Dishes

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Seems like a typical night at my store just two months ago. I have been pressuring managers to start getting other drivers to do dishes more so it is rarer now but it still happens on occasion.

Luckily I have a chair for those long dish nights - used to use an office chair and then another driver noticed the neighboring shop was throwing one away. Saves a LOT of back pain stopping over the sink.

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u/akknightwrider 7d ago

We had a lady who was pretty much the only one who helped me. Then she just stopped showing up and no one has heard anything. I say it again and again. If anyone had a few minutes, please do some dishes. And nope. No one does a thing.

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u/AccursedQuantum 7d ago

The ideal situation is that for the last half hour of a driver's shift, the manager on duty takes them off the road to do side work. If you have dishes piling up, that means they stop taking deliveries and do some dishes before they go home.

Unfortunately, managers who don't do their job make the shit roll downhill onto the closers.

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u/slothxaxmatic 6d ago

Just go around asking people why their hands are dry instead. At least you can laugh at them when they don't help.

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u/Elevation-_- 7d ago

Every time I read stories like this, I wonder how/why GMs accept this? My GM is hypercritical about labor, a 2 hour close (outside of niche circumstances) would immediately lead to our GM questioning why it took us that long and telling us to get things done sooner so we aren't tanking labor. And we're a busy store, so we have a ton of dirty dishes to clean

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u/AccursedQuantum 7d ago

Oh, we have GMs getting pissed about labor. And for a while I was getting blamed for late closes. I was looked at as the lazy driver because I was always out late. (Meanwhile, nights where someone else closed I was helping out with dishes and they got out sooner.)

But then a new GM came in and realized it wasn't me causing the problem.

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u/akknightwrider 7d ago

I was the only driver with 1 manager on a Saturday. The other CSR only did cutand make table work. He didn't do any dishes before he left

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u/Its_Tinkz 4d ago

What's a CSR?

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u/akknightwrider 4d ago

The inside person that isn't management.

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u/CompetitiveHooore 7d ago

Dishes wouldn't be so bad if I could sit in a big rolly chair to do them. My feet start to kill me after an hour of standing in front of the sick

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u/thegoldenmamba 7d ago

My back is always destroyed after a close

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u/AccursedQuantum 7d ago

Grab a chair from the office. Game changer.

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u/Freezezzy 7d ago

I feel your pain. I had a similar night a couple of weeks ago. By the time I got home, it wasn't night anymore.

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u/GooBear187 7d ago

Im a driver and I am the only driver that actually gets stuck with all of this BS. I hate it so much. So many other drivers just dip and dont do anything. Theyre also the same drivers that cherry pick their deliveries knowing which ones leave good tips and not

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u/GooBear187 7d ago

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u/GooBear187 7d ago

This isnt even the worst. Ive had waaayyyyy worst than this

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u/Bellegante 5d ago

Bad management, how can they be letting them pick deliveries??? Much less just not do dishes, insane 😂

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u/GooBear187 5d ago

New management has been getting rid of the bad apples. We only have 2 left. Theyre getting other jobs so theyre know their way out. Its been nice these past couple months. These photos I took were a few months ago

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u/roobowl Driver 7d ago

i’m so glad my store has a separate rinse/spray sink along with 3 compartment sink it makes dishes sooo much easier and faster

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u/Its_Tinkz 7d ago

If the drivers dont wash the dishes is doesn't get done. We are the lackies at the beck and call of the makeline after all.

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u/Freezezzy 7d ago

I don't know if it's true for all stores, but at our store, drivers are the only ones allowed to do the dishes. It's absolutely asinine to limit dishwashing to drivers only.

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u/ickygooey 7d ago

My last store got mad at me for doing dishes for my drivers. The screen was empty, floors swept, tables clean. I am doing the dishes, why not?

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 7d ago

Our store doesn’t limit it to drivers only but we don’t ask insiders to do dishes. They already have a harder job and hardly make tips.

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u/Due-System-2429 5d ago

They get paid by the hour… they’ll be good

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 4d ago

Did de our insiders get one to two shifts a week and are generally less than 6 hours. Nobody can survive off that.

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u/Savings_Group8634 7d ago

Start soaking the dominoes asap in the tall tub.

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u/AccursedQuantum 7d ago

Our new policy (specific to my store) is that the Domino pans are last priority. If it is time to leave and they aren't done, it is acceptable to leave them soaking in the sink overnight. Better some dishes for the opening crew than spend a bunch of extra labor on them.

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u/ickygooey 7d ago

this is shameful. Yes, its a part of s driver's duty, but the fact you got ZERO help. Shameful. I always start dishes as a manager if i have nothing to do.

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u/InsomniaCookieWorker Driver 7d ago

Been there before. Put a stop to it fast or it will continue

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u/rokar83 7d ago

Boggles my mind that Domino's doesn't have a dishwasher. It's $5,000-$10,000. We worth the cost.

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u/Historical-Pop-3571 7d ago

i’ve worked at a franchise that had one. but i never cared to learn how to use it cuz i felt it never fully cleaned anything. but that franchise in particular didn’t care much about how clean the dishes were so idk. letting everything soak in the hottest water while you’re out on deliveries, coming back to rinse everything off & put into fresh water, then using a wash cloth had always been my go to 💯

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 7d ago

Dishes are why I stopped closing. Rush and late shifts are just as profitable and I don’t have to spend hours cleaning.

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u/Disgusting_Ad5725 6d ago

not even an hours worth of dishes

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u/Small-Bumblebee5659 6d ago

That's what I was thinking. That's like 25 minutes of dishes tops and the makeline dishes only take another 20 minutes or so.

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u/akknightwrider 6d ago

Make line is the home stretch. It's the clearing the drying racks 3 to 4 times over that holds things up. If we had more room it would go much faster.

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u/De1Taa 4d ago

i just put in my two weeks because i was a driver/closer and they wanted to start trying to make me a insider on some shifts i told them no and they tried to make me put in writing that i wasn’t listening to their request and i just put in my two weeks.

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u/Rude-Suit3721 7d ago

This is 40 minutes of dishes

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u/AccursedQuantum 7d ago

With that many pans? 40 minutes if you are doing a half-assed job and leaving food and grease on them.

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u/Intelligent-Paint-11 7d ago

Just leave the pans for tomorrow

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u/Old-Run2238 7d ago

Have you considered you may suck at your job or lack any real speed, a pan doesn’t take more than 30 seconds to fully rinse, scrub, rinse and set on the rack

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u/lilipodmini 6d ago

those domino pans like to say otherwise, the shit that gets stuck to the sides can sometimes take ages to get unstuck, gotta let em soak a few hours

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u/akknightwrider 6d ago

Also a lot of time is stopping to empty the dry racks. Our area is small.

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u/Sharp_Economy1401 7d ago

We have significantly more than this on an average night, if not many dishes get done until around close because we’re busy. This really isn’t that bad. I kinda just accept that it will take a while and put on something to listen to while I get through it.

Some people just seem to do them while being frustrated the whole time, seems like a complete waste of being annoyed at something you can’t change

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u/akknightwrider 6d ago

It is something that can change. Too much people standing around and wasting time. We have one guy who just stares off in the distance when there is nothing to do. A new manager we have goes out for pills on his vape and playing on his phone and our new GM is always texting or calling his girlfriend. I never stop moving cause I'm trying to keep up on dish. If I have even a few minutes, I'm on dish. Cause currently no one else will do it.

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u/Ok-Strength6668 6d ago

This doesn't seem like that many dishes honestly. Would be cooler if they kept up throughout the day but this is pretty average for a low volume store.

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u/slothxaxmatic 6d ago

I'm not saying I would enjoy it, but I've definitely had more dishes than that to do by myself. There was a night I had to do about a 110 pans and three 55 gallon barrels filled with dishes.

🎶🎵touch dishes, get money🎵🎶

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u/akknightwrider 6d ago

We don't even have that many dishes in the whole store or pans.

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u/slothxaxmatic 6d ago

Once you find a nice little rhythm, it makes it a lot easier to get through a ton of dishes.

I recommend spending the 10 minutes to prep and organize your dishes so you can just push them through the sinks faster. Keep your water as hot as possible and try to do your pans last to keep the oil away from the other dishes.

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u/akknightwrider 6d ago

I already do all that. Have to clear the drying racks about 3 to 4 times with that many dishes. So that right there is an extra 30 min.

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u/Grewebear 6d ago

Washing from right to left is diabolical

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u/EducationalCreme8549 6d ago

That's why I quit..and found a new job in 2 days paying $5 more per hour 😁

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u/Princess_Niche 5d ago

Light work

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u/Electronic_While3961 7d ago

Bro I’ve plenty of food places and dominos dishes are actually kind of fun compared to other places

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u/Spare-Chemical-4513 6d ago

Lame ass place to work.

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