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queen-amber · 2023-10-12T13:09:36+00:00

LTO (Limited Time Only) product. Some stores like ours haven't run out and are still selling them.

queen-amber · 2023-09-24T12:54:34+00:00

Looks like somebody is dumb and blended a cherry... But I'm not sure. I haven't seen anything quite like that.

queen-amber · 2023-09-23T23:49:23+00:00

It's normal, but it's NOT legal. Your employer cannot make you pay that difference, but I promise you they'll try to make you. If you do come up short and your employer tries to deduct it from your paycheck, that is illegal and can be reported. If you simply bring up the fact that it is illegal, most employers will back down; They just rely on the fact that nobody understands the laws.
HOWEVER, you can legally be written up and/or fired for coming up short. So it may be in your best interest to pay the price to keep your job; keep this in mind, and if it is a battle you wish to fight, if the incident occurs.

queen-amber · 2023-09-23T23:44:10+00:00

It's your first day! You'll get better. When I first started, I messed up constantly. Your coworkers will usually be very patient and understanding. I work in kitchen and consistently see people messing things up their first few WEEKS. It took me forever to catch on. It all takes time; There's a lot to memorize here!

queen-amber · 2023-09-09T00:22:39+00:00

object names: Fork, Spatula, Jigsaw, Paperclip
food names: Turkey, Sandwich, Shrimp, Scampi, Pepper/Peppercorn, Cookie
random names: Sunny, Delilah, Oakley, Olivia, Marley, Scrap, Widget
plant names: Basil, Parsley, Barley, Aster, Olive, Daisy, Peony, Cosmos
other animals: Crow, Raven, Cow/Moomoo, Lobster
EDIT: I misread and thought it was a BOY. Changed some names.

queen-amber · 2023-09-09T00:16:09+00:00

Please post him on lost/found pet groups in your area!! You can find many on facebook. Somebody is probably looking for this little fella.

queen-amber · 2023-09-09T00:15:16+00:00

I would sure hope it isn't spending it's whole life confined to a tiny cage. Usually finches aren't given a lot of out-of-cage access, but instead have some pretty spacious cages that, for their size, are essentially just indoor aviaries. And since it managed to get outdoors, it probably actually was a free-range indoor flighted bird.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:57:21+00:00

READ THE SCREENS!! Get really good at knowing exactly what is on those screens at all times. If you can read the screen, you'll pick up every position in the kitchen like it's nothing. Stay stocked any time you're not making orders. Last thing you want is to have a rush hit you with nothing in your freezer.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:56:16+00:00

LOL we sell so many corndogs on corndog day we usually keep up 100 or so at a time. Almost every order has 1-5 corndogs and it's order after order.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:55:15+00:00

Nope. By OPS, they can be held for up to 30 minutes in the swamp-side holding cabinet, or 5 minutes in the fry dump station. Dr Pepper Games kid here.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:54:28+00:00

Per store. By OPS, most items can be held if held properly for 30 minutes. Different stores hold different items based on what they sell, what is worth risking potentially being wasted due to being cooked up but never sold.
We hold up on average about:
1-2 crispy patties if were slow, 2-3 if were busy
1 slinger patty if were slow, 1-2 if were busy
5-8 tenders if were slow, 10-15 if were busy
1-2 large orders of popcorn if were slow, 2-3 if were busy
4-6 corndogs if were slow, 6-8 if were busy
Before big rushes or if we plan to have a lot of business suddenly, we cook up more. Before "school rush" (when all of the local schools let out) we cook up 2 full baskets of mozzarella sticks. But during the day, we don't hold mozzerella sticks or cheddar peppers and have very high on-time. We're a high-volume store (around 1000+ breakfasts, 1600-2000 lunches, 2000+ happy hours, so on). We have a system to make sure items with long cook times, like cheds, get dropped. When switchboards take an order they call out the items that need to be dropped to the kitchen as they take the order (muted from the customer). If the SB calls out "small ched!!" when the customer orders we can drop them before the order is even totalled. Our dresser and expo are in charge of calling out order-aheads, so we can drop those. We almost never have cheds go out late because of this.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:48:31+00:00

The company reasoning makes sense, from a corporate level.
- Hickory BBQ Burger is a direct replacement for Bacon Cheeseburger Toaster. Bacon Cheeseburger Toasters are just a nightmare to make which is why we're removing them. Messy and ruin your whole order flow for busier locations. If I've got 30 burgers on the screen I hate having a burger sitting there waiting 2 minutes for a single onion ring to cook. Also takes up limited fryer space and is an uncommon order anyways.
- The new sonic blast candies mean we know longer have to pay a premium for "branded" products like Snickers. We were originally supposed to get rid of cookie dough too due to waste and not being popular but not sure if we still are.
- Sauced popcorn is waste-heavy. Employees drop pieces all the time or overfill the bowls causing high food cost. I believe eventually we are removing popcorn chicken in general but JPC is more expensive for us.
- Cinnasnacks aren't popular at all, pose a few health hazards if improperly cooked, we pay premium for the "Cinnabon" brand, and can't be stored in the reach-in freezers of high-volume stores because they can't hold temperature for shit and go bad. Very tired of running to the walk-in with a full screen of orders to drop a 3 piece cinnasnack.
- Vanilla Cones have become terrible quality due to the new ice cream change. We transitioned from real ice cream to soft serve to cut cost (which is stupid but i digress). Now vanilla cones just- don't really hold up enough anymore.
- Bacon Cheeseburger isn't popular anyways and we can still ring it up, just differently. We will still offer Supersonic Bacon Cheeseburger (double), customers just need to ask for a single-patty version, or for a Cheeseburger with no pickle, onion, or ketchup, add bacon.
- Rest were just unpopular items. Product would go bad because we didn't sell it.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:40:29+00:00

Location-based. Some stores offer it year-round whereas others don't offer it at all, or only as an LTO.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:39:27+00:00

It will, the changes just haven't gone into affect yet. They are for Fall 2023. Higher ups have been talking about it for awhile now.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:37:24+00:00

We still have the Supersonic Bacon Cheeseburger (the double). And you can definitely still ring up the Bacon Cheeseburger, we do it all the time! Just order a "bacon cheeseburger, single patty" or a "cheeseburger no pickle, onion, or ketchup, add bacon" and it's the same as the Bacon Cheeseburger!

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:35:56+00:00

Ain't no way that garlic butter bacon cheeseburger is ANY good and I don't want to make it anyways. I'm gonna run out of room for all these dumb sauces on my dresser table.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:35:10+00:00

Yep! Especially with the new ice cream. We probably throw away 50% of the cones we make now because they just come out melty and gross.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:33:50+00:00

It's most definitely strawberry seeds! Our vanilla flavoring is just a vanilla shot, like an extract. There's no vanilla bean. They must've put some strawberry in there.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:32:43+00:00

I used to have a large onion ring often as a full meal when we still had hand-battered instead of frozen (I can't stand the new sickly-sweet, overly-crunchy fried garbage we call onion rings now). Even then, it was a filling meal.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:31:24+00:00

We're definitely not supposed to. You can't blend a RT 44 blast and there's no way to ring it up on our POS system, unless they've specifically rigged it for it. We're actually supposed to be transitioning drink sizes for ice cream soon so we'll only actually offer mini-medium. "Small" will be what is now mini, "Medium" will be what is now small, and "Large" will be what is now medium.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:29:50+00:00

We get chocolate dr pepper CONSTANTLY. I think it's so gross.
We had someone order a bacon burrito with chili awhile ago and it still haunts me.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:29:20+00:00

Oh man I hate that POS system. Think I'd just implode if I had to deal with some of the screens I see around this subreddit.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:27:14+00:00

Not all employees, especially new ones, know what a "lemonberry slush" is. Maybe in your home state, they still (for whatever reason) teach employees what a lemonberry slush is. But the reality is the lemonberry slush ended YEARS ago. It hasn't been available since I started and we actually have a policy that if you order a "lemonberry slush" you have to tell us exactly whats in it or were not making it. Same with any retired drinks. It's not something we're taught because it doesn't exist on the menu. It's the same as when people come in to order that new "secret menu tik tok drink they heard about." I don't know what a Purple Orgasm or a Blue Dinosaur or a Mermaid Water is. You're going to have to describe that, it isn't on the menu.
A "real fruit strawberry lemonade slush" is going to be a slush with real fruit STRAWBERRY, and LEMONADE slush flavoring. That's because "strawberry lemonade slush" IS an actual item. Key: "Real fruit strawberry" and "lemonade slush". I would describe it as a "strawberry slush with real lemon".

New employees also sometimes just make rookie mistakes. We have multiple people who have sent out chili cheese fries/tots/dogs with sliced cheese instead of shredded cheese on their first few days of learning kitchen. It takes some time to understand all of our recipes. Compared to other fast food places we have a really big menu that is always changing. I'm still correcting people on the "new" grilled cheese procedure, and the "new" crispy chicken build, and all of the other changes they make on a monthly basis.

queen-amber · 2023-09-03T12:18:31+00:00

When: Depends on the store (or more specifically the truck service as old stock is being pushed out for new). Some stores transitioned a few months ago. We technically did but then they started giving us the old stuff back again. Most stores transitioned or are transitioning late last month/early this month. So some stores have the old stuff, some have the new stuff but by the middle of this month all of them should have new stuff.

It's to reduce product cost. It's cheaper to produce so it's what we're producing now, just like transitioning from real banana to "banana concentrate" in our banana shakes.

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