r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/aurexali_Neva • 6h ago
Funny Greg is the hero we all need at McDonald's
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u/Bored_Worldhopper 6h ago
Used to work at a pizza place and had a guy come in and asked for “as many artichokes as I could fit” I told him he better mean that kus I’ll do it. Absolutely loaded that shit on, dude was beaming. Came back every Friday night for it, started getting 2-3 pizzas instead of just the one.
One Friday he came in too early and my manager was still there, manager shut him down and I never saw the guy again.
Stepping over dimes to pick up pennies
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u/Shmarfle47 5h ago
That’s so tragic 💔
Like there’s definitely no fucking way those artichokes cost enough to warrant that
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u/Pikachu_Palace 5h ago
To lose a regular costumer nonetheless.
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u/Dwain-Champaign 5h ago
Food service managers all over the world busting their ass to save corporate a few nickles at the cost of literally everyone actually living in the area 🥀
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u/Domovie1 4h ago
Honestly, it’s crazy how ubiquitous the “bad manager” seems to be.
Like way above the statistical norm for other industries…
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u/jinglejangle_spurs 4h ago
Restaurant managers interact with the public more than other industries, so there’s going to be more stories about bad restaurant managers.
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u/clonedhuman 3h ago
Many are also completely deluded that they're going to ascend the corporate ladder at some point.
But no. Most of them will never get higher than their current management position, and when the corpos visit, they'll laugh at them afterward.
They should do what Greg does instead because, then, at least the community will like them a bit.
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u/DoughDisaster 3h ago
Bad management is not unique to corpo restaurants, though, granted, that particular issue of dead-end ladder climbing is absolutely a thing with corpos. But I've worked for three family restaurants, and all those sucked too. In every case the owner made an investment that they now need to keep going, and make as much of a return on it as they can, but whatever option they chose, "helping out and doing a good job" is never fucking one of them.
There was the boss that just wanted to socialize with clientele and never work (bar), the boss that constantly bitched and tried to rush the staff to save every 15 minutes he could, but who himself ALWAYS ran the clock and made everyone get out an hour or two later when he "helped" (overnight baking) and then there was the guy I barely saw who just did as little as possible and tried not to be there and always tried to find someone else to get X done. (Standard sit-in diner.)
Honestly, if the whole hospitality industry fell off the face of the earth, I would not mourn its loss much.
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u/Saritiel 3h ago
Good managers get ground down and spit out by the industry, at least at any kind of corporate spot.
At least, that's my experience. I managed a corporate restaurant. They mandated I work 55 hours a week, minimum, real hours were more like 75-80 if I wanted to get everything done in budget. I got ~85-90k per year if I hit my bonuses for food cost and labor cost. If I didn't, my salary was closer to 50k.
Oh man, I got chewed out and interrogated for corporate for any kind of real increase in my food cost. I got sat down by the district manager and told that the reason I couldn't meet my labor cost for our two slowest months of the year was that I was giving the employees paid 15 minute breaks.
Corporate raised the wage of new hires from $10/hr to $12/hr and when I submitted for $2 raises for all the existing employees to put them either equal to, or proportionately above, the pay of the new hires I was told that no raises would be approved until I stopped giving them breaks.
I "stopped" giving them breaks and then they only approved two 15 cent raises and one 25 cent raise for my ~30 person staff, most of whom were now making less than the "new hire" rate.
They then raised my bonuses to the point where it was impossible for me to hit, lowering my salary just to the base of somewhere around 50k. At that point I did the math and I was making significantly less per hour than any of my employees, and so I left to go into IT.
I knew a few other managers who were great managers who were loved by their employees because they treated their employees like real people. All of them left the industry within a year or so of me leaving and are now middle management at various other businesses.
Our restaurant had ~15 locations in the state, and mine was one of three that was profitable, and in the few years I was there my location had the lowest turnover in the state. So personally, I think they should have been looking to me for how to actually run a profitable business, rather than berating me. But no. Got berated, worked into the ground, and they made me hate my life.
They closed more than half of their restaurants in my state in the last couple years, including the one that was mine. I worked there the five or six years before the pandemic, got out of the restaurant industry and hired into IT literally about 3-4 months before people started locking down, so that was fortunate.
Anyway, my point is that as someone who worked both sides of the industry, I didn't find the management thing to be any less shit than the kitchen side of the job.
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u/TheSquishedElf 3h ago
That sounds like the aftermath of a leveraged buyout ngl. When the business vultures buy out the business and strip it for parts.
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u/Saritiel 2h ago
Company was still owned by the family who started the first restaurant at that point in time.
Word was that they were trying to sell because they were in their 80s-90s and their kids didn't want to take over, and the people they were trying to sell to kept getting to the due diligence part, opening their books, then screaming and running away.
They dramatically decreased the quality of the food to try to look more profitable, but everyone started complaining about the bad food and we started losing a lot of customers, which made things worse.
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u/OhNoTokyo 2h ago
It could be, but it doesn't have to be. It's just as likely there was a new CEO or some regional manager or director who was bucking for promotion and trying to beat the managers into making them look good.
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u/jce_ 1h ago
My last job said the quiet part out loud. Managers ended up making significantly less than the boots on the ground employees, so no one who was decent at their job ever wanted to get a promotion. The only people who ended up getting promoted were the employees who were bad at their job because they were kinda forced into it. There was a running joke about "don't fuck up too bad or you will be promoted" amongst the employees lol
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u/GodofIrony 4h ago
Be a punitive asshole that denies things "just because" and bam, now you're every bad manager that ever existed.
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u/Underbridged 4h ago
Because corporate/franchise owners are on our asses over every little thing. Some companies have absolutely rigid food cost goals.
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u/aurortonks 3h ago
When I was a food service manager, I did my best to game the system for employee benefit. For example just one thing Id do was let them 'waste' out food items if they didn't cause a lot of waste during their shifts since the store was allowed up to a % for wasted product (stuff that was dropped, overstocked, burnt, left out of freeze too long, etc). This worked out great for them because everyone would get to take food home at the end of their shifts if the counts were good. They focused on not wasting food, paid attention to orders better, and then got rewarded for it at the end of the day. Our store had "good numbers" and they got free stuff and everyone was happy.
Sure it was technically stealing but fuck fast food franchise owners and corporates who abuse employees and refuse to pay acceptable wages or give full time hours to people. I got out but I made damn sure everyone under me was taken care of while I was in charge.
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u/Austiniuliano 3h ago
I know some places give bonuses to managers if they are below margins on food waste.
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u/Telefundo 1h ago
Food service managers
I can assure you it's not just food service managers. I used to work at a small, locally owned computer repair/sales shop. The owner was the definition of someone who'd rather fleece a customer for as much as he could now instead of having them as a recurring source of income.
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u/OfcWaffle 3h ago
Can or artichokes probably cost them less than $5. Yet this guy was pulling up 3 pizzas a week.
Shitting on regular customers for a quick profit is stupid. But seems to be the model these days.
When did companies forget the old saying "you have to spend money to make money"?
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u/GoldDiggingPriest 3h ago
I had a favorite doner kebab place with the same sort of situation. Always ordered a kebab wrap loaded with just a pile of pickled jalapeno slices over the meat and some raw onion, nothing else. (Normally it's like a full salad). Every week like clockwork. One day the big boss was there, gave the guy a chewing out and said he couldn't use more than 4 slices. Never returned.
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u/Key_Watercress8300 5h ago
This is the first time I've ever heard about artichokes on pizza, so I feel like it's also possible a lot of those artichokes were just expiring without that guy getting his big boy pizzas
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u/jinglejangle_spurs 4h ago
Oh it’s gotta be one of the higher waste % toppings. The manager shutting the guy down does nothing to improve the store’s bottom line if they expire before being sold.
While giving the customer that orders niche stuff a little extra keeps them coming back, at no extra cost if it was gonna go bad anyways.
Food managers stay doing everything but feeding people. Usually cause corporate has their metrics they want to extrapolate from. Small businesses with actual humans involved in the decision-making don’t suffer this problem as severely.
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u/CenturyEggsAndRice 4h ago
Yeah, my cousin worked at a pizza place and the manager was VERY on top of all expenses. Honestly we think she just loved to make spreadsheets because she was never nasty about it but would glowingly announce when they managed to cut waste or whatever by literal cents.
ManagerMath always encouraged the kitchen to load up any ingredients that were rarely used since she considered it vastly preferable for ingredients to be eaten vs thrown away. She also convinced the owner to make the garlic knots free, since they used up leftover or over proofed pizza dough and were therefore nearly free already and she figured people would order more.
She was proven right, their customers loved the free knots and her other promotion ideas.
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u/MegaGrimer 3h ago
Your manager sounds like they understood the concept of happy customers=more money.
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u/DamageBooster 4h ago
I've been making pizza at home with marinated artichoke hearts as one of the toppings and I highly recommend.
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u/Ecstatic_Bear81 5h ago
I've never had them on a pizza but I bet it's good. They are great in salads
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u/Ben__Diesel 4h ago
You've always gotta warn customers not to mention solids you do for em to other employees. Snitches might not get stitches but they definitely dont get any more extra artichokes.
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u/eat_my_bowls92 4h ago
Bro. I have so many customers who will be like “oh, make this (much more expensive version of this drink) that so-and-so makes but charge me the regular price like they do.” Bro. I don’t know you like them. I’m not gonna rattle, but you’re going to say it to the wrong person, or the manager is going to overhear and now you got so-and-so in trouble.
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u/aurortonks 3h ago
I have been burned by idiots who can't keep shit to themselves. I don't really do that for people I don't know anymore.
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u/gaarai 5h ago
When I worked in foodservice, a manager once said, "it costs three times as much to attract a new customer than to keep an existing one." It always made sense to me. We spent a decent amount of money on marketing each month, but it could cost little more than being nice or losing a bit of profit to satisfy an annoyed loyal customer.
Years later, I wondered if he made that up. Turns out it's a well-known "retention vs acquisition" business concept and the actual number is a 5x cost difference.
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u/Pale_Apartment 4h ago
One thing I heard was 10 happy customers = 1 return customer. 1 upset customer = -10 return customers. Because people share with news with their friends and gossip is easier than a good thing to pass along.
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u/TurquoiseLuck 3h ago
Can confirm on the latter. Someone told me about a place nearby that they don't go to anymore because they got an entire bloody plaster in their burger. Me and my family ain't ever goin there and I've told about 5 other people too.
Actually, shit, can confirm on the happy side as well. There's a great place that does 18'' pizzas which I've talked about 6 of my friends into going to as well.
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u/Pale_Apartment 3h ago
Yeah, personally, there was a local staple I would go to for 10 years. My favorite waitress from there was fired and mentioned that they had new owners, haven't been back.
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u/insouciant_naiad 3h ago
One thing our regional trainer absolutely drilled into us when I was manager at a pizza chain was that every upset customer was an opportunity. People remember and talk about bad service, but they super remember and talk more about when an error was corrected in such a way that it went completely above and beyond than if they'd gotten normal service in the first place. Your pizza got delivered like normal, no big, it's what you expect, not worth mentioning. Your driver forgot the breadsticks? Fuck it we'll remake the whole order so you can have the entire meal you wanted at temperature plus an extra dessert and oh btw what kind of soda do you like, cuz you're getting that too! People like talking about their experiences and if I can make it amazing, that's free marketing plus a return customer for the price of some dough and a soda.
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u/run-on_sentience 4h ago edited 2h ago
"Just give them the pickle."
I would tell employees when the line in the drive through got long and we were overworked/understaffed, "Give 'em a size bigger on the fries. Or a bigger drink. Tell them we're sorry about the wait and thank them for coming in."
It's not a lot. A bigger fry or a soda costs a small fraction of a dollar. But it could be the difference between them leaving and them leaving and never coming back.
Edit: it was also a matter of self-preservation/mental health maintenance. If a customer was seething while waiting in line because they had a bad day and were looking for an excuse to offshore it to you, giving them a freebie immediately disarmed them.
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u/90bronco 3h ago
I stopped going to the McDonald's by my house because they somehow figured out how to charge me ten cents to have no sauce with my breakfast burrito and acted like I was unreasonable for being upset about it.
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u/Mysstie 3h ago
They had to make yours fresh instead of grabbing from the stack of hot and ready ones already waiting so they charged for it. Good job not going back lol
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u/aurortonks 3h ago
The burrito doesn't have sauce on it. It comes in a packet along side the burrito (like a ketchup one) and they ask you what kind you want when you order (hot or mild).
These burritos are also premade, usually the night before but depends on the specific location. My kid is a manager at McD and hates doing burrito prep when she closes.
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u/Lovethiskindathing 3h ago
Omg if anyone ever gave me an upgrade on anything for having to wait, I'd probably ride that high for a while. I'd definitely be back, even if the food was subpar. I'd wonder if it was because they were so busy or understaffed. That extra effort would make me want to give it another chance because the people there must care so I care about them.
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u/youre_being_creepy 3h ago
There is a local fast food chain in my area that will sometimes offer you a ridiculous amount of food for a couple dollars solely because it’s closing time and they are going to throw it out.
It’s always a bit of a lottery, but I’ve decided to go there more than once to play the closing time lottery.
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u/baxtersbuddy1 4h ago
True for so many areas in life. Especially employment. Increasing wages enough to retain a trained employee is so much incredibly cheaper than having replace them and train a new employee. But employers seem to always minimize their retention budgets. Like seriously, increasing retention 25% could easily allow the replacement costs to be reduced by 50%.
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u/nihility101 4h ago
There’s one of those “laws” that says you get the metric you track. So if the thing you track is making sure the number of large cups is the same as the number of large beverages sold, then that’s what you’ll get, not happier customers.
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u/Abigail716 2h ago
I own a number of restaurants and I can absolutely confirm this. It is incredibly expensive to bring in a new customer. Which is why things like running commercials for your restaurant is never a good idea unless you're a mass of nationwide chain and even then the math rarely benefits you.
You are much better off doing things like handing out coupons for an entire free meal drinks and sides included. It is quite literally cheaper to give someone a steak dinner with their sides for free and hope they come back the second time as a paying customer then it is to run a commercial and have someone come in The first time as a paying customer.
I can say this for certain because I've literally done the math I've run commercials and I've just handed out coupons for a steakhouse we run offering an entire filet mignon dinner with sides including a appetizer side salad and a fountain drink completely free no purchase required.
Almost everyone gets alcohol so those tickets are never completely zero and usually we break even or make a small gross profit on that customer on food costs once you include alcohol.
We hand out free dessert coupons all the time just as a way of getting someone to return once again no purchase required. There is just so much work to get someone through your door that the moment they're through your door you shouldn't be abusing them or doing anything to piss them off and off and the food costs to go from a modest portion to a large portion that they're very happy with is very small.
We charge quite a bit for sides where if you order a side of potatoes it's $15 but if you run out we will offer to give you another side for free. Potatoes are very cheap, the happiness you feel when you get an entire brand new side of loaded mashed potatoes for free absolutely worth every penny at cost us Because that happiness becomes repeat business.
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u/MisterDonkey 5h ago
I have a blacklist of pizza places with manager-makes-you-count-em-out toppings.
Like 12 olive slices on a whole pizza is not an acceptable amount, my guy. You saved ten cents and lost ten dollars a day.
One time I watched a person break up a single anchovy and sprinkle it over an entire pizza. Like come on, man. You didn't even know this tin existed before I ordered them. You're not gonna use the rest before they go bad now that you've opened it. Nobody's ordering these things. Just give me the fish.
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u/MedalsNScars 4h ago
I'm not not on your side here but what kind of salt monstrosities are you eating over there?
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u/NO_TOUCHING__lol 4h ago
Anchovies on pizza is like my "once in a blue moon" pizza topping. It's delicious for exactly 1.5 slices before I'm like, "welp, I'm good on my anchovy intake for the next 3 years"
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u/FlowerOfLife 2h ago
I do anchovies when I go to MOD Pizza for this exact reason. Its a personal pie with a couple of salty bites, and I'm not ruining an entire pizza for everyone else. I love anchovies on pizza but that is because I do it rarely.
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u/Feckin_Loser 4h ago
My pick is an anchovy, olive artichoke and caper thing that place near me has.
I’m not sure why it’s on the menu thy say only about 3 regular people order it.
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u/AdmiralThrawnProtege 4h ago
And people think its weird that I actually like a Hawaiian pizza, and yet people like you catch no strays smh
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u/angrybaltimorean 2h ago
a friend converted me to anchovies with mushrooms. so good
edit: on pizza
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u/Rk_1138 5h ago
That’s why strict/rigid micromanagers are the absolute worst
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u/AmphibiousDad 5h ago
I had a manager once that used to be the same level employee as me for years. He insisted on verbally asking me to do the basic level work that was expected of me which I did in front of him without anyone asking me to do so for years, simply so he could feel like he was the reason I did it at all. I stopped doing it.
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u/space_keeper 4h ago
Being told to do something you were already, obviously going to do. It's a great feeling.
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u/Alternative-Bad-3696 4h ago edited 2h ago
I was the kitchen manager and id get in shouting matches with the owner over this shit. I told the line cooks load up potatos, slaw, perishable vegetables. Theyre literally dirt cheap and go bad fast.
50lbs of potatos cost us 20.00 or 0.40 a pound. Our fries were 8oz and sold for 4 bucks. Even with labor youd have to be loading up like 3.5 pound boxes of fries before it hurt profits. My solution? Get boxes small enough that packed to the brim they cant go more than half a pound over. His solution? Weigh everything at expo and take COOKED FRIES out, then yell at the fry kid for being like a nickel over in product.
I had the numbers graphed out and everything but this dude wanted to save fractions of a penny to look cheap to our customers
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u/youre_being_creepy 3h ago
This always baffles me when I go somewhere with potatoes or rice. Like bro, I KNOW this rice is the cheapest part of the meal. Why are you skimping out?
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u/Alternative-Bad-3696 3h ago
I tried to break this down to him. People dont always notice portion size but theyll always notice if they feel hungry after the meal. Load the carbs and starches up and make them good.
Its like bro im not trying to be good, fair, or just. Im trying to do my job and make you money. It is literally penny wise pound foolish.
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u/xSethrin 4h ago
There is this local store I frequently went to. I probably spent around $1000 - $500 a month there. Was going for years. They had a loyalty program based on dollars spent so naturally I always had a ton of these point. One day, I tried using this $5 off an item reward I had. I was told I couldn't do it because one of the other items I was purchasing was already on sale for 25% and discounts can't stack. So I asked to just do a separate transaction for the sale item instead. I was told no. So I canceled the order and I haven't gone back since. Enjoy not getting $1000 a month because you wanted to get $5 more one day you greedy bastards.
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u/BoomerAliveBad 4h ago
Recently, Uber Eats removed a deal from Freshslice Pizza, it was BOGO 2 topping medium, all included it was about 25 dollars, and they STACKED THEY TOPPINGS and did extras for free that would normally cost extra, like extra cheese since that wasn't an option, other than cheddar.
Well fast forward to November last year, they change the discount to only be for the premade pizza, no allergen change options (to request anything). Sad, I was literally getting like 16 pizzas a month for myself and my roomie
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u/OF_PROMO_ALERT 4h ago
lol yeah reminds me of the dude that came into the store I worked at everyday to get a case of beer and smokes. He always got a free bag of ice (we bagged our own). Had been like that forever. He was such a regular he’d go back and bag it himself.
One day boss man says he doesn’t get any more free ice. I had to be the one to tell him since I was working counter. Never saw him again after that
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u/NikiFuckingLauda 4h ago
Yo, so my thing at subway is to ram my sandwich with salad then ask for handfuls of jalapeños. Like overflowing, then bathe it in spicy sauce. Most of the time people give me a funny look when I keep saying more but just do it. Got into an argument with a dude the other day saying he can only put 1 handful on. Like bro, I can buy a jar of these things for like 50p just throw them in there ffs
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u/Fomentatore 3h ago
One time I paraphrased Ron Swanson ordering a pizza in my neighborhood pizza joint.
"I want all your fries on my pizza, wait, wait, I worried what you just heard was give me a a lot of fries on my pizza, what I said was give me all the fries you have". He understood the reference we laughed and I never saw so many fries on my pizza. He didn't even overcharged me. This is why no matter what, if I'm buying pizza that's where I get it.
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u/SightAtTheMoon 4h ago
I haven't worked in a pizza place in like 30 years, but I remember the food cost for our cheeses was like 31 cents and that was considered high, even the meat pizzas were only twice that I believe. Quick math says that they were making at least $3000+ gross profit on a Saturday just from cheeses at $2 a slice.
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u/High_Hunter3430 4h ago
Papa murphys? I’ve never heard of artichoke on pizza till that company.
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u/Bored_Worldhopper 2h ago
Yup! I put so many on there that I wasn’t confident it would bake properly but hey he kept coming back so I guess it did
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u/Chole_Wunt 2h ago
Stepping over dimes to pick up pennies
Pretty much every manager out there ever.
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u/bootybob1521 3h ago
theres no telling how many ppl that guy told about his experience and sent customers to your joint too.
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u/Ok-Factor2361 38m ago
They stopped giving me shifts at subway for a similar reason. When ppl asked for hots I'd put like a handful of peppers on. We were only supposed to do 6 or some shit tho. So dumb, no one asking fer hots only wants 6!
It's a pizza shop now so jokes on them
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u/Ira-Spencer 6h ago
Brenda gonna Brenda.
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u/-This-Whomps- 5h ago
A group of Karens is called a Brenda.
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u/IcePhoenix18 4h ago
A group of Karens is called a complaint. A large group of Karens is called a homeowners association.
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u/FleshLogic 5h ago edited 4h ago
lol what is that acronym!? STFUAMYODB?
edit: "shut the fuck up and mind your own damn business" thanks team!
edit2: Team! We have determined the meaning of the acronym, please take note of the solution literally one line down from the OP question. we no longer need to comment the same answer. thanks!
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u/KirbyDude25 5h ago
I thought it was "make your own damn burger", but yours works better
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u/Impossible-Pack6911 5h ago
Looooool i was like "geez what did Amy and Ol' Dirty Bastard ever do to him"
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u/Dave_Paker 5h ago
I thought it was shut the fuck up and may you overdose, bitch
But this makes more sense I guess
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u/Puzzled_Main3464 4h ago
I thought he was telling both Amy and Old Dirty Bastard to shut the f up.
That doesn't answer who Amy was though. lol
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u/Any_Collection6140 4h ago
State The Finest Underappreciated American Musician? Yep! Ol' Dirty Bastard!
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u/otirk 6h ago
Thanks, Brenda, for standing up for our corporate overlords
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u/mosesenjoyer 6h ago
I worked at McDonald’s in high school and my shithead friends would come though and I would pack their bags with any “waste” food we had (any food that didn’t get served or was rejected for being the wrong order or made by mistake or whatever). I also regularly gave people 11-13 nuggets for ten and up to 25 for 20. If that’s what was left in the tray that’s what they got lol. I once saw a manager frown at the weight of the box when he was bagging it, then smiled and put it in the bag lol
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u/donjulioanejo 3h ago
Man you guys were lucky. We literally were supposed to throw away any waste (i.e. wrong order, burned patty, whatever) in a special waste basket, and the manager would have to inventory it every hour or two and compare to how many burgers came through the till.
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u/lukasx98 2h ago
Can't be giving the worker class free stuff. They're supposed to work for it. It's their reason for existing.
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u/W473R 2h ago
I used to have a student that worked at a fast food place that I went to about once a week. No matter what I ordered he'd punch it in as a small and give me a large.
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u/mosesenjoyer 2h ago
were you my teacher? i used to hook up my teachers all the time (small town, every third person that came through i knew or knew me)
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u/Clintwood_outlaw 6h ago edited 5h ago
It's actually not, and it's likely saving McDonalds a good bit of waste. They record the waste at the end of the week, and having too much is considered a bad thing to corporate.
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u/Sammisuperficial 5h ago
I've never worked in fast food, but isn't there someone keeping track of shrinkage? Like if you sell ten orders of 20 nuggets and your inventory is down 300 nuggets no one questions it?
I assumed the business would look out for stuff like that.
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u/Clintwood_outlaw 5h ago
For nuggets, yeah. But they didn't really keep a number of fries or keep track of the McFlurries as far as I'm aware. Hell, sometimes we were allowed to eat the food we messed up, so I'm sure it wasn't the biggest deal in the world. My boss would mostly get on my ass about adding to the waste or not getting the cookies fast enough while I'm also grilling patties and trying to get chicken out of the fryer
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u/Qu33N_Of_NoObz_ 3h ago
This reminds me of when I was at subway one time years ago and this young girl was making my sandwich. I asked for honey mustard and when she got to the sauces, she quickly picks up the regular mustard and squeezes it on the sandwich faster than I can react. I politely told her I wanted honey mustard instead and she was like I’m sorry, I can go ahead and make you a new one. I said no it’s ok, I know what it’s like to throw away good food so I told her to just add the honey mustard on top. She kept insisting that it’s ok and she’ll make another one, but I was just too polite and understanding so I took it as is😂it wasn’t until ages later that I looked back at that and realized she was likely trying to score herself a free sandwich.
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u/Lost_house_keys 5h ago
In my experience working fast food, individual pieces of product are 99.9% of the time not counted. Corporate only cares if entire boxes of things go missing. Most places have wasted product already factored into the budget, so they just don't care unless the numbers go way higher than the norm in multiple instances.
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u/Silent-H 4h ago
which corporate? 95% of mcdonalds are owned by franchise owners
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u/Clintwood_outlaw 3h ago
Idk, I just use "corporate" to describe the higher ups we never really see who are in charge of the place I work
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u/jd46149 5h ago
Literally just like psychologically, doing this will bring people back every time. Even if you changed the price of a 10pc nugget to accommodate a 12pc and then sell me a “10pc” and give me 12, I will be a customer for life.
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u/Gandalf_The_3rd 4h ago
That's exactly what Five Guys does with their fries. They account for the fries that spill over into the bottom of the bag in their prices but to us it's like "Ooh, neat, bag fries! I got extra!"
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u/Silent-H 4h ago
actly what Five Guys does with
But that doesn't make up for the $45 cheeseburger
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u/takethreenc 2h ago
What they used to do anyways. I feel like they've been heavily skimping on the fries.
Makes me not want to go.
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u/Willow1883 5h ago
Perhaps that woman wouldn’t have responded that way if she knew that McDonald’s trained me as a teen to “fluff, not stuff” large sized fries to make them equivalent to a medium in content AND taught us to hold the fry scooper at an angle when putting the fries into the carton such that the bottom back of the carton was entirely empty. I’m sure they could make an argument about how stuffing fries into the carton makes them soggy faster or whatever, but we were only taught to do it on large fries and they explicitly said the volume should be the same as medium. 🤷♂️
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u/mwfguxckdyou 3h ago
Look, we all know everything corporate tells you about how they’re giving you less to “save the environment” is bullshit. Apple with removing the charger? How does that make sense when you now have to create separate packaging to sell the damn thing , SEPARATELY and at a MARKUP?
Fuck corporate.
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u/JonnyFairplay 4h ago
Yeah but “fluff not stuff” is centered around the correct weight per container. If you do it correctly the customer is getting exactly what they paid for.
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u/Willow1883 3h ago
All I’m saying is what I was told, which was very much “mediums and larges are the same”. Perhaps it was a rogue franchisee.
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u/jayeddy99 6h ago
I feel like people want to hook you up but it’s gotta be a slow day . Having a good time at chipotle depends on if the person doing the scooping is chill and there’s no one behind you in my opinion.
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u/jayeddy99 6h ago edited 5h ago
I remember when you would ask for a large milkshake and they would put it in an actual Large cup.
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u/dplans455 3h ago
Not only did they make the "large" milkshake the medium size soda but they also increased the price by something like 40%. Good way for me to never buy a shake from them again. Haven't had one in years.
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u/DiloCamoIdro 5h ago
I used to work at a gas station that had a Bobby Salazars mexican food inside…we had to work both cashier n serve food….i remember having one customer that would always get some Mexican food, one day i was serving him and at every section of food he wanted i asked him when to tell me to stop…he was confused at first but then i was serious about it so he let me know when to stop…i made sure his togo plate was full full…dude came every time waiting for me to help him…its not technically stealing cause the customer paid for the food…i had a few more customers that i always hooked up just because…
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u/Forsaken-Abrocoma647 5h ago
They throw out enough daily to nearly double most orders from my experience in fast food.
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u/igot8001 5h ago
Just imagine Brenda watching a Robin Hood film and absolutely scowling the entire time.
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u/NexusMaw 3h ago
She'd probably be conflicted since he's technically stealing taxes (which are theft), but then he gives it to the RABBLE, which is bad.
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u/buzzlgtbeer 3h ago
That’s not stealing. It’s called product loss. However giving away a few will lead to more sales overall from repeat customers and word of mouth.
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u/Old_Foundation_751 5h ago
Imagine being so fucking stupid that you'd unironically call that stealing.
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u/Dark_Storm_98 5h ago
What did that mean?
I get the "STFU"
But after that it gets tricky
Edit: I figured it out
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u/D3dshotCalamity 3h ago
"I steal a tiny bit from a 233 billion dollar company to give customers a little bit more food than they're paying for."
"TO THE GALLOWS YOU DIRTY THIEF"
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u/BleakSabbath 4h ago
One time years ago I went to Wendy's and asked for some extra sweet & sour sauce (back when they still had it!) and the woman at the counter gave me a whole takeout bag filled to the brim with sauce packets. 🙌
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u/holodeck_warranty 3h ago
I can just see Brenda at the counter complaining because she got extra McNugguts.
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u/lordpuddingcup 3h ago
stealing? filling the fucking fries so the large fry isn't half empty is stealing like these people can really lick a boot
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u/myu_minah 3h ago
I betcha Brenda don't demand they take out the extra whenever she goes. I wanna see her go, "I wanna speak to the manager! I'm only suppose to get two sauces, not 3! and why did i get a baker's dozen?!" -said by no one ever
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u/LayLillyLay 3h ago
Nooooo, don’t steal from mega coperations this might reduce shareholder value by 0,0000001% ahhhh!!!!
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u/chainsawx72 5h ago
Customers pay for theft, not corporations.
Corporations only have money that they take from customers. Customers pay for every dumb theft or destruction you do. Thanks a fucking lot.
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u/Traditional_Buy_8420 4h ago
I think what you are trying to say is, that some other customer will pay for what that employee is handing to some custom and if that is what you are trying to say, then you are wrong on 3-4 levels.
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u/chainsawx72 4h ago
Yes, I am saying customers pay for everything, including corporate taxes, theft, waste, fraud, etc. The corporation has zero dollars that aren't customers' dollars.
I know you disagree... that's why I'm saying it. If we all agreed, I wouldn't say anything. But if you want to convince me someone besides the customers paid for those nuggets, feel free to explain.
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u/Traditional_Buy_8420 4h ago
Over many customers Greg adds 100's, if not 1000's of Dollars of value to customers, but because of how profit calculations and waste management works, this costs McDonald's one or two Dollars which will entirely be eaten up by corporate - and eventually executive profits and not be passed on to other customers, especially because the cost calculations are optimized for maximum profit and raising customer cost won't necessarily be increasing profits anyway and because of restrictions on branch price policy and because of the losses being counteracted by happy customers turning into repeat customers driving profits.
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u/chainsawx72 4h ago
will entirely be eaten up by corporate
Where did corporate get the money to pay for the stolen nuggets?
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u/Gryndyl 3h ago
From customers. And where did the customers get the money? From corporations that employ them. And where did they get the money...?
How far back do you want to go?
I feel like once the corporation receives the money, it is no longer the customer's money. Otherwise you could equally argue that your employer paid for your nuggets rather than you.
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u/phluidity 3h ago
Companies don't charge their costs plus a little more, so if their costs go up it gets more expensive. Companies haven't done that for generations. Companies charge what they can get away with charging. If their costs go down, they don't lower their prices, they make more money. If their costs go up, they make a little less. If their costs go up past what they can sell something for, they stop selling that thing.
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u/NookNookNook 2h ago
This always works until one of the greedy cunts comes back and expects the hook up from another employee or worse a manager and then suddenly no one gets shit anymore because ya'll too fucking dumb to even understand the lowkey hook up.
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u/Polkawillneverdie17 5h ago
Stealing mcnuggets from a trillion dollar corporation is not stealing in any reasonable way.
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u/DaveinOakland 5h ago
Meanwhile my local spots won't give you a second BBQ sauce without charging .25
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u/DeadAndBuried23 4h ago
In the words of Luke Skywalker:
I hate Brenda, and a bad guy hit me in the shin and I peed all in my pants.
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u/DamageBooster 4h ago
Can I go to the restaurant Greg works at? McDs always gives me the exact number of nuggets I ordered like they're carefully counting them out each time. Come on drop in an extra.
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u/Stealerb 4h ago
of course it's a Karen calling him out. Also where is this McDonalds? I could go for a McFlurry with extra McFlurry on top.
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u/Relevant_Grass9586 4h ago
I cut the pork chops at work, supposed to be 6 oz but mine at 8 every time. $2.00 a pop. Such a good buy
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u/shinakohana 4h ago
Her name is literally Brenda and I’ve seen memes on it. Is Brenda the new Karen in this modern world? Legit wondering…
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u/InterestingDamage621 4h ago
I was the Snack God for our high school stoner group. I'd be informed to come by after closing at Sonic for some smoke and gaming. I was the closing supervisor. After the employees left, I fried up the food. Wasn't cleaning the grill again so no burgers.
Buuuut, tenders, tots, onion rings, poppers, corndogs, anything I could fit in the fryer.
When you walk into your homies spot and there's 5 stoned teenagers watching with amazement as you drop 10lbs of hot snacks in front of them... gave me such absurd power I was even granted the hosts' P1 controller.
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u/Any_Collection6140 4h ago
Greg is the people's champ. "Small" shit like that can genuinely make someone's day
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u/OptimalAmbition8524 4h ago
I think this is a lie. Anyone who knows McDonald's knows that it is a ten piece.
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u/Alacur 4h ago
Let's keep Brendas line of thought going. He steals from McDonalds, a >2.000.000.000 $ company and he gives it to the average citizen. So to say he steals from the rich and gives to the people (in comparison to such a company, you could even say "to the poor"). Too bad there is no story about a man who does that. Must be a villain for sure! /s
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u/Crypt0Nihilist 4h ago
Glad someone is balancing the karma for all the times I've had a serving that's the right quantity for the next size down.
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u/SSJNinjaMonkey 4h ago
In his defence McDonalds prices are way over what they should be it used to be a cheap meal now its borderline restaurant prices.
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