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Of course.

I worked in a meat packing factory, i got free meat home with me every night.

I worked as a waiter , i got a free meal.

I worked as a grass cutter, i got free high duty strimming coil/ even got free petrol for my scooter.

getting free shit comes with the job.

I'm trying to get a job in a soda can place just for the free soda.
 
Drazgul said:
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Come on I can't be the only one who instantly thought of good ol' Gus!
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Gus knows better now.
 
I work at sport events and concerts at an arena near me and they force us to throw out countless burgers at the end of the night instead of letting any of us have one for the amount of work we did.
 
Zombie Lyle said:
I work at sport events and concerts at an arena near me and they force us to throw out countless burgers at the end of the night instead of letting any of us have one for the amount of work we did.
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what the hell? With seafood I can see that since it goes bad but why would they throw away beef? Just freeze/refrigerate it.
 
Al-ibn Kermit said:
what the hell? With seafood I can see that since it goes bad but why would they throw away beef? Just freeze/refrigerate it.
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That's what I was thinking but we regularly throw away 5 - 10 burgers a shift and there are about 6 or 7 other hot food stalls.

They used to let us take the burgers home but that stopped around a month after I started working there. They used to give us free drinks out of a coke machine but that recently stopped.
 
Wow Pro-gamer666 made me feel like i was playing Halo on Xbox live again, everything he wrote sounded like a 10 year old raging on Xbox live.
 
I might be completely dense - but I seriously haven't seen a single argument against giving the cooks free food other than "lol, I'm a banker, can I has free money? lol"


Any negatives to giving the cooks free food, gaf?
 
Al-ibn Kermit said:
what the hell? With seafood I can see that since it goes bad but why would they throw away beef? Just freeze/refrigerate it.
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I don't think a high end restaurant is going to freeze beef. I would hope not, at least.
 
IamMikeside said:
Any negatives to giving the cooks free food, gaf?
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1. Company spending on staff meals
2. Regulation around what they're allowed/how much they're allowed and cost accordingly
3. Monitoring individuals and their meals and acting if something were to go awry
4. A whole heap of legalities regarding breaks, hygiene, work-balance due to never leaving the work place for breaks...easily avoided if working in an non-union environment
 
daviyoung said:
1. Company spending on staff meals
2. Regulation around what they're allowed/how much they're allowed and cost accordingly
3. Monitoring individuals and their meals and acting if something were to go awry
4. A whole heap of legalities regarding breaks, hygiene, work-balance due to never leaving the work place for breaks...easily avoided if working in an non-union environment
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OK, I can accept that these things need to be considered, but all of the anecdotal evidence for 1. seems to be that company spending it minute compared to other waste and is easily outweighed by the increase in morale. I wouldn't say I really see points 2 or 3 being enough of an issue to disallow it anyhow, but point 4 I can see the argument (but not really agree with)
 
IamMikeside said:
OK, I can accept that these things need to be considered, but all of the anecdotal evidence for 1. seems to be that company spending it minute compared to other waste and is easily outweighed by the increase in morale. I wouldn't say I really see points 2 or 3 being enough of an issue to disallow it anyhow, but point 4 I can see the argument (but not really agree with)
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More often than not, it's just a nuisance for the restaurant rather than anything that will affect the business. Sometimes they're nuisances they could just do without.
 
Ab-so-lutely.



pro_gamer666 said:
No you won't. Cooking is simple, you follow a recipe. Any monkey could do it (figurative of course, not literal). They are not expressing any degree of creativity. I can cook as good as any Food Network star.
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You wouldn't happened to have watched the Breaking Bad season premier have you? lmao


EDIT: Argh! Beaten. Gif of Victor would have been perfect.
 
When I was deployed in Iraq the cooks at one of the FOBs were all Indians hired by KBR and near the end of Dinner hours they would start cooking this awesome Curry for themselves. Some asian buddies and I made friends with them and got to get some of their curry and rice. Those were some awesome guys, it seems that when cooks cook for themselves the quality goes up 10x.
 
I've worked in quite a few restaurants and staff always had a free meal. Sounds retarded otherwise.
In most places waiters would also never share tips with the cooks, which I always found completely unfair.
 
Is there a job in the world that doesn't come with a relevant perk? I always thought that one of the nice things about meaningful employment was being able to benefit in a way relevant to your interests.
 
rezuth said:
Should they be able to bring food home?
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bringing food home is generally a no. That leads to taking advantage of food benefits (filling to-go boxes with 3 meals). If after serving a large banquet and there is much food left over than maybe yes.
 
Yeah, cooking is a really intense job. The last place I worked we totally didn't eat free. We had to pay 2bucks for a "cook meal" which was restricted to things like sandwiches and burgers.

That manager was a piece of shit though, who eventually got dragged outside and received the proper beating I always wished upon him. This was a while after I quit though.
 
Yes, motherfuckas. I worked as a cook briefly. The hours are brutal. No lunch break really. You're standing up on feet all day around fire at all times. No AC as well. And you get paid shit and have no benefits, unless you work for a restaurant group or hotels.

Family meals, which are the staff meals that are provided free of charge, not everywhere mind you, some dock your check, are usually scraps of cheap protein--chicken legs, ground beef. It's never filet mignon or anything that. You also eat standing up and quickly as possible.

Yes!
 
I work in a kitchen at a facility for the elderly and every staff member is welcome to eat whatever we serve for breakfast or lunch. Even better, the meals are great, too.

I personally don't see an issue with it; when people become picky and complain about what's being offered is where I have a problem.
 
Of course they should. Virtually everyone gets some kind of perks where they work. And the off chance they don't, tough shit. Stop being jelly.
 
I work in a museum as an unpaid intern, and even I get free admission to the museum.


I don't think I'd work in a restaurant that didn't let me taste/eat their food. It means they don't trust me enough to know I have moderation.

In a "real" restaurant it would also be difficult to the wait staff to accurately serve the customer's needs if they didn't know the flavors of the food they are serving. The wait staff are there to make recommendations, and the best recommendations can come when the staff actually eats the food they are serving.
 
I worked at a Subway in the mall and the franchise owner allowed everyone a sandwich a day (6 inch for short shift) so what I would do is trade my sandwich for either salmon or cod and chips or pizza with some of the other workers in the food court.

Employers should want to keep the people that handle their food happy by at least allowing them to eat the food, besides you know, paying them and treating them with respect.

(And yes, whenever I made the tuna I would make it just the way I wanted and then take a big ass spoonful and eat it-- lol)
 
Zombie Lyle said:
I work at sport events and concerts at an arena near me and they force us to throw out countless burgers at the end of the night instead of letting any of us have one for the amount of work we did.
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I had friends in high school who worked in a local fast food burger joint. Originally, they could take home any food left at closing time. The problem was that people started taking advantage of this by throwing 30 burgers on the grill right before close knowing they wouldn't be sold. Owners have to shut these perks down when people start being greedy about them.
 
Machine said:
I had friends in high school who worked in a local fast food burger joint. Originally, they could take home any food left at closing time. The problem was that people started taking advantage of this by throwing 30 burgers on the grill right before close knowing they wouldn't be sold. Owners have to shut these perks down when people start being greedy about them.
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Or just punish people accordingly - it's gonna be pretty obvious if they're doing that kinda shit so give them a warning and then dock their pay or something if they keep it up.

To be fair, at a fast food place when it's nearly closing time, wouldn't you basically just cook them one or two ahead of order anyway? Should be seriously easy to spot abuse of the system.
 
They should absolutely get free meals within reason.

And even if they aren't allowed, the cooks will eat anyways. It's nice when a place actually shows throws their employees a bone or two.
 
IamMikeside said:
Or just punish people accordingly - it's gonna be pretty obvious if they're doing that kinda shit so give them a warning and then dock their pay or something if they keep it up.
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While your suggestion sounds nice, do you honestly think that's how an owner would handle the situation? Most business owners would take the easy way out and eliminate the perk altogether since monitoring and supervision are going to take more time and effort.
 
Isn't this pretty much standard everywhere except fast food joints. If i worked fast food i wouldn't want to anyway. Not because there is something wrong with big mac or kebab. Its just usually the menu is extremely limited, and you be eating the same thing day in and day out..

when i worked in a lunch resturant we all sat down and had lunch before opening. We could not get the ala carte shit but anything that was on the todays menu was up for grabs. It was really nice.
 
daviyoung said:
No, you get paid minimum wage because that is the legal minimum a company has to pay someone to get them working for them. People always need work, and companies always need money.
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That's some killer logic there. Why aren't we all getting paid minimum wage?
 
At the restaurant I wait at the cooks can make themselves anything, the managers make themselves stuff all the time, we can ask them to make anything for us and we can make ourselves any pancakes or stuff that isn't too difficult.
 
Where I cook we can eat/take home whatever we like. Free drinks after a shift, and even staff discount on our days off. I hardly need to buy groceries anymore. Wait staff pay discount for their meals, but it's a free for all for the cooks. Been a cook for 15 years or so and most places I've worked are like that.
 
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