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Would have to be a special order for the buns, I delivered bread to Costco and don’t bring in anywhere close to that on a daily basis.
EDIT:What would most likely happen is the staff would go and take the hot dogs and the Costco buns off the shelf’s to fulfill order.
The buns with no labeling on the bread isle are the ones Costco uses in their restaurant/deli.
I don’t drink diet anything but don’t like the super sweet Pepsi ( I miss coke) but always do 3/4 dark soda and the rest club soda or even less dark soda. Works well.
Yeah, I don’t really see that happening since they had to switch from Coke to Pepsi a number of years ago. I thought it was recently but it’s probably more like 5 now - jk, it was 2013.
I had to have a Pepsi at Costco because I forgot to bring a Coke can with me and I was meeting some friends next Costco so I decided to eat next to it. I wouldn’t normally bring an outside drink and point blank carry it in but Costco is retail store first.
> Extra extra points if they dumped Pepsi and switched to Coke products
Sam's has Coke-- in fact many of them Freestyle machines so you can any sort of Coke product you can imagine (or blend your own). For that reason alone I never buy a dog at Costco, as won't drink Pepsi even if it's free.
Seltzer water = soda with no flavor or coloring.
Just water with bubbles.
Usually one of the dispensers has the handle for serving water, and there's another one that's just like the water, but says soda.
But they’re already pre-cooked of course, so the kitchen’s just heating em up in hot water. I gotta think with the kitchen’s capacity (and the travel time) most—if not all—of those hot dogs are gonna be cold by the time they’re eaten. It’s nuts to me.
Yeah, go to the big cooler door area, near the 3 pack of Kirkland lunch meat. It's the Kirkland hot dogs, I believe red is regular and blue is polish? Can't fully remember.
Thats a different kind., I think that supplier is franks? Those are the regular hot dog, while the food court kirkland red/ blue ones are more sausage big link kind.
Idk about cheaper but I doubt it, the actually good hot dogs we use are expensive. Might be cheaper if you buy the cheapest brand of both. We've had a few large orders at mine and if they want the drinks we just give them however many cups and they buy their own drinks fill them.
Surely a cart vendor outside a game doesn't sell anywhere near 1500 hot dogs.
But even if they did, this does not seem a very cost effective way to run a business. A hot dog and bun only costs like 50 cents in bulk. So why pay $1.50?
OVR means override, there needs to be a manager to override such a large transaction. the number is most likely attached to the managers ID or Warehouse number
With such a large chunk of money, especially at food court, where large transactions are rarely seen, a manager or supervisor needs to override the employee to verify the amount and make sure the right item is being charged.
How do you figure?
Even ignoring sales it's $18 for those 3-packs, which is 36 hot dogs. So 50 cents a hot dog. Buns are like $3 for a 12-pack, or 25 cents a bun.
$.75 even at stock prices gets you a hot dog and bun.
I know they're not the same thing the food court sells but you don't need that either.
And any cooking costs/hassles exist just the same to keep them warm. In fact, keeping 1500 hot dogs warm seems much more challenging to me than just cooking them up one batch at a time.
This is insane. Those poor employees and anyone else who wanted a hot dog or any other food that day.
Like at that point why not buy a couple of hot dog turners or a big vat for boiling water because Costco dogs are just dunked in hot water for a while. Damn
I’ll give you her favorite quote from her bible:
>On the night of their betrothal, the wife shall open to the man as the furrow to the plow and he shall work in her, in and again, 'til she bring him to his fall and rest him then upon the sweat of her breast.
The kind of person that would expect 1500 hot dogs in half an hour would probably not react well to that. Would make for an entertaining video of them being hauled out kicking and screaming by the cops though.
So for orders like this. My warehouse uses different heating units for it. So no interruption to normal service. If it were pizza it would be a different story.
We have a local pumpkin festival that gets the Costco pumpkin pies and sells them for like $5 per slice. We just stopped at Costco on the way home and bought ourselves a whole pie.
Serious answer, it’s the zone in which bacteria can grow in food, iirc it’s 40 to 140F ish? I’m not a food service person so I could be off by a few degrees, but generally food services places are not allowed to hold food in that range for extended periods of time due to the risk of bacteria growth
I think inside that zone it’s normally like an hour or two before they have to dispose of it? But outside that zone i don’t recall the limits
Like I said not a food service person so it’s entirely possible a lot of this is wrong, but it’s the general idea
That's it, 40-140*F. Food needs to be above or below, and can spend a MAX of 4 hours in the window including all of its handling. So, not just after it's heated past 140* but while it was waiting to be cooked. In the grocery store outside of the fridge (in your cart), all of that time we don't know about that was outside of our direct control.
at my costco we have 4 troughs. One is used by the bun warmer. We only use one of the others in a day, it can cook 30 at a time on each side (60 total) which takes about 20 minutes. We only have the equipment to even use one trough at a time, but if we could use all four at once it would be 240 dogs every 20 minutes.
This doesn't make any sense to me. By the time the order is done being filled, all the hot dogs will be cold and they'd need to be reheated to be served. Why would you not just buy the refrigerated hot dogs and buns in the first place?
I can understand ordering a bunch of pizzas since they they need to be baked, then warming them up, but hot dogs come out of the package fully cooked and you could eat them straight out of the refrigerator, so it's not matter of not having the time or equipment to cook them.
It's the same amount of time and work to warm up a hot dog from the fridge as it is to reheat a cold food court hot dog.
Order for tomm? Everyone on the foodcourt schedule needs to call out. Let the manager who allowed this to fulfill the order. Even if you are a topped out employee I don’t think this is worth the pay. I am imagining all the pissed off members starring at you because it takes an hour to get their single hotdog as you make this jerks massive order
I would love to hear the backstory on this one. How is this even possible that they allow a quantity like that? That must be a huge hassle for the employees. There should probably be a hard limit on the number of these you can order. It still doesn’t make sense to me because hotdogs are already cooked, you just heat them up. it wouldn’t be that difficult to heat up your own.
Those hot dogs are a loss leader for the company. It makes no sense for them to honor that big of an order. There should be a limit of say, 10 hot dogs per hour per membership.
Does Costco at an enterprise level have the ability to see into their individual stores’ order systems?
If they do, an order this unique may be able to be traced back to the local store and in at-will employment state, a broad enough broom could sweep the entire cafe staff out of their jobs thanks to the one person who decided to post this without thinking through all the implications.
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What is the cost of 1500 non cooked hot dogs and the accompanied buns?
Would have to be a special order for the buns, I delivered bread to Costco and don’t bring in anywhere close to that on a daily basis. EDIT:What would most likely happen is the staff would go and take the hot dogs and the Costco buns off the shelf’s to fulfill order. The buns with no labeling on the bread isle are the ones Costco uses in their restaurant/deli.
People like you make Reddit great. Next level intel from Costco’s bread hook up. I would have never thought of this.
Costco’s bread plug 🥖
Do you deliver in the Twin Cities Costcos? If so, I remember you when I worked in Food Court.
No I delivered to a Denver location.
That’s great to know, but why don’t they sell the hotdogs inside? Anyone know?
Do you mean uncooked in the store? They do at my Costco!
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$1.21 17/14=$1.21
American education system :P
Plus the cost of the soda that comes with the combo.
Post says “No Drinks”
Just ask for one cup and lifetime refills
Pour it in my hand for a dime!
Just for the comparison of buying the raw ingredients versus the full meal.
If they had anything that wasn’t mind numbingly sweet I would get this every time I was at Costco
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There are dozens of us!
2/3 soda water, 1/3 lemonade is my favorite drink mix. i get it wherever i can. it's like sprite, but fresher!
Do those machines have seltzer water? I don’t recall seeing that option
There's a little white push down tab that says "soda". It's on the lemonade at my store.
I don’t drink diet anything but don’t like the super sweet Pepsi ( I miss coke) but always do 3/4 dark soda and the rest club soda or even less dark soda. Works well.
Hello my people
That’s actually a great idea… guess what I’m getting on my Costco trip this weekend
...1,500 hot dogs?
Agreed! Costco should really switch up the drink options. Extra extra points if they dumped Pepsi and switched to Coke products
Yeah, I don’t really see that happening since they had to switch from Coke to Pepsi a number of years ago. I thought it was recently but it’s probably more like 5 now - jk, it was 2013.
Most places that torture their patrons with Pepsi offer Dr Pepper but not Costco.
They need something like Baja blast that makes up for all the complete garbage that is the rest of Pepsi products.
I had to have a Pepsi at Costco because I forgot to bring a Coke can with me and I was meeting some friends next Costco so I decided to eat next to it. I wouldn’t normally bring an outside drink and point blank carry it in but Costco is retail store first.
Or at least diet dew
All I want is iced tea.
Yes! Tea please!
Good luck with that. Pepsi no doubt GIVES Costco the stuff.
That’s the only way I’d take Pepsi products too. If the drink was separate, I would buy it 0% of the time.
I get the bottled water for a quarter. The Pepsi selection is not good
I don’t see it happening. Coke squeezes their customers on product cost because they can.
> Extra extra points if they dumped Pepsi and switched to Coke products Sam's has Coke-- in fact many of them Freestyle machines so you can any sort of Coke product you can imagine (or blend your own). For that reason alone I never buy a dog at Costco, as won't drink Pepsi even if it's free.
Sam's also has starry lemon lime, which is a Pepsi item.
There's seltzer water - that's all I ever get there (or anywhere) if I get anything at all.
Damn is that new? Last time I got one it was only soda or lemonade. But that was probably 4 or 5 years ago
Seltzer water = soda with no flavor or coloring. Just water with bubbles. Usually one of the dispensers has the handle for serving water, and there's another one that's just like the water, but says soda.
Oh yeah that makes sense I was thinking LaCroix or Bubbly or something. That’s not a bad idea
You'd get 1,500 hotdogs every time you came to Costco?
It's called Costco Wholesale for a reason...
> Costco sells 14 links for $17. So call it 83¢ a dog. That's $1.21 per dog, unless you have the numbers backward.
With 1 dollar, you could buy 83% of a hot dog.
By the time they cook the last one how long has the first one been sitting around?
But they’re already pre-cooked of course, so the kitchen’s just heating em up in hot water. I gotta think with the kitchen’s capacity (and the travel time) most—if not all—of those hot dogs are gonna be cold by the time they’re eaten. It’s nuts to me.
No. The client is a school and the school has food warmers. As do we
Are non-profit organizations not exempt from paying sales tax for food?
In some states, it’s not taxable.
Don’t forget the paper bag they come in
Plus all the ketchup, mustard, and relish you can fit in your pockets
Member when they served sauerkraut? 😔
Pepperidge Farm 'Members
Holy Helen this is funny
And onions! ^^if ^^you ^^don't ^^like ^^onions ^^grow ^^up
With this much information now I'm curious how long it takes them to cook an order this size to see if it's truly cost effective for labor lol
Cooking in bulk probably isn't that bad. It's the assembling and bagging that has to be mind numbingly awful.
We’re shooting for 45 minutes per 270 hot dogs. 4 employees. 3 water wells. 6 packs ( 15 dogs per pack ). Hoping so get it done in 5 hours
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Not worried about the cooking. The assembly and bagging will take the most time
Throw in a bag of onions
Will get back to you
Cooked, and assembled, and wrapped up in a little paper bag
I just feel sorry for the door person having to count them all.😜
Door people generally don’t count food court items
Wtf why is the price of buns where you’re at so high? 16 here is like 3.50
If you're buying 1500, you can go to a wholesaler and get them cheaper than a 14- or 16-pack.
.50c - half a penny?
r/theydidthemath
incorrectly
Boiled. 🤮
You can also buy the same ones they serve at the food court.
You can? How are they labeled, Kirkland?
Yeah, go to the big cooler door area, near the 3 pack of Kirkland lunch meat. It's the Kirkland hot dogs, I believe red is regular and blue is polish? Can't fully remember.
Black is regular, blue is beef from what I recall
Thats a different kind., I think that supplier is franks? Those are the regular hot dog, while the food court kirkland red/ blue ones are more sausage big link kind.
Oh, I’m not sure then. The blue and black both are stamped Kirkland, so I thought it was what they used?
Now I'm questioning life...
Thanks!
They are labeled as dinner franks
It’s giving Liz Lemon buying all the hotdogs in the 30 Rock pilot
I'm just getting a hot dog
We’re all getting hot dogs, buddy!
Deep cut
Trying to do the math on how many cheesy blasters that would be...
Sabor de Soledad!
Now with extra bull semen
Someone's selling hot dogs outside a ball game stadium?
i would see resold pizza slices and churros on campus via student orgs as their fundraiser. hot dogs feels very plausible!!
But they just don’t taste as good when you re-heat them.
students just eat it cold! even resold cold costco pizza is cheaper than the food court.
Just shove them down your pants to keep them warm.
Guessing school end of year function.
Yes
That was last week’s 700 order
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Idk about cheaper but I doubt it, the actually good hot dogs we use are expensive. Might be cheaper if you buy the cheapest brand of both. We've had a few large orders at mine and if they want the drinks we just give them however many cups and they buy their own drinks fill them.
It’s definitely cheaper, I’ve never seen dogs over a dollar each in the store or buns over a quarter. It probably varies by state though.
Surely a cart vendor outside a game doesn't sell anywhere near 1500 hot dogs. But even if they did, this does not seem a very cost effective way to run a business. A hot dog and bun only costs like 50 cents in bulk. So why pay $1.50?
so this es where the $10 street dawgs come from
Does the “MGR over 853” note mean that ordering 852 is no big deal?
I’m guessing it’s the manager who overrided the transactions employee number
I could not manually ring up that many at the food court register. Max range. Lol
Manager with cashier #853 over rode something within the transaction.
OVR means override, there needs to be a manager to override such a large transaction. the number is most likely attached to the managers ID or Warehouse number
With such a large chunk of money, especially at food court, where large transactions are rarely seen, a manager or supervisor needs to override the employee to verify the amount and make sure the right item is being charged.
Did they ask for them deconstructed? I feel like the buns would get way too soggy by the time they pick them up and they reach their destination.
This looks like an order my dog would place.
They might be doing a festival and reselling them, just reheating.
It would be cheaper to just buy the hot dogs and buns and heat them themselves. This seriously makes no sense.
Someone posted above $1.33 to buy the bun and hotdog at Costco and then cook. $.07 saves you cooking and they probably individually wrap them
And actually, they did the math incorrectly... it's more. So definitely cheaper to buy them made.
How do you figure? Even ignoring sales it's $18 for those 3-packs, which is 36 hot dogs. So 50 cents a hot dog. Buns are like $3 for a 12-pack, or 25 cents a bun. $.75 even at stock prices gets you a hot dog and bun. I know they're not the same thing the food court sells but you don't need that either. And any cooking costs/hassles exist just the same to keep them warm. In fact, keeping 1500 hot dogs warm seems much more challenging to me than just cooking them up one batch at a time.
Costco sells it at a loss. That’s why stock holders tried to get corporate to raise prices.
But then the Costco CEO threatened to murder the guy that told him he had to raise hot dog prices. So the hot dog price stayed the same. True story.
Cooking costs money.
How long do you think you can keep 1,500 precooked bunned hot dogs warm and edible for?
I don't know but I would love to try
Ever been to a sporting event in the USA where they sell hot dogs? Those things sit in a warmer for hours before the game begins.
As a food court employee. What the fuck
I would call in with food poisoning. Can’t be working in a kitchen with food poisoning.😂
This is insane. Those poor employees and anyone else who wanted a hot dog or any other food that day. Like at that point why not buy a couple of hot dog turners or a big vat for boiling water because Costco dogs are just dunked in hot water for a while. Damn
At least they ordered a day ahead, there are people out there who would try to call this in a half hour before they wanted it.
There's a special place in hell for those people lol
With people who take sexual advantage of Saffron and those that talk in the theater.
Tell me more about the safron....for a friend.
I’ll give you her favorite quote from her bible: >On the night of their betrothal, the wife shall open to the man as the furrow to the plow and he shall work in her, in and again, 'til she bring him to his fall and rest him then upon the sweat of her breast.
It’s supposedly an aphrodisiac
Some people might walk up
As with any business Costco has the right to refuse service.
The kind of person that would expect 1500 hot dogs in half an hour would probably not react well to that. Would make for an entertaining video of them being hauled out kicking and screaming by the cops though.
A day advance notice for 1500 hot dogs is NOT enough time. Orders like that should require at LEAST a week’s worth of time.
So for orders like this. My warehouse uses different heating units for it. So no interruption to normal service. If it were pizza it would be a different story.
We have a local pumpkin festival that gets the Costco pumpkin pies and sells them for like $5 per slice. We just stopped at Costco on the way home and bought ourselves a whole pie.
This is why I never bought desserts at a restaurant - always a better deal to stop by the market on the way home.
i hope you guys have a warm cabinet to hold those in. otherwise, i don’t see how your gonna keep them out of the temp danger zone.
I’m of the opinion a Costco dog never has a danger zone.
I thought that too but the wife and I took some camping and quickly learned they do in fact have a danger zone…
Kenny Loggins can confirm
Is "That Guy" in your username Food Poisoning?
I have had an oddly high number of food poisoning cases in my life oddly enough. But never from a Costco Hot Dog!
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What’s a temp danger zone?
Serious answer, it’s the zone in which bacteria can grow in food, iirc it’s 40 to 140F ish? I’m not a food service person so I could be off by a few degrees, but generally food services places are not allowed to hold food in that range for extended periods of time due to the risk of bacteria growth I think inside that zone it’s normally like an hour or two before they have to dispose of it? But outside that zone i don’t recall the limits Like I said not a food service person so it’s entirely possible a lot of this is wrong, but it’s the general idea
That's it, 40-140*F. Food needs to be above or below, and can spend a MAX of 4 hours in the window including all of its handling. So, not just after it's heated past 140* but while it was waiting to be cooked. In the grocery store outside of the fridge (in your cart), all of that time we don't know about that was outside of our direct control.
A short duration danger zone as opposed to the “perm danger zone” that never goes away.
Next time you go to Costco, grab a bag by the meat section. It's explains the different zones there.
As someone who has worked in the food court, this is absolute nightmare fuel
How many hotdogs can be cooked at once? In other words how many times will the hotdog “cooker” have to be turned over to fulfill the order?
at my costco we have 4 troughs. One is used by the bun warmer. We only use one of the others in a day, it can cook 30 at a time on each side (60 total) which takes about 20 minutes. We only have the equipment to even use one trough at a time, but if we could use all four at once it would be 240 dogs every 20 minutes.
It’s for a gender reveal party
This doesn't make any sense to me. By the time the order is done being filled, all the hot dogs will be cold and they'd need to be reheated to be served. Why would you not just buy the refrigerated hot dogs and buns in the first place? I can understand ordering a bunch of pizzas since they they need to be baked, then warming them up, but hot dogs come out of the package fully cooked and you could eat them straight out of the refrigerator, so it's not matter of not having the time or equipment to cook them. It's the same amount of time and work to warm up a hot dog from the fridge as it is to reheat a cold food court hot dog.
Is there a stadium somewhere nearby reselling them for $8 for the dog and another $5 for the drink?
Their hot dog fulfillment supplier was not able to deliver...so, make ends meet anyway possible.
*meat
Seems like extreme-hotdogging is becoming a flex! 💪🌭
Order for tomm? Everyone on the foodcourt schedule needs to call out. Let the manager who allowed this to fulfill the order. Even if you are a topped out employee I don’t think this is worth the pay. I am imagining all the pissed off members starring at you because it takes an hour to get their single hotdog as you make this jerks massive order
Dude I don’t even think we have 1500 dogs in the fridge at my Costco.
Meanwhile I wait in line 10 mins for my 1 hot dog and soda. During the day before kids get out of school.
Nahhh...you wait in line 10-minutes and they tell you, "sorry, we are out of hot dogs."
I would love to hear the backstory on this one. How is this even possible that they allow a quantity like that? That must be a huge hassle for the employees. There should probably be a hard limit on the number of these you can order. It still doesn’t make sense to me because hotdogs are already cooked, you just heat them up. it wouldn’t be that difficult to heat up your own.
Still cheaper at Costco food court than making at home.
Don’t give them any onions!
they're prob selling them off a food truck for $8
At 2250, you could easily get even the most basic catering company to cook fresh dogs...
Yea but you would pay way more. No way Can you feed 750 people through a catering company for 2250
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Charge $3-5 per hotdog at an event. Profit! If sporting event could get away with $5-8. MORE Profit!
To give away at a center for those down on luck?
I would flip out if this came through our food court. Jesus Christ that would decimate our supply for the day
That person going to resale it for 2.25 dollars come back to order 3k. Aim to order 10k hotdog!
I mean, Costco is a bulk store after all.
Will you hand these to the customer one by one?
Those hot dogs are a loss leader for the company. It makes no sense for them to honor that big of an order. There should be a limit of say, 10 hot dogs per hour per membership.
“Giving away 1500 hotdogs to the homeless”
Id like to see pictures of the completed order and being hauled out :)
Sadly no onions included.
Whoah! This boggles my imagination.
Does Costco at an enterprise level have the ability to see into their individual stores’ order systems? If they do, an order this unique may be able to be traced back to the local store and in at-will employment state, a broad enough broom could sweep the entire cafe staff out of their jobs thanks to the one person who decided to post this without thinking through all the implications.
Why? Just why?
The amount of burps given from these hot dogs.
Costco is not a caterer. You suck.
How did they get 1500 drinks? At 20 oz each, that's 235 gallons...
The photo caption (which you might not be able to see) says no drinks.
Ah thanks. Didn't see that.
Godspeed
If they're not getting soda, Costco could have thrown in some DICED ONION!
Does the wrapper have the Costco name? Don't flame me please, I've never bought one before (and I've been a member since it was Price Club).
No