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Republicans posted:Upsell healthy poo poo. Can I add some gluten free lettuce to that Mac & Cheese for you for just $2?
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Naelyan posted:Can I add some gluten free kale to that Mac & Cheese for you for just $2? FTFY. Jesus, after working for that co-op deli, I never want to see kale again. I am so happy to work at a place that takes pride in the fact that our biscuits are made with lard. If we ever got kale (which would happen solely because our produce guy hosed up and delivered it by accident), I guarantee my boss would do something like wilt it in bacon fat. 'Swhy I love her. Yeah, I don't know if it's post-holiday slump, people swearing off lard biscuits for New Year resolutions, or the fact that it's cold as gently caress (our outside walk-in feels downright toasty compared to the ambient temps), but today was the slowest brunch in my store's history. drat shame, this week's menu was awesome, but hey, more mussels in wine for me!
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Jan 7, 2018 22:52
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I had three tables in a row tip me almost exactly the same despite each successive table ordering half as much food, I guess it sorta evened out. The one that tipped way under average was also way more work than the over tipper because of loving course it is.
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Republicans posted:Upsell healthy poo poo. Screw you, the panna cotta is gluten free, high in calcium, and the raspberry sauce is full of vitamin c and antioxidants. Healthiest thing I'll bring to the table that isn't red wine. edit: so almost everything in our walk in froze solid this week, including all the water in the flower vases and holy hell did that stink while we waited for the ice to melt enough to yank them out and toss them. Tossing all that produce was sad but at least it was out in the dumpster and not reeking in the dish station all night. Guildenstern Mother fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jan 8, 2018 |
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Jan 8, 2018 05:04
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Hi all, as always I appreciate everything you all do in the day to day life of the restaurant industry (my two years in the industry were enough to tell me this wouldn't be my career path); I have a question: what are your typical interview questions? I'm a teacher and at the beginning of the next quarter I'm teaching a class on career readiness. My students are currently seniors who are most likely joining the work force, and I figure that food is one of the options that will be widely available to them when they graduate in June. As such, I figure that the least I can do for them is to have some knowledge of questions employers will ask them so they can get their foot in the door and start on something.
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Jan 8, 2018 15:30
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Do you have any criminal convictions? (no) Who is the most important person in the restaurant? (the guest) Are you drooling on yourself right now? (hope not) When can you start? (immediately)
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Jan 8, 2018 17:33
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Carlosologist posted:Hi all, as always I appreciate everything you all do in the day to day life of the restaurant industry (my two years in the industry were enough to tell me this wouldn't be my career path); I have a question: what are your typical interview questions? I'm a teacher and at the beginning of the next quarter I'm teaching a class on career readiness. My students are currently seniors who are most likely joining the work force, and I figure that food is one of the options that will be widely available to them when they graduate in June. As such, I figure that the least I can do for them is to have some knowledge of questions employers will ask them so they can get their foot in the door and start on something. I hire a lot of high school servers and early university students at a upscale retirement home. After summarizing the applicants job experience (so I can try to tell if they're lying before wasting my time calling around) I usually ask if they like food as a jumping off point. Yes it is a dumb question but I use it to gauge their communication skills and ability to be enthusiastic. A one word yes or no tells me they don't care that much about the job or don't have the soft skills to express it. Unless they're trying to be mega respectful (kids from Latin families do this sometimes), which will melt away later in the interview if you make it a conversation. I try to turn it into a conversation from there striking all the bullet points I have in my head. I also have to avoid all the anti discrimination pitfalls. I can't ask "do you have a car" but I can ask "do you anticipate any transportation difficulties in making it to work on time?" This is why corporate conversations are so weird. We want someone who will show up, work well with others and basically give a drat. Any questions about their extra curricular activities (bands, sports, etc) translate to "okay but this job is going to be your priority right? RIIIIIIGHT?!? You may not pay rent yet but you're working alongside people who do and we count on you, GOT IT!?!?!?" Hope that helps.
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Jan 8, 2018 17:34
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most places i don’t think you can ask about criminal history anymore, it counts as discrimination
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Jan 8, 2018 19:26
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Federal law allows it though you are not supposed to make discriminatory hiring based on it. Like you can't ask everyone whether they have a felony conviction, then refuse to hire all the black people with convictions while you hire white cons. e. but my response was a joke one, BBQ Dave's is much better. Phil Moscowitz fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Jan 8, 2018 |
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Jan 8, 2018 19:40
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That's not discrimination based on criminal history, that's discrimination based on race, which duh is mega illegal Recent state law is more restrictive in terms of what you can ask, when, and what decisions you can base on criminal history. Definitely check that out if you're hiring.
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Jan 8, 2018 19:42
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Anne Whateley posted:That's not discrimination based on criminal history, that's discrimination based on race, which duh is mega illegal Yeah it's more complex than that and involves burdens of proof, constitutional standards, etc. But you can require people to answer the question and you can use it to make hiring decisions under certain circumstances. Your facially-neutral decisions just can't have a discriminatory effect on protected classes like race.
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Jan 8, 2018 19:45
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A week in, any Ontario folks in here- how are your restaurants handling the wage transition? Work for a sorta chain and they focus primarily on speed of service and penny pinching, so they cut the hours of my staff by a disgusting amount, all managers in-store lost the ability to schedule, and now a guy who doesn't know our staff is handling the entire store schedules. Three of our stronger servers are looking for new jobs, our cooks that were making higher than minimum didn't get a pay bump to match so are looking for new jobs with less responsibility for same wage- It's a mess. Please tell me other places still treat their folk with dignity. Also just found out that they haven't paid our plumber in six months so he's straight up refusing to come in to repair my dish pit. I feel like this ship is made of red flags.
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Jan 8, 2018 21:09
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virinvictus posted:A week in, any Ontario folks in here- how are your restaurants handling the wage transition? Work for a sorta chain and they focus primarily on speed of service and penny pinching, so they cut the hours of my staff by a disgusting amount, all managers in-store lost the ability to schedule, and now a guy who doesn't know our staff is handling the entire store schedules. I'm in Alberta, I work as a server, we changed minimum to $14 a year ago, and it moves to $15 next year. The place I work at pays more than minimum wage, and we all got an hourly pay bump to match when the law changed. You work at a garbage place, update your resume.
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Jan 8, 2018 21:13
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virinvictus posted:A week in, any Ontario folks in here- how are your restaurants handling the wage transition? Work for a sorta chain and they focus primarily on speed of service and penny pinching, so they cut the hours of my staff by a disgusting amount, all managers in-store lost the ability to schedule, and now a guy who doesn't know our staff is handling the entire store schedules. That part alone tells me that you work at a lovely place run by morons, get out ASAP.
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Jan 8, 2018 21:18
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we got hit legally for asking about criminal history on our app form and all the paperwork called it a discrimination case
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Jan 8, 2018 21:37
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virinvictus posted:A week in, any Ontario folks in here- how are your restaurants handling the wage transition? Work for a sorta chain and they focus primarily on speed of service and penny pinching, so they cut the hours of my staff by a disgusting amount, all managers in-store lost the ability to schedule, and now a guy who doesn't know our staff is handling the entire store schedules. That's loving ridiculous, they've known about the increase for awhile now, haven't they? I'm not sure when it was first passed but Ontario didn't decide to do this a month ago right? I read it's an increase of about 20 dollars per employee per day, if that completely fucks up the profitability of a company, that wasn't a successful company to begin with. And the whole not paying the plumber leads me to believe they were bleeding money before the wage hike. Something to keep in mind about these large minimum wage increases is that the reason they're so large is that there hasn't been an increase in so long for some parts of America (and I guess Canada too). Federal minimum wage was 1.60 in 1968, if it had been stapled to inflation then it would be 11.49, which is lower than it is in lots of large cities, but way higher than the 7.25 it is in large parts of America.
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Jan 8, 2018 21:38
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My niece works at Dairy Queen, hours have been super slashed. She's also not allowed to call in sick, and now has to find her own replacement in case of illness. 
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Jan 8, 2018 21:39
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Skwirl posted:That's loving ridiculous, they've known about the increase for awhile now, haven't they? I'm not sure when it was first passed but Ontario didn't decide to do this a month ago right? What makes it worse is that my store clears about 3.5m$-4m$ per year- so they can definitely afford the increase. We only have three salaried managers, two dishwashers, two bartenders and maybe 15 servers and 10 cooks.
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Jan 8, 2018 21:47
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Trebuchet King posted:we got hit legally for asking about criminal history on our app form and all the paperwork called it a discrimination case Interesting. What state were you in? Was it a civil lawsuit, or EEOC, or some other government investigation? Anyone can allege anything in a lawsuit, though.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Interesting. What state were you in? Was it a civil lawsuit, or EEOC, or some other government investigation? i’m in dc i’m just the lowest level office peon so idk the details, but we had actually updated the application to one without the question...we just forgot to pull the old ones out from behind the bar. i think it basically fizzled from there.
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The General posted:My niece works at Dairy Queen, hours have been super slashed. She's also not allowed to call in sick, and now has to find her own replacement in case of illness. Hahahah. They're trying to cut staff. That's textbook DQ.
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The General posted:My niece works at Dairy Queen, hours have been super slashed. She's also not allowed to call in sick, and now has to find her own replacement in case of illness. If she's in Ontario, that's now straight up illegal under the new laws. New legislation mandates more allowable sick days per employee and tighter restrictions on when a business is allowed to deny it.
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I'm in Kitchener/Waterloo, and every one of my cooks is getting a raise, whether they were under $14, at it exactly before the jump, or higher. I was actually expecting just a nominal bump myself if anything, and was told just a couple days ago that I'm getting a 10% raise. I do have to cut a few hours, but it's mostly "no one is allowed to work overtime anymore", and the only full shift that I cut was my own (because I was into a dozen or more overtime hours a week), so every one of my people is pretty happy. We increased our menu prices a couple months ago and will be doing so again with a menu change in about another month, and after that we should be good, provided sales keep up how we're expecting.
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Naelyan posted:If she's in Ontario, that's now straight up illegal under the new laws. New legislation mandates more allowable sick days per employee and tighter restrictions on when a business is allowed to deny it. I'll let her know, but odds are it won't do anything. She's young, and definitely not down with starting anything with her boss. Not that I am any better. I am well aware that doing training at home (as told to by my boss) is still work training and I should get paid for it. But I still did some of my modules at home because it'll just lead to getting fired. Or getting to keep my job, but wishing I was fired.
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The General posted:I'll let her know, but odds are it won't do anything. She's young, and definitely not down with starting anything with her boss. Not that I am any better. I am well aware that doing training at home (as told to by my boss) is still work training and I should get paid for it. But I still did some of my modules at home because it'll just lead to getting fired. Or getting to keep my job, but wishing I was fired. How well do you like your current job and how available are jobs at decent places in town? Because "I know it's illegal but they'll fire me if I don't do it" is the kind of statement that sets off red flags in my head and makes me think a person should consider applying elsewhere.
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I'm in Seattle for 2 days, where should I eat/drink/get high? Had Ba Bar last night, some of the best noodles I've had, chatted with the owner, cool dude, told me to explore the Chinatown area. Is there any tourist-y things I should do?
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Re: asking about convictions. Doesn't matter because when HR runs the background check they'll just say the person is unhireable, not tell you why for liability reasons, and you don't hire them.
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Chef De Cuisinart posted:Re: asking about convictions. Doesn't matter because when HR runs the background check they'll just say the person is unhireable, not tell you why for liability reasons, and you don't hire them. Not all of us have HR departments or regularly run background checks on potential employees.
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Jan 9, 2018 18:48
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Naelyan posted:Not all of us have HR departments or regularly run background checks on potential employees. But those of us that do hate it. So many people with 10+ year old DUIs refused :/
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Chef De Cuisinart posted:I'm in Seattle for 2 days, where should I eat/drink/get high? What do you like and where are you staying? Chinatown's got some solid eats for cheap. Kedai Makan on Capitol Hill has fantastic Malaysian. Junebaby is getting some great press right now, haven't been myself. Bar del Corso is always great for fancier pizza and Italian small plates. Uncle Ike's is a fun weed shop. Carkeek Park is really beautiful with tons of trails through wooded sections and a big beach with a great view of Puget Sound. You could take a ride on a ferry, maybe to Bainbridge Island where you could eat at Hitchcock.
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Thoht posted:What do you like and where are you staying? Chinatown's got some solid eats for cheap. Kedai Makan on Capitol Hill has fantastic Malaysian. Junebaby is getting some great press right now, haven't been myself. Bar del Corso is always great for fancier pizza and Italian small plates. Uncle Ike's is a fun weed shop. Carkeek Park is really beautiful with tons of trails through wooded sections and a big beach with a great view of Puget Sound. You could take a ride on a ferry, maybe to Bainbridge Island where you could eat at Hitchcock. All of these recommendations are spot on, especially Hitchcock on Bainbridge. In addition, Le Pichet is a fantastic little French place, my favorite restaurant in Seattle. Sushi Kashiba is the best sushi you'll have in Seattle, perhaps on the west coast. I'm partial to Momiji as a good second choice, but you should get sushi while you're here. Seattle Fish Guys on 23rd and Jackson has the best poke here (tuna), poke being the latest Seattle food fad that pushed out all the teriyaki joints.
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Chef De Cuisinart posted:But those of us that do hate it. So many people with 10+ year old DUIs refused :/ I’m guessing DUI in Texas is a criminal offense. In New Jersey it’s a traffic offense so it wouldn’t show up on a background check, only if they ran your MVR. Interestingly enough it’s also a zero point ticket in NJ. I work in the transportation industry so those people get denied anyway but it seems bizarre to me that you’re not qualified to cook eggs because of it.
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Thoht posted:What do you like and where are you staying? Chinatown's got some solid eats for cheap. Kedai Makan on Capitol Hill has fantastic Malaysian. Junebaby is getting some great press right now, haven't been myself. Bar del Corso is always great for fancier pizza and Italian small plates. Uncle Ike's is a fun weed shop. Carkeek Park is really beautiful with tons of trails through wooded sections and a big beach with a great view of Puget Sound. You could take a ride on a ferry, maybe to Bainbridge Island where you could eat at Hitchcock. I'll gladly eat anything, we're staying at an airbnb off 12th Ave near Jackson St. Went to Bainbridge yesterday, that was pretty fun. Wandered around Pike's Market, bought myself a nice little Tojiro petty at that cutlery shop. All the food I've had so far has been fantastic, gonna get some sushi today for sure, and I want to try some sourdough from the area. Thanks for the recs duders
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Chef De Cuisinart posted:But those of us that do hate it. So many people with 10+ year old DUIs refused :/ Wisconsin under the Fitzwalkerstan regime is very severely hosed up, but I'll give them points for not going after employment laws yet (outside of some very particular exceptions if the job is bonded, it's still highly illegal in this state to use someone's arrest or conviction history in a hiring decision).
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Well poo poo, the local Sam's Club is closing. Where am I gonna get cheap plastic wrap and an Icee in the same place now?
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Republicans posted:Well poo poo, the local Sam's Club is closing. Where am I gonna get cheap plastic wrap and an Icee in the same place now? My friend, have you heard of Costco? Replace the Icee with the best brats for cheap around and there you go.
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iospace posted:My friend, have you heard of Costco? Replace the Icee with the best brats for cheap around and there you go. Not always an option. We have a Sam's Club in town, but no Costco. The Sam's APPEARS to be staying open, so there's that.
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iospace posted:My friend, have you heard of Costco? Replace the Icee with the best brats for cheap around and there you go. Yeah but the Sam's Club was closer to work and wasn't ridiculously crowded (which is probably why it closed). Cash & Carry is the next-closest option and their prices aren't nearly as good.
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But I thought the massive loving tax cut we just gave giant corporations was going to create jobs?
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