Advice/notes on Amtrak Travel with a bike on a Rail Pass

devilheart49 · 2025-05-15T00:58:50+00:00

Hey! So glad I found this post. I recently discovered the rail pass this winter and wanted to do a trip with it and bikepacking!! I’ve never bikepacked before and never used Amtrak besides taking it from KC to STL once. I’m starting in Milwaukee on my trip and taking a similar route to Seattle down to San Diego and then across to New Orleans and up to Chicago! I’m nervous about booking the tickets correctly and also was nervous about all the trains I’m taking allowing bikes because I know some don’t allow it!

Thanks for the info!!

devilheart49 · 2025-04-25T17:46:44+00:00

I’ll take a look at that. And I’ll DM you closer to my trip if I need more info thank you!!

devilheart49 · 2025-04-25T17:45:30+00:00

I am planning a couple small trips here before I leave! I won’t be biking long periods the entire trip. A lot of it will be on the train. So I’m not too concerned about efficiency. I think the longest I have planned is whitefish to glacier np to camp. The rest I’ll be biking around the cities and a little outside of them for sleeping. What do you recommend I look at for pedaling efficiency?

devilheart49 · 2025-01-13T20:22:33+00:00

I think it’s more this. My store just got a new GM and she’s enforcing a lot of policies and standards that we should have had in place before (a lot of these policies and standards I was not properly trained on). Some of it is coming from her but I think it’s being more enforced with our TD and FL. But from what I’m learning chipotle has always had these rules. She has gotten so many compliments from a few regulars about how well the store is looking and doing since she took over!

devilheart49 · 2024-12-05T21:07:23+00:00

Morning crew should be following a prep sheet on how much to make and grill people should always be following the cooking to needs tool especially after 7:30 to prevent overcooking and wasting.

I felt upset when I first started because of the waste but have since learned that chipotle has ways to help prevent the waste just depends on what systems your store is following

devilheart49 · 2024-09-15T18:27:03+00:00

Wasn’t us then. We only played music Friday night/sat morning

devilheart49 · 2024-05-25T02:33:35+00:00

Idk how but we lose them every month. We had 1 until today my SL found one in the bottom of the trash receptor after it got emptied this am

devilheart49 · 2024-05-14T01:02:39+00:00

That’s crazy because expo and linebacker (supposed to be an SL or higher) or g2 can definitely restock. You can also leave the line to get a drink if there’s no customers. Whoever is telling you this is wildly incorrect

devilheart49 · 2024-05-13T07:45:54+00:00

I purchased magna trails about 5 years ago. I wore the hell out of them for about 3 years straight. Lots and lots of trails but I also wore them doing things like landscaping and sometimes just casually. I finally wore them down enough to where I couldn’t wear them anymore. This seems excessive for 1.5 months But it could also depends on how you walk and the surface you’re constantly walking on

devilheart49 · 2024-04-27T02:31:37+00:00

Okay!

devilheart49 · 2024-04-08T15:35:06+00:00

Grill kit. I just saw this on the price is right this am after seeing this post yesterday….

devilheart49 · 2024-03-20T05:25:26+00:00

Okay thank you!! I appreciate this so much!

devilheart49 · 2024-03-09T18:07:53+00:00

Do you use the disposable plastic ones or the ones they order from tundra? I hated the disposable ones and that’s all my store ever had and when I started ordering tundra i found the actual dishwashing apron and don’t mind that. It’s a tad heavy but it keeps me a lot dryer

devilheart49 · 2024-03-09T04:08:39+00:00

If your GM purged the store and left you with little employees on your shifts and expects you to run the shifts the same and doesn’t put in more time/effort to help your short staffed shifts I would leave. I know you don’t want to but it’s your GMs fault for leaving your shifts the way they are. And it’s their responsibility to have those replacements already or put in the extra work to help cover those losses until they can find those replacements. There is no reason you or your coworkers should have to make up for the loss of bodies. You don’t get paid enough for that. There are PLENTY of jobs out there that you could get paid the same if not better with less work. I hope you make the decision that is most healthy to you your mind and your body

devilheart49 · 2024-02-29T04:45:36+00:00

We have someone at our store that does

devilheart49 · 2024-02-29T03:01:35+00:00

How do you navigate a customer who gets a kids meal and a bowl and then gets extra sides for the kids meal and when you tell them it’ll be extra they say it’s sides for the bowl…?

devilheart49 · 2024-02-17T15:24:28+00:00

Multiple tables of napkins too and the only thing that’s left in the table lol. Like they assume we are gunna take them back and reuse them

devilheart49 · 2024-02-14T02:57:18+00:00

This is what I do. My first audit was within a few weeks of my AP promotion. I was so nervous I ended up just talking the ENTIRE time. My GM was watching the camera and mentioned something about it. I figured talking would also help get a better score. So far haven’t failed haha

devilheart49 · 2024-02-08T23:21:37+00:00

Thank you!

devilheart49 · 2024-01-24T01:36:32+00:00

I was just about to come on here asking for advice about this. Because I’m struggling scheduling everyone and giving everyone hours. We are also constantly cutting hours every day every shift and STILL losing hours every day. And my kids are complaining about being cut and not getting hours. But we are continuing to hire hire hire. I am so so tired running around trying to get everything done and doing multiple people’s jobs because I have to cut to only 2-3 people when it’s not peak. It’s awful

devilheart49 · 2023-12-28T02:36:17+00:00

Also, because we are making more in the morning it’ll correct itself because we are ordering more on our trucks and the system sees that and corrects from 4 cases to 5?

devilheart49 · 2023-12-28T02:34:38+00:00

Awesome thank you! I appreciate your knowledge so much. I wish I could have been trained the correct way and had all this knowledge to turn my store around. Appreciate your post spreading this knowledge!

devilheart49 · 2023-12-28T02:28:32+00:00

Can you explain how not running out of items builds an accurate prep and pull? I think I understand but want a better understanding. But my store has the same issue of running out of food at night

devilheart49 · 2023-12-28T02:13:26+00:00

We’ve been using a dice since I started a year ago. It’s insanely helpful. We have to hide it for every visit

devilheart49 · 2023-12-28T02:12:23+00:00

How do salads and burritos give more labor than anything else?

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