What fast food place did you used to work at?

[madison2000]

My first job was at a Burger King, and I haven't eaten there since!

[xmas74]

1. Hardees and Sonic.

[asthmaticeog]

2. Papa John's.

Can't eat the stuff anymore, either.

[Left Is Write]

3. I worked at Hardee's for about a month, maybe six weeks, in 1983.

[Placebo]

4. Please tell us any GROSS experiences you've had...

while working at your fast food jobs, fellow DUers! :hi:

[Freebird12004]

5. Carvel

[CO Liberal]

21. "Fudgie The Whale....Cookie Puss....

"Fresh ice cream...we do not use an air pump....."

Good ol' Tom Carvel. My kid sister took speech as a minor in college, and after listening to Tom's radio commercials, she was convinced the old guy had a cleft palette.

[Freebird12004]

43. According to the people who knew him best, that's not all!

He truly loved the Ladies.

[MASSAFRA]

6. I never worked

at a fast food chain store. IN college I worked at the dining hall and a local pizza store.

[Red State Rebel]

7. Worked at Dairy Queen in '74 for $1.10 /hr.

oh the fun....

[progmom]

8. Does Denny's count?

I wore a green polyester skirt and apron for a year when I was 18. :(

[Evergreen Emerald]

9. My first job was at a Herfy's

It was the hang-out for High school after Football games. I was the dork in the stripped brown apron and brown beanie cap serving hamburgers.

[fluffernutter]

18. we used to have a Herfey's - i haven't heard that name in forever

i kinda miss it - they had good shakes and turnover things, mmm.

[KyndCulture]

10. Hardees

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

11. I never worked at a fast food joint.

My first job was working as a cashier at Shop'n Save (a supermarket). My husband's first job was Burger King. He still loves their food too. My brother's first job was at Subway. I'm not sure what he thinks of Subway's food, but I like it.

[tridim]

12. The closest I got was Applebees

I was a line cook. I don't miss the job (it was the hardest job I've ever had), but I miss the parties with the staff. Damn those were good times!

[madison2000]

20. yeah, restaurant people can be a lot of fun

I waitressed for a couple of years and met a lot of good people just trying to earn a few bucks.

[KurtNYC]

36. Line cook at Coco's

Me and two other guys would cook 500 to 700 dinners to order in 3 hours. Coco's has that semi-open kitchen where you can see the cooks from about the chest up but my co-workers would stand on the grill (the moulding actually) and smoke reefer then blow the smoke straight up into the hood -- they pretended to be changing the vent filters.

People would send back their 'liver and onions' and say it was gross. I was never sure what to do about that.

There is a pan or a bucket in many kitchens called 'save for well'. What happens is if meat is sent back for being overcooked it goes in the bucket until someone order "well done" then it gets re-heated and served. Tip: order your meat medium-well or rarer.

[Dookus]

13. my first real job

was at McDonald's. Back then, it was actually a decent place to work, and I learned a lot that helped me in subsequent jobs.

[CO Liberal]

14. Gino's (1971 - 72)

Gino's was a burger chain in NJ and PA that had the local KFC franchise before KFC built their own chain in the area. Their version of the Big Mac - The Gino Giant - was FANTASTIC!!!!.

[Debbi801]

48. They were in Maryland, too....

That was my first "real" job...

Debbi

[Discord]

15. Micky Dee's

I wont ever use katsup from the pump....

*shudders*

[NashVegas]

16. Does Minor League Baseball Concessions Count?

FRONTS!

It was fun, actually.

[VOX]

17. I had a lotta crap jobs, but somehow I managed to miss out...

on the fast-food world. :shrug:

[fluffernutter]

19. i worked at a Nordstrom Cafe in HS.

[Richardo]

22. Here's a blast from the past: Shakey's Pizza

High school: 1973-74. The only 'fast food' job I've ever had (if you consider pizza fast food).

[fudge stripe cookays]

37. Holy crap!

I'd almost forgotten about Shakey's!

We used to go and watch the old silent movies and stuff! There was one near our apartments when we first moved to Austin.

Blast from the past, indeed!
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[maveric]

44. They're opening a new Shakey's here in La Mesa CA.

I havent seen one in years.

[achtung_circus]

23. I was a short order cook for A & W for a year

and worked in the plant that made ALL McDonald's patties for 5 summers. I don't eat at either.

[fishwax]

24. Wendy's

For a summer. It wasn't bad, really. Not the best job ever, but most of the people were fun to be around. (Not that I'd care to go do it again.)

[northzax]

25. ditto

for three weeks. on the day I quit they tried to promote me to assistant manager.

I was 19.

luckily, the manager knew I only needed a job for a month. unluckily, she neglected to tell the assistant managers. so they were pissed.

my favourite moment was when I guy came in and complained that it looked like we'd put day old hamburger into the chili. uh, pretty much. it's 99cents, you want filet? he wanted someone fired for messing with his chili that he had for lunch every day.

apparently he'd never noticed that the meat every day was the over-cooked burger from the night before...

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[Cooley Hurd]

28. Me too...

Kentucky Fried Chicken (it was still called that when I worked there) was my first over-the-table job. An invaluable experience that taught me two things:

-You can deep-fry anything and it'll still taste like KFC...

-Eating KFC for dinner every night for a week straight causes chest pains, even in a 16 year old...

[ernstbass]

27. Long John Silver's

It was the greasiest job in the world!

[Arkana]

29. Never done fast food--thank God

and I hope I never have to.

[GOPBasher]

30. McDonalds. Unfortunately, it didn't turn me off to the food.

I still love the food and I still have a big gut. :-)

[Fifth of Five]

31. KFC and Long John Silver's

Grease is the word....

[Magrittes Pipe]

32. Burger Thing.

[Dastard Stepchild]

33. Does a bagel shop count?

If so, I slung bagels for 2 years in high school.

[gollygee]

34. McD's for about 2 months

Not a good 2 months.

When I quit abruptly after being treated very unfairly, my manager said she'd never give me a good reference. I said, "Oh yeah, like I was planning to put a 2-month stint at McDonald's on my resume." LOL

[no name no slogan]

35. Assistant manager at Hardee's-- first post-college job

I graduated college in 1991, right at the start of the last Bush recession. The only job I could find was Hardees. Yeah, it was that bad.

I lasted all of two months. The 50+ hour weeks, crappy working conditions and slave wages eventually did me in.

After that I took a temp job doing clerical work. I actually made more $$ doing that than I did in management at Hardees-- and the hours were MUCH better.

[4_Legs_Good]

38. Foster's Freeze

Which is like a Dairy Queen.

Gah! Hardest job I ever had.

david

[fudge stripe cookays]

39. Not fast, but Luby's!!!!! Gah!!!

The job that convinced me that food service and I would NEVER combine successfully. The Luby's on Thousand Oaks in NE San Antonio.

After that, I moved into retail and never looked back. Everyone at Luby's pretty much starts as a bus girl. You had to watch these stupid videos on how to do it.

Wearing orange polyester and nurse's shoes, cleaning macaroni and cheese out of baby high chairs, wiping God knows what off of tables....one of the most disgusting things I EVER had to do for a buck.

Plus, the supervisor was this complete BITCH named Rose. I hated that woman with a purple passion.

One night, I got to sub for the gal at the bread and rolls counter on the line and thought I'd died and gone to heaven. But then it was back to bussing. I lasted approximately 2 weeks.

My last day was a Sunday (the busiest of the week, right after church). Rose had bitched at me for something, and that was it. I went home for lunch, and never went back. They kept calling my house, angry that I wasn't back yet, so I told em what they could do with the job.

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[tigereye]

40. Burger King

for about 2 days. Can't remember why, all I remember is how little it paid per hour, like 1.65 or maybe less.

Then Bagel Nosh, I really liked making Reubens and cleaning the grill.
After that it was a string of waitressing jobs at funky restaurants. Fave - a Greek place that no longer exists.

[GOPisEvil]

54. That Luby's is a Chinese buffet now.

I used to have lunch in that Luby's every now and then as my office was close by.

[fudge stripe cookays]

57. Did you get bad vibes there?

"Hmmmmm...I feel the horror inflicted upon Fudge Stripe Cookays here in the name of a paycheck!"

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[GOPisEvil]

66. LOL...,maybe they had an exorcism of the horrors!

But then, I am always vaguely off-put by Luby's.

[LynneSin]

41. Hardees

:puke:

[baldguy]

42. Wendy's

On the grill. On my first day, setting up the burgers and scraping the grease away every couple minutes. The Ass Manager saw me and asked me what I was doing. When I told him he said "That's not grease, that's juice!"

I didn't last very long there. (p.s.: and for god's sake - NEVER EAT THE CHILI!)

[evlbstrd]

60. That's what my brother told me.

If it's in the chili, it was on the floor.

[BuyingThyme]

45. White Castle

[spinbaby]

46. I'm heading in to work at 9:00

Not so bad, though.--it's not a franchise, it's a fast-food place privately owned by by my son. This morning, I'm checking in the Coke order.

[One_Life_To_Give]

47. Mickey's Drive In

Worked there all thru High School and my first summer off from College. It was a real step up from being out in the tobacco fields.

[AntiCoup2K4]

49. Skippers

Nothing inspires you like cleaning a bunch of deep fryers full of fish grease every night.

When they still had beer on tap, it made that horror much easier to deal with.

And let's just say the tables in the back room were used for far better things than cutting fish :evilgrin:

[Lindsey]

50. Arby's Roast Beef...

n/t

[redqueen]

51. Two.

My first job was at English Fish & Chips... I *loved* that job.

The other fast food job was at Long John Silvers. I hated that one... lasted all of two days.

[trag]

52. Rax

And I only lasted 3 months before I said to hell with it. :) I was a junior in high school.

[dback]

68. Good God! I didn't think anyone else would say that besides me!

I was their AM prep cook summer of '85, right after graduating high school. (Scenic Tacoma, WA)

It was really a pretty dreamy job for a kid's first time--put a roast in the over every hour and a half or so, make 2 trays of chocolate chip cookies (the dough was delicious), and pretty much the rest of the shift was just chopping vegetables for the salad bar.

Occasionally I had to do something yucky like make a batch of potato salad (very smelly), but really it was a nice job--I had the place to myself for an hour or two every morning starting at 6:30, then one person came in around 9:30, then another couple around 11, then I was gone by noon or so. I only spent one day wrapping sandwiches as a pinch-hit for someone else, and only a couple days refilling the salad bar (carting ice, etc.)

I got to wear what I want, listen to the radio all morning, free soda, and then the rest of the afternoon free. The day I left for a long weekend in Santa Cruz, they let me come in at 4:00 AM and work till 10. They were nice even when I broke the can opener. :)

Compared to the following summer--AM maintenance in an amusement park cleaning garbage, hosing sidewalks etc. starting at 5 AM, which meant getting up at 4--it was a great gig.

[trag]

69. I remember my first day

I was 16 and they made me clean the chairs with a toothbrush and tooth pick. Getting those sesame seeds out of the chairs was hell. Did that my whole shift with another guy. I didn't get to run the slicer any because of my age, but I was a hell of a potato scrubber.

[kmla]

53. Burger Chef....

They were acquired by Hardee's in the early '80's - they used to give McDonald's a run for their money in central Indiana back in the day....

I worked "back line" - Yep, I was a grill boy.

Minimum wage back then? Around $3/hr....

[Worst Username Ever]

55. The food counter at Target. "Food Avenue," they call it.

x(

[norml]

56. What do you mean "used to"?

DaVinci's South 48th. May I help you? Day off today though. I get Wednesday off each week. Whoopee!

[Radical Activist]

58. Wendy's

During a winter break in college. A friend was the manager so it wasn't that bad. I did drive through.

[RetroLounge]

59. None

Ponderosa doesn't qualify as Fast Food...

RL

[Tikki]

61. Arctic Circle....during the late 60's...

I'm not even sure if any Arctic Circle still exist!!!

[Hobarticus]

62. Domino's, driving like a bat out of hell...

Terrible job for a kid just learning to drive!

[Cuban_Liberal]

63. Arby's

I refuse to eat there to this day.

[Sequoia]

64. Burgerland and Spudnut (high school days)

[u4ic]

65. Harvey's

@ $3/hour; only for a few months, and then I found a motel cleaning job for a whopping $4/hr.

[NervousRex]

67. Taco Hell

1984...$2.90/hour....I quit after the first week.
1988...$3.35 Pizza Slut...quit after two weeks.

[beyurslf]

70. McD's

1 in 12 U.S. adults have worked at McD's in their lifetimes.

[Enquiringkitty]

71. I worked at KFC two different times in two different towns. We use

to have some really good flour fights in the back after closing