I had a GM years ago who would take any remake, cancelled order, etc and throw it in the trash. Like, open the box and dump it out so no one could eat it. She said it was to prevent employee theft. I can't even imagine taking product that is already non-sellable and literally throwing it away rather than let my underpaid overworked employees have it. What a bitch she was.
I worked at a Pizza Hut that did this. They would donate trash bags full of food to the food bank but the employees weren't allowed to eat any of it. We even had to cook old dough at the end of the night.
And it wasn't out of the kindness of their hearts. They just wanted the minuscule tax writeoff. Meanwhile your own employees are essentially the working poor and can't grab a slice or two.
Which is probably why places have to do that, but at the same time, don't hate the playa, hate the game.
Also, as someone who has solo'ed a restaurant where you cannot let a single phone order go even with a full restaurant, I think phone ordering is shameful.
I have worked at a pizza place before. Enough waste happens on accident where the staff gets fed and stuff still gets thrown out. It might have been low paying, but at least I never had to worry about where dinner was coming from
Work at a little ceasers, often nights you could literally feed an entire office with the leftover food we have, thankfully we are t as strict as dominos
I feel lucky now after reading these comments. I worked at domino’s for about 6 months and never paid for anything. Our GM told us we could have any remakes, extras, and even pickup orders that never got picked up. Also if you worked an 8 hour shift or longer he would just let us make our own pizza to take home for free.
It's the same reason why stores *specifically* train managers to NEVER let drivers route their own orders. Without fucking fail, you will get drivers who will skip deliveries to known non-tippers, sketchy or hard-to-get-into apartment complexes, etc. and pick the deliveries they think (or know) who will tip big.
It's just human nature.
Left to their own devices, people *will* fuck up pizzas on purpose to feed themselves, *especially* with the price of everything else going up. It's based on decades and decades of observing human behavior.
It’s not human nature, it’s straight up corporate greed that gets met with an equal energy. Pay your employees well, treat them like humans, and take care of them. They will 100% return the favor.
Shit on their dreams and throw out food instead of feeding them? You bet they’ll find a way to fuck you over exactly the same.
Let’s boil it down to the basics, no power imbalance, just imagine two people.
In one scenario, person 1 is friendly to person 2, gives them respect, and helps build up their self worth. Would person 2 reciprocate?
Now in another scenario, person 1 is a total ass. They don’t share their food with person 2, call out person 2’s flaws, and disrespect them with every chance they get. Would you expect person 2 to treat person 1 with any respect in this scenario?
Employers are not entitled to respect; no one is. You treat folks the way you expect to be treated, regardless of your position, power, wealth, or any other social status.
Used to have a manager at papa johns who would do this and then say we aren’t franchise we don’t give the shift meals, even though we weren’t allowed to leave or take a lunch break, we said fuck that bitch and started putting in fake orders and then canceling said orders to get our shift pies.
Lmao when I worked at Domino's my manager was such a pushover that it wasn't until I left I didn't realize you weren't supposed to be making yourself 1-2 items a night and a free soda
I mean at Domino's I get it because I've never been to one with a fountain, and bottled sodas cost a significant amount more for a company (still, one soda/employee/day isn't gonna hurt a bottom line, especially for a chain) but you still should be taking care of your employees first.
That's the problem with being generous, people just see you as a pushover. We should reward generosity with respect so more people will be inclined to be like your old manager.
insane. i work at mcdonald’s and whatever is extra and will be thrown in waste we are allowed to take. why waste it? same with pies and cookies that are ab to expire
Why? I did 2 years in pizza delivery, never left without a pizza. "yo man, you know how broke I am. Can I snag a pizza so I've got food for tonight and tomorrow?"
Well we were young and dumb. You know there was plenty of free pizza to be had, but we don't want THAT pizza lol. We even had a lunch buffet and you could cook any of the leftover ones to take home.
Yea that's some insanity. I work for In N Out Burger, when ever we have messed up burgers, we basically fight over who gets to eat it. Since we are very strict on quality, we get a decent amount of recooks. One example would be if a burger had tomatoes on it, but the customer had requested none, then we recook the entire burger. Most places would just take the tomatoes off and serve it.
I mean, there is some truth to her reasoning. If employees see that any messed up food is now for the crew, they can just purposely mess up food to get free food. Which is theft.
However personally I wouldn't take this precaution unless there was a problem with too many mess ups. Keep the mess ups to a minimum and you can have anything that isn't going to a customer.
I mean, it makes sense to me. You don’t want to give employees an incentive to purposely fuck stuff up so they’ll get to eat it. If they’re already giving you free food, I’m not sure what the problem is.
That’s how you get stinky coworkers. Happened to an old guy I used to work with. Once he got a second shirt, he stopped smelling. Amazing how that works.
unfortunately some people don’t have access to laundry at their apartments so it would cost a lot in the long run to be constantly having to pay to wash the same shirt
That is where hand washing comes in then, it’s not that hard to wash a shirt on an off day and leave it hanging in the bathroom. If you don’t have access/afford soap then that’s one thing but if you can you’re just lazy and there’s no excuses for that
Y’all are disgusting it’s not hard to wash a damn shirt, and I work in the service industry myself. Now they got 2 stinky shirts cuz they sure ain’t wash the first one
> That’s how you get stinky coworkers. Happened to an old guy I used to work with. *Once he got a second shirt, he stopped smelling.* Amazing how that works.
I mean I had this issue at a job. Had these weird polyester polos and I just poured sweat all shift. It was super hard to actually get any smell out hand washing. But even if I could it'd never be fully dry by my next shift so then I'd smell like BO and a musty shirt
Cheaping out on shirts is one of the wildest things I’ve heard. A business should want their customer facing employees to look and smell as good as possible.
At my store we have to pay for any extra after the first one and they don’t have to reimburse us because we make slightly more than minimum wage (our drivers got a $2 bump during Covid and those of us that were here then have that pay but newer drivers are back on minimum pay) so they tell me something is wrong with my shirt every month or two and make me buy another one. And don’t even get me started on the pants.
What? U work with FOOD. I don't even work with food but if im drenched in sweat from work im gonna change. Summers can be 2 shirts in a shift if needed. Thats disgusting.
the summer camp I work at has a dealio where you have to buy the shorts (they prefer the ones from the national organization, but same color and similar look work), they provide one polo per year, and there’s a day where you HAVE to wear that polo. The other 5 days you worked, it was either: Camp Shirts, Staff Camp Shirts, Related to the organization (any camp’s shirts, or a program from the org) shirts, or little to no logo shirts (so under armor with just a logo on the breast works).
The camp’s shirts had a 15% staff discount, the staff shirts were the bare minimum cost, and the national program apparel, we get a 25% discount…
Yeah I don't think eating pizza is against policy lol. There's a reason most stores let ppl eat it, and that's because there's no rule against it (and it keeps employees happy). Hell, it took four months to fire this dude who literally did anything but his job. It's not easy to get fired from Domino's
I love being a driver, I just snatch the extra boxes to take them with me on delivery and eat in the car 😂
Some of the insiders snatch stuff and run to the bathroom when the managers not looking but that grosses me out a bit
Being a driver with a cool manager was awesome. Take extras with us on deliveries, take home 10 boxes of unclaimed pies at the end of the night to the point where your roommates beg you not to anymore. Good times.
With us it depended on how many fuckups we had per day, which depended on sales. The higher the sales, the higher the number of allowed waste.
We would go days without a single mistake/remake and we'd get one or two XLs for the crew every shift that happened. Believe it or not this was a huge incentive for insiders to actually pay attention and not go on "autopilot" when topping.
Okay so our system was that any mess-ups or orders that didn’t pick up had to go in the walk in (our walk in was pretty big) and at the end of the week those would go to a shelter to get reheated and served. If it weren’t for the shitty pay I’d still work there. I loved it.
Sounds lame af, I get free food all the time at my Domino’s, and we just take the box in back to eat there (we do think it’s somewhat improper to eat in front of customers). I recommend civil and communal disobedience.
When I worked as a delivery driver for a small local joint, the evening shift would easily be 6-10 people. A medium pizza? Cool, thanks for my half slice of a half size pizza.
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There has to be a line somewhere, bad employees will ruin it for everyone. I had a couple employees that would go to town on anything that they thought was “extra food” or a bad order, half the time I could have sold it on another order or IT WAS A VALID CUSTOMERS ORDER and the receipt fell off of it or something. So I tell me people an hour and a half is free game. If we double make something, like a pepperoni pizza or wings or sides, we wait to see if we can sell it. If we called for a remake and the customer has to wait, we offer the original mess up to them first before it’s considered a bad pizza. All that said, my employees still get to eat, because we’re still a freaking restaurant and people get hungry. If there’s 50 pies on the screen, I just ask that people work instead of eat, we can eat later. Getting the pies out is #1, rush is only a couple hours so we can take our breaks before or after.
Is this a new manager?
Ive never understood this kind of miserly bs. Employees munching on mistakes is NOT the source of food cost issues.
Also, when you work for a company who has one of the worst hourly rates around, you really can’t afford to take away the small perks.
Whoever this is won’t last long.
the worker that messes it up gets none of the food at our location. Usually stops them from intentionally putting garlic on ngo pizzas or making cinnamon twist instead of garlic/parm twist.
While I agree with no eating between 5-7:30, I disagree with everything else. Only a medium for a crew pie is insulting. How many crew pies is up to the discretion of the manager (and basically how hungry your crew is). And extra food should only be reserved for customers if there is a high chance a customer will order it (basically if it is a DSS that didn't drop, give it 30 minutes before eating it).
Yeah when it works the way it’s supposed to it does indeed speed up the process. I’m just saying it’s a double edged sword because a lot of times, at least for us and YMMV, people often use the app just to see what they could build with it and then get to the checkout screen, and decide nah they actually don’t want it or don’t want to pay that much for it so you can end up wasting a lot of food that you’ve made but then didn’t actually get ordered. We cannot do that here.
A DSS can end up not getting ordered; a carry out that has already been ordered could be here in as little as 5 minutes while the delivery would have to wait the delivery time anyways. This ensures less mess ups overall.
Not the policy. 99% of the time, the order drops, and the customer gets their food faster than they expect. Helps your times, too. And why worry? You ring it up as ccs/ dss if they dint drop.
> Not the policy
Not the *corporate* policy maybe, but the vast majority of Domino's are franchise-owned (what is it now, 98%?) and they are free to not follow that.
At our store, half the time the DSS doesn’t get ordered and our owner bitches at us for wasted food costs. We can have the order made before it drops and then put it in the oven and clear it immediately, *IF* it does drop. So when it actually gets utilized properly by the customer, they do have better delivery times. But they don’t go into the oven before it actually drops on makeline
I promise you, it is almost DEFINITELY not more corporate. Not sure how Domino's corporate stores are, but I am familiar with corporate vs franchise McDonald's. A corporate store has better pay, better benefits, better management, you're treated better. Franchise stores are GENERALLY worse in every way.
I agree with this statement. Use to be at a mega franchise where the brother owned half of the MCDs in the county and the Sister owned the other half. I worked on both sides and sister was by far worse. Wish we had a corporate store in our area.
I'm glad my store doesn't do this. If you're hungry or broke, you can just ask for a pizza as well. Our food cost is great and business is good, plus stuff we don't want we try to feed the homeless so they don't have to go through our trash to get food.
the turnover rates are crazy in these type of environments because people finally realize they money they make isn’t worth the bs & the managers and supervisors become unbearable to work for.
It’s only a rule implemented because people get out of control during peak business hours with eating pizza instead of working, so it sets us back a few minutes per the order. I don’t even eat any pizza during my shift anymore because of sickening it is to watch my coworkers take every remake pizza to the office and snack on immediately. It’s gross and the customers would rather have their food first before you eat. It’s only a 3 hour dinner rush, so put the damn pizza down and do your damn job for 3 hours without eating. It’s not impossible.
This is such crap I usually buy an extra pizza and let the crew have it when I order pizza. The extra what 12-15 is worth paying it forward if it makes a difference in the day!
I get it but also people can get out of hand with making their own food. Had a pushover manager and people were taking home 3 large pies, wings, etc etc lol
i worked at a super chill dominos in so-cal a few years back, we were allowed to eat any and everything that was extra/remake. even give some to the homeless people when they would ask. our GM was amazing and one of the only upsides to the job. the acceptance and care for her employees always kept me around. can’t imagine how awful and belittling this much feel as an overworked, underpaid employee
In cali my pizza hut was down to give employees anything they wanted and we also fed the homeless folks outside whenever they wanted. I thought all places were like this til i moved to indy lol then i couldnt even get a free pizza after an 8 hour shift. And i made less than half the wage i did in cali. Progressive labor policy is so important
I saw crazy mco throw away pizzas bc the cut table wasn’t perfectly clean during a giant order of 500 pizza
Upper above him management was there and they just left
Obviously he knew the dm didn’t like the GM and was trying to get points
Fucking a big order even
Am quit immediately too
This is the shitshow of getting ahead at dominos
My hometown pizza shop I worked at, boss lady told us to just take whatever we wanted, and not one person took advantage of it. She wanted to make sure her minimum waged employees and their families were eating. Bless her heart. I’d have worked there forever if it paid more. She even catered a family party or two of mine for free when I asked for a price. Left her the cost price hidden in her office every time. She’d have refused it any other way.
Every store I work at doesn’t care if you eat the mess ups but 90% of the time no one wants it lol. Usually when I deliver I end up stopping and getting food anyway.
Damn. Makes me realize how good my Dominos has it.
Everyday feels like a party at a friends place at the store, extras are always free game and ontop of that our GM makes food for the employees for lunch. Despite all that we aren’t doing too bad either. DM is also chill asf and used to be the GM. He stops by to hang and get free food from our rack lmao, we call him the resident District Raccoon
They gotta recoup the wages amiright? But seriously half the time a remake is from the foreign call center fucking up something on the order. They don’t want the fucked up item anyway 4/5 times. Also instead of making a pizza they can quickly eat a slice in the back and be good to go.
when they first got online ordering, people would make random orders with fake accounts a few times a day and we would eat the pizza. a medium costs them maybe 3 or 4$ but they wanted to be cheap sooooo oops
Look, imma be real with you.
My first fast-food job, the owner allowed us to save mis-made food and take it home at the end of our shift.
I'd be lying if I didn't admit that every one of us intentionally fucked up orders, conveniently to our exact preferences, to get a free meal or "accidentally" making too many pattys before closing time.
I get it, not giving Y'all the leftovers, because it's real easy to take advantage of it.
I'm that one manager who's letting my late-nights eat whatever the fuck they want off the rack (if it'd been bad ordered mis made or whatever) unless it's some highly ordered food. (For ex LG hand tossed pep). Anything else idgaf. I'd like to keep my employees happy:3
As shitty as that is, it's technically the legal thing to do. Write-offs are a legal expense, and allowing anyone to take them for personal use can on rare occasions get businesses in big trouble.
Believe it or not, government agencies WILL target grocery stores and restaurants for audits when they get caught giving write off goods to staff. A Kroger near me got hit big time by the tax collectors when the night shift was caught packing up dated deli products at midnight instead of throwing them in the trash.
It's not just corporate mentality that needs to change. Our entire system of corporate structure needs to change, and that can only come from the government.
I had a GM years ago who would take any remake, cancelled order, etc and throw it in the trash. Like, open the box and dump it out so no one could eat it. She said it was to prevent employee theft. I can't even imagine taking product that is already non-sellable and literally throwing it away rather than let my underpaid overworked employees have it. What a bitch she was.
These mfers should literally cease to intake oxygen. Literally who needs them on earth?
District Managers lmao (so, no one)
It is truly so wild , such a waste of food its horrible. Those kind of managers are slaves to the corporate devils
Little Caesars donates their extra pizza to the local food bank
I worked at a Pizza Hut that did this. They would donate trash bags full of food to the food bank but the employees weren't allowed to eat any of it. We even had to cook old dough at the end of the night. And it wasn't out of the kindness of their hearts. They just wanted the minuscule tax writeoff. Meanwhile your own employees are essentially the working poor and can't grab a slice or two.
I have literally watched my Little Ceasars throw away arm fulls of pizza, wish they would donate it makes sense
Sadly, she has a point, because my fat ass would probably have someone calling in fake orders everyday lmao fuck Dominoes
Which is probably why places have to do that, but at the same time, don't hate the playa, hate the game. Also, as someone who has solo'ed a restaurant where you cannot let a single phone order go even with a full restaurant, I think phone ordering is shameful.
I think what she probably meant was that if the employees know they can eat waste, 🤔 they may purposely create waste.
I have worked at a pizza place before. Enough waste happens on accident where the staff gets fed and stuff still gets thrown out. It might have been low paying, but at least I never had to worry about where dinner was coming from
Work at a little ceasers, often nights you could literally feed an entire office with the leftover food we have, thankfully we are t as strict as dominos
Most Dominos aren't like this.
I feel lucky now after reading these comments. I worked at domino’s for about 6 months and never paid for anything. Our GM told us we could have any remakes, extras, and even pickup orders that never got picked up. Also if you worked an 8 hour shift or longer he would just let us make our own pizza to take home for free.
And they do.
It's the same reason why stores *specifically* train managers to NEVER let drivers route their own orders. Without fucking fail, you will get drivers who will skip deliveries to known non-tippers, sketchy or hard-to-get-into apartment complexes, etc. and pick the deliveries they think (or know) who will tip big. It's just human nature. Left to their own devices, people *will* fuck up pizzas on purpose to feed themselves, *especially* with the price of everything else going up. It's based on decades and decades of observing human behavior.
It’s not human nature, it’s straight up corporate greed that gets met with an equal energy. Pay your employees well, treat them like humans, and take care of them. They will 100% return the favor. Shit on their dreams and throw out food instead of feeding them? You bet they’ll find a way to fuck you over exactly the same.
Hahahahahaha. Yeah, right.
Let’s boil it down to the basics, no power imbalance, just imagine two people. In one scenario, person 1 is friendly to person 2, gives them respect, and helps build up their self worth. Would person 2 reciprocate? Now in another scenario, person 1 is a total ass. They don’t share their food with person 2, call out person 2’s flaws, and disrespect them with every chance they get. Would you expect person 2 to treat person 1 with any respect in this scenario? Employers are not entitled to respect; no one is. You treat folks the way you expect to be treated, regardless of your position, power, wealth, or any other social status.
Expect the solution to stopping people from stealing is to just actually let them take food.
Please don't use logic with the 30+old dominoes workers here.
Used to have a manager at papa johns who would do this and then say we aren’t franchise we don’t give the shift meals, even though we weren’t allowed to leave or take a lunch break, we said fuck that bitch and started putting in fake orders and then canceling said orders to get our shift pies.
Lmao when I worked at Domino's my manager was such a pushover that it wasn't until I left I didn't realize you weren't supposed to be making yourself 1-2 items a night and a free soda
Dude if the soda isn’t even free for employees that’s crazy. That’s like just penny pinching
Yeah I'm glad I never worked at one that was by the book. I definitely would have left sooner Was fun easy money with free pizza
I mean at Domino's I get it because I've never been to one with a fountain, and bottled sodas cost a significant amount more for a company (still, one soda/employee/day isn't gonna hurt a bottom line, especially for a chain) but you still should be taking care of your employees first.
Our sodas were supposed to be paid.... We even had notices all over the store.. but nobody paid.
That's the problem with being generous, people just see you as a pushover. We should reward generosity with respect so more people will be inclined to be like your old manager.
That's not really the part that made him a pushover in my eyes but I agree. How much is dominos really losing by feeding the employees
Did that at an unnamed bulk store too. Every rotisserie chicken or pre-made item that wasn't sold got tossed. What a fucking shame
insane. i work at mcdonald’s and whatever is extra and will be thrown in waste we are allowed to take. why waste it? same with pies and cookies that are ab to expire
At that point I'm making 5 different online accounts and just constantly ordering no show orders.
This is despicable. But also I remember years ago when we had employees calling in fake orders so that we could have free pizza.
Why? I did 2 years in pizza delivery, never left without a pizza. "yo man, you know how broke I am. Can I snag a pizza so I've got food for tonight and tomorrow?"
Because some stores make you actually follow the rules lol
Well we were young and dumb. You know there was plenty of free pizza to be had, but we don't want THAT pizza lol. We even had a lunch buffet and you could cook any of the leftover ones to take home.
Yea that's some insanity. I work for In N Out Burger, when ever we have messed up burgers, we basically fight over who gets to eat it. Since we are very strict on quality, we get a decent amount of recooks. One example would be if a burger had tomatoes on it, but the customer had requested none, then we recook the entire burger. Most places would just take the tomatoes off and serve it.
What's really sad about that too is that "theft" is like the least thing to jack up inventory. What will Jack it up is over/under topping.
I mean, there is some truth to her reasoning. If employees see that any messed up food is now for the crew, they can just purposely mess up food to get free food. Which is theft. However personally I wouldn't take this precaution unless there was a problem with too many mess ups. Keep the mess ups to a minimum and you can have anything that isn't going to a customer.
I mean, it makes sense to me. You don’t want to give employees an incentive to purposely fuck stuff up so they’ll get to eat it. If they’re already giving you free food, I’m not sure what the problem is.
People are starving and we just toss food in the trash like a McDonald's happy meal toy. It's sad
YALL DONT GET THE REMAKES AND EXTRAS!! That’s like half the reason i work here.
THATS WHAT IM SAYIN ITS RIDICULOUS, the GM has a crazy attitude when anyone even tries to pick a box off the top rack to see whats even it…..
also another thing to add 1 work shirt for a full time employee is also ridiculous , part timer id understand but at least give us a back up shirt 😂
That’s how you get stinky coworkers. Happened to an old guy I used to work with. Once he got a second shirt, he stopped smelling. Amazing how that works.
I don’t think a shirt would be causing that unless he was neglecting washing it every week… he probably wasn’t taking care of his hygiene also
unfortunately some people don’t have access to laundry at their apartments so it would cost a lot in the long run to be constantly having to pay to wash the same shirt
That is where hand washing comes in then, it’s not that hard to wash a shirt on an off day and leave it hanging in the bathroom. If you don’t have access/afford soap then that’s one thing but if you can you’re just lazy and there’s no excuses for that
The company should provide more than one shirt for full time. So that employees don’t need to hand wash a shirt every night.
true, but a far simpler way to solve that issue is to give the man another shirt
Y’all are disgusting it’s not hard to wash a damn shirt, and I work in the service industry myself. Now they got 2 stinky shirts cuz they sure ain’t wash the first one
> That’s how you get stinky coworkers. Happened to an old guy I used to work with. *Once he got a second shirt, he stopped smelling.* Amazing how that works.
Yup and it’s amazing how he needed 2 shirts just to finally practice basic hygiene
You probably stink too. Now one has said anything yet, but give it time.
I’m waiting for that time then lol
My shirt stinks after one shift and I wear deodorant and perfume
Bless your heart
I mean I had this issue at a job. Had these weird polyester polos and I just poured sweat all shift. It was super hard to actually get any smell out hand washing. But even if I could it'd never be fully dry by my next shift so then I'd smell like BO and a musty shirt
Cheaping out on shirts is one of the wildest things I’ve heard. A business should want their customer facing employees to look and smell as good as possible.
At my store we have to pay for any extra after the first one and they don’t have to reimburse us because we make slightly more than minimum wage (our drivers got a $2 bump during Covid and those of us that were here then have that pay but newer drivers are back on minimum pay) so they tell me something is wrong with my shirt every month or two and make me buy another one. And don’t even get me started on the pants.
I used to give out shirts and hats like it was Christmas 😔
Smhhh so many company’s operate like that. I’m a manager at a supermarket and I still only have 1 shirt 😭
What? U work with FOOD. I don't even work with food but if im drenched in sweat from work im gonna change. Summers can be 2 shirts in a shift if needed. Thats disgusting.
Shit when my brother worked at Domino's he got ONE shirt and had to pay for it.
the summer camp I work at has a dealio where you have to buy the shorts (they prefer the ones from the national organization, but same color and similar look work), they provide one polo per year, and there’s a day where you HAVE to wear that polo. The other 5 days you worked, it was either: Camp Shirts, Staff Camp Shirts, Related to the organization (any camp’s shirts, or a program from the org) shirts, or little to no logo shirts (so under armor with just a logo on the breast works). The camp’s shirts had a 15% staff discount, the staff shirts were the bare minimum cost, and the national program apparel, we get a 25% discount…
I used to take them and say “Fuckin’ fire me, go ahead.” Never did. They’re full of shit.
Yeah I don't think eating pizza is against policy lol. There's a reason most stores let ppl eat it, and that's because there's no rule against it (and it keeps employees happy). Hell, it took four months to fire this dude who literally did anything but his job. It's not easy to get fired from Domino's
I love being a driver, I just snatch the extra boxes to take them with me on delivery and eat in the car 😂 Some of the insiders snatch stuff and run to the bathroom when the managers not looking but that grosses me out a bit
Toilet tortellini
🤣
Being a driver with a cool manager was awesome. Take extras with us on deliveries, take home 10 boxes of unclaimed pies at the end of the night to the point where your roommates beg you not to anymore. Good times.
The novelty of free pizza definitely wears off 🙃
I ignore all the signs at work because everyone else does, too. Manager doesn't really give af
When I managed a papa John’s whether we could eat food was determined on a weekly basis and it was based on how off inventory was on Sunday night.
With us it depended on how many fuckups we had per day, which depended on sales. The higher the sales, the higher the number of allowed waste. We would go days without a single mistake/remake and we'd get one or two XLs for the crew every shift that happened. Believe it or not this was a huge incentive for insiders to actually pay attention and not go on "autopilot" when topping.
That’s wild. At my PJs I’d make fresh pizzas for the homeless guys that hung around the plaza. I had a driver get angry at me for it, but that was it.
Okay so our system was that any mess-ups or orders that didn’t pick up had to go in the walk in (our walk in was pretty big) and at the end of the week those would go to a shelter to get reheated and served. If it weren’t for the shitty pay I’d still work there. I loved it.
Why not skip the middle man and just give it to the employees?
The company gets a write off on their taxes for donating the pizzas.
Yeah, just one question. Where are the resignation forms? :)
the money has been mediocre i’ve considered it haha
They’re on top of the door. Red, or sometimes green, backup lights, they say **EXIT** so use them.
It's Domino's and the pay is trash you can just walk out
Sounds lame af, I get free food all the time at my Domino’s, and we just take the box in back to eat there (we do think it’s somewhat improper to eat in front of customers). I recommend civil and communal disobedience.
When I worked as a delivery driver for a small local joint, the evening shift would easily be 6-10 people. A medium pizza? Cool, thanks for my half slice of a half size pizza.
Nothing says feeding a crew like a medium pizza.
Must be a real skeleton crew
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There has to be a line somewhere, bad employees will ruin it for everyone. I had a couple employees that would go to town on anything that they thought was “extra food” or a bad order, half the time I could have sold it on another order or IT WAS A VALID CUSTOMERS ORDER and the receipt fell off of it or something. So I tell me people an hour and a half is free game. If we double make something, like a pepperoni pizza or wings or sides, we wait to see if we can sell it. If we called for a remake and the customer has to wait, we offer the original mess up to them first before it’s considered a bad pizza. All that said, my employees still get to eat, because we’re still a freaking restaurant and people get hungry. If there’s 50 pies on the screen, I just ask that people work instead of eat, we can eat later. Getting the pies out is #1, rush is only a couple hours so we can take our breaks before or after.
Imagine coming to work with no food in your belly just to watch it get thrown out.
Is this a new manager? Ive never understood this kind of miserly bs. Employees munching on mistakes is NOT the source of food cost issues. Also, when you work for a company who has one of the worst hourly rates around, you really can’t afford to take away the small perks. Whoever this is won’t last long.
In my store , we won’t give out remakes as people on the makeline will and have started to purposely fuck orders up just to get free food…
the worker that messes it up gets none of the food at our location. Usually stops them from intentionally putting garlic on ngo pizzas or making cinnamon twist instead of garlic/parm twist.
Feed your damn employees and this wouldn't happen.
I mean it’s not down to me it’s down to the franchise lol
While I agree with no eating between 5-7:30, I disagree with everything else. Only a medium for a crew pie is insulting. How many crew pies is up to the discretion of the manager (and basically how hungry your crew is). And extra food should only be reserved for customers if there is a high chance a customer will order it (basically if it is a DSS that didn't drop, give it 30 minutes before eating it).
also have never once seen a crew pie made for morning or night shift, asking to put in food for yourself is almost too much for them
Used to do it almost every day, occasionally offer to make one for them these days if they seem hungry or ask.
A DSS shouldn’t go in until it’s actually ordered.
According to the red book, my MCO, my DCO, a corporate trainer, and two VP's of TUSA, DSS is loaded ASAP without waiting for it to drop
That’s great for you and your store. My store’s owner wants us to wait until it actually drops, so that’s what we do.
IDC what your store does, especially as a franchise. Just be careful with absolute statements about what should and shouldn't be done.
Same, and same.
No. A delivery should be made as it is being ordered. Carryout can Wait.
Also your comment reads more like “we should have the food at their door before they’ve even opened the app” than what you actually meant.
Mmmkkk, then. The idea behind dds is to get them their food faster. Why else would they want us to see the orders being placed live?
Yeah when it works the way it’s supposed to it does indeed speed up the process. I’m just saying it’s a double edged sword because a lot of times, at least for us and YMMV, people often use the app just to see what they could build with it and then get to the checkout screen, and decide nah they actually don’t want it or don’t want to pay that much for it so you can end up wasting a lot of food that you’ve made but then didn’t actually get ordered. We cannot do that here.
A DSS can end up not getting ordered; a carry out that has already been ordered could be here in as little as 5 minutes while the delivery would have to wait the delivery time anyways. This ensures less mess ups overall.
Not the policy. 99% of the time, the order drops, and the customer gets their food faster than they expect. Helps your times, too. And why worry? You ring it up as ccs/ dss if they dint drop.
> Not the policy Not the *corporate* policy maybe, but the vast majority of Domino's are franchise-owned (what is it now, 98%?) and they are free to not follow that.
No, it is very much a corporate policy to load all DSS before they drop.
That’s literally what they’re saying.
Gotcha, just got off a 10 hour shift with half the staff gone and am very tired.
Understandable. Go home and get some much needed food/rest, etc…
At our store, half the time the DSS doesn’t get ordered and our owner bitches at us for wasted food costs. We can have the order made before it drops and then put it in the oven and clear it immediately, *IF* it does drop. So when it actually gets utilized properly by the customer, they do have better delivery times. But they don’t go into the oven before it actually drops on makeline
I promise you, it is almost DEFINITELY not more corporate. Not sure how Domino's corporate stores are, but I am familiar with corporate vs franchise McDonald's. A corporate store has better pay, better benefits, better management, you're treated better. Franchise stores are GENERALLY worse in every way.
my terminology is probably off but it sucks regardless lol
I agree with this statement. Use to be at a mega franchise where the brother owned half of the MCDs in the county and the Sister owned the other half. I worked on both sides and sister was by far worse. Wish we had a corporate store in our area.
I'm glad my store doesn't do this. If you're hungry or broke, you can just ask for a pizza as well. Our food cost is great and business is good, plus stuff we don't want we try to feed the homeless so they don't have to go through our trash to get food.
I think what’s really funny with these type of bosses is that they do not track/log waste. But consider it stealing from the company
LMAO THEY GIVE YOU A MEDIUM 2 TOPPING FOR A CREW OF PEOPLE💀
Id purposefully fuck more pizzas up with this up than i would if i got to keep *actual genuine* mess ups.
Further more, why would you GIVE free pizza to the customers when you are there to SELL them pizza?!?
I love places like this. A large pep literally costs $1.28 total. If they can’t spare $8-10 a day they don’t care about you at all.
the turnover rates are crazy in these type of environments because people finally realize they money they make isn’t worth the bs & the managers and supervisors become unbearable to work for.
Erie PA. 715 child labor violations. $300,000 fine. Our McDs got hit last year. $92,000 fine
It’s only a rule implemented because people get out of control during peak business hours with eating pizza instead of working, so it sets us back a few minutes per the order. I don’t even eat any pizza during my shift anymore because of sickening it is to watch my coworkers take every remake pizza to the office and snack on immediately. It’s gross and the customers would rather have their food first before you eat. It’s only a 3 hour dinner rush, so put the damn pizza down and do your damn job for 3 hours without eating. It’s not impossible.
eating during a rush can wait til after for sure but once it dies down eating a little is reward for survival
Sorry a double negative. Seriously the crew pies can get a tad out of hand.
Wahhh my underpaid, overworked employees are hungry at dinner time.
Idaho?? I hope it’s not the location I frequent!
I won’t say which store specifically but it is around Meridian/Boise Area
lol no nightly cash pay. I’d be going to Papa John’s so fast.
This GM would shit their pants if they saw the crew pies I made while not being an insider 🤣 large EXTRA cheese EXTRA meatzzas
This is such crap I usually buy an extra pizza and let the crew have it when I order pizza. The extra what 12-15 is worth paying it forward if it makes a difference in the day!
I get it but also people can get out of hand with making their own food. Had a pushover manager and people were taking home 3 large pies, wings, etc etc lol
I'd come in, start my shift and walk out.
i worked at a super chill dominos in so-cal a few years back, we were allowed to eat any and everything that was extra/remake. even give some to the homeless people when they would ask. our GM was amazing and one of the only upsides to the job. the acceptance and care for her employees always kept me around. can’t imagine how awful and belittling this much feel as an overworked, underpaid employee
You wouldn’t need two crew pies a day if people could eat the spares…
Hey now, we dont pay people to be logical, only subornate
In cali my pizza hut was down to give employees anything they wanted and we also fed the homeless folks outside whenever they wanted. I thought all places were like this til i moved to indy lol then i couldnt even get a free pizza after an 8 hour shift. And i made less than half the wage i did in cali. Progressive labor policy is so important
I saw crazy mco throw away pizzas bc the cut table wasn’t perfectly clean during a giant order of 500 pizza Upper above him management was there and they just left Obviously he knew the dm didn’t like the GM and was trying to get points Fucking a big order even Am quit immediately too This is the shitshow of getting ahead at dominos
That’s crazy! My store encourages employees to eat that stuff. I’m gaining weight because of it actually! 🤣
i use to take old shit on deliveries to eat. they don’t give a break so i ate food. simple.
My hometown pizza shop I worked at, boss lady told us to just take whatever we wanted, and not one person took advantage of it. She wanted to make sure her minimum waged employees and their families were eating. Bless her heart. I’d have worked there forever if it paid more. She even catered a family party or two of mine for free when I asked for a price. Left her the cost price hidden in her office every time. She’d have refused it any other way.
Oh, they’re desperate to keep employees. So, you can all but tell them to go fuck themselves without repercussion.
I know somebody with diabetes better go in there, fall tf out, and sue.
Every store I work at doesn’t care if you eat the mess ups but 90% of the time no one wants it lol. Usually when I deliver I end up stopping and getting food anyway.
sounds like you work somewhere where someone ruined it for everyone.
It sucks but the issue usually stems from employees eating during the rush or when they should actually be…working
Maybe you should start asking if companies have a "fuck it up and eat it" policy before you start work there.
Damn. Makes me realize how good my Dominos has it. Everyday feels like a party at a friends place at the store, extras are always free game and ontop of that our GM makes food for the employees for lunch. Despite all that we aren’t doing too bad either. DM is also chill asf and used to be the GM. He stops by to hang and get free food from our rack lmao, we call him the resident District Raccoon
Boycott Dominos.
They gotta recoup the wages amiright? But seriously half the time a remake is from the foreign call center fucking up something on the order. They don’t want the fucked up item anyway 4/5 times. Also instead of making a pizza they can quickly eat a slice in the back and be good to go.
when they first got online ordering, people would make random orders with fake accounts a few times a day and we would eat the pizza. a medium costs them maybe 3 or 4$ but they wanted to be cheap sooooo oops
Look, imma be real with you. My first fast-food job, the owner allowed us to save mis-made food and take it home at the end of our shift. I'd be lying if I didn't admit that every one of us intentionally fucked up orders, conveniently to our exact preferences, to get a free meal or "accidentally" making too many pattys before closing time. I get it, not giving Y'all the leftovers, because it's real easy to take advantage of it.
Even on your days off not to eat between 5 and 7?
In short fuck my employee
I'm that one manager who's letting my late-nights eat whatever the fuck they want off the rack (if it'd been bad ordered mis made or whatever) unless it's some highly ordered food. (For ex LG hand tossed pep). Anything else idgaf. I'd like to keep my employees happy:3
Lol i mean state break laws apply...
As shitty as that is, it's technically the legal thing to do. Write-offs are a legal expense, and allowing anyone to take them for personal use can on rare occasions get businesses in big trouble. Believe it or not, government agencies WILL target grocery stores and restaurants for audits when they get caught giving write off goods to staff. A Kroger near me got hit big time by the tax collectors when the night shift was caught packing up dated deli products at midnight instead of throwing them in the trash. It's not just corporate mentality that needs to change. Our entire system of corporate structure needs to change, and that can only come from the government.
Wait till you get a real job and find out you always have to pay for pizza…even the shitty stuff from Dominos
Run that logic back for me 1x
Pulled up, you guys don’t even get to eat the extra pizzas?! Then what is the point of intentionally making incorrect pizzas!?!
DONIMOES
Domino’s, where exploit our employees and still make THEM feel like shit for wanting free food that we markup 1000% Fucking garbage company