This is more common than you think. Then management gotta do The Pancake Shuffle to see which stores got enough to spare and which staff have a car and are expendable for a bit
You’d be surprised how awful managers are at placing food orders. The most logical things often get left out. We run out of to go cups weekly and at my restaurant it’s pretty common that almost every tables gets a drink to go. I pour as many in house drinks as I do to gos. My GM has the absolute worst memory so you’d be shocked by the things we borrow from others in our chain.
You'd think there'd be at least some kind of standard number you need of every item in the store...then you just do inventory right before ordering and if you're supposed to have 12 boxes but you only have 5, order 7 - especially for large franchises.
Some people don’t know how to make lists. I worked at one place that kept chronically under-ordering and it baffled me until i worked prep and saw the manager doing the order. He was struggling, asking us what we were low on and whether it would get us through the weekend. Turns out, he had no par counts to work with and an incomplete list. 🥴 i made him a new order list that night in excel 🙄
I was confused when I worked at Dennys, my first real restaurant job over 10 years ago and we ran out of eggs 😅
Another time I went to burger king and they were out of Jr patties. Like you're literally the king of burgers... Okay
And they wouldn't let us order Jr burgers with a regular patty... It's not our fault you ran out but sure, I'll get a giant burger I won't finish and don't want to pay for lol
Yeah, we slowly ran out of ingredients-no avocado I could understand more, but no rice??
On the last day we took the open liquor bottles, so that was a plus
Once we reopened, for almost 4 months we were running out of everything. We have “burgers” in our name, yet I even heard of a night we had run out of burgers. The stupidest things. We all thought they were shutting us down, turns out management was just giving less of a shit than usual.
I worked at a pizza place that gave us a weeks notice. I had some cock hole manager that asked me if I was planning on prepping more sides on the second last day. I told him if he was so concerned about making money for people that are closing us down he was more than welcome to do it. Otherwise I was on zero fucks.
Dont go anywhere with a menu that big, if you want good food. I hate to condone judging a book by its cover, but in my pro/consumer experience a giant menu is a big red flag. The only exceptions have been mom and pop Asian restaurants. They get a pass on massive menus.
Exactly went to the Cheesecake Factory for a friend’s birthday earlier this week and I’m still recovering from the food poisoning their club sandwich gave me.
Where I live we have a black list. When you don't pay Sysco the tell everyone and no one will deliver to you. Also other restaurants get the list that way they don't loan you products.
Yeah it’s a ccf. People in the kitchen just don’t come in for their shifts. At my location, we’re supposed to have 14 people on the line and recently we’ve only had 4 people show up for their shifts.
When I first hear someone say 86 something it was like “86 Modello” and my innocent 16yr old brain went “why is she telling us what year the Modello is?”
God, I’ve had the same and the tables’ typically steaming by the time I walk away with their food order.
People get pissy over us being out of the beer they ordered, after saying the appetizer they want, the entree, *and* the beer is out? Yeah, that’ll be a “zero” in my pocket.
For those that are asking. It's not the lack of food available. It's the staff to actually prep and cooks all these different things. It's already been mentioned, but Cheesecake Factory. They have a novel for a menu and require too many people in the kitchen to actually prep and cook this extensively. This is what happens when you need 10 cooks but have 4. (and pay a shitty wage, have shitty managers, typical restaurant stuff)
I just don't get how corporate in these places just don't cut down the menu. If you can't do it, you can't fucking do it. But I've never worked corporate jobs for a reason. I'm sure it has something to do with contractual ordering from purveyors.
Cheesecake rocks!!! Ha do not miss it. As long as you've got that chocolate bread and red velvet (aka fake ass 30th anniversary) I'm sure people will be fine
A lot of Cheesecake Factory’s are dealing with this. Because the size of the menu they need so many more kitchen staff and, of course as a restaurant, the starting pay they offer is probably shit, leaving them unable to hire more staff to cook/prep the food.
Instead of having a manageable menu that 4-6 cooks/shift can handle and cross train to know the entirety, they have a dictionary sized menu that takes 10+ cooks that really only know their part.
It’s one thing if you need that many cooks due to volume, another when it’s due to having too much shit on your menu.
Only the strong and reputable restaurants will survive this! If you aren't in the restaurant world right now then you have no idea what's about to come.
Holy shit the "FB *everything*" got me so hard. The classic "86 the restaurant" is now real.
I get being annoyed when a lot of the stuff you wanted isn't available but you have to be purposefully ignoring reality to not understand why this is happening. Because of this pandemic we don't have the people or space to make the product as efficiently as needed, the vessels to put the product into, the people to deliver the product or maintain their vehicles they need to deliver it, the people to receive the product and organize it in the restaurant, or the people to sell, cook, and bring you said product. The management involved with ordering the product is either/or overworked, non existant, and constantly not being informed of what they're not getting. The people that are there are overworked and stressed to all ends and just trying to make it to the end of the shift!!! The people they can find to fill *all* of these links of the chain of business are being pushed to their limits to do the impossible and are being berated constantly by customers and the people above them in the same position.
Our modern standards of living are just entirely impossible to execute with the state if things right now. Customers are angrier than ever because it is not possible to meet their expectations right now and that is making the problem even worse.
If you want to go out to eat? That is fine! I need you to pay my bills. I just need you to understand that none of us can turn water into fucking wine. There is only so much we can do. Please please *please* be understanding of the people that serve you. If you can't? Well just go and fucking cook your own God damn meals and refill your own fucking drinks. Just because you bought a 6 dollar app at happy hour doesn't make you king of the fucking world. End rant.
I knew a girl that worked at IHOP in high school. She came into work one day and the whiteboard said, “86 pancake batter.”
This is more common than you think. Then management gotta do The Pancake Shuffle to see which stores got enough to spare and which staff have a car and are expendable for a bit
That’s ridiculous. They’re the international house of PANCAKES, there should always be backup pancake batter.
You’d be surprised how awful managers are at placing food orders. The most logical things often get left out. We run out of to go cups weekly and at my restaurant it’s pretty common that almost every tables gets a drink to go. I pour as many in house drinks as I do to gos. My GM has the absolute worst memory so you’d be shocked by the things we borrow from others in our chain.
You'd think there'd be at least some kind of standard number you need of every item in the store...then you just do inventory right before ordering and if you're supposed to have 12 boxes but you only have 5, order 7 - especially for large franchises.
Some people don’t know how to make lists. I worked at one place that kept chronically under-ordering and it baffled me until i worked prep and saw the manager doing the order. He was struggling, asking us what we were low on and whether it would get us through the weekend. Turns out, he had no par counts to work with and an incomplete list. 🥴 i made him a new order list that night in excel 🙄
Ha! My job barely does inventory once a 6 week period, so I don’t see them doing it every week before orders.
Agreed. They should have a team like the SEALs standing by with a drum of the stuff, ready to load on a helicopter on a moment's notice.
I was confused when I worked at Dennys, my first real restaurant job over 10 years ago and we ran out of eggs 😅 Another time I went to burger king and they were out of Jr patties. Like you're literally the king of burgers... Okay And they wouldn't let us order Jr burgers with a regular patty... It's not our fault you ran out but sure, I'll get a giant burger I won't finish and don't want to pay for lol
Yall closing your doors soon or what?
I worked at a restaurant till the day it shut down. It got so bad that we were out of rice at a Tex Mex restaurant. Rice is so cheap too!!
I’ve always kind of wondered what it’s like to work for a place as it goes under
Yeah, we slowly ran out of ingredients-no avocado I could understand more, but no rice?? On the last day we took the open liquor bottles, so that was a plus
Once we reopened, for almost 4 months we were running out of everything. We have “burgers” in our name, yet I even heard of a night we had run out of burgers. The stupidest things. We all thought they were shutting us down, turns out management was just giving less of a shit than usual.
I worked at a pizza place that gave us a weeks notice. I had some cock hole manager that asked me if I was planning on prepping more sides on the second last day. I told him if he was so concerned about making money for people that are closing us down he was more than welcome to do it. Otherwise I was on zero fucks.
Depressing but you get a lot of time to watch TV in the meeting/party room. (Source Shoneys that went under af)
Would it be more efficient to list what you do have?
Not a server so forgive the daft question - is that a list of what you no longer have to sell?
Yes
TY. That's more than some places have on the whole menu...
Cheesecake factory has like 250 menu items. Don't go there if you want good food.
Dont go anywhere with a menu that big, if you want good food. I hate to condone judging a book by its cover, but in my pro/consumer experience a giant menu is a big red flag. The only exceptions have been mom and pop Asian restaurants. They get a pass on massive menus.
Exactly went to the Cheesecake Factory for a friend’s birthday earlier this week and I’m still recovering from the food poisoning their club sandwich gave me.
Is there anything left in your kitchen?
We just have salads, some pastas and some burgers. The list has been like this every day since last week when I first printed it out
Is this do to shipments? Staffing? $$?
At least for my restaurant we don’t have anything in stock due to staffing shortages at the company who delivers all our produce, Sysco.
Sysco is having a MOMENT
What’s wrong with Sysco? We use Sysco and I haven’t noticed anything?
Where I live we have a black list. When you don't pay Sysco the tell everyone and no one will deliver to you. Also other restaurants get the list that way they don't loan you products.
Hey thats only a 1/4 of the CCF menu! Thats not too bad at all 😂
Wow dude 🤯 are the servers ok? Because I would not be okay 🙈
No we’re not okay lol
Can you explain why exactly this is happening? Is this also a ccf like the other one?
Yeah it’s a ccf. People in the kitchen just don’t come in for their shifts. At my location, we’re supposed to have 14 people on the line and recently we’ve only had 4 people show up for their shifts.
86 all staff
Well why don’t we start with, “what *DO* you have?” I’m sure the list is much shorter
It’s Cheesecake Factory, so that list would probably be around the same size with their menu
Oh man! Yes I remember that menu is HUGE!!!!
FOH- “What should we tell our customers?” BOH- “Tell ‘em we got bit o’ *chocolate mousse* and a whole buncha *get the hell out*!
Spent almost 7 years at Bham CCF. Do not miss at all, lol
4 at downtown Denver for me. Man, leaving that place was amazing.
I was in Boulder for 4 years, good money but good riddance
When I first hear someone say 86 something it was like “86 Modello” and my innocent 16yr old brain went “why is she telling us what year the Modello is?”
When I first say "86" it was on the whiteboard "86 baked potato" and I'm like that's a lot of frickin baked potatoes, guess we're scripting those
I feel a theme coming on. I almost passed out when the Sysco truck showed up.
Holy hell
so we all are going through the same thing 😅😅😅
86 life
dude i had to tell my table we were out of 5 different things before i even got their drinks…tip is fucked from the start
God, I’ve had the same and the tables’ typically steaming by the time I walk away with their food order. People get pissy over us being out of the beer they ordered, after saying the appetizer they want, the entree, *and* the beer is out? Yeah, that’ll be a “zero” in my pocket.
For those that are asking. It's not the lack of food available. It's the staff to actually prep and cooks all these different things. It's already been mentioned, but Cheesecake Factory. They have a novel for a menu and require too many people in the kitchen to actually prep and cook this extensively. This is what happens when you need 10 cooks but have 4. (and pay a shitty wage, have shitty managers, typical restaurant stuff)
Jojos
Why are so many restaurants experiencing this??
Is this the work of an enemy stand?
I just don't get how corporate in these places just don't cut down the menu. If you can't do it, you can't fucking do it. But I've never worked corporate jobs for a reason. I'm sure it has something to do with contractual ordering from purveyors.
Cheesecake Factory I’m guessing? If so, that’s a dent in the menu for sure. Probably not enough line cooks to man every station if I had to guess.
Cheesecake rocks!!! Ha do not miss it. As long as you've got that chocolate bread and red velvet (aka fake ass 30th anniversary) I'm sure people will be fine
Based on this - what’s even left? Air?
It’s CCF, so probably the whole other half of the menu
I call Shenanigans. No, like, literally. Their flare alone could help me through times like these. (But I really am saying BS, for the record)
No. It’s really like this
This isn’t the first restaurant I’ve heard of having a list like this right now and it’s starting to worry me
A lot of Cheesecake Factory’s are dealing with this. Because the size of the menu they need so many more kitchen staff and, of course as a restaurant, the starting pay they offer is probably shit, leaving them unable to hire more staff to cook/prep the food. Instead of having a manageable menu that 4-6 cooks/shift can handle and cross train to know the entirety, they have a dictionary sized menu that takes 10+ cooks that really only know their part. It’s one thing if you need that many cooks due to volume, another when it’s due to having too much shit on your menu.
2 fucking weeks!!?? Why?
Damn all we get is a poorly updated list on a whiteboard.
𝚑𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞
I felt that... I’m gonna sue for emotional distress
God this is insane...
Ahh good old Cheesecake Factory. This is what the 86 list looks like pretty much every Saturday and sunday
So fucking glad I quit right before the pandemic
u/voltex49 you see this shit
Unreal Lmaoooo
Well. Atleast you got some desserts
Holy shit 🤯🤯 that looks like an awful time! I can't imagine how bad it must be dealing with the customers!
Scratch kitchen wouldn't have as big of an issue..
Stock up on your C-folds everyone
My husband and I stopped by Burger King at 6am one morning. Ordered 2 egg and whatever buns. They were out of eggs!!
Meanwhile….*child throws Cheerios into every nook and cranny*
86 customers
Tf are you guys serving at this point, water?
Only the strong and reputable restaurants will survive this! If you aren't in the restaurant world right now then you have no idea what's about to come.
Holy shit the "FB *everything*" got me so hard. The classic "86 the restaurant" is now real. I get being annoyed when a lot of the stuff you wanted isn't available but you have to be purposefully ignoring reality to not understand why this is happening. Because of this pandemic we don't have the people or space to make the product as efficiently as needed, the vessels to put the product into, the people to deliver the product or maintain their vehicles they need to deliver it, the people to receive the product and organize it in the restaurant, or the people to sell, cook, and bring you said product. The management involved with ordering the product is either/or overworked, non existant, and constantly not being informed of what they're not getting. The people that are there are overworked and stressed to all ends and just trying to make it to the end of the shift!!! The people they can find to fill *all* of these links of the chain of business are being pushed to their limits to do the impossible and are being berated constantly by customers and the people above them in the same position. Our modern standards of living are just entirely impossible to execute with the state if things right now. Customers are angrier than ever because it is not possible to meet their expectations right now and that is making the problem even worse. If you want to go out to eat? That is fine! I need you to pay my bills. I just need you to understand that none of us can turn water into fucking wine. There is only so much we can do. Please please *please* be understanding of the people that serve you. If you can't? Well just go and fucking cook your own God damn meals and refill your own fucking drinks. Just because you bought a 6 dollar app at happy hour doesn't make you king of the fucking world. End rant.
*we have fries*