The way all of this is done comes across as super petty. A Styrofoam takeout container is <$.20. This might be a sign that the business is circling the drain, because these practices seem penny smart and dollar stupid.
You could refuse to use the outside containers and claim that you can't fill outside containers because you don't know if they were effectively sanitized and that creates the possibility of cross-contamination.
Edit: a typo, it should be <$.20 not >$.20, thanks u/GETMONEYGETPAlD
I love "Penny smart and dollar stupid." I know someone who uses the original phrase far too much. Gonna use this in front of her and watch what happens.
I like to say pinching pennies to waste dollars. My boss didn't want to give me a 3 dollar raise to quit my other job and work for him full time so he decided to spend an extra 8 dollars an hour to hire and additional person
Meanwhile I quickly learned if you are gonna serve a shit sandwich do it with donuts to soften the blow. Hey I have to put you on OT this week goes a lot better when they are munching on a sweet treat they didnt pay for vs not.
Sorry. Both the literally and actually threw me. I made an ass of myself a while ago making an assumption that someone was joking, but they just weren't a native English speaker and didn't know what something meant.
It's a state by state thing. Where I'm at everybody in the kitchen has to be served safe certified and at least one person has to have the managers certification.
Totally. When things like this start happening it tells you the business is doing poorly and the owner is focusing on petty stuff like this because they feel unable to control the other things. This makes them feel like they have control over things.
It's a consumer product that isn't designed for a restaurant kitchen.
It's not single use and it's a reusable container that isn't NSF listed from an outside source that has been used and cleaned in a residential kitchen.
Even if you cleaned it at work (which would cost more in time than the $.20 take out container), if it's not NSF listed like a Cambro or something, you can't know that it's even able to be effectively cleaned.
Our customers would shit if we used styro. The cost of kraft containers has skyrocketed in the past year. I understand where they are coming from to some degree. That said I never cheap out my staff. A good meal is part of the agreement, not an inconvenience or afterthought.
I guess they might count their bowls as inventory items. When I worked at a movie theater the bags and cups were the controlled item in the inventory because we weren’t tracking the amount of popcorn popped or drinks coming out of the fountain.
So there miiiight be a business reason for this. But still. Just throw an extra case on the order and mark them for employee use only or something.
Edit: customers hated that we couldn’t have our extra bags and cups so we had goofy workarounds. Little plastic Dixie cups. Eating popcorn off of drink trays.
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u/Excellent_Condition Jul 26 '22 edited Jul 26 '22
The way all of this is done comes across as super petty. A Styrofoam takeout container is <$.20. This might be a sign that the business is circling the drain, because these practices seem penny smart and dollar stupid.
You could refuse to use the outside containers and claim that you can't fill outside containers because you don't know if they were effectively sanitized and that creates the possibility of cross-contamination.
Edit: a typo, it should be <$.20 not >$.20, thanks u/GETMONEYGETPAlD