People working in fast food, stories?

i consistently had to take orders from people who didn’t speak a word of english so i usually just have them a small fry and went on with the day
 
I worked at Quiznos in High School. It was funny because our manager never ran a franchise before and we watched him slowly go insane over the months. We had really limited parking and people would park in front of Quiznos and go to the restaurant next door and the manager would lose his shit and write mean notes on their windshield. He would also lose his shit every time corporate made him change his menus or add new salads etc. The funniest was when Quiznos had this whole, "Salad so good you need a real fork" thing and he had to order hundreds of metal forks and all the customers would throw them away. I remember they had this punch card system and if you completed a card you got a free sandwich. I used to punch out a few cards and hand them to my buddies. The Au Jus bin and the toaster oven filter was hell to clean out btw.
 
topic:Lillyskis said:
I work at McDonald's and people won't stop handing me church pamphlets
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Go to Costco and by a value box of condoms. Every time they hand you a pamphlet, hand them a condom and a note that says "if only your parents used one of these, we could of avoided this awkward conversation" or "Since you don't believe in abortion teach your dirty children to use protection".
 
Worked at a local fried seafood outdoor fastfood kind of place for a summer and it was the smelliest job I've ever had. It's surprisingly clean though, they definitely take sanitation super seriously
 
I worked at Taco Johns when i was 15/16 and at least half of the employees smoked meth.
 
14249592:eheath said:
I worked at Taco Johns when i was 15/16 and at least half of the employees smoked meth.
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Lol its funny how every fast food place has a 50/50 mixture of High School kids and tweakers who are out of prison.
 
14249592:eheath said:
I worked at Taco Johns when i was 15/16 and at least half of the employees smoked meth.
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Never been to a Taco Johns but this tells me my perception of it is not far off.
 
My brother worked delivery for Dominos back when some employee (Different location) filmed himself jerking off into a sandwich. He said the manager had to have a meeting with everyone and it was awkward as shit.
 
14249646:RichKid said:
Whaaaat do you know the full story
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Yeah I actually knew them pretty well bc I was the manager.

They were both really smart folks. Worked as physicists/meteorologists for Raytheon and opened a pizza place just for fun.

Anyway, the guy was having an affair and he told the new chick to come stay at his house (where he still lived WITH his wife). Right before the girlfriend arrived, while his wife was asleep, he whacked her in the head with a hammer, then strangled her while unconscious with some wire and drug her outside and wrapped her in a tarp right outside the back door.

Few weeks went by and her folks and employers reported her missing. When the cops showed up, the guy didn't try to hide anything. He just let them search the house and there was blood everywhere and the hammer was in the garbage can.

Me and my buddy ran the pizza place for this guy and he had told us several different stories about doing super fucked up shit to people and he said he killed a guy in California. We didn't believe him at the time, but I do now.
 
14249625:SuspiciousFish said:
Lol its funny how every fast food place has a 50/50 mixture of High School kids and tweakers who are out of prison.
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Yeah man, MT had a big meth problem then, most were like 20-30 as well. I didnt smoke meth with them, but we smoked weed at work it was hilarious

14249636:r00kie said:
Never been to a Taco Johns but this tells me my perception of it is not far off.
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Its a midwest chain that leaked into MT and ID, its actually not that bad I like to stop by for the nostalgia.
 
14249691:TheMoostafian said:
Yeah I actually knew them pretty well bc I was the manager.

They were both really smart folks. Worked as physicists/meteorologists for Raytheon and opened a pizza place just for fun.

Anyway, the guy was having an affair and he told the new chick to come stay at his house (where he still lived WITH his wife). Right before the girlfriend arrived, while his wife was asleep, he whacked her in the head with a hammer, then strangled her while unconscious with some wire and drug her outside and wrapped her in a tarp right outside the back door.

Few weeks went by and her folks and employers reported her missing. When the cops showed up, the guy didn't try to hide anything. He just let them search the house and there was blood everywhere and the hammer was in the garbage can.

Me and my buddy ran the pizza place for this guy and he had told us several different stories about doing super fucked up shit to people and he said he killed a guy in California. We didn't believe him at the time, but I do now.
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Holy shit that's crazy
 
14249691:TheMoostafian said:
Yeah I actually knew them pretty well bc I was the manager.

They were both really smart folks. Worked as physicists/meteorologists for Raytheon and opened a pizza place just for fun.

Anyway, the guy was having an affair and he told the new chick to come stay at his house (where he still lived WITH his wife). Right before the girlfriend arrived, while his wife was asleep, he whacked her in the head with a hammer, then strangled her while unconscious with some wire and drug her outside and wrapped her in a tarp right outside the back door.

Few weeks went by and her folks and employers reported her missing. When the cops showed up, the guy didn't try to hide anything. He just let them search the house and there was blood everywhere and the hammer was in the garbage can.

Me and my buddy ran the pizza place for this guy and he had told us several different stories about doing super fucked up shit to people and he said he killed a guy in California. We didn't believe him at the time, but I do now.
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Holy shit man. I wonder if working for a weapons company fucked him up or something.

I actually have kind of a similar story. I grew up in Spokane WA and back around 2000 the cops were looking for a serial killer that was picking up hookers and murdering them. He actually buried a few in his backyard near a soccer complex by my house. His name was Robert Yates if anyone is curious.

Anyway, so my neighbor behind our house was a total asshole and lost his shit when we hit his roof with a water balloon and stuff like that. Well, one weekend his family was away and this guy went out and got a hooker. He brought her back to the house and supposedly she made some kind of comment about his wife or something. The dude supposedly lost his shit, roughed her up and put her forcibly in his car and drove her back to Sprague to drop her off. The girl got super scared knowing there was a serial killer that was killing hookers so she called the cops on him and told the address etc.

So my brother and I are walking home and the street was blocked off by the cops who were all really on edge. We told them we lived there and they kind of walked us to our house. Supposedly the cops thought the dude that lived behind us was the serial killer based on the call and raided the guys house with his family there.

God only knows what he told his wife but that must have been awkward as shit. Serves him right for being a dickhead too.
 
I still work here, but I work at a family owned ice cream shop in the downtown of my city where there’s a bunch of homeless people and tweakers. This one nigh I was working alone and a dude came in high as fuck on god knows what and starts rambling on. I knew he wasn’t gonna be able to pay for the ice cream but were allowed to give some out on occasion. So anyways this dude orders a double, and il like that’s gonna be 5$ and he’s like oh idk if I have that. So I’m like no worrys it’s on the house. But homie insisted, so he emptied his pockets and he has 3 knifes on him, 7 quarters, a flashlight a a nut to a bolt. I was kinda sketched out cause a tweaked with a knife is never good, anyway this man ended up trading me the quarters and the nut for the ice cream. Ended up getting that nut hung on my wall. I think I won that deal ngl
 
14249733:ColoradoDogfart said:
I still work here, but I work at a family owned ice cream shop in the downtown of my city where there’s a bunch of homeless people and tweakers. This one nigh I was working alone and a dude came in high as fuck on god knows what and starts rambling on. I knew he wasn’t gonna be able to pay for the ice cream but were allowed to give some out on occasion. So anyways this dude orders a double, and il like that’s gonna be 5$ and he’s like oh idk if I have that. So I’m like no worrys it’s on the house. But homie insisted, so he emptied his pockets and he has 3 knifes on him, 7 quarters, a flashlight a a nut to a bolt. I was kinda sketched out cause a tweaked with a knife is never good, anyway this man ended up trading me the quarters and the nut for the ice cream. Ended up getting that nut hung on my wall. I think I won that deal ngl
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chill tweaker
 
I worked at Taco Bell in HS. Usually when I reflect on past jobs, I remember the positives. But that one—even though it was only my second job and I was just in HS—I still felt like it was below where I should be. I dreaded going to work.

Then one night when I was working the register, some drunk girl puked in the garbage but also missed a bit. I had to clean it up, and I instantly put in my 2 week notice
 
14249723:SuspiciousFish said:
Holy shit man. I wonder if working for a weapons company fucked him up or something.

I actually have kind of a similar story. I grew up in Spokane WA and back around 2000 the cops were looking for a serial killer that was picking up hookers and murdering them. He actually buried a few in his backyard near a soccer complex by my house. His name was Robert Yates if anyone is curious.

Anyway, so my neighbor behind our house was a total asshole and lost his shit when we hit his roof with a water balloon and stuff like that. Well, one weekend his family was away and this guy went out and got a hooker. He brought her back to the house and supposedly she made some kind of comment about his wife or something. The dude supposedly lost his shit, roughed her up and put her forcibly in his car and drove her back to Sprague to drop her off. The girl got super scared knowing there was a serial killer that was killing hookers so she called the cops on him and told the address etc.

So my brother and I are walking home and the street was blocked off by the cops who were all really on edge. We told them we lived there and they kind of walked us to our house. Supposedly the cops thought the dude that lived behind us was the serial killer based on the call and raided the guys house with his family there.

God only knows what he told his wife but that must have been awkward as shit. Serves him right for being a dickhead too.
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The pizza place was also in washington, on whidbey island.

I think the guy was crazy long before he worked for Raytheon. Turns out he lied about all his credentials and didn't even go to college. Somehow taught himself enough about physics to be a subcontractor for one of the biggest defense and aerospace companies in the country.

Anyway, his name was Al Baker if anyone wants to look up the news stories about it. This happened 9 or 10 years ago
 
14249691:TheMoostafian said:
Yeah I actually knew them pretty well bc I was the manager.

They were both really smart folks. Worked as physicists/meteorologists for Raytheon and opened a pizza place just for fun.

Anyway, the guy was having an affair and he told the new chick to come stay at his house (where he still lived WITH his wife). Right before the girlfriend arrived, while his wife was asleep, he whacked her in the head with a hammer, then strangled her while unconscious with some wire and drug her outside and wrapped her in a tarp right outside the back door.

Few weeks went by and her folks and employers reported her missing. When the cops showed up, the guy didn't try to hide anything. He just let them search the house and there was blood everywhere and the hammer was in the garbage can.

Me and my buddy ran the pizza place for this guy and he had told us several different stories about doing super fucked up shit to people and he said he killed a guy in California. We didn't believe him at the time, but I do now.
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I used to work at a small Cafe in Salt Lake called paradise bakery. Not really fast food, but we made it on a line. Some people were nice, others weren't, but I made some great sandwiches there. My favorite was being able to customize things and make my own creations for people which they loved.

I do remember one evening where we we closing at 9 and a woman came in with her 3 children at 8 57 PM when we had already cleaned a bunch of stuff, waived her phone in our faces saying, "Its 8:55 you're still open!!!" At that point we were all just like oh my god, fuck you internally, but you put on the smiley face. While she was putting in her order she literally said to my face, I don't know why my kids like it here, it seems pretty mediocre and overpriced to me. I won't lie about the overpriced, but when I heard that, I decided I was going to make these kids the Mona lisa of grilled cheese sandwiches, mac and cheese and tomato soup. Cut the crusts off for them, extra mac and cheese on the plate, the whole 9 yards. Grilled cheese came out perfect, and the kids had the biggest grin when I brought it over to them, and this fucking bitch said, "why did that take so long." When people really piss off while I'm working, I usually just get nicer and nicer so they'll get angrier and angrier, but for this occasion I just ignored her question, and asked the kids, "Is it good?" They all just looked up and nodded excitedly not even pausing eating. I looked back at her and said, "Stay as long as you like, I just have to take care of closing things up back here." Gave the kids cookies on the way out too. We got out of there 45 minutes later than usual, but that at least those kids were happy. If I ever see that woman again I will not hesitate to just tell her how much I hate her.
 
14249625:SuspiciousFish said:
Lol its funny how every fast food place has a 50/50 mixture of High School kids and tweakers who are out of prison.
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mine was half college/hs kids + illegal immigrants who were lit as fuck

i actually tried teaching some of the younger guys english since i’m prettt fluent in spanish. it didn’t really work out too well but at least i tried. The illegal dudes were consistently better at their jobs than the rest of us.
 
14251194:BigPurpleSkiSuit said:
I used to work at a small Cafe in Salt Lake called paradise bakery. Not really fast food, but we made it on a line. Some people were nice, others weren't, but I made some great sandwiches there. My favorite was being able to customize things and make my own creations for people which they loved.

I do remember one evening where we we closing at 9 and a woman came in with her 3 children at 8 57 PM when we had already cleaned a bunch of stuff, waived her phone in our faces saying, "Its 8:55 you're still open!!!" At that point we were all just like oh my god, fuck you internally, but you put on the smiley face. While she was putting in her order she literally said to my face, I don't know why my kids like it here, it seems pretty mediocre and overpriced to me. I won't lie about the overpriced, but when I heard that, I decided I was going to make these kids the Mona lisa of grilled cheese sandwiches, mac and cheese and tomato soup. Cut the crusts off for them, extra mac and cheese on the plate, the whole 9 yards. Grilled cheese came out perfect, and the kids had the biggest grin when I brought it over to them, and this fucking bitch said, "why did that take so long." When people really piss off while I'm working, I usually just get nicer and nicer so they'll get angrier and angrier, but for this occasion I just ignored her question, and asked the kids, "Is it good?" They all just looked up and nodded excitedly not even pausing eating. I looked back at her and said, "Stay as long as you like, I just have to take care of closing things up back here." Gave the kids cookies on the way out too. We got out of there 45 minutes later than usual, but that at least those kids were happy. If I ever see that woman again I will not hesitate to just tell her how much I hate her.
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Oh man, I miss Paradise bakery so much. I usually am not into getting salads but the Ceaser and the Southwest Caeser were so good. They were huge and filling too. Panera and Kneaders are bunk trash compared to Paradise.

Its funny when people order funny stuff. I remember once on Quiznos this guys was like, "Hey can you take two bread loaves and only give me the bottoms for my sandwhich, im trying to watch my weight."
 
14251087:TheMoostafian said:
The pizza place was also in washington, on whidbey island.

I think the guy was crazy long before he worked for Raytheon. Turns out he lied about all his credentials and didn't even go to college. Somehow taught himself enough about physics to be a subcontractor for one of the biggest defense and aerospace companies in the country.

Anyway, his name was Al Baker if anyone wants to look up the news stories about it. This happened 9 or 10 years ago
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That is crazy, I will have to look it up. Washington straight up has the market corned on serial killers.

The islands on the Puget sound are crazy, its like your in your own little world out there. My Grandparents lived on Bainbridge Island and they had such a sweet view of the entire Seattle skyline across the sound. I took this photo from their back deck at night with a tripod.

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first job ever being 14 or 15 was a dishwasher at a pizza place at the bottom of Pinebrook near Park City in Jeremy Ranch. Pretty good pizza but a really shitty owner and questionable managers, but thats how it goes sometimes. Ill never forget my coworker/line cook/dishwasher eating plates of food that were sent back by catty PC moms that had a few bites taken out of them, but im sure that happens more often than not.

and then i got fired after working there for a few months over a summer. it was a super busy sunday night and we didn't close till like 10pm, but it took us till like 11:45pm to close up and everybody left, so i had no idea how to turn off the gas and lock the doors and close-up properlly cuz managers normally do that so i did the best i could, left, got a call the next morning from the owners telling me to pound sand and go find another job elsewhere haha

**This post was edited on Mar 4th 2021 at 7:59:49pm
 
14249396:Jems said:
i consistently had to take orders from people who didn’t speak a word of english so i usually just have them a small fry and went on with the day
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Unless they’re Somali then in which case you just give them a crispy chicken sandwich meal.

I’ve never worked fast food but I’ve been working at my MSU’s cafeteria for a couple years now and got a couple stories from that
 
My buddy worked at the local McDonald's and put belly button lint in the mayor's sandwich. He got fired for something unrelated after that.
 
I worked at this casual breakfast/lunch place and most of the workers were either fellow college students or the same age just not in school. Our baker was in his late 50s and everyone loved him. But boy did we run through dishwashers almost as fast as dishes. Most of them were your typical 30s/40s ex-con with their fair share of quirks and personality, but they were chill for the most part. There was one dude tho, never went to prison or rehab or anything but he was the wierdest dude. Kinda short, plump fellow with big ears, a weird smile and disheveled hair straight out of North Dakota. He was one of the most opinionated people I've ever met with a mouth that stayed open longer than Mammoth on a good year. His dad lives in China and he used to live there too. He claims he had dime piece babes from various places around the world who "didn't know better" and loved him. He also was adamant that covid was a hoax, had existed years ago and disappeared, and masks were basically communism. It was funny at first but when he says the same shit every day it gets old fast. One day I came in to a loaded up dish pit and wondered why he wasn't there. I guess after a few girls reported him having made sexual comments and harrassment and his general attitude toward the place, he was hanging by thin wire and I think the owner visited, saw his half-ass mop job and dirty walls, so she fired him on the spot. He came back another day ranting about how it was bullshit that he got fired to one of the girls he harrassed. Poor looks, guy.
 
When I was 15, my first job was washing dishes at a local restaurant. High-end family place. One night, a tour bus rolls up and its passengers come in for a catered meal (no idea what a tour bus was doing in bumfuck nowhere Ontario). They all were served the same meal, Lamb, mashed potatoes, with ice cream for dessert. It was busy as fuck, and I didn't get the chance to eat. The tour bus dishes start coming back, and these fuckers have barely touched their food. Well, I'm hungry as shit, and hate wasting food, so I go to town, muck what must have been pounds of half-eaten sheep, taters and ice cream. Spent the next few days sick as shit (not from anything I picked up, just what happens when you're lactose intolerant and eat a bunch of ice cream). Can't figure out why I actually did that, would be gross as fuck to think about doing these days.
 
Worked at an ice cream place from 9th to 10th grade for about 1 year before I quit. Worked mostly in the back doing dishes, taking out trash, preparing ingredients or whatever. I think my official job tittle was "production assistant".

Some highlight's include...

Getting a horrible eczema rash on my wrist from unclogging sinks filled with 3 week old warm moldy ice cream.

One of our managers constantly threating to kill some dude who was the maintenance guy for the building we were in.

Walking in on someone crying in the walk in refrigerator.

A squirrel broke into our kitchen one day and got into a box of coca powder.

Never go into the kitchen of a restaurant you like haha.
 
Not fast food but in highschool I washed dishes and food prep at a swanky restaurant and one night the owner parked his Ferrari between the back door and the ice machine really close to the building and someone, not saying who, want to get a bucket of if and couldn't quite get past tge Ferrari and dropped the bucket of ice on his hood. It was pretty funny until tge owner saw the dent.
 
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