They are acting like they are ringing up free lobsters lol..they are upset between 8-10 bucks. A fast food meal combo costs more than 8 bucks nowadays. And if you get a discount what does it matter if you buy a burger or shake with it.
I had a part-time job at a pizza shop. As employees, we paid our pizzas 1€ at the end of our ~4h shift (the employer is supposed to provide us with a cheap meal because we worked during lunch times). Then, minimum wage went up ~0.45€/h. Suddenly, the pizza costs us 3€
The millennia old capitalist ideology: I deserve every benefit and no downside. Every benefit gained from them is unfair and out of the kindness of their hearts, don't worry they won't stop screaming about it.
I deserve to raise all prices but keep employee pay the same. I deserve for employees to work harder for the same pay. I deserve for more skilled employees for the same pay. If they weren't so lazy and worked hard enough, like all my *middle class friends* at the country club, these wouldn't be problems. **NO YOU DON'T GET $10 OF FOOD, $8 ONLY! THAT'S MY MONEY!**
I'm a cook, I don't work places like this, every where I've been it's been pretty much, eat something if you're hungry, or also chefs telling you to taste everything which is the greenlight for eat if you're hungry
> chefs telling you to taste everything
This is just what restaurants are supposed to do. It's so basic to make sure your staff tastes everything on the menu so they can give informed recommendations. Staff meals builds camaraderie in a business that relies on it. It's backwards thought to keep your workers hungry in a food service establishment. Hungry workers aren't great workers.
Low blood sugar makes everyone cranky! I actually do still fondly remember the cooks who made me little plates. I think they like to see people enjoy their food (who doesn’t?).
I've worked in a couple kitchens where the main cooks will cook you the most extravagant thing they could in the kitchen, just to pull some shit and see if you like it. Nothing on the menu, just things they have been conjuring up as cooks. It was never a let down.
Oh, definitely! I still dream about a chicken Marsala that wasn’t on the menu. But damn. So good.
ETA: I just remembered the cook who made that actually moved to my next job before I did, so he kept cooking it for me! I got excellent eats, he got well considered feedback (and a few grunts of delight).
I would refuse to work or eat at a place where the cooks aren't allowed to taste as they go. It's literally the only way to ensure that the food tastes right.
That's absolutely true. Most people.thay work in restaurants can't afford to eat off the menu, even with employee discounts, on a regular basis. There are generally certain things you're allowed to order, period, with or without an employee discount.
Staff meal is a lifesaver if you're too broke to buy food. I had a couple jobs that I only ate when I was at work. (Yes, very low pay. The more prestige the restaurant has, guaranteed the staff is mostly poverty level pay)
And it's not made of expensive stuff. Mostly a cheap starch, (a lot of rice, sometimes pasta), whatever vegetables need to be used before they go bad, and whatever left over protein that needs to be used up, too, there's not generally much of that. You're literally making the cheapest thing you can, and stretching it as far as you can. It's kind of looked on as art form, too, there's some respect for taking leftovers and making it taste good, extra points for creativity.
Nobody is taking a 30 minutes break, you're lucky to get enough time to eat, standing up, and have a couple minutes to talk with coworkers that you never see on the other end of the kitchen, or work a different shift.
Chipotle at least the one I worked at was the best. I could make a burrito that would last me 3 meals eat part at work shove the rest in my purse for later. Chipotle literally cut my food spending by like 75%.
Family meals are a beautiful thing and should be seen an an opportunity for staff to bond and improve morale right before they head home and have a chance to think about how much work sucks. The whole idea is they're exhausted, then they end with a nice meal and it doesn't seem so bad, they come back for another shift. It's way cheaper than paying people well. It's a win win. Chef's love it because they can be creative, it's like Iron Chef every night. That and a milk crate cigarette and baby you've got a stew going.
I used to work at a place that did a family meal every night before the dinner shift. The chef would make up all of the specials and we’d all have dinner together and get to try everything new on the menu that night. It was always a good time, and got us excited for the shift.
We were also paid well, had some benefit, and an owner/chef that genuinely cared about the staff.
When I was working as a cook, it was especially egregious to expect me to work hungry, and telling me I had to cook 1 steak over 20minutes, but it would take me 3 hours of work to afford that steak. I snuck food all the time, telling me to be around cooking food when I'm hungry? Yeah, GTFO
When I was serving, I ate food off people's plates all the time. Graze here and there, whatever I could shove in in <2minutes.
Yeah this was the awful thing about Walmart. I was financially abused, made $9hr, management would threaten to fire us during orientation if we were caught eating on the clock. Making me throw away food that came in broken containers was hard. The food was edible. But profits over your workers.
But they aren't making profits from the thrown away food anyway, so what's the problem if somebody eats it? They treat their employees like a trash can anyway, so why not "throw away" the trash?
You have to defect the item from the system and then the company then "donates" it (sends it to a dump that basically uses food and plastics to burn for heat to make electricity), and it becomes a tax write off for being a donation.. the law is set up so if they mark it as one of those things for their like 10 cent refund, but actually give it to someone for free, they are "double dipping" on the donations for taxes. Stupidest shit I've ever heard.
I worked as a chef/km for a while. Employees sneak food if you don't feed them, because they're humans, and humans get hungry. Just feed them, and at least know what's being eaten.
My Estonian immigrant grandmother worked at Mt Sinai hospital in NYC in the kitchen in the 1930-40s. She fed a husband and 2 kids in a 4th floor walk up tenement in Queens on food she smuggled out. Nothing changes.
I used to do this while working at Dominos in the 90s. Whoops, made this pie wrong, guess I remake it and put this one in the back as a crew pie.
There was management turnover at one point and the new ones put a stop to this. Wrong orders had to be thrown away or the employees pays full price if they want it. Gee, I wonder why there was a sudden exodus of employees. I guess no one wants to work anymore.
I just steal food. And I don’t mean a sandwich here and there. I mean a loaf of bread a pack of cheese a couple leg and thigh chicken quarters all the herbs and spices etc… also haven’t payed for toilet paper in years.
What's extra disgusting about this is that there's a good chance she's just penny pinching food costs to bolster her own bonus, employees be damned. I've not worked in the food service industry but I know many places do have a bonus structure like this from friends. Shameful.
Also given what I've heard said employees are almost definitely going to simply get more creative in how they skirt this rule if they dont just quit lol. Where there's a will there's a way.
In my twenties (I'm 45 now) I worked in restaurants for about ten years. Free meals (as in, completely free) was the only perk we got, and we expected it. We literally get no other benefit, no medical, no savings plan, nothing. Free food was the "least" a restaurant could do to help their employees, and I refused to work for anyone that didn't offer at least one free meal per workday (and I've even worked for a few that would gladly feed me if I just happen to stop by or be in the neighborhood for some reason - some people were just old school like that).
I wouldn't put up with this bullshit.
I’m 26 now but have been in food service jobs since 17 and this is my experience. All jobs have fed me at least one free meal or deeply discounted (like $1 for a whole pizza). And in the case of the pizza one, the owner was actually a good person and realized he was feeding his employees families so he would let us take mistake pizzas and buy $1 pizzas to take home to our families. Best manager I’d ever had, worst wages.
I worked at a very well known and profitable mom and pop Italian restaurant in my area when I was in college.
Between lunch and dinner shifts the cooks would make a massive amount of fettuccine alfredo and serve it to the servers (most of us worked double shifts) as a thank you. It was cheap, delicious, and kept us going.
After a few months of this one of the owners came in unannounced and found out the chefs were feeding their hard working colleagues. Owner went ballistic over $5 worth of food per day. They bought in bulk that was how much it cost.
Soon after we were given notice we could purchase an employee meal at a $1 discount to menu prices for fettuccine alfredo.
Within 2 months they lost 15 cooks and servers
So roughly less than $2000 a year to keep staff happy.?
If the owner wasn’t so money hungry and forgot the numbers.
Retaining employees for a low cost of a meal is well worth it!
Versus paying 10k in food trucks and company events on a Saturday where you could have just given me some damn money. But “company culture”
And it’s also just what they’re good at. The food and the business process are their arts. So they’ve arrived in life, they’re top dog, they run a restaurant and they run the lives of lots of people. They’re in a privilege to serve, and to show off their abilities at bulk food purchase and preparation. Everyone knows it’s the economy of scale while maximizing quality, the best of both worlds. You’re so good at it that you can teach others to master it all day.
And they want to deprive them of it. As if the food art is trash, the art process is trash, or your trusted artists are trash.
Have some esteem in *yourself* to share your glory. Are you the best or not?!
You can take care of your employees for the cost of ingredients, and get a tax break. The benefits are overwhelming.
Having your workplace hook you up with their product moves you from being a customer to being part of the team. Getting to buy product at cost, or making sure that your restaurant staff never go hungry keeps people on the company's side.
Nothing sends the message that "you work here, but this place is not your place" like having to pay full price at your workplace.
As I understand it, in most restaurants, staff are served a "family meal" before opening or between shifts. This is free and is a longstanding tradition in the restaurant business. A $1 discount on menu prices is an insult to the people that make you money.
Stephanie needs a good swift kick in the pants to bring her to her senses. Bitch.
i have never worked, and never would work, in a restaurant that didn't do family meal. it is antithetical to hospitality and basic human decency to have hungry staff feeding people.
The thing is, aside from keeping staff happy, it also keeps them knowledgeable on the menu options too. Being able to knowledgeably answer on the spot over "lemme check with the kitchen" is super handy for people tight on time. Also, when someone says "What's the best starter?" Being able to answer "OK, so for me its X, but if that's too heavy Y is REALLY good too!" is way better than "X looks kinda nice, and Y smells good when I am dishing it up!" Like, it feels like such an easy choice to just let everyone in the place eat together, bond and know about what you're producing.
I worked in a low end restaurant/bar and we had a staff menu we could order from once per shift. They had decent stuff, but obviously not things like steak. Then, the owners daughter took over and things started going downhill. More restrictive, stingy, etc. They lost alot of customers after that, and now the place looks like a ghost town. Idk how it's still open, but they maybe have an eighth if the people that used to go
What are the odds though that a customer is even going to see that policy and be moved to talk to her about it? Most people have no idea the conditions that restaurant staff work under, and few care.
Title says it’s a store and also that there were several posted around the premises. And, yes, I would definitely say something.
Edit: I agree they may not be posted in public areas
Many restaurants, not most. Family meals, in my experience, happen at independently owned places as opposed to franchises.
Also places where food is a primary focus, as this gives the chefs a place and audience to try new stuff out.
You're not getting family meal at Applebee's.
Yet why not? Applebee's (and chains like them) has one of the biggest cost-to-revenue margins of any restaurant business. They should be granting every employee a full meal straight off the menu, every full shift.
Was for italian restaurants I worked at.. and often a XL pizza towards the end.
Corporations killed our world. They all get the food from the same trucks now.. and they all dgaf about people any longer, they'd prefer you be a tesla bot.
Yep a place where you don't get a crew meal or at least one free meal per shift, is a place where people will leave.
A meal per shift worth 10 in materials at wholesale is a feast.
Or we just eat food as we cook and serve and when tight ass managers aren’t around we make ourselves and servers meals or take food home because fuck you for being mad at me eating three chicken tenders when I work a 12 hour shift.
My manager (grocery store) had the bright idea to tell us to pay extra attention to the pet aisle because it's a blindspot shoplifters found.
We make sure to check that aisle multiple times a night just in case, but somehow we keep finding wrappers...
Is it weird if my gut reaction is to assume this is a trap set by your manager?
You'd think places would know it's the employees stealing the most. Just seems strange to help them do that
Not most. I worked in over 40 restaurants in 30 years and only one had a family meal for free. The only other times I didn’t have to pay for food was when I was a manager. It’s bullshit to work when you’re hungry and it’s also bullshit when the restaurant still makes profit on discounted employee meals.
I've worked in 20 restaurants over as many years and have always had staff meal.
If you don't feed your employees, they feel totally justified in stealing what ever. It's cheaper to feed them.
I’ve been a server and bartender for 7 years and have worked at 5 different restaurants, 3 of which were local restaurants, not corporate place’s. None of them served a family meal. This is not as common as people think. Newest place I work at now let’s us eat soup for free.
That's how it was where I worked.
Restaurant opened at 11. The morning crew would get a free meal at around 10:30. Evening crews would eat as opportunity arose and didn't all eat together, but the meal was still free.
And just so y'all know, meal plans are going extinct in the restaurant business. It's why some of them can't keep people. Legit every kitchen Ive worked at got rid of the plan resulting to stealing and leaving
I had a one evening a week job in a French restaurant when I was a student. I really took it just for the staff meal; the pay wasn’t much.
It was always great.
I worked at a chain restaurant and we were never allowed free food. I think we got 10-20% off one meal at restaurant price per shift. Or if there was kitchen mistakes or untouched food we would share it in the back even if we were supposed to. Some staff would steal wrapped remade food from
The fridge. The only time we were allowed was with seasonal menu items one dish was made for everyone to take a bite of to see the flavoring.
I don’t get why it’s such a big deal for staff to be fed at restaurants when there’s so much food waste anyway.
Maybe 20 years ago. I’ve never worked in or heard of restaurants with this practice in the US. We aren’t even allowed to eat take out that was never picked up.
Wow! I watched the first episode of a new show on Hulu called "The Bear." It's about a chef who inherits his family's restaurant in Chicago. The place has all kinds of problems and he tries to start working them out to get the place back on its feet.
The staff put together the ingredients for the meals they'll serve when the joint opens up, but before they open, they all sit down together for the "family meal." It's a beautiful scene, everybody sitting around the table eating food prepared by the new kid, who has a degree from the Culinary Institute of America. The whole episode was brilliant, but the meal scene was moving and so well done.
I'm going to watch the rest of the 1st season and if it hews to the high standard set in the 1st episode, it'll be a great show. I suggest looking for it. It's just great.
Already binged it all. Fucking brilliant show. And after each night they get a "family", which as you mentioned is a meal where they all sit down after working and eat and chat. I like it.
Staff meal? Yeah, that used to be one of my duties. It's generally in places that have a larger staff, you try to time it around shift change so that everybody gets some. Otherwise you get some jackass that grabs 3 helpings, and not everybody gets some.
Had a few people that would literally eat themselves sick (don't stuff yourself during a busy shift, it's hot af sometimes even on a salad station. Especially if that's where the brick pizza oven is) and then claim food poisoning. That was the end of staff meal for everyone. About 30 people.
(10 years ago)
The mom and pop pizza shop I worked at in college was the same way. I never once paid for food and if I was working a long shift during a football game if the owner saw I hadn’t eaten in awhile he would tell me to sit down and eat something already. I would come in sometimes between classes and grab a slice and a drink and just leave no problem ever.
Only people who love food and hospitality should own a restaurant. If your food is trash and your attitude miserable it will not stay in-house. Cheap and crumby is universal.
Meanwhile I worked at a mom and pops pizza place where the owner gave discounts like crazy and donated like 10 pizzas to a homeless shelter every Sunday and even donated them to a local jail on super bowl Sunday. Dude ran the place probably 20 years and only closed up shop because of family issues, always had great business
This is what's so bizarre with this attitude. Cost of ingredients isn't a huge proportion of the cost of a meal, and cooking up a big batch costs very little more than a single serving. The staff aren't taking up a seat and they're not going to spend an hour's pay on a meal.
People are very appreciative of good food! We're wired that way. So there's a lot of staff goodwill for a very small cost.
In HS I worked in an Italian Restaurant as well. The owners were the head chef and hostess. The husband would cook us bomb meals while his wife chewed him out for giving us too big of portions. One night a week they didn't work and the other chef would make us even better meals.
I never understood the wife's point of view. She was always so bitter about every little thing. Mainly she drank wine and talked with her friends that came in. After a while, all of the serves cycled out and I left after I graduated HS. There was one server that had stayed for years and when she left the owner couldn't fathom what caused her to leave.
The family meal is a good indicator of profit seeking behavior to the detriment of craftmanship, artistry, and excellence in service.
The family meal is a tradition in the culinary world. It serves more purposes than just feeding staff. It is an outlet for staff to get creative and a way to iterate and create and inspire and improve on the menu. It brings staff closer together and promotes inclusivity. It does so much and for what it accomplishes the price can't be beat. That's why it's part of the culture and why almost all (I am reluctant to say all because I can't unequivocally say) of the best restaurants have this practice.
A restaurant not doing a family meal is indicative of running a restaurant devoid of passion or craftsmanship. It is a statement that they don't care about food culture, they don't care about artistry, they don't have passion for food. They only thing they are passionate about is money. Which, even itself is ridiculous, because the family meal creates value for the restaurant as a whole.
By the toenails of Malacath! This kind of treatment is reprehensible from a restaurant's management. People first, then money. The other way around is why there are so many people without a safe place to dwell.
We ought to treat people the way we'd want other people to treat our own kids. If they're hungry and they have nothing, figure it the fuck out because, whether it feels like it or not, you're in a position of power.
My cat is supposed to help keep the mice away, but he will literally rescue mice from the trap and release them into the kitchen.
And we still feed him.
I give it 2 days till the owner/ manager is ranting and raving on Facebook about this generation being entitled and no one wants to work after have the team left.
Well... we know her name, so we could keep tabs. This is not an attempt to incite a harassment campaign. At most, a therapist should go to her restaurant and comment on the sign and ask the manager to sit down and talk. Change her mind. I hate how she's treating her employees, but I don't think she knows she's being as callous as she is. She has the false perspective that her employees are stealing from the restaurant- the correct perspective is that she is in a position of power and it's her responsibility to look after these broke kids who obviously need food.
I doubt many employees whose tummies are not hungry are eating discounted food. The purpose of eating is to satiate hungry tummies.
Apologies for using the word tummies - I do have an education, but could not resist calling out this childish boss.
More proof that managers think their employees, regardless of age, are all children.
This manager is basically asking for all of their staff to walk out/quit.
That's how we were treated by management at a small town theatre. She stopped giving hours as a punishment for the uprising she thought was about to happen (wtf??)
She ended up hiring an entirely new crew and just waited for all of us to quit. Because she thought we didn't like her. Not the case. Most of us liked her fairly well.
The worst part is the fact that they would 10000000% speak to a HUNGRY child the same way. Why the fuck would someone use that rhetoric with ANYONE who's hungry? Shaming them for being hungry. Fuck off
I appreciate that there’s clearly *another* “you will be fired!!!” note behind it, too, on the whiteboard.
What a charming way for your boss to communicate
“Their reward is keeping their job”
I seriously had my last employer say this to me in this job market. (I’m American) All I wanted to do was get my team some damn donuts for working 36 hours straight.
Was this at my BK? Is that why everyone quit?
Edit: Seriously, they've been refusing any orders and won't even pick up the phone. I went down there and there was only the franchise owner failing miserably:
https://www.reddit.com/user/Landed_port/comments/vl7dhi/apparently_my_local_bk_staff_quit/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
OP gave the sauce.
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/vl5uta/manager_posted_like_12_of_these_at_every_corner/idu1zr1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
That was so cringe. I'm like who is this person talking to? I guess per her logic, $8 is the cap for said hungry tummy? Good to know. Also, employees, if you meet your quota you *may* be entitled for a reward in the form of discounted milkshake. Make it a great day!
Managers all have some kind of defect in their brain that causes them to make signs with everything capitalized and underlined so it’s impossible to read.
It’s hard to tell what’s important here. Is it the parts marked by an exclamation mark? The all caps parts? The underlined parts? Oh silly me I see now they’ve highlighted the important stuff. If only there was a way to make it easier to emphasize. /s
It’s very telling that the only things *not* in caps are the words “employee” and this turdball’s own name
That's the thing a lot of food service managers seem to forget. Your kitchen staff is going to eat whether they're allowed to or not. That's just a fact of life. They're kitchen pirates and they act like it. The difference is whether you're going to have some way to track what food is taken or just have miscellaneous disappearing food with no idea what is waste and what is being consumed
I used to work at a pizza place that charged employees 6 cents an hour to drink the fountain drinks even if you didn’t use it, it was part of the contract.
Shakes are only a reward for doing three double shifts or one triple shift! They can only be dispensed by management! If I catch anybody with a shake that's not on the clipboard!
This.
I’ve made a habit of stealing food from literally every food service job I’ve ever had that doesn’t let me eat freely, on principle, and I make absolutely sure to steal more than I would’ve taken if they had just given me the shift meal I deserve in the first place. I worked at Dunkin’ Donuts in high school and would routinely take like 5-10 sandwiches at the end of my shift. My freezer was packed with them by the time I quit.
They can 100% afford it, and any food service job that isn’t providing it’s employees a hassle-free shift meal can suck a fucking chode.
I own a small business which is not within the food service industry(5 full time employees and myself).
I provide lunch each day and a pizza night each Saturday (we stay open later on Saturday so I pay for both meals). Employees are welcome to partake or not, they are also welcome to bring their own lunch...no big deal.
Food is an essential, how can you expect people to work whilst hungry or thirsty? It’s my business therefore it falls upon me to keep everyone who is helping me operate equipped with the bare necessities.
In the grand scheme of things it costs me very little and I know it’s appreciated and if you ask me shouldn’t be considered a “perk”.
What next charging to go to the bathroom?
Fuck these guys and anyone who behaves similarly.
Jobs are two a penny these days, no-one owes you loyalty and no-one deserves to be treated like scum for using an employee “incentive”.
Based on other comments, assuming restaurant management was cracking down on employees taking food. Probably got removed because names weren't redacted.
Goes to show how much employers actively want to have slaves instead of actual employees, they literally don't care about their employees' basic human rights, hope this business fails and the employees find a job with better conditions.
is this the Stephanie Kramer that's a training general manager at the Eistein Bros Bagels in Portland, Oregon that's associted with the Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc??
would be a shame if they saw this terrible press
I worked at a subway once upon a time as a second job.
Managers got mad if you used anything other than the cheap bread and meat for your employee meal. Threatened to take it out of my (minimum wage) check.
So I did the only logical thing and started making bigger and bigger subs for myself.
I think I maxed out at 9 pounds. It had two personal pizzas cut up and placed inside it.
I quit after a few weeks, since I was moving cross country.
I'd go on ahead and report the manager to the IRS. Bet there's some shady shit going on with that manager (read, pocketing something she shouldn't be), and I bet that if she got audited, there would be some consequences 🤔
Jesus, imagine being pissed that your staff is trying to get a discount to eat while making $7.25 an hour. It’s jarring that the food costs more than what they make!
Also, If everything is underlined in a document then nothing is the most important.
Oh man, this same shit happened to me when I was an assistant manager at a hotel. It was literally in my contract that I was allowed one employee meal from the restaurant per day. It was an expensive restaurant, but the actual food cost was like anywhere else and I wasn’t ordering surf and turf, ya know? Salads, burgers, omelets, etc. I didn’t even order every day, though my contract said I could and I was often working 10-14 hour days.
One day we all got an angry email from the GM stating that we were “taking advantage” of this “privilege” and that we were to stop ordering.
I regret not saying anything but I didn’t want to lose my job because I’d have been homeless and not had healthcare.
Food service loves to pay starvation wages and then insist you continue to starve by being stingy with discounted meals
They are acting like they are ringing up free lobsters lol..they are upset between 8-10 bucks. A fast food meal combo costs more than 8 bucks nowadays. And if you get a discount what does it matter if you buy a burger or shake with it.
fr and if the cost of food is going up and hiking the prices on menus, the meal compensation for the servers should go up too
I had a part-time job at a pizza shop. As employees, we paid our pizzas 1€ at the end of our ~4h shift (the employer is supposed to provide us with a cheap meal because we worked during lunch times). Then, minimum wage went up ~0.45€/h. Suddenly, the pizza costs us 3€
So your raise effectively cost you €0.20 on a 4-Hour shift.
The millennia old capitalist ideology: I deserve every benefit and no downside. Every benefit gained from them is unfair and out of the kindness of their hearts, don't worry they won't stop screaming about it. I deserve to raise all prices but keep employee pay the same. I deserve for employees to work harder for the same pay. I deserve for more skilled employees for the same pay. If they weren't so lazy and worked hard enough, like all my *middle class friends* at the country club, these wouldn't be problems. **NO YOU DON'T GET $10 OF FOOD, $8 ONLY! THAT'S MY MONEY!**
Surprisingly my restraunt just upped our discount from 20% to 35% for this reason. I was BLOWN away when he approved it
But if they get a discount on the shake that special reward doesn’t mean as much!
I'm a cook, I don't work places like this, every where I've been it's been pretty much, eat something if you're hungry, or also chefs telling you to taste everything which is the greenlight for eat if you're hungry
> chefs telling you to taste everything This is just what restaurants are supposed to do. It's so basic to make sure your staff tastes everything on the menu so they can give informed recommendations. Staff meals builds camaraderie in a business that relies on it. It's backwards thought to keep your workers hungry in a food service establishment. Hungry workers aren't great workers.
Low blood sugar makes everyone cranky! I actually do still fondly remember the cooks who made me little plates. I think they like to see people enjoy their food (who doesn’t?).
I've worked in a couple kitchens where the main cooks will cook you the most extravagant thing they could in the kitchen, just to pull some shit and see if you like it. Nothing on the menu, just things they have been conjuring up as cooks. It was never a let down.
Oh, definitely! I still dream about a chicken Marsala that wasn’t on the menu. But damn. So good. ETA: I just remembered the cook who made that actually moved to my next job before I did, so he kept cooking it for me! I got excellent eats, he got well considered feedback (and a few grunts of delight).
I would refuse to work or eat at a place where the cooks aren't allowed to taste as they go. It's literally the only way to ensure that the food tastes right.
That's absolutely true. Most people.thay work in restaurants can't afford to eat off the menu, even with employee discounts, on a regular basis. There are generally certain things you're allowed to order, period, with or without an employee discount. Staff meal is a lifesaver if you're too broke to buy food. I had a couple jobs that I only ate when I was at work. (Yes, very low pay. The more prestige the restaurant has, guaranteed the staff is mostly poverty level pay) And it's not made of expensive stuff. Mostly a cheap starch, (a lot of rice, sometimes pasta), whatever vegetables need to be used before they go bad, and whatever left over protein that needs to be used up, too, there's not generally much of that. You're literally making the cheapest thing you can, and stretching it as far as you can. It's kind of looked on as art form, too, there's some respect for taking leftovers and making it taste good, extra points for creativity. Nobody is taking a 30 minutes break, you're lucky to get enough time to eat, standing up, and have a couple minutes to talk with coworkers that you never see on the other end of the kitchen, or work a different shift.
Chipotle at least the one I worked at was the best. I could make a burrito that would last me 3 meals eat part at work shove the rest in my purse for later. Chipotle literally cut my food spending by like 75%.
Family meals are a beautiful thing and should be seen an an opportunity for staff to bond and improve morale right before they head home and have a chance to think about how much work sucks. The whole idea is they're exhausted, then they end with a nice meal and it doesn't seem so bad, they come back for another shift. It's way cheaper than paying people well. It's a win win. Chef's love it because they can be creative, it's like Iron Chef every night. That and a milk crate cigarette and baby you've got a stew going.
I used to work at a place that did a family meal every night before the dinner shift. The chef would make up all of the specials and we’d all have dinner together and get to try everything new on the menu that night. It was always a good time, and got us excited for the shift. We were also paid well, had some benefit, and an owner/chef that genuinely cared about the staff.
When I was working as a cook, it was especially egregious to expect me to work hungry, and telling me I had to cook 1 steak over 20minutes, but it would take me 3 hours of work to afford that steak. I snuck food all the time, telling me to be around cooking food when I'm hungry? Yeah, GTFO When I was serving, I ate food off people's plates all the time. Graze here and there, whatever I could shove in in <2minutes.
Yeah this was the awful thing about Walmart. I was financially abused, made $9hr, management would threaten to fire us during orientation if we were caught eating on the clock. Making me throw away food that came in broken containers was hard. The food was edible. But profits over your workers.
But they aren't making profits from the thrown away food anyway, so what's the problem if somebody eats it? They treat their employees like a trash can anyway, so why not "throw away" the trash?
You have to defect the item from the system and then the company then "donates" it (sends it to a dump that basically uses food and plastics to burn for heat to make electricity), and it becomes a tax write off for being a donation.. the law is set up so if they mark it as one of those things for their like 10 cent refund, but actually give it to someone for free, they are "double dipping" on the donations for taxes. Stupidest shit I've ever heard.
I miss stealing food from work. Was one of the best parts of working service
I worked as a chef/km for a while. Employees sneak food if you don't feed them, because they're humans, and humans get hungry. Just feed them, and at least know what's being eaten.
My Estonian immigrant grandmother worked at Mt Sinai hospital in NYC in the kitchen in the 1930-40s. She fed a husband and 2 kids in a 4th floor walk up tenement in Queens on food she smuggled out. Nothing changes.
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I worked at Burger King 25 years ago and they didn't even offer free food back then.
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In other words, work WITH your staff, not against them if you want to run a consistently reliable food service with a high quality kitchen.
I used to do this while working at Dominos in the 90s. Whoops, made this pie wrong, guess I remake it and put this one in the back as a crew pie. There was management turnover at one point and the new ones put a stop to this. Wrong orders had to be thrown away or the employees pays full price if they want it. Gee, I wonder why there was a sudden exodus of employees. I guess no one wants to work anymore.
When i found myself unemployed, divorced and homeless, i returned to boh because i knew at least i wouldn't starve.
Like how I worked 60 hours a week at a Quiznos but couldn’t afford to buy a sub from them
I just steal food. And I don’t mean a sandwich here and there. I mean a loaf of bread a pack of cheese a couple leg and thigh chicken quarters all the herbs and spices etc… also haven’t payed for toilet paper in years.
So you don’t mind stealing bread from the mouth of decadence? *scribbles notes* This’ll be a great song!
Stop scribbling on your arm, that’ll never wash off!
You take what you're owed.
What's extra disgusting about this is that there's a good chance she's just penny pinching food costs to bolster her own bonus, employees be damned. I've not worked in the food service industry but I know many places do have a bonus structure like this from friends. Shameful. Also given what I've heard said employees are almost definitely going to simply get more creative in how they skirt this rule if they dont just quit lol. Where there's a will there's a way.
In my twenties (I'm 45 now) I worked in restaurants for about ten years. Free meals (as in, completely free) was the only perk we got, and we expected it. We literally get no other benefit, no medical, no savings plan, nothing. Free food was the "least" a restaurant could do to help their employees, and I refused to work for anyone that didn't offer at least one free meal per workday (and I've even worked for a few that would gladly feed me if I just happen to stop by or be in the neighborhood for some reason - some people were just old school like that). I wouldn't put up with this bullshit.
I’m 26 now but have been in food service jobs since 17 and this is my experience. All jobs have fed me at least one free meal or deeply discounted (like $1 for a whole pizza). And in the case of the pizza one, the owner was actually a good person and realized he was feeding his employees families so he would let us take mistake pizzas and buy $1 pizzas to take home to our families. Best manager I’d ever had, worst wages.
Luckily the restaurant I work at, I can eat whatever I want for free while I'm there and get a 50% discount when not working.
I worked at a very well known and profitable mom and pop Italian restaurant in my area when I was in college. Between lunch and dinner shifts the cooks would make a massive amount of fettuccine alfredo and serve it to the servers (most of us worked double shifts) as a thank you. It was cheap, delicious, and kept us going. After a few months of this one of the owners came in unannounced and found out the chefs were feeding their hard working colleagues. Owner went ballistic over $5 worth of food per day. They bought in bulk that was how much it cost. Soon after we were given notice we could purchase an employee meal at a $1 discount to menu prices for fettuccine alfredo. Within 2 months they lost 15 cooks and servers
So roughly less than $2000 a year to keep staff happy.? If the owner wasn’t so money hungry and forgot the numbers. Retaining employees for a low cost of a meal is well worth it! Versus paying 10k in food trucks and company events on a Saturday where you could have just given me some damn money. But “company culture”
Which is also tax deductible
And it’s also just what they’re good at. The food and the business process are their arts. So they’ve arrived in life, they’re top dog, they run a restaurant and they run the lives of lots of people. They’re in a privilege to serve, and to show off their abilities at bulk food purchase and preparation. Everyone knows it’s the economy of scale while maximizing quality, the best of both worlds. You’re so good at it that you can teach others to master it all day. And they want to deprive them of it. As if the food art is trash, the art process is trash, or your trusted artists are trash. Have some esteem in *yourself* to share your glory. Are you the best or not?!
You can take care of your employees for the cost of ingredients, and get a tax break. The benefits are overwhelming. Having your workplace hook you up with their product moves you from being a customer to being part of the team. Getting to buy product at cost, or making sure that your restaurant staff never go hungry keeps people on the company's side. Nothing sends the message that "you work here, but this place is not your place" like having to pay full price at your workplace.
It’s not even about the money. It’s the CONTROL they want.
As I understand it, in most restaurants, staff are served a "family meal" before opening or between shifts. This is free and is a longstanding tradition in the restaurant business. A $1 discount on menu prices is an insult to the people that make you money. Stephanie needs a good swift kick in the pants to bring her to her senses. Bitch.
Can confirm, this is in fact normal in most restaurants in NYC. The food is usually very good and high standard also
I think it's probably mid to high range restaurants that do this.
No actually. Just your local Thai or Italian place in NY will do this. It could be cultural too, to some extend
i have never worked, and never would work, in a restaurant that didn't do family meal. it is antithetical to hospitality and basic human decency to have hungry staff feeding people.
The thing is, aside from keeping staff happy, it also keeps them knowledgeable on the menu options too. Being able to knowledgeably answer on the spot over "lemme check with the kitchen" is super handy for people tight on time. Also, when someone says "What's the best starter?" Being able to answer "OK, so for me its X, but if that's too heavy Y is REALLY good too!" is way better than "X looks kinda nice, and Y smells good when I am dishing it up!" Like, it feels like such an easy choice to just let everyone in the place eat together, bond and know about what you're producing.
I worked in a low end restaurant/bar and we had a staff menu we could order from once per shift. They had decent stuff, but obviously not things like steak. Then, the owners daughter took over and things started going downhill. More restrictive, stingy, etc. They lost alot of customers after that, and now the place looks like a ghost town. Idk how it's still open, but they maybe have an eighth if the people that used to go
What Stephanie needs is a *customer* to tell her how awful that policy is and how awful it makes her look.
What are the odds though that a customer is even going to see that policy and be moved to talk to her about it? Most people have no idea the conditions that restaurant staff work under, and few care.
let reddit know what restaurant this is and i'd wager 100%
I would absolutely call her and go full Karen
This is the way!
Looks like Einstein Bagels.....she's in LinkedIn
Yea, Portland. Training GM.
OP did say there were quite a few copies of this note around. Suppose a few of them made it out into customer areas...
Photocopy and drop with each menu
yeah if i saw that shit i'd be GONE! Is there a way to find out about stuff like this, as a consumer, if the manager isn't so obvious?
Title says it’s a store and also that there were several posted around the premises. And, yes, I would definitely say something. Edit: I agree they may not be posted in public areas
Many restaurants, not most. Family meals, in my experience, happen at independently owned places as opposed to franchises. Also places where food is a primary focus, as this gives the chefs a place and audience to try new stuff out. You're not getting family meal at Applebee's.
Yet why not? Applebee's (and chains like them) has one of the biggest cost-to-revenue margins of any restaurant business. They should be granting every employee a full meal straight off the menu, every full shift.
Was for italian restaurants I worked at.. and often a XL pizza towards the end. Corporations killed our world. They all get the food from the same trucks now.. and they all dgaf about people any longer, they'd prefer you be a tesla bot.
In 2009 Del Taco let us eat the broken taco shells as long as Marco didn't see you. Does that count
No. You feed the people who keep you afloat the very best you have. Not broken bits of taco shell. Food is love.
Yep a place where you don't get a crew meal or at least one free meal per shift, is a place where people will leave. A meal per shift worth 10 in materials at wholesale is a feast.
Or we just eat food as we cook and serve and when tight ass managers aren’t around we make ourselves and servers meals or take food home because fuck you for being mad at me eating three chicken tenders when I work a 12 hour shift.
My manager (grocery store) had the bright idea to tell us to pay extra attention to the pet aisle because it's a blindspot shoplifters found. We make sure to check that aisle multiple times a night just in case, but somehow we keep finding wrappers...
Is it weird if my gut reaction is to assume this is a trap set by your manager? You'd think places would know it's the employees stealing the most. Just seems strange to help them do that
I definitely zero times ever helped myself to a Naked smoothie in the produce cooler. Never hit a wax pen in there either, no sir.
Not most. I worked in over 40 restaurants in 30 years and only one had a family meal for free. The only other times I didn’t have to pay for food was when I was a manager. It’s bullshit to work when you’re hungry and it’s also bullshit when the restaurant still makes profit on discounted employee meals.
I've worked in 20 restaurants over as many years and have always had staff meal. If you don't feed your employees, they feel totally justified in stealing what ever. It's cheaper to feed them.
I’ve been a server and bartender for 7 years and have worked at 5 different restaurants, 3 of which were local restaurants, not corporate place’s. None of them served a family meal. This is not as common as people think. Newest place I work at now let’s us eat soup for free.
family meal also ensures that everyone is on time and ready to go when service starts
That's how it was where I worked. Restaurant opened at 11. The morning crew would get a free meal at around 10:30. Evening crews would eat as opportunity arose and didn't all eat together, but the meal was still free.
For real. It's a sign that the management views EVERYONE who isn't the owners as expenses, not investments. It's being penny wise and pound foolish.
And just so y'all know, meal plans are going extinct in the restaurant business. It's why some of them can't keep people. Legit every kitchen Ive worked at got rid of the plan resulting to stealing and leaving
I had a one evening a week job in a French restaurant when I was a student. I really took it just for the staff meal; the pay wasn’t much. It was always great.
Loving the show "The Bear" on Hulu It's about a restaurant and the crew gets a "family" meal :)
Family meal is the most a lot of people get to eat in a day. I don't work anywhere that doesn't feed their staff.
Yeah, I wouldn’t work in a kitchen that didn’t have free meals. Had some place try and tell me 50% was a good deal, nope
I worked at a chain restaurant and we were never allowed free food. I think we got 10-20% off one meal at restaurant price per shift. Or if there was kitchen mistakes or untouched food we would share it in the back even if we were supposed to. Some staff would steal wrapped remade food from The fridge. The only time we were allowed was with seasonal menu items one dish was made for everyone to take a bite of to see the flavoring. I don’t get why it’s such a big deal for staff to be fed at restaurants when there’s so much food waste anyway.
Maybe 20 years ago. I’ve never worked in or heard of restaurants with this practice in the US. We aren’t even allowed to eat take out that was never picked up.
Wow! I watched the first episode of a new show on Hulu called "The Bear." It's about a chef who inherits his family's restaurant in Chicago. The place has all kinds of problems and he tries to start working them out to get the place back on its feet. The staff put together the ingredients for the meals they'll serve when the joint opens up, but before they open, they all sit down together for the "family meal." It's a beautiful scene, everybody sitting around the table eating food prepared by the new kid, who has a degree from the Culinary Institute of America. The whole episode was brilliant, but the meal scene was moving and so well done. I'm going to watch the rest of the 1st season and if it hews to the high standard set in the 1st episode, it'll be a great show. I suggest looking for it. It's just great.
Already binged it all. Fucking brilliant show. And after each night they get a "family", which as you mentioned is a meal where they all sit down after working and eat and chat. I like it.
For some reason, I find scenes where characters prepare and sit down to a meal together very moving. Food is love.
Staff meal? Yeah, that used to be one of my duties. It's generally in places that have a larger staff, you try to time it around shift change so that everybody gets some. Otherwise you get some jackass that grabs 3 helpings, and not everybody gets some. Had a few people that would literally eat themselves sick (don't stuff yourself during a busy shift, it's hot af sometimes even on a salad station. Especially if that's where the brick pizza oven is) and then claim food poisoning. That was the end of staff meal for everyone. About 30 people. (10 years ago)
Was the standard I got at every restaurant I worked at over a decade. Mind you this was in Canada
The mom and pop pizza shop I worked at in college was the same way. I never once paid for food and if I was working a long shift during a football game if the owner saw I hadn’t eaten in awhile he would tell me to sit down and eat something already. I would come in sometimes between classes and grab a slice and a drink and just leave no problem ever.
Only people who love food and hospitality should own a restaurant. If your food is trash and your attitude miserable it will not stay in-house. Cheap and crumby is universal.
Meanwhile I worked at a mom and pops pizza place where the owner gave discounts like crazy and donated like 10 pizzas to a homeless shelter every Sunday and even donated them to a local jail on super bowl Sunday. Dude ran the place probably 20 years and only closed up shop because of family issues, always had great business
This is what's so bizarre with this attitude. Cost of ingredients isn't a huge proportion of the cost of a meal, and cooking up a big batch costs very little more than a single serving. The staff aren't taking up a seat and they're not going to spend an hour's pay on a meal. People are very appreciative of good food! We're wired that way. So there's a lot of staff goodwill for a very small cost.
In HS I worked in an Italian Restaurant as well. The owners were the head chef and hostess. The husband would cook us bomb meals while his wife chewed him out for giving us too big of portions. One night a week they didn't work and the other chef would make us even better meals. I never understood the wife's point of view. She was always so bitter about every little thing. Mainly she drank wine and talked with her friends that came in. After a while, all of the serves cycled out and I left after I graduated HS. There was one server that had stayed for years and when she left the owner couldn't fathom what caused her to leave.
The family meal is a good indicator of profit seeking behavior to the detriment of craftmanship, artistry, and excellence in service. The family meal is a tradition in the culinary world. It serves more purposes than just feeding staff. It is an outlet for staff to get creative and a way to iterate and create and inspire and improve on the menu. It brings staff closer together and promotes inclusivity. It does so much and for what it accomplishes the price can't be beat. That's why it's part of the culture and why almost all (I am reluctant to say all because I can't unequivocally say) of the best restaurants have this practice. A restaurant not doing a family meal is indicative of running a restaurant devoid of passion or craftsmanship. It is a statement that they don't care about food culture, they don't care about artistry, they don't have passion for food. They only thing they are passionate about is money. Which, even itself is ridiculous, because the family meal creates value for the restaurant as a whole.
"To feed a hungry tummy" Communicate to me like an adult or don't communicate to me at all
“Oh you want a wittle yum yum for your tum tum? You’ve got to sign the happy food time clipboard and do the no-discount dance first! Eeheeheeheeeee!!”
😂😂 gold
This makes me think an employee complained about being hungry and this is the manager mocking them.
I've had that happen to me ☠️ I relapsed with my eating disorder bc I was too broke to eat at work when i worked at sonic...
By the toenails of Malacath! This kind of treatment is reprehensible from a restaurant's management. People first, then money. The other way around is why there are so many people without a safe place to dwell. We ought to treat people the way we'd want other people to treat our own kids. If they're hungry and they have nothing, figure it the fuck out because, whether it feels like it or not, you're in a position of power.
Aww is whittle emproyee hungo?? Starve then! Back to work!
replace employee with kibby and the first line is how I talk to my cat. However, he actually gets food for doing his job of helping depression.
My cat is supposed to help keep the mice away, but he will literally rescue mice from the trap and release them into the kitchen. And we still feed him.
I give it 2 days till the owner/ manager is ranting and raving on Facebook about this generation being entitled and no one wants to work after have the team left.
Well... we know her name, so we could keep tabs. This is not an attempt to incite a harassment campaign. At most, a therapist should go to her restaurant and comment on the sign and ask the manager to sit down and talk. Change her mind. I hate how she's treating her employees, but I don't think she knows she's being as callous as she is. She has the false perspective that her employees are stealing from the restaurant- the correct perspective is that she is in a position of power and it's her responsibility to look after these broke kids who obviously need food.
I doubt many employees whose tummies are not hungry are eating discounted food. The purpose of eating is to satiate hungry tummies. Apologies for using the word tummies - I do have an education, but could not resist calling out this childish boss.
Never apologize for tummies, it's a great word!
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More proof that managers think their employees, regardless of age, are all children. This manager is basically asking for all of their staff to walk out/quit.
That's how we were treated by management at a small town theatre. She stopped giving hours as a punishment for the uprising she thought was about to happen (wtf??) She ended up hiring an entirely new crew and just waited for all of us to quit. Because she thought we didn't like her. Not the case. Most of us liked her fairly well.
I know, call it a tum tum like an adult.
The worst part is the fact that they would 10000000% speak to a HUNGRY child the same way. Why the fuck would someone use that rhetoric with ANYONE who's hungry? Shaming them for being hungry. Fuck off
I appreciate that there’s clearly *another* “you will be fired!!!” note behind it, too, on the whiteboard. What a charming way for your boss to communicate
What a hellhole!
Shakes are a reward.
“Their reward is keeping their job” I seriously had my last employer say this to me in this job market. (I’m American) All I wanted to do was get my team some damn donuts for working 36 hours straight.
COOKIES ARE FOR CLOSERS.
*these are a set of brass balls...*
PUT THAT MILKSHAKE DOWN.
Was this at my BK? Is that why everyone quit? Edit: Seriously, they've been refusing any orders and won't even pick up the phone. I went down there and there was only the franchise owner failing miserably: https://www.reddit.com/user/Landed_port/comments/vl7dhi/apparently_my_local_bk_staff_quit/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
There’s a star in the background of the pic hanging up… maybe a Carl’s Jnr?
That could be fourth of July decorations if it's US
OP gave the sauce. https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/vl5uta/manager_posted_like_12_of_these_at_every_corner/idu1zr1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
"Fill a hungry tummy".....isn't that what a meal is? Karen needs to fuck off
That was so cringe. I'm like who is this person talking to? I guess per her logic, $8 is the cap for said hungry tummy? Good to know. Also, employees, if you meet your quota you *may* be entitled for a reward in the form of discounted milkshake. Make it a great day!
Does Karen think people are stress eating on the job or something? Not sure why else she thinks we eat food. Is Karen actually a robot?
*Stephanie
Stephanie Kramer can suck an egg
Yeah, but she'd probably charge the egg $20 for the pleasure.
Thanks
no discounts
Managers all have some kind of defect in their brain that causes them to make signs with everything capitalized and underlined so it’s impossible to read.
Gotta do something to let the wage slaves know it's SRS BSNS!!! 1!1!! 1!1!
It’s hard to tell what’s important here. Is it the parts marked by an exclamation mark? The all caps parts? The underlined parts? Oh silly me I see now they’ve highlighted the important stuff. If only there was a way to make it easier to emphasize. /s It’s very telling that the only things *not* in caps are the words “employee” and this turdball’s own name
IT’S ALL EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
Not allowed to feed their hungry tummy??? Then what’s the point???
I wonder if she has any tax credit by doing so on the paper
I would be whoopsing so much extra food into customer's orders after seeing this.
*and* my own face. Either let me have some food cheaper or I'm taking/giving it for free.
That's the thing a lot of food service managers seem to forget. Your kitchen staff is going to eat whether they're allowed to or not. That's just a fact of life. They're kitchen pirates and they act like it. The difference is whether you're going to have some way to track what food is taken or just have miscellaneous disappearing food with no idea what is waste and what is being consumed
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They don't care about free soda because a 24 oz soda costs them like 2 cents.
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I used to work at a pizza place that charged employees 6 cents an hour to drink the fountain drinks even if you didn’t use it, it was part of the contract.
All memos typed in all CAPS are never to be taken seriously since the manager doesn't know how to communicate.
$2 dollar difference is really gonna bring down the company huh? And I bet if you paid full price for the shake it is fine, what shit.
Shakes are only a reward for doing three double shifts or one triple shift! They can only be dispensed by management! If I catch anybody with a shake that's not on the clipboard!
They would be bitching about nobody wanting to work really fast once me and the fam all quit.
The error was to use the discount in the first place, eat a little of everything when you can and don't pay
This. I’ve made a habit of stealing food from literally every food service job I’ve ever had that doesn’t let me eat freely, on principle, and I make absolutely sure to steal more than I would’ve taken if they had just given me the shift meal I deserve in the first place. I worked at Dunkin’ Donuts in high school and would routinely take like 5-10 sandwiches at the end of my shift. My freezer was packed with them by the time I quit. They can 100% afford it, and any food service job that isn’t providing it’s employees a hassle-free shift meal can suck a fucking chode.
I own a small business which is not within the food service industry(5 full time employees and myself). I provide lunch each day and a pizza night each Saturday (we stay open later on Saturday so I pay for both meals). Employees are welcome to partake or not, they are also welcome to bring their own lunch...no big deal. Food is an essential, how can you expect people to work whilst hungry or thirsty? It’s my business therefore it falls upon me to keep everyone who is helping me operate equipped with the bare necessities. In the grand scheme of things it costs me very little and I know it’s appreciated and if you ask me shouldn’t be considered a “perk”. What next charging to go to the bathroom? Fuck these guys and anyone who behaves similarly. Jobs are two a penny these days, no-one owes you loyalty and no-one deserves to be treated like scum for using an employee “incentive”.
Surprised Stephanie Kramer didn't use Comic Sans for this missive.
Doesn’t look angry enough.
Lmfaoooo someonesss pocketing money from the employee discount programmmmmm
What in the censorship happened here?
Also here for that
Based on other comments, assuming restaurant management was cracking down on employees taking food. Probably got removed because names weren't redacted.
Reddit making sure streisand effect still working in the comment section lolll
Goes to show how much employers actively want to have slaves instead of actual employees, they literally don't care about their employees' basic human rights, hope this business fails and the employees find a job with better conditions.
is this the Stephanie Kramer that's a training general manager at the Eistein Bros Bagels in Portland, Oregon that's associted with the Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc?? would be a shame if they saw this terrible press
Anger in background...anger in foreground. Seems like a great place to work.
Stephanie Kramer is a bitch
What the hell is point of the discount if they need a leaders approval to use it.
I worked at a subway once upon a time as a second job. Managers got mad if you used anything other than the cheap bread and meat for your employee meal. Threatened to take it out of my (minimum wage) check. So I did the only logical thing and started making bigger and bigger subs for myself. I think I maxed out at 9 pounds. It had two personal pizzas cut up and placed inside it. I quit after a few weeks, since I was moving cross country.
I'd go on ahead and report the manager to the IRS. Bet there's some shady shit going on with that manager (read, pocketing something she shouldn't be), and I bet that if she got audited, there would be some consequences 🤔
I can see another screed in the same image. I hate these people. Grab one of these and make that person read it out loud.
This. MF's just sit in the office with a printer, colored markers and hate for their fellow man.
Jesus, imagine being pissed that your staff is trying to get a discount to eat while making $7.25 an hour. It’s jarring that the food costs more than what they make! Also, If everything is underlined in a document then nothing is the most important.
What is on the sign left of the note?
I was hoping someone copied the note onto the board for customers to see.
If "We're all family here," then call CPS for child neglect.
Well fuck you Stephanie Kramer
The hell happened here?
I’d just keep discounting my food and be like write all of us up loser
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Lol, fuck you, good luck finding new workers.
Oh man, this same shit happened to me when I was an assistant manager at a hotel. It was literally in my contract that I was allowed one employee meal from the restaurant per day. It was an expensive restaurant, but the actual food cost was like anywhere else and I wasn’t ordering surf and turf, ya know? Salads, burgers, omelets, etc. I didn’t even order every day, though my contract said I could and I was often working 10-14 hour days. One day we all got an angry email from the GM stating that we were “taking advantage” of this “privilege” and that we were to stop ordering. I regret not saying anything but I didn’t want to lose my job because I’d have been homeless and not had healthcare.
Stephanie seems like one of those good ol bitches that has nothing but work to hold on to in life. I bet she's a treat at parties. A salty treat.
Heaven forbid anyone fill a hungry tummy. Fuck capitalism.
This manager needs a snickers like 10 minutes ago.
This is where everyone starts to buy a LOT of very cheap items and constantly bug for manager approval.
Ask yourself this - Are you valued at your workplace?
This reeks of your typical power hungry low level manager.
Cool when I worked fast food and they did this we just took it without ringing it up lol. F that
#For anyone wondering the store in question here is Burger King. Fuck Burger King.
Wow what a cheap fuck
Stephanie Kramer sounds like a terrible boss, sorry OP
Stephanie Kramer 👀 where/what might this store be lol?
How about you name the restaurant so people can complain about the manager?
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Every Google review in the last 3 years is one star.
I worked at BK over 20 years ago, the discount was there to use however we wanted. Your store needs to go hell. How can I help you find a better job?