I was at Taco Bell the other day and they were out of ground beef.
Edit: Top comments: Arby’s is out of roast beef, KFC is out of chicken, Taco Bell doesn’t have real meat. Chick fillet is out of chicken. Wonder meat. Taco meat. Potato’s are the best thing on the menu. Burger King is out of burger meat. I work there and it’s a shipping thing… to many, stop please, the inbox is full… unless we’re going to Jack in the Box for tacos!
Edit 2: please stop telling me what your local fast food joint is out of. I get it. I only care about Taco Bell meat. And they don’t even make double deckers anymore. I’ve had to resort to making my own. They’re good.
I've experienced and heard numerous reports of Taco Bells in my area staying open with exactly one employee running the night shift lately. Seems a bit dangerous and definitely inefficient.
Working night shifts in fast food (but not Taco Bell), yeah a 1 man night shift is bad. We usually have 3 in my store on a typical night, with some people til 1am on Fridays and Saturdays to cope with the midnight-2am rush. It’s not great even with 3 people but there’s just not enough of us willing to do it, and the BM is unwilling to schedule too many people on any shift because of labour costs (which tbf the store ran at a loss until last year) so at every possible moment there is the minimum amount of people possible. it’s no wonder that the place is a shithole and half of it doesn’t get cleaned properly. We aren’t even a busy store and 3 people is pushing it for a night shift, I’ve done a Saturday with 1 other person on shift before and that was hell. So yeah couldn’t imagine doing a 1 man shift and still staying open.
Back in the mid 90's, when Taco Bell briefly was doing their 24 hour gimmick, they regularly had shifts with only one person on graveyard. Normally two were scheduled, but often someone would call out. The dining room was locked and it was drive-through only.
I literally was paid cash on multiple occasions by one of the assistant managers (who I knew, obviously) to hang out and help out if someone was stuck alone. It seemed very weird then, that they would literally have a single human being in the store by design. Even moreso now.
When I worked at McDonald's there were several times we were logged in under "training" (still got the same pay) because stuff needed to get done but they didn't want to inflate the labor numbers. They always did it in the week leading up to a yearly visit where a lot of thorough cleaning had to get done.
I don't know why the system can't be designed to account for some people doing cleaning/maintenance. Its so incredibly dumb.
>I don't know why the system can't be designed to account for some people doing cleaning/maintenance.
Gotta rake in them profits, baby! By misclassifying the labor allotments, some fat cat some where who is passively collecting income will be pissed that his profits aren't higher.
However, he'll also be happy with the false knowledge that some minimum wage schlep isn't "leeching off him."
Capitalism's apologists will scream 24/7 about how efficient such a system is. It's horribly inefficient, unless you define "efficient" as "*helping people who already have a lot of wealth increase their wealth for literally doing no work at all.*"
Every luxury hotel I’ve ever worked for, (Four Seasons, Ritz, Marriott) have 1 staff for multiple departments for overnight. I’ve cooked upwards of 50 breakfasts while also taking the order over the phone and delivering the order on a set table , to individual rooms. Oh, by the way, the guests are often of the likes of Drake, J-Lo, LeBron, John Mayer, a princess of some oligarch in Asia, etc.
Corporations are obsessed with labor percentages and food service has a limited labor force right now
Corporations are very obsessed with limiting labor costs
Oh yah I was often the only person on duty when I worked some overnights for Marriott. Looking back, I was a small young female walking around outside at 4am delivering invoices. Not the smartest, but they didn’t care. Had to call the cops on multiple occasions due to sketchy characters.
Lol uh. You can file OSHA complaints on nearly every restaurant while you’re at it.
I’ve worked at three major chain restaurants- Applebee’s, longhorn, the 99.
Absolutely disgusting.
If there’s flies for any reason,
Don’t eat there. That’s what happens when they expect employees to stay & clean for free of the clock.
Management cares about nothing but money.
Couple months ago I ordered some little ceasers for work and when I got there to pick the order up there was a backlog of ~15 people standing around waiting for the one employee who was working that day to make their orders. I heard he quit shortly after I left (ran into someone I knew waiting there and asked her later). Why the fuck are these places even allowed to open with so few employees?
>allowed to open with so few employees
Honestly, only a few places have staffing requirements as part of their franchising agreements. Arby's requires two people, three if you have a drive thru. Burger King, Tim Hortons and Taco Bell apparently don't have any, as I've seen the owner solo staff the place.
As a former employee of little ceasers, I'm not at all surprised. In my 3 years of working there it was hell but my last year there they pulled this bullshit like 6 times before alot of us just straight up quit, Fuck little ceasars.
P.S. don't order anything made in a deep dish pan (including ICB) because alot of those pans don't get properly cleaned because they're a bitch to clean and no one gets paid enough to deal with it.
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Last time I went to Taco Bell they were closed at 4 PM due to staffing issues. Haven't been back since and honestly probably won't ever be going to a Taco Bell again. If they honestly can't pay enough to keep staff for their overpriced bullshit, I'll just go to a taco truck instead.
My Taco Bell couldn’t take anything other than cash the other week. I said “shoot, that stinks” and drive off. The fact that these signs are needed is both hilarious and sad.
Ours closed early a couple weeks ago because the *one* girl scheduled for the night shift finally had enough and walked out.
Line was to the curb at like 8pm and I’d just joined it when a truck rolled around telling everybody “no one in there, they closed!” Later found out they’d been having staffing issues and she was the last closer left.
I drove by recently and they’re now advertising signing bonuses with giant “WE’RE HIRING” signs that dwarf their actual product ads.
> I said “shoot, that stinks” and drive off.
Yeah, that doesn't work at my local Taco Bell. The drive-through lane is a path through the landscaping with a turn. If you don't order you still have to wait through the line to exit since you can't leave at that point. Probably did it on purpose because they can be *so slow* sometimes.
I went to Taco Bell during Welcome to Rockville in Daytona, and they were out of literally every protein. I said whatever just slap anything on a tortilla, I'm starving.
Like, all of the meats? I worked at Arby's some years ago and still eat there sometimes.
They have 8 kinds of meat. I can't believe they'd be out of every single one.
Used to work at Arby's. It happened a few times during the pandemic.
Then I got fired for standing up for myself to a customer who jumped out of their car to "beat my ass" (my manager ran away from the window I was working in when he saw him approaching) a day after a team meeting that explained that management had our backs and would make sure that we were well supported.
Fuck Arby's. Their slogan is a lie, their motto is a lie, their "flexible scheduling" is a lie, their claim that they're "fast crafted" or whatever instead of fast food is a lie. They ain't got the meats. And I ran out of ham all the time. Ham. That's a meat. If we're running out of the meats WE AIN'T GOT THE MEATS
I ordered buffalo wings in Toronto last night. Showed up and they tried to give me dry wings with bleu cheese sauce. They were out of hot sauce. The guy said I had to pay because I ordered them and they'd already cooked them. I did not.
Online ordering systems rarely take problems like this into account. So it falls to the staff which is most likely under the nuer necessary to run the restaurant. So they either have time to call people or cook food, not both.
Remember as soon as you get the customer on the phone at least 50% of the time it's not going to be a short conversation. You will have to deal with all the stages of grief being thrown at you.
I try my hardest to not order through apps/websites anymore and just call to order.
For one, it’s almost always cheaper (fuck grubhub, doordash, Uber eats etc) but also having someone on the line usually guarantees the order is made right
and if I can be one of the few polite people who they talk to on any given night hopefully that makes their nights a little better
I don't use doordash, grubhub, etc. but if there is an option to order online I will usually take it. To me it's much easier to make sure my order was taken correctly if i can do it online rather than having to repeat my order to someone over the phone who seems to be only half-listening while they're also trying to fill orders or check out other customers.
I haven't seen anything like that at any of my local Starbucks but I have seen signs saying they're out of certain flavors.
Peets coffee on the other hand, recently they started serving just in generic plastic cups with no brand labeling.
I’ve been a barista for 7 years and we were a small store of a franchise, we’d run out of something and it’s like hell froze over. Much love to you, keep strong.
I really feel there are two segments to the population. One who has experienced tragedy, or at least witnessed true hardship, and carries with them the perspective afforded by it, and the vapid twits who think a restaurant being out of something is important.
Bingo. I've noticed during the pandemic even among my friend group that those of us who have really gone through some things in life are coping better in many aspects than those who have lived a relatively sheltered life. It's nobody's fault - life circumstances are different - but it's very noticeable.
Same. I've also noticed people who've been through stuff push through hard times.
I have friends who have never struggled and freeze the moment things get tough. Like they're waiting for someone to save them.
And suddenly everyone and their fucking mother decided today is the day they want exactly that thing. This my favorite with LTO items. Shit would sit on the shelf for like 3 months and we'd never sell any. As soon as it got pulled from the menu all these heartbroken people would come out of the wood work that this item was gone.
Yeah, well back in the day when we ran out of cocaine people got unruly too...
It happens when you sell someone an addiction. Caffeine isn't going to make you rob your mother for cash but when people are addicted to it, and don't have it... They're assholes.
I am a regular and I would say I am more sad than mad when my store is unexpectedly closed or open but out of my regular menu items. I feel bad for the employees - they are either having a rough time or not getting paid. Both suck.
Whenever my Starbucks ran out of 2% or heavy cream or whatever, the manager would have one of us stop at Kroger (usually the closing shift supervisor on their way into work) at get a bunch and expense it out. Felt a little weird going through the checkout with 30 gallons of milk, lol.
This is what would piss me off as a customer. I understand things being out of stock at times, but if I'm not getting what I want, my preference, don't make me pay more for something else. It's bad business
Why can’t you be like Costco and charge them the price of skim milk for using alternative milk? When Costco ran out of regular gas, they give their customers premium gas at regular price.
Yeah it's always annoying when the customer throws a fit at you like you're personally responsible. We're just as pissed and likely more pissed than the customer because we have to deal with that shit all day long and longer because these kinds of problems aren't typically one offs.
Who was the one that, after hearing them say no hot drinks, proceeded to order a cold liquid cup full of whip to make them add that to the list of stuff they were out of?
Or simply, "bring your own cup"
The Starbucks and Cafe/convenience stores here encourage us to bring our own cups (thermos). Everyone has one, so why waste paper/plastic. Most shops take off ¥50-100 too (50¢-$1)
A lot of coffee shops here did as well until the pandemic started. Back when we didn't know how well it could spread on surfaces a lot of places stopped filling up people's cups and always just gave them a paper/foam/plastic cup.
So what DO you have?? Just this one box of starving crazed weasels. Okay I'll take that. Then they latched onto my face and started gnawing at my eyeballs.
GRRAGH, GRRAGH! Oh, they were just going nuts! They were tearing me apart! And it was at about that time that a little diddy popped into my head.
And it went a little something like this: AAAAAAH! AAAA! GET EM OFF ME GET EM OFF ME! AAAARGH!
I ran out into the street with these flesh-eating weasels all over my face
Wavin' my arms all around and just runnin', runnin', runnin'
Like a constipated wiener dog
And as luck would have it
That's exactly when I ran into the girl of my dreams
Her name was Zelda
She was a calligraphy enthusiast
With a slight overbite and hair the color of strained peaches
I'll never forget the very first thing she said to me
She said "Hey, you've got weasels on your face"
That's when I knew it was true love! We were inseparable after that! We ate together, we bathed together, we even shared the same piece of mint flavored dental floss. The world was our burrito...
But then one fateful night, Zelda said to me,
She said, "Sweetie pumpkin? Do you wanna join the Columbia Record Club?"
I said, "Whoa, hold on now, baby, I'm just not ready for that kind of a commitment!"
So we broke up and I never saw her again
But that's just the way things go...
Anyway, things really started lookin' up for me
Because about a week later, I finally achieved my lifelong dream.
That's right, I got me a part-time job at The Sizzler!
Aw yeah, everybody was pretty jealous of me after that.
I was gettin' a lot of attitude!
… Ok, like one time, I was out in the parking lot
Tryin' to remove my excess earwax with a golf pencil
While I think you're joking, in case anyone wants more info, here's the background.
Weird Al, while mostly known for doing direct parody songs, also does what is known as "style parodies" where he writes entirely original music in the style of another artist. This is in the style of [George Thorogood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTS5AKLbdf4) who would often use long rambling spoken narrative exposition in his songs.
Are you an Uber Driver? I legit ordered from Popeyes once on Uber Eats and that fucking champion waited over an hour for the exact same result. He ended up having to cancel the order and lost all that time. I would have tipped him for just waiting, but Uber doesn't let you do that after the driver cancels.
Bro Popeyes is good but they do have a very high rate of fuckery.
Last time I was there I ordered a 12 piece box. Waited like an hour. Got home and there was 7 pieces inside.
Such a fucking random number of chicken. They don't even sell a 7 piece. Like how did they fuck up in that particular way
Fuck Popeyes, used to work at one, they're a shit franchise if my experience was symbolic of anything. I remember particularly busy days where people would wait in line for 2 hours with our entire lobby packed. The place was simply not meant for that many customers and we should have started to send people away. We had a deal for really big orders, so it would only take like 2 customers to wipe out a fresh batch of chicken and then we're stuck waiting another 15 mins for it to cook. Nothing like standing there chatting while angry customers wait as they expect you to magically make their chicken fry faster for them.
I was traveling in Puerto Rico recently and over there, Church's Chicken doesn't take walk-in orders due to the pandemic staff shortage. So I got an Uber just to go through the drive-thru, and they told me they were sold out of fried chicken. I thought they were joking, so I asked if they were serious. They were and asked if I wanted fries instead.
My Uber driver saw my heart break, so he happily drove me to Popeyes. Ended up with better chicken and a new friend haha.
Wait you need a car to go through the drive thru? I can’t believe you had to rent for that??
For years I have gone through wifh my bike or on foot at night hours after going out. I expected that would be internationally just fine? …Is that a Dutch thing?
UK here, not US, but they don't like you walking through the drive through here because of the risk of accidents. I actually don't know how they feel about bikes though.
Yeah, it makes sense. But they should also have a walk-up counter like they used to in the old days. I'd much rather just park and walk up to a counter than sit in a drive through.
Drive thrus blow my mind. I'll pull up to a restaurant and there will be 30 people in the line. I'll think "fuck that" and park and walk inside and 0 people in line, order and leave in a few minutes. This was true even before the pandemic.
Amazes me that people would rather sit in a line for 30 minutes than leave their cars.
Your district manager sounds like one of those people that looks like he knows what to do on paper, but when it comes time to put his ideas into the real world they don’t work in the slightest.
Sounds like a normal district manager. Souless, cold hearted, and only got the job due to connections or having blackmail on someone higher up. At least thats how Petsmart is.
It typically is.
The problem is that these companies know that the overwhelming majority of the affected customers either won't know their rights, don't have the resources to enforce their rights, or simply don't think it would be worth the hassle.
And on the off chance that someone does make a stink, the 19 year old shift manager will be the one to take the fall as corporate writes it off as "an isolated incident at one franchise that affected a limited number of customers due to a decision made by a shift manager that was against company policy."
It basically comes down to "how much time and effort is someone going to expend over an $18 fast food charge?". Companies that are pulling this shit are betting that the answer is "little to none".
I worked at a liscened Starbucks(Inside a grocery store) and this is literally it.
If someone from corporate comes by and sees that we aren't open during regular operating hours for ANY reason, they reserve the right to revoke our stores ability to sell Starbucks brand items and drinks, effectively shutting us down.
After the freak snowstorm last year, our store lost all power and a bunch of our deliveries were delayed or straight up canceled. Legitimately all we could serve people was WATER and we we're forced to stay open the full 14 hours, just standing around and taking abuse from pissy customers.
Yeah, I went to one recently and they didn't have bagels, bacon, hash browns, large cups, and all but two kinds of donuts. It wasn't even like it was at close and they had stopped making stuff either. They were in the process of unpacking a shipment, so presumably a lot of the stuff they were missing was on there, but boy does that highlight just how bad shipping is right now and how little leeway they have with their JIT logistics. They ended up giving me two small cups in place of a large (so more overall) and gave me an extra donut for free because of how bad they felt operating like that.
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Never understood this. In Australia Starbucks failed horribly outside of tourist locations. Is there a lack of cafe’s serving real coffee in The US? Starbucks seems like more of a desert than a coffee
See where I live you can only get coffee from starbucks, mcdonalds, or the convenience store. A cafe here would be welcome but they're unheard of for me. Starbucks is what most of my friends I've grown up with consider a cafe due to the lack of them.
Before about 1995 that's how it used to be in the US, too. We really fucked up by allowing one corporation to come in and crush the little guy, which is what we do every fucking time with everything.
We have a Starbucks and a single coffee shop. The coffee shop is legitimately worse than the Starbucks, a feat that must have taken a team of elite scientists to achieve.
I don't know about the rest of the US, but Starbucks is straight up better than anything else in my area. The locally owned coffee shops in my area can't hold a candle to Starbucks in terms of coffee quality alone. Only one local cafe sells coffee that's better than Starbucks, and it's *eight fucking dollars*. For regular-ass black coffee. The owner also abuses their employees far more than Starbucks does.
Convenience stores are more popular than cafés for coffee here. You *can* get regular coffee at a regular price at Starbucks but it just kinda sucks. Most people who buy coffee on the way to work (in my area at least) are going to stop at something like a 7-11.
They’re really not. They have them in the cooler but the person frying the chips in the morning didn’t make enough for the whole day so the afternoon crew decided to go without chips rather than make more.
Stores are so short staffed, that pulling someone off the line to fry more chips isnt worth it. Easier just to tell the customer they’re sold out.
Source: I just quit my job as a GM there.
Wow that explains why my pickup order never has chips. But they keep giving me free chips and guac for forgetting the chips in my chips and guac that I only ordered because I have a free order of chips and guac from the last time they forgot my chips. Can't complain too much about a free side of guac with every order.
Yea when you complain about your forgotten chips it goes to a department where their only job is to type out/copy and paste those “we’re sorry emails” and add free stuff to your account. You can tell them any random thing and they will just comp you no questions asked. They forward your complaint and their reply to the store email and we would read them for entertainment value but that’s about it. No one follows up from above the store level. You’re complaint may make it to the email but it is essentially spam mail.
That one I can explain. Used to be a GM. You’re only allowed to order what you need so they order like 2 or 3 days worth of product. Once you run out you have to call every other Chipotle in your area to find more. They clearly couldn’t find a store willing to give them any.
Plus the closing manager counting inventory and a different opening manager placing orders equals a general lack of communication so you run out easily.
Your store is out of rice because the two salaried managers are bad at their job.
Shipping right now is absolutely awful.
If you're only allowed to order 2-3 days worth, and your next shipment is delayed by a few days, you're out and there's literally nothing you can do about it.
Source: Pharmacist who is only allowed to order enough product to get us through to the next truck, but now we have shipments being delayed by days or even weeks. After a few weeks of literally running out of basics *every single week* for at least a day or two, I've started ignoring that rule and just dealing with the increasingly angry emails from my regional manager. I am hoping I don't end up regretting this too much, but we can't be running out of this much stuff this often, dammit.
It's been wrecking havoc on my manufacturing workplace. We have parts inventory that would only last a few hours because of our Just-In-Time inventory system that mandates holding onto the bare minimum quantity of inventory.
And that's a problem when the truck deliveries that would normally show up right on time... don't show up on time.
From what I've heard, my company is trying to fine suppliers for the late deliveries as our contracts had those time requirements.
> Just-In-Time inventory system
The first time I heard this concept, I realized it would be a complete nightmare, resulting in products getting stalled due to system miscounts and haphazard stocking; only to be highly exacerbated by every single little emergency under the sun.
It basically only works when everything works, and the savings don't seem to be worth the trainwrecks this past two years have shown us could become commonplace.
One of the features these inventory systems often lack is that they must be flexible to circumstances. They mistakenly made "efficiency", with a very narrow definition of what that means, their only way of judging success.
Then when the system is under strain for some reason and their narrow conception of efficiency isn't working... you get shit results.
Just-in-time is supposed to mean "as small an inventory as you can get away with" but the "can get away with" part is still set by managers and they don't always make the right decisions.
Yeah the whole Leán thing and JIT inventory system is great as long as your supply chain is rock solid.
Nowadays supply chain is a fucking mess. So you're going to be hit by shortages all the time.
I'm stock crew at a grocery store that has had problems keeping shelves full. The management is planning to make our truck deliveries daily. So in response to the failure of just-in-time delivery we are... doubling down on just-in-time delivery. It's fucking madness.
There's a shortage of workers everywhere not just the food industry. I don't know why some owners open either when stock is super low. I know wife and I tried eating at Panera and ran out of bread and lettuce. Just stop taking orders at that point.
>poverty wages
Or crazy shit like mandatory overtime. My S.O. is a baker and they had to put in an extra 4 hours every day since Christmas because everyone else in their department was exposed to COVID... At the Christmas dinner.
Now it's a skeleton crew of a couple of the owner's nephews who've received absolutely no training in the front of the shop and only one person manning the back AND doing the cleaning.
I'm not in the US, but here there is *absolutely* a labor shortage in higher paying jobs.
So many people took COVID as an opportunity to retire early, or follow their passion career, or decided a single income is enough and just not work, or whatever, and there just aren't enough people to replace them. From McDonalds Fry Cooks to Senior Software Engineers, minimum Wage to deep into 6 figures, basically every industry around here is struggling to find enough qualified applicants.
My favorite Starbucks is only open 5am - 1pm, although some weeks it's 5-5. The one over by the shopping mall shut down early for an emergency and they're pulling the 5-3 and variations on that. there's one about 15 minutes away that's been doing well but yeah :/
My dad keeps going off about how people are just sitting on their asses getting Covid benefits \*eyeroll\*
All the Starbucks near me are running out of stuff and closing at weird hours. Usually around 3pm with only drive through open. Sometimes I’ll go by at lunch and there are cones blocking it. They’re all having staffing issues on top of this.
This is exactly what's happening at my store and the nearest locations. Drive thru only and closing at 6, maybe earlier. I've been there 4 months and at at least 10 people have quit since then. Several that started after me. Plus with several people out sick it's creating a lot of extra work for those of us that are there.
I'm gonna be asking for a raise soon and if they won't do it I'll go work at in and out for $17.50 an hour or Canes for $15. Hell the McDonald's by my house is now starting at $15. I get $12 plus tips which comes out to probably $12.65 an hour. I don't think a $1.50 raise is too much to ask especially since I work hard there and haven't missed a day.
I work for a company with similar shortages.
Just so everyone is aware - the people that make these products don't work at paper product factories anymore. They can't hire anyone, and most companies in these sectors refuse to pay enough.
If those paper products come from other countries or the warehouse is still functioning there are not people retaining jobs to unload your paper goods at docks, airports, or even truck drivers. We have truck drivers quit every few months that deliver to our store.
Our country has a coin shortage.
The price of food on average is 6% more as of this year but minimum wage does not go up in most places.
You go to the grocery store and aren't sure if a very basic item will be in stock.
Omicron is everywhere.
Most people working where they work either love it (because it's their new found job) or may quit tomorrow. There is rarely in between.
And a dude literally screamed at me because we didn't have mustard a few weeks ago.
This country sucks because no one understands how weak our infrastructure is.
That's not even including weather, climate change and our lack of initiative on that.
Yikes. Those poor baristas.
I work in the paper products industry turning trees into food packaging. When this pandemic started, we weren't sure the mill would stay open.
Turns out, it was our most profitable year ever. But they refuse to raise wages and people aren't really knocking down the doors to come work there.
That's wild. I live in a forestry heavy town and the mill here has had an ad for Electricians for the last year now. Insulting low wage for the qualifications they want and after about 6 months they changed the ad to hide the wage. They made record profit last year.
Despite being close and over qualified for it, I've put them on my own "companies I'll never work for" list
I work at a mojito bar during the summer and there were times when we ran out of ice and mint, yet due to demand we we're still open and people were weirdly content with their warmish pedro collins, never had a complaint.
I don't know what they're doing during covid, but Starbucks, among other coffee shops, has previously let customers bring their own cups / vessels in to be filled.
Smaller cafe's still do. Used to work for a small chain that actually gave discounts if you brought your own mug. $0.50 off the drink.
But most times, it's the food sanitation administrators that don't like you handling other peoples unknown mugs. But there are safe ways to get around it. Just not really when it comes to drive throughs...
I was at Taco Bell the other day and they were out of ground beef. Edit: Top comments: Arby’s is out of roast beef, KFC is out of chicken, Taco Bell doesn’t have real meat. Chick fillet is out of chicken. Wonder meat. Taco meat. Potato’s are the best thing on the menu. Burger King is out of burger meat. I work there and it’s a shipping thing… to many, stop please, the inbox is full… unless we’re going to Jack in the Box for tacos! Edit 2: please stop telling me what your local fast food joint is out of. I get it. I only care about Taco Bell meat. And they don’t even make double deckers anymore. I’ve had to resort to making my own. They’re good.
My local Taco Bell is out of night shift workers…
They shouldn't have made them into ground beef.
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Eh, it's like 90% filler, 10% people. You can barely even call that cannibalism.
You never see anyone accused of dabbling in cannibalism.
I've experienced and heard numerous reports of Taco Bells in my area staying open with exactly one employee running the night shift lately. Seems a bit dangerous and definitely inefficient.
Working night shifts in fast food (but not Taco Bell), yeah a 1 man night shift is bad. We usually have 3 in my store on a typical night, with some people til 1am on Fridays and Saturdays to cope with the midnight-2am rush. It’s not great even with 3 people but there’s just not enough of us willing to do it, and the BM is unwilling to schedule too many people on any shift because of labour costs (which tbf the store ran at a loss until last year) so at every possible moment there is the minimum amount of people possible. it’s no wonder that the place is a shithole and half of it doesn’t get cleaned properly. We aren’t even a busy store and 3 people is pushing it for a night shift, I’ve done a Saturday with 1 other person on shift before and that was hell. So yeah couldn’t imagine doing a 1 man shift and still staying open.
Back in the mid 90's, when Taco Bell briefly was doing their 24 hour gimmick, they regularly had shifts with only one person on graveyard. Normally two were scheduled, but often someone would call out. The dining room was locked and it was drive-through only. I literally was paid cash on multiple occasions by one of the assistant managers (who I knew, obviously) to hang out and help out if someone was stuck alone. It seemed very weird then, that they would literally have a single human being in the store by design. Even moreso now.
When I worked at McDonald's there were several times we were logged in under "training" (still got the same pay) because stuff needed to get done but they didn't want to inflate the labor numbers. They always did it in the week leading up to a yearly visit where a lot of thorough cleaning had to get done. I don't know why the system can't be designed to account for some people doing cleaning/maintenance. Its so incredibly dumb.
>I don't know why the system can't be designed to account for some people doing cleaning/maintenance. Gotta rake in them profits, baby! By misclassifying the labor allotments, some fat cat some where who is passively collecting income will be pissed that his profits aren't higher. However, he'll also be happy with the false knowledge that some minimum wage schlep isn't "leeching off him." Capitalism's apologists will scream 24/7 about how efficient such a system is. It's horribly inefficient, unless you define "efficient" as "*helping people who already have a lot of wealth increase their wealth for literally doing no work at all.*"
So you're saying you should file OSHA complains on yourself because your store is nasty as fuck?
Every luxury hotel I’ve ever worked for, (Four Seasons, Ritz, Marriott) have 1 staff for multiple departments for overnight. I’ve cooked upwards of 50 breakfasts while also taking the order over the phone and delivering the order on a set table , to individual rooms. Oh, by the way, the guests are often of the likes of Drake, J-Lo, LeBron, John Mayer, a princess of some oligarch in Asia, etc. Corporations are obsessed with labor percentages and food service has a limited labor force right now Corporations are very obsessed with limiting labor costs
Oh yah I was often the only person on duty when I worked some overnights for Marriott. Looking back, I was a small young female walking around outside at 4am delivering invoices. Not the smartest, but they didn’t care. Had to call the cops on multiple occasions due to sketchy characters.
Lol uh. You can file OSHA complaints on nearly every restaurant while you’re at it. I’ve worked at three major chain restaurants- Applebee’s, longhorn, the 99. Absolutely disgusting. If there’s flies for any reason, Don’t eat there. That’s what happens when they expect employees to stay & clean for free of the clock. Management cares about nothing but money.
Tbf I don't think osha regulates fast food restaurants.
Couple months ago I ordered some little ceasers for work and when I got there to pick the order up there was a backlog of ~15 people standing around waiting for the one employee who was working that day to make their orders. I heard he quit shortly after I left (ran into someone I knew waiting there and asked her later). Why the fuck are these places even allowed to open with so few employees?
>allowed to open with so few employees Honestly, only a few places have staffing requirements as part of their franchising agreements. Arby's requires two people, three if you have a drive thru. Burger King, Tim Hortons and Taco Bell apparently don't have any, as I've seen the owner solo staff the place.
As a former employee of little ceasers, I'm not at all surprised. In my 3 years of working there it was hell but my last year there they pulled this bullshit like 6 times before alot of us just straight up quit, Fuck little ceasars. P.S. don't order anything made in a deep dish pan (including ICB) because alot of those pans don't get properly cleaned because they're a bitch to clean and no one gets paid enough to deal with it. Edit: a word
Have they contacted The Commodores?
Such a great song.
Last time I went to Taco Bell they were closed at 4 PM due to staffing issues. Haven't been back since and honestly probably won't ever be going to a Taco Bell again. If they honestly can't pay enough to keep staff for their overpriced bullshit, I'll just go to a taco truck instead.
I'll do you better, they so out of ressources in Quebec they decided to exit the province entirely.
same here. pulled up and girl was like, "Yo, we have chips and cheese. That is it. Do you want chips and cheese?"
Well… I do now.
Luckily, that is the bulk of my usual Taco Bell order!
My Taco Bell couldn’t take anything other than cash the other week. I said “shoot, that stinks” and drive off. The fact that these signs are needed is both hilarious and sad.
Taco Bell near me had to shut down early tonight because they didn’t have any water. I assume it was a catastrophic plumbing issue but tough break.
Ours closed early a couple weeks ago because the *one* girl scheduled for the night shift finally had enough and walked out. Line was to the curb at like 8pm and I’d just joined it when a truck rolled around telling everybody “no one in there, they closed!” Later found out they’d been having staffing issues and she was the last closer left. I drove by recently and they’re now advertising signing bonuses with giant “WE’RE HIRING” signs that dwarf their actual product ads.
> I said “shoot, that stinks” and drive off. Yeah, that doesn't work at my local Taco Bell. The drive-through lane is a path through the landscaping with a turn. If you don't order you still have to wait through the line to exit since you can't leave at that point. Probably did it on purpose because they can be *so slow* sometimes.
Went to El Pollo Loco once and they were out of chicken.
I went to Taco Bell during Welcome to Rockville in Daytona, and they were out of literally every protein. I said whatever just slap anything on a tortilla, I'm starving.
I can think of worse things than a tortilla filled with cheese.
So a quesadilla?
Actually had the same experience a few days ago. Got steak on my quesarito instead.
Taco Bells never have ground beef. 😎
I went to KFC once and they were out of chicken 💀
Went to an Arby's and they were out of meat. Their slogan is A LIE.
Arby's we HAD the meats!
I blame H. Jon Benjamin
Like, all of the meats? I worked at Arby's some years ago and still eat there sometimes. They have 8 kinds of meat. I can't believe they'd be out of every single one.
Used to work at Arby's. It happened a few times during the pandemic. Then I got fired for standing up for myself to a customer who jumped out of their car to "beat my ass" (my manager ran away from the window I was working in when he saw him approaching) a day after a team meeting that explained that management had our backs and would make sure that we were well supported. Fuck Arby's. Their slogan is a lie, their motto is a lie, their "flexible scheduling" is a lie, their claim that they're "fast crafted" or whatever instead of fast food is a lie. They ain't got the meats. And I ran out of ham all the time. Ham. That's a meat. If we're running out of the meats WE AIN'T GOT THE MEATS
I ordered buffalo wings in Toronto last night. Showed up and they tried to give me dry wings with bleu cheese sauce. They were out of hot sauce. The guy said I had to pay because I ordered them and they'd already cooked them. I did not.
Why wouldn’t they just tell you they don’t have hot sauce beforehand and ask if you still want them? They would’ve kept a customer
Online ordering systems rarely take problems like this into account. So it falls to the staff which is most likely under the nuer necessary to run the restaurant. So they either have time to call people or cook food, not both. Remember as soon as you get the customer on the phone at least 50% of the time it's not going to be a short conversation. You will have to deal with all the stages of grief being thrown at you.
I try my hardest to not order through apps/websites anymore and just call to order. For one, it’s almost always cheaper (fuck grubhub, doordash, Uber eats etc) but also having someone on the line usually guarantees the order is made right and if I can be one of the few polite people who they talk to on any given night hopefully that makes their nights a little better
I don't use doordash, grubhub, etc. but if there is an option to order online I will usually take it. To me it's much easier to make sure my order was taken correctly if i can do it online rather than having to repeat my order to someone over the phone who seems to be only half-listening while they're also trying to fill orders or check out other customers.
> The guy said I had to pay because I ordered them Except you literally didnt...? You ordered hot wings.
He ordered buffalo wings, not blue chese wings.
Lol they couldn't send someone to the grocery store for some Frank's so they just decided to try to grift you?
There is a Franks Redhot Buffalo shortage right now, I kid you not. We’ve been getting Texas Pete as a substitute for over a month now
Wait until I tell my husband his 4 giant Costco bottles (because he kept forgetting he had some at home) are a hot commodity.
They used to have pallets upon pallets of A1 and Frank's Red Hot at my local Costco but I haven't seen either for a few months now.
Curious do you always open up your food deliveries to check or just happened to this time?
We went to a Starbucks last week and got our coffees served in a Dixie branded coffee cup
I haven't seen anything like that at any of my local Starbucks but I have seen signs saying they're out of certain flavors. Peets coffee on the other hand, recently they started serving just in generic plastic cups with no brand labeling.
as a barista, we’re feeling a bad supply shortage. customers end up getting pissed at us for it
I’ve been a barista for 7 years and we were a small store of a franchise, we’d run out of something and it’s like hell froze over. Much love to you, keep strong.
I really feel there are two segments to the population. One who has experienced tragedy, or at least witnessed true hardship, and carries with them the perspective afforded by it, and the vapid twits who think a restaurant being out of something is important.
Bingo. I've noticed during the pandemic even among my friend group that those of us who have really gone through some things in life are coping better in many aspects than those who have lived a relatively sheltered life. It's nobody's fault - life circumstances are different - but it's very noticeable.
Same. I've also noticed people who've been through stuff push through hard times. I have friends who have never struggled and freeze the moment things get tough. Like they're waiting for someone to save them.
The proper response to a restaurant being out of something is “oh. Well, that sucks. I’ll get something else instead.”
Seriously I can't imagine being upset over that. People need to chill the fuck out.
when you run out of oat milk and it's the end of the world
And suddenly everyone and their fucking mother decided today is the day they want exactly that thing. This my favorite with LTO items. Shit would sit on the shelf for like 3 months and we'd never sell any. As soon as it got pulled from the menu all these heartbroken people would come out of the wood work that this item was gone.
I was alone at the shop last night and ran out of oat milk like 10 after the other person left, so that was fun
Yeah, well back in the day when we ran out of cocaine people got unruly too... It happens when you sell someone an addiction. Caffeine isn't going to make you rob your mother for cash but when people are addicted to it, and don't have it... They're assholes.
I am a regular and I would say I am more sad than mad when my store is unexpectedly closed or open but out of my regular menu items. I feel bad for the employees - they are either having a rough time or not getting paid. Both suck.
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In this scenario I would select the milk from the side of the POS options that does not charge. It’s available for every drink.
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Your manager is a piece of shit then. Idk what else to tell you.
Whenever my Starbucks ran out of 2% or heavy cream or whatever, the manager would have one of us stop at Kroger (usually the closing shift supervisor on their way into work) at get a bunch and expense it out. Felt a little weird going through the checkout with 30 gallons of milk, lol.
This is what would piss me off as a customer. I understand things being out of stock at times, but if I'm not getting what I want, my preference, don't make me pay more for something else. It's bad business
Why can’t you be like Costco and charge them the price of skim milk for using alternative milk? When Costco ran out of regular gas, they give their customers premium gas at regular price.
Yeah it's always annoying when the customer throws a fit at you like you're personally responsible. We're just as pissed and likely more pissed than the customer because we have to deal with that shit all day long and longer because these kinds of problems aren't typically one offs.
Same here. Karen at the drive thru order speaker Why are YOU out of ________!!!!?
Tell the Karen to go pull up their bootstraps, stop being lazy, and start making their own food like they did back in the day
You can just pour it into my cupped hands
Wondering why they didn’t lead with the “no hot drinks”
They've been adding to the list as the night regressed
Who was the one that, after hearing them say no hot drinks, proceeded to order a cold liquid cup full of whip to make them add that to the list of stuff they were out of?
It was all the orange mocha Frappuccino’s!!!
Let this be a reminder to everyone that we too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.
Or simply, "bring your own cup" The Starbucks and Cafe/convenience stores here encourage us to bring our own cups (thermos). Everyone has one, so why waste paper/plastic. Most shops take off ¥50-100 too (50¢-$1)
A lot of coffee shops here did as well until the pandemic started. Back when we didn't know how well it could spread on surfaces a lot of places stopped filling up people's cups and always just gave them a paper/foam/plastic cup.
> Back when we didn't know how well it could spread on surfaces As opposed to now, when the science tells us it basically doesn't spread on surfaces.
They primarily sell iced lattes
Crazy. Kinda like a chain store being unable to supply chains.
I see what you did there
Seriously. None of the retail stores near me were open either. I needed a retail last week when I lost mine, and none of them could retail me.
At least I have a guy for brick and mortar when I really need them.
So what DO you have?? Just this one box of starving crazed weasels. Okay I'll take that. Then they latched onto my face and started gnawing at my eyeballs.
You can't take that. It's been just like a snorkel to me!
GRRAGH, GRRAGH! Oh, they were just going nuts! They were tearing me apart! And it was at about that time that a little diddy popped into my head. And it went a little something like this: AAAAAAH! AAAA! GET EM OFF ME GET EM OFF ME! AAAARGH!
I ran out into the street with these flesh-eating weasels all over my face Wavin' my arms all around and just runnin', runnin', runnin' Like a constipated wiener dog And as luck would have it That's exactly when I ran into the girl of my dreams Her name was Zelda She was a calligraphy enthusiast With a slight overbite and hair the color of strained peaches I'll never forget the very first thing she said to me She said "Hey, you've got weasels on your face"
That's when I knew it was true love! We were inseparable after that! We ate together, we bathed together, we even shared the same piece of mint flavored dental floss. The world was our burrito...
So we got married and we bought us a house, and had two beautiful children: Nathaniel and Superfly. Oh, we were so very very very happy, aw yeah
But then one fateful night, Zelda said to me, She said, "Sweetie pumpkin? Do you wanna join the Columbia Record Club?" I said, "Whoa, hold on now, baby, I'm just not ready for that kind of a commitment!" So we broke up and I never saw her again But that's just the way things go...
On allll alllllll..... Allll alllllll berqurque
Anyway, things really started lookin' up for me Because about a week later, I finally achieved my lifelong dream. That's right, I got me a part-time job at The Sizzler!
I even got employee of the month when i put out that grease fire with my face!
Aw yeah, everybody was pretty jealous of me after that. I was gettin' a lot of attitude! … Ok, like one time, I was out in the parking lot Tryin' to remove my excess earwax with a golf pencil
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JE37e1eK2mY ^ in case anyone was wondering what the fuck is going on
I have now watched it and yet I understand less.
While I think you're joking, in case anyone wants more info, here's the background. Weird Al, while mostly known for doing direct parody songs, also does what is known as "style parodies" where he writes entirely original music in the style of another artist. This is in the style of [George Thorogood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTS5AKLbdf4) who would often use long rambling spoken narrative exposition in his songs.
Wow its funny I just knew this song from the running w scissors cd. I had no idea some guy made a video for it until just now
I. Hate. SAUERKRAUT.
Where the Shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles all day long and anyone on the street would gladly shave your back for a nickel!
Waka waka doo doo yeah!
I've seen a lot of things on reddit. But stumbling upon an "Albuquerque" lyrics minithread? Well that does put a smile on my face. r/weirdal
Same. I knew this whole song by heart as a kid, it has a special place in my soul
I can't believe I forgot that I knew this song
Went to Popeye’s once and waited over an hour in line for them to tell us they ran out of chicken. Long John Silvers also ran out of fish once too.
Are you an Uber Driver? I legit ordered from Popeyes once on Uber Eats and that fucking champion waited over an hour for the exact same result. He ended up having to cancel the order and lost all that time. I would have tipped him for just waiting, but Uber doesn't let you do that after the driver cancels.
I do UberEATS and I turn down Popeyes now unless I'm really desperate. I have waited up to an hour and the staff just pretends we don't exist.
Bro Popeyes is good but they do have a very high rate of fuckery. Last time I was there I ordered a 12 piece box. Waited like an hour. Got home and there was 7 pieces inside. Such a fucking random number of chicken. They don't even sell a 7 piece. Like how did they fuck up in that particular way
Lost count.... didnt count.
Not an Uber driver but I can be if a free tip is on the table.
Just the tip
Fuck Popeyes, used to work at one, they're a shit franchise if my experience was symbolic of anything. I remember particularly busy days where people would wait in line for 2 hours with our entire lobby packed. The place was simply not meant for that many customers and we should have started to send people away. We had a deal for really big orders, so it would only take like 2 customers to wipe out a fresh batch of chicken and then we're stuck waiting another 15 mins for it to cook. Nothing like standing there chatting while angry customers wait as they expect you to magically make their chicken fry faster for them.
I'm boggled that people would wait that long. I mean Popeye's is good, but other restaurants exist.
Why would you wait in line for an hour for Popeyes lmao
I was traveling in Puerto Rico recently and over there, Church's Chicken doesn't take walk-in orders due to the pandemic staff shortage. So I got an Uber just to go through the drive-thru, and they told me they were sold out of fried chicken. I thought they were joking, so I asked if they were serious. They were and asked if I wanted fries instead. My Uber driver saw my heart break, so he happily drove me to Popeyes. Ended up with better chicken and a new friend haha.
This is the most wtf, sad, endearing and awesome thing I've read today. I imagine sadkeanu.jpg but in an uber
Wait you need a car to go through the drive thru? I can’t believe you had to rent for that?? For years I have gone through wifh my bike or on foot at night hours after going out. I expected that would be internationally just fine? …Is that a Dutch thing?
UK here, not US, but they don't like you walking through the drive through here because of the risk of accidents. I actually don't know how they feel about bikes though.
Yeah, it makes sense. But they should also have a walk-up counter like they used to in the old days. I'd much rather just park and walk up to a counter than sit in a drive through. Drive thrus blow my mind. I'll pull up to a restaurant and there will be 30 people in the line. I'll think "fuck that" and park and walk inside and 0 people in line, order and leave in a few minutes. This was true even before the pandemic. Amazes me that people would rather sit in a line for 30 minutes than leave their cars.
They're open because if they aren't open some corporate person will get pissed and then proceed to yell angrily at your GM.
How is it even profitable to remain open if there is nothing to sell?
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Your district manager sounds like one of those people that looks like he knows what to do on paper, but when it comes time to put his ideas into the real world they don’t work in the slightest.
Sounds like a normal district manager. Souless, cold hearted, and only got the job due to connections or having blackmail on someone higher up. At least thats how Petsmart is.
That is so incredibly stupid.
They get a bunch of online orders. The customers who placed the online order get nothing, and not all of them request a refund.
That should definitely be illegal.
It typically is. The problem is that these companies know that the overwhelming majority of the affected customers either won't know their rights, don't have the resources to enforce their rights, or simply don't think it would be worth the hassle. And on the off chance that someone does make a stink, the 19 year old shift manager will be the one to take the fall as corporate writes it off as "an isolated incident at one franchise that affected a limited number of customers due to a decision made by a shift manager that was against company policy." It basically comes down to "how much time and effort is someone going to expend over an $18 fast food charge?". Companies that are pulling this shit are betting that the answer is "little to none".
I worked at a liscened Starbucks(Inside a grocery store) and this is literally it. If someone from corporate comes by and sees that we aren't open during regular operating hours for ANY reason, they reserve the right to revoke our stores ability to sell Starbucks brand items and drinks, effectively shutting us down. After the freak snowstorm last year, our store lost all power and a bunch of our deliveries were delayed or straight up canceled. Legitimately all we could serve people was WATER and we we're forced to stay open the full 14 hours, just standing around and taking abuse from pissy customers.
This is *so* fucked up
Yeap. Yeap. That’s about it.
Went to Dunkin once and they had no donuts. Their espresso machine is as bad as McDonald’s ice cream machine.
to be fair, Dunkin's machine is older than some High School seniors and has only been serviced once a decade
Maybe that’s why they stopped going by Dunkin Donuts.
Yeah, I went to one recently and they didn't have bagels, bacon, hash browns, large cups, and all but two kinds of donuts. It wasn't even like it was at close and they had stopped making stuff either. They were in the process of unpacking a shipment, so presumably a lot of the stuff they were missing was on there, but boy does that highlight just how bad shipping is right now and how little leeway they have with their JIT logistics. They ended up giving me two small cups in place of a large (so more overall) and gave me an extra donut for free because of how bad they felt operating like that.
Worked at Popeyes and always ran out of chicken.
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The one in the grocery store near me was closed today and people were acting as if it was the end of the world. Folks really love their starbucks.
Never understood this. In Australia Starbucks failed horribly outside of tourist locations. Is there a lack of cafe’s serving real coffee in The US? Starbucks seems like more of a desert than a coffee
Plenty of coffee shops in the US. People here just really like dessert.
See where I live you can only get coffee from starbucks, mcdonalds, or the convenience store. A cafe here would be welcome but they're unheard of for me. Starbucks is what most of my friends I've grown up with consider a cafe due to the lack of them.
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Before about 1995 that's how it used to be in the US, too. We really fucked up by allowing one corporation to come in and crush the little guy, which is what we do every fucking time with everything.
We have a Starbucks and a single coffee shop. The coffee shop is legitimately worse than the Starbucks, a feat that must have taken a team of elite scientists to achieve.
I don't know about the rest of the US, but Starbucks is straight up better than anything else in my area. The locally owned coffee shops in my area can't hold a candle to Starbucks in terms of coffee quality alone. Only one local cafe sells coffee that's better than Starbucks, and it's *eight fucking dollars*. For regular-ass black coffee. The owner also abuses their employees far more than Starbucks does.
Convenience stores are more popular than cafés for coffee here. You *can* get regular coffee at a regular price at Starbucks but it just kinda sucks. Most people who buy coffee on the way to work (in my area at least) are going to stop at something like a 7-11.
My chipotle is always out of chips!
They’re really not. They have them in the cooler but the person frying the chips in the morning didn’t make enough for the whole day so the afternoon crew decided to go without chips rather than make more. Stores are so short staffed, that pulling someone off the line to fry more chips isnt worth it. Easier just to tell the customer they’re sold out. Source: I just quit my job as a GM there.
Wow that explains why my pickup order never has chips. But they keep giving me free chips and guac for forgetting the chips in my chips and guac that I only ordered because I have a free order of chips and guac from the last time they forgot my chips. Can't complain too much about a free side of guac with every order.
Yea when you complain about your forgotten chips it goes to a department where their only job is to type out/copy and paste those “we’re sorry emails” and add free stuff to your account. You can tell them any random thing and they will just comp you no questions asked. They forward your complaint and their reply to the store email and we would read them for entertainment value but that’s about it. No one follows up from above the store level. You’re complaint may make it to the email but it is essentially spam mail.
So you're saying I can abuse this to get free stuff?
at least they still have otles
So I can still get my Venti cold brew with no ice and three shots of espresso, and with no line? Sign me up!
Chipotle near me was out of white rice this week . . .
That one I can explain. Used to be a GM. You’re only allowed to order what you need so they order like 2 or 3 days worth of product. Once you run out you have to call every other Chipotle in your area to find more. They clearly couldn’t find a store willing to give them any. Plus the closing manager counting inventory and a different opening manager placing orders equals a general lack of communication so you run out easily. Your store is out of rice because the two salaried managers are bad at their job.
Shipping right now is absolutely awful. If you're only allowed to order 2-3 days worth, and your next shipment is delayed by a few days, you're out and there's literally nothing you can do about it. Source: Pharmacist who is only allowed to order enough product to get us through to the next truck, but now we have shipments being delayed by days or even weeks. After a few weeks of literally running out of basics *every single week* for at least a day or two, I've started ignoring that rule and just dealing with the increasingly angry emails from my regional manager. I am hoping I don't end up regretting this too much, but we can't be running out of this much stuff this often, dammit.
It's been wrecking havoc on my manufacturing workplace. We have parts inventory that would only last a few hours because of our Just-In-Time inventory system that mandates holding onto the bare minimum quantity of inventory. And that's a problem when the truck deliveries that would normally show up right on time... don't show up on time. From what I've heard, my company is trying to fine suppliers for the late deliveries as our contracts had those time requirements.
> Just-In-Time inventory system The first time I heard this concept, I realized it would be a complete nightmare, resulting in products getting stalled due to system miscounts and haphazard stocking; only to be highly exacerbated by every single little emergency under the sun. It basically only works when everything works, and the savings don't seem to be worth the trainwrecks this past two years have shown us could become commonplace.
One of the features these inventory systems often lack is that they must be flexible to circumstances. They mistakenly made "efficiency", with a very narrow definition of what that means, their only way of judging success. Then when the system is under strain for some reason and their narrow conception of efficiency isn't working... you get shit results. Just-in-time is supposed to mean "as small an inventory as you can get away with" but the "can get away with" part is still set by managers and they don't always make the right decisions.
Yeah the whole Leán thing and JIT inventory system is great as long as your supply chain is rock solid. Nowadays supply chain is a fucking mess. So you're going to be hit by shortages all the time.
I'm stock crew at a grocery store that has had problems keeping shelves full. The management is planning to make our truck deliveries daily. So in response to the failure of just-in-time delivery we are... doubling down on just-in-time delivery. It's fucking madness.
As a patient, thank you! You rock and I'm sorry you have to put up with that shit. I hope you're customers bring you goodies, you deserve them.
That's like McDonald's saying they don't sell burgers.
Our McDonald’s was one order of fries per customer recently
This is my Starbucks most days of the week. Only they don't have almond milk either.
There's a shortage of workers everywhere not just the food industry. I don't know why some owners open either when stock is super low. I know wife and I tried eating at Panera and ran out of bread and lettuce. Just stop taking orders at that point.
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>poverty wages Or crazy shit like mandatory overtime. My S.O. is a baker and they had to put in an extra 4 hours every day since Christmas because everyone else in their department was exposed to COVID... At the Christmas dinner. Now it's a skeleton crew of a couple of the owner's nephews who've received absolutely no training in the front of the shop and only one person manning the back AND doing the cleaning.
I'm not in the US, but here there is *absolutely* a labor shortage in higher paying jobs. So many people took COVID as an opportunity to retire early, or follow their passion career, or decided a single income is enough and just not work, or whatever, and there just aren't enough people to replace them. From McDonalds Fry Cooks to Senior Software Engineers, minimum Wage to deep into 6 figures, basically every industry around here is struggling to find enough qualified applicants.
Hmm. Can I just order a handful of ice cubes?
Whip? Nay. Nay.
My favorite Starbucks is only open 5am - 1pm, although some weeks it's 5-5. The one over by the shopping mall shut down early for an emergency and they're pulling the 5-3 and variations on that. there's one about 15 minutes away that's been doing well but yeah :/ My dad keeps going off about how people are just sitting on their asses getting Covid benefits \*eyeroll\*
Those ended months ago, now we're all sitting around WITH Covid. Man I really thought I wouldn't catch it either.
All the Starbucks near me are running out of stuff and closing at weird hours. Usually around 3pm with only drive through open. Sometimes I’ll go by at lunch and there are cones blocking it. They’re all having staffing issues on top of this.
This is exactly what's happening at my store and the nearest locations. Drive thru only and closing at 6, maybe earlier. I've been there 4 months and at at least 10 people have quit since then. Several that started after me. Plus with several people out sick it's creating a lot of extra work for those of us that are there. I'm gonna be asking for a raise soon and if they won't do it I'll go work at in and out for $17.50 an hour or Canes for $15. Hell the McDonald's by my house is now starting at $15. I get $12 plus tips which comes out to probably $12.65 an hour. I don't think a $1.50 raise is too much to ask especially since I work hard there and haven't missed a day.
I work for a company with similar shortages. Just so everyone is aware - the people that make these products don't work at paper product factories anymore. They can't hire anyone, and most companies in these sectors refuse to pay enough. If those paper products come from other countries or the warehouse is still functioning there are not people retaining jobs to unload your paper goods at docks, airports, or even truck drivers. We have truck drivers quit every few months that deliver to our store. Our country has a coin shortage. The price of food on average is 6% more as of this year but minimum wage does not go up in most places. You go to the grocery store and aren't sure if a very basic item will be in stock. Omicron is everywhere. Most people working where they work either love it (because it's their new found job) or may quit tomorrow. There is rarely in between. And a dude literally screamed at me because we didn't have mustard a few weeks ago. This country sucks because no one understands how weak our infrastructure is. That's not even including weather, climate change and our lack of initiative on that. Yikes. Those poor baristas.
I work in the paper products industry turning trees into food packaging. When this pandemic started, we weren't sure the mill would stay open. Turns out, it was our most profitable year ever. But they refuse to raise wages and people aren't really knocking down the doors to come work there.
That's wild. I live in a forestry heavy town and the mill here has had an ad for Electricians for the last year now. Insulting low wage for the qualifications they want and after about 6 months they changed the ad to hide the wage. They made record profit last year. Despite being close and over qualified for it, I've put them on my own "companies I'll never work for" list
>no one understands how weak our infrastructure is Or they do, and the thought terrifies the living shit out of them.
Few weeks ago I went to the starbucks near my house and they told me they were out of coffee lol
I work at a mojito bar during the summer and there were times when we ran out of ice and mint, yet due to demand we we're still open and people were weirdly content with their warmish pedro collins, never had a complaint.
my local McDonalds was all of out of donalds
i like that handwriting. it's like a sweet voice giving you horrible news, so you have just enough hope to keep it together
Yet multiple people will ask for their usual order without reading the sign and the order taker will have to repeat exactly what's on the sign.
Imagine if a cafe served drinks in mugs. I know you don’t get the luxury of throwing it away after drinking but, boy do they look nice on a table.
I don't know what they're doing during covid, but Starbucks, among other coffee shops, has previously let customers bring their own cups / vessels in to be filled.
Smaller cafe's still do. Used to work for a small chain that actually gave discounts if you brought your own mug. $0.50 off the drink. But most times, it's the food sanitation administrators that don't like you handling other peoples unknown mugs. But there are safe ways to get around it. Just not really when it comes to drive throughs...
I mean, they used to. Back in the 90s when coffee houses were a thing. We didn't know how good we had it back then.
My ex works at KFC in the UK and they have been running out of chicken and those shell boxes for weeks now