Do you trust fast food workers?

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Victor

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From my longtime experience, they know almost nothing.
From Baskin Robbins to hamburger or other type restaurants.
Are they not trained? Will they hire anyone, at all?
They will not know the store address,
phone number, website or directions to get there. I knew one girl
who did not know what street she was on. Or dont understand the difference between
a hamburger and cheeseburger. I am serious, not facetious.
They might not know what 8 ounces
mean. The difference between regular and small. Nor are they adept at the
register. These are not immigrants with English as a second language. I understand
their problems, though a waitress should know what salt or sweet means.
Is this a rant or do you agree?
 

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You have to ask, what do you want? The price of a burger sale varies across the US from $6:25 to $9:50.
The price of the popular fast food UK take-away, that of fish & chips, would cost in US dollars, about $8;00
In April 2020, the median weekly earnings for full-time employees went up by 0.1 per cent compared to the previous year, meaning that the average person took home about £585.50 per week, which works out at around £31,461 a year. Where as the gross earnings of those in the fast food industry is around a third less than the average.
What all that means is: When you pay peanuts, you will inevitably employ monkeys.
 
Victor said:
From my longtime experience, they know almost nothing.
From Baskin Robbins to hamburger or other type restaurants.
Are they not trained? Will they hire anyone, at all?
They will not know the store address,
phone number, website or directions to get there. I knew one girl
who did not know what street she was on. Or dont understand the difference between
a hamburger and cheeseburger. I am serious, not facetious.
They might not know what 8 ounces
mean. The difference between regular and small. Nor are they adept at the
register. These are not immigrants with English as a second language. I understand
their problems, though a waitress should know what salt or sweet means.
Is this a rant or do you agree?
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That's why in fast food places they put pictures of what you order on the cash register. But the demand for $15.00 an hour is getting traction.

I can't remember when the last time we ate junk food just remember that pictures made ringing up the order easy on the cashier.
 
It depends on the individual store. There is a Burger King near me, where kids run the shop. Yeah, they know how to work the machinery, and can make burgers, but there's no one managing them. They are all by themselves. When you walk in/drive thru, there's no "Welcome to BK, etc" It's "yeah". It's a sloppily run joint. In contrast, next door, at Mickey D's, you get greeted, and product is pushed- "Do you want fries with that? Do you want supersize?". That extra push adds to the bottom line. It is an efficient well run store. There a manager, live, on the premise.
You can't ask teens to run a competitive, fast food restaurant, without managerial support.
 
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Victor said:
From my longtime experience, they know almost nothing.
From Baskin Robbins to hamburger or other type restaurants.
Are they not trained? Will they hire anyone, at all?
They will not know the store address,
phone number, website or directions to get there. I knew one girl
who did not know what street she was on. Or dont understand the difference between
a hamburger and cheeseburger. I am serious, not facetious.
They might not know what 8 ounces
mean. The difference between regular and small. Nor are they adept at the
register. These are not immigrants with English as a second language. I understand
their problems, though a waitress should know what salt or sweet means.
Is this a rant or do you agree?
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Let us not make sweeping generalizations. I'm the lady who makes biscuits at a local shop that specializes in breakfast biscuits.

I know more than "almost nothing". So do my co-workers.

We are all trained and cross trained.

We know our address and phone number and how to give directions to our location, we're all adept at the register and know how to run credit cards. Some of us speak more than one language, but English is our mother tongue.

We know the difference between salt and sweet. We also know how much 8 oz is and the difference between a hamburger and a cheeseburger.

My suggestion to you is to find a fast food store that suits you better than the one you're ranting about (although I suspect that you'd find fault no matter where you go). And to stop making assumptions about the people who work in the fast food/restaurant industry. I learned more than "nothing" in college and from having lived more than 80 years.

You sound like a very disagreeable person and just the sort that employees in any business avoid like the plague because you start out armed for bear and looking for an excuse to be critical of them and the business they represent.

What makes you so special?
 
helenbacque said:
Maybe this is just further proof of the dumbing down of America.
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I am a fast-food worker. I am not "proof of the dumbing down of America".

Before I retired the first time, I designed digital long distance circuits for a major telecom, then migrated analog circuits to my newly-designed digital circuits.

I also worked as the PA to the president and chairman of the board of a luxury foreign car manufacturer and speak the language of that country.

These among other not-dumb jobs.
 
One more thought besides asking @Victor what makes him so special: what makes any of you who obviously delight in disparaging fast food workers, so superior? Are you a better class of humans? So well-educated that you can look down your noses at common laborers? Such paragons that you can question the values/motives/ambitions of people who don't aspire to the C Suite?

Explain to me, please, how you see into the hearts and minds of those you view as "less than". Do you prefer a caste system so that none of you will have mingle with the riff raff...the riff raff who do the jobs that you consider beneath you?

One hopes and prays that you never have a reversal of fortune that forces you to do any of those jobs, and have people like you looking down their noses at the undesirable jobs you do, judging you for doing them, and assuming that you are less than.
 
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GeorgiaXplant said:
I am a fast-food worker. I am not "proof of the dumbing down of America".

Before I retired the first time, I designed digital long distance circuits for a major telecom, then migrated analog circuits to my newly-designed digital circuits.

I also worked as the PA to the president and chairman of the board of a luxury foreign car manufacturer and speak the language of that country.

These among other not-dumb jobs.
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i understood the OP's comment to be a generational statement speaking to the apparent lack of common sense among the younger generation and not related to mature workers with specialized talents. Perhaps I misunderstood. Sorry to offend.
 
Yes HelenB. Of course I am generalizing about the very young generation. Not mature workers. Some of you work very hard. Iworked at McDonald's in my first job in the 60s. Hamburgers were 15 cents. The examples mentioned are real and recent. One is from a new ESL immigrant. I thought my post was humorous not hurtful. I am not demanding and don't complain about meals. Obviously my experieces are local. Not national or abroad. ...
 

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