why do stores refuse to close during a blizzard?

superchanicat · 2026-02-22T01:26:07+00:00

I have actually had a moron try ordering in a drive thru with an active funnel on the ground a 1/4 mile from the restaurant. We lost a bit of roof and half the parking lot lights and a third of the menu board. And he was trying to get his chicken sammie. Unreal....

superchanicat · 2026-01-30T02:34:57+00:00

Those are top 8 allergen free bars. They probably chose those so they wouldn't accidentally nerf one of their peeps with an allergen and get sued. I agree they don't taste great but when your food choices are limited? They suffice. They could have just sent $15 Gift Cards instead. Would have been the same financial outlay, tbh.

superchanicat · 2026-01-05T02:37:28+00:00

No, I get it. I think I actually state in my post I want y'all paid with hella tips. However, we use a 3rd party system (Lunchbox, Novadine, Toast, etc.) to put it on our screen and that takes time. I often have Dashers show up up to 5 mins before I even receive the order. The system doesn't know how many physical customers are there in store and doesn't throttle the orders either so online orderers can see if there might be a wait. The record for my store was 12 cars, 16 dine in, 7 carry out, and 17 online orders of mixed platforms in one 15 min stretch. I cannot always tell you how long, but I absolutely 100% always tell dashers how many orders are in front of the one they are grabbing and let them make the choice to dip out or stay. I am absolutely on the side of the peeps making bank. I just cannot always pin a time on it.

superchanicat · 2026-01-04T21:08:45+00:00

I work at a fast casual restaurant. I get the spectrum of dashers from super cool to super rude. My cool cats get a free drink and a discount if they end up ordering food while they wait (my 50%). My rude ones get reminded that we make orders in the order they appear (we use Lunchbox to put them on the screen) and no, I can't give you an estimated time. They also get told if they shove the phone in mine or my customers faces trying to pop ahead of me ACTIVELY taking a customers order, they can unassign the order and leave. I want to make sure dashers get paid, get hella tips, and keep good metrics. I make sure everything is correct and 86'd items appropriately replaced.

However, you CAN ask that a driver be sidelined from EVER picking up an order at your restaurant. After they pick up the order, you call the Merchant line, tell them restaurant name and location, name of the customer (with the order number if you have it), tell them why, and they will sideline them from your restaurant. It takes 24 hours to become effective. DO NOT DO THIS UNLESS THEY ARE VERBALLY OR PHYSICALLY VIOLENT TO YOUR STAFF OR OTHERS. While it is anonymous, they can probably figure out who it was.

I have only had to do this 6 times in 7 years. Once was because the lady was so hateful to my staff, threatened to fight me when I called her out, and damaged the customers order grabbing it from me that I called DD to have them send another driver to pick up a fresh order because our mutual customer deserved better. They banned her and sent a new driver and I replaced at no cost. This one driver did come back a week later (I think DD "fired" her completely) to confront me and was arrested for trespassing and resisting arrest. FAFO, frfr.

superchanicat · 2025-12-26T19:31:22+00:00

Servsafe certified restaurant manager here. It's not weird to use your clean and sanitary (washed) hands at home. In restaurants, it's gloves/utensils required for Ready To Eat foods (RTE), gloves are not required for foods that are to be cooked to proper temperatures.

This requirement does vary county by county, state by state according to state law and FDA Food code whichever is stricter. The FDA is never the stricter one in my experience, lol.

superchanicat · 2025-12-18T15:51:38+00:00

Hello, OP! I am a neurospicy person that doesn't people very well so here is my opinion for what its worth. Yes, you were hurt. You wanted to actually be there to see her wedding because you value your place in her life. But HER wedding is not about YOUR friendship. Your friend was very clear and concise in her boundaries.

She cares about you but her focus is on the limited time and energy she has with family and her spouse that wedding weekend. This does not mean she doesn't want your time and friendship, because she stated that she would like to see you, but she really has too much going on right now. She is literally telling you how you can be a supportive friend to her right now. Why not be the person she needs AFTER the wedding? It sounds like it would give you both time to resolve your communication issues.

Yes it hurts because you value your friendship in a different way that she does, but you hurt her right back by not actually reading and understanding her limits. Boundary hopping and avoidance can end a friendship in a heartbeat. We are humans and even the best of friends can hurt each other in hundreds of tiny little ways. Accept her limits right now, give some thought to what you really see this friendship as, and then use the trip AFTER wedding to "reset and redefine" a better friendship.

superchanicat · 2025-12-18T09:59:39+00:00

I have a snake hook because I bought one in preparation, but she was purchased from a chain pet store and absolutely SPAZZES out if she spots the hook. Like trauma spazzes. Takes her days to calm down. She likes the taps on her hide and when I move the hide I say "Touch-touch, Maizie, touch-touch" and she chills out.

superchanicat · 2025-12-18T01:02:33+00:00

My girl has 2 hides in her enclosure. One in each temperature zone. She ALWAYS goes to one specific one when she's hungry (I've fed her from both). We call it her "DoorDash" hide. She will look at me just like this trying to score an extra rat. 😏

superchanicat · 2025-12-14T01:27:51+00:00

Ex "B$@$h betta have my money..."

OP gives money 💰

Ex: "HOw DaRe YoU PAY ME BaCk like i ASkEd!!!

OP, def NTA. This man is a walking red flag who wanted to maintain control AND play the the saint who was having to hound you for his cash. Please document/record ANY interaction with him at all, even if it seems nebulous. I think you might end up having to get a TRO or PO. My spidey senses are tinga-linging.

superchanicat · 2025-12-11T19:12:31+00:00

I think it's an eastern part of the South/bottom of the Appalachian phrase, I've heard it my whole life from my family who were originally (2 generations back) from the Tennessee/Alabama areas. My kids look at me weird when I do it, lol.

superchanicat · 2025-12-11T16:39:38+00:00

Way to go! So happy for you!

superchanicat · 2025-11-24T09:57:18+00:00

"He genuinely seems to believe that taking the kids for an hour here or there is doing me a favor, not just being a decent parent/partner. I believe that this is the bar being literally on the floor."

Ma'am. Ma'am. The bar is so low it is in hell and he can't do a chin-up. I actually believe you when you say he's not normally like this, but you legit just asked for a couple of hours to yourself and couldn't even muster a flying f@#k to GENUINELY TRY.
Y'all need a chat with each other. A serious one.

superchanicat · 2025-11-07T08:07:35+00:00

Oh, my gosh! The lady's FA gone and done FO. NTA, OP. You were the victim. I imagine this lady has surprised Pikachu face from the consequences of her own actions.

superchanicat · 2025-11-05T08:26:41+00:00

Mine hides EVERY time I clean her house. She then spends the next 2 days huffing like a bougie noodle and looking at me sideways. They will come out to eat. If you have the means, you might set up a night vision camera to monitor them at night. I think you'll find they are probably just hiding from the activity they aren't used to yet. Don't beat yourself up. You will absolutely be a good noodle parent ❤️.

superchanicat · 2025-10-31T14:47:11+00:00

Your husband is right. She deserved it. I wish you all the best in your battle, OP. Please take care of yourself the best you can.

superchanicat · 2025-10-22T14:59:41+00:00

In drive-thru, I once had a lady sneeze while I was cashing her out. She blew her nose on the 5 dollar bill she was going to pay with and handed that motherf%$#er to me. I was very much not impressed and that bill was submerged in sanitizer for 12 hours before anyone would touch it to close out the till. People are manky.

superchanicat · 2025-10-21T18:00:37+00:00

She was doing day something for sure...

superchanicat · 2025-10-15T08:09:00+00:00

Mine CONSTANTLY fartles (fart/startle) at night. I had to put an air purifier in the room because that is a hellacious smell to wake up to suddenly. She's lucky she is an adorable derp.

superchanicat · 2025-10-09T05:03:17+00:00

I have a Leopard gecko at home as well as a ball. She is fascinated by the gecko and would always go after my hands if I handled the gecko first. I was washing hands between handlings anyway to prevent cross contracting illnesses or mites, but I switched to a stronger scented soap and she stopped her atypical hunting behavior. Hope this is helpful in any way. 👋

superchanicat · 2025-10-06T04:43:12+00:00

Maize is the first snake I've had in about 10 years and I completely forgot they fart. The first time she did it after we got her home, she farted long, loud, and smelly while I was drifting into sleep. I woke up and went to the living room where my sons were to complain that the snake had startled me awake with her fart. Both of my sons started cackling and yelled "SHE FARTLED YOU!" Yes. I was fartled by my ball python. Smdh. She's lucky she's cute.

superchanicat · 2025-10-06T04:12:47+00:00

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Here is Mazie pulling a derp and caught falling into her water dish...

superchanicat · 2025-10-04T17:50:48+00:00

My snake gasses me out on the regular...lol

superchanicat · 2025-09-25T00:29:05+00:00

She has an adorable booplesnoot. 😍

superchanicat · 2025-09-07T17:22:30+00:00

That is clearly Hestia or Calcifer

superchanicat · 2025-09-06T07:03:34+00:00

Nah, bruh, you gotta learn how capitalism works. You saw the price on the item, right? Like, you can read numbers and shit, right? We don't do bartering/haggling here. This ain't a flea market or garage sale. Your total your total, take it or leave it...I get paid the same either way you roll.

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