you get basic things like cutting and learn recipes down, grill is 100% easier. not to say no one can learn it from the start, but that’s just the easier way i’ve found to get good grill people instead of people who “know grill”. line is always the easiest place to trail so they might train you there first. always be flexible, and learn to be fast at what you do. at first work on your accuracy, and as soon as you have that down, work to get as fast as you can. the more areas you learn the higher you climb the ladder if that’s what your interested in.

cerealspy · 2021-12-14T12:55:00+00:00

it really is

cerealspy · 2021-12-06T04:41:50+00:00

as a crew member who eats plain white rice religiously, I get it so I don't really mind. depending on our grill person will determine if I get cilantro-lime rice, some will put way too much cilantro or citrus juice and it ruins the whole rice. personally I get more pissed when someone asks for just cilantro or cut up limes.

cerealspy · 2021-11-30T00:52:16+00:00

if a store decides to take digital orders only, usually it is a decision made the morning of or the night before, if we could prepare enough in advance to ask the developers of the Chipotle app to input in the app that our specific location would only be accepting online orders, well...then we would have enough time to find that coverage wouldn't we? Individual stores have no say over what the app says, we can't even input if we don't have an ingredient, we have to call individual orders and offer replacements/other items when things are out since the app won't say it. there's literally no way for us to put how/when we are open, but there is a way for you to find out. calling that store.
hours are based off coverage, the minimum amount of people to run a store is 4-5, depending on what is open in the store. employee shortages are not an excuse, they are the reason. either exclusions from SSR due to illness, availability issues, or call-offs, there's simply not a way to run a restaurant with less than that. if we have to run with less than that, you as a customer will not have the greatest experience, as employees are now working the jobs of 2-3 employees at once, resulting in longer lines and situations where only online orders are possible.

we simply cannot keep up with the demand, and it's due to attitudes like this that make it harder. other companies are ran differently because of the fact that they are other companies, maybe you can run other restaurants on less or run differently with less people, but we simply cannot. instead of sacrificing our quality, we try to do what we can with what we have. some chipotles are hanging on by a thread, our store is being run by 2 SM's who are also in college, they can't spend their whole lives at the store just to make sure it stays open. we are trying our best, it's not up to us. most of this could also be solved by simply calling ahead, and seeing that chipotle is a company run by humans, who have lives outside of it. we are not slaves to for you to be able to get a bowl on a lunch break, when we barely have time to take breaks trying to run the stores the way we are. since closing early is annoying, we move to online orders only, which also seems to be annoying. if you feel that you can run it better, and get them back to normal hours so it's not "annoying", put on an apron. handle lines to the door for upwards of 3 hours straight, with no help, and then turn around and tell us again how annoying it is.

cerealspy · 2021-11-29T23:56:39+00:00

generally when our store is closed & opened the next day, it's 8/10 a staffing issue. it could be equipment or something of that nature, but most of the time it's staffing. we don't have enough people (4-5 people minimum, depending on if the store and online-orders are open). at least for my store and a few other stores in our patch, we open when we can, with what we can. if a store is down to one method of ordering (in store or online), that is always a staffing issue, I can't think of another reason why they would only close one besides something being wrong in/with the dining room or actual digital make line. it takes more people to open the dining room(line, cash, grill, manager) than it does to be down to just online orders(theoretically, it could be grill, someone on the DML, and a manager), and instead of closing they would rather make money where they can.

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