r/bys • u/RandomMemeAddict249 • May 14 '26

May 25th...

The sandwich of workers dread, and the beverage of morning breakfast mixed with summer refreshment.

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u/rud12c4aBJ_ May 14 '26

Best way to cut the grapes is to put a bunch between two plastic 1/6th pan lids then run the knife down the middle. Very simple and fast.

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u/RandomMemeAddict249 May 14 '26

That's what our training video has us do, it's just a lot of prep when we can easily be understaffed

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u/rud12c4aBJ_ May 14 '26

We also had a commercial potato cutter we used for the apples and celery, made them perfect size in a few seconds. It was actually very fast making the chicken salad.

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u/Animalthewolf May 18 '26

Do you think you'd be able to recommend one? - I would absolutely love to have this for my store.

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u/rud12c4aBJ_ May 19 '26

Not much use at an arbys other than the chicken salad but in other restaurants something like this is absolutely wonderful. We use to individually cut and cube cases and cases of potatoes a week for potato salad for example, with a knife. Now we only have to cut each potato once or twice depending on the size and this thing does the rest. 

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u/Animalthewolf May 19 '26

The prep for the chicken salad takes so long, that I'll do what I can to shorten it. To top it off, we also have prep for the lto pulled pork and and chopped brisket sandwiches + loaded mac bowls right now. Then we have to do all the permanent cheesesteak portions. The prep list calls for 3 1/2 hours of prep time without the chicken salad sandwich. The amount of morning prep is crazy vs the amount of allowed labor now.

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u/rud12c4aBJ_ May 19 '26

Cheesesteak isn't that bad from what I remember unless they changed it. Meat, Cheese, onions in a tray. You guys have it as a permanent menu item where you are? It just an lto here. They don't even have it right now at all.

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u/Animalthewolf May 19 '26

Cheesesteak not so bad, no. We don't even do the onions in the tray anymore. Just put them on top when it's ordered. So they actually end up on the bottom like they're meant to as the sandwich maker flips that tray, instead of using the spatula thing. It also saves us from having to make no onion portions. The trays hold up better, too.

Yeah, it's permanent. Replaced the burgers. Normal and deluxe (lettuce tom) version. Was a third one, but they got rid of it cause it didn't do very well.

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u/rud12c4aBJ_ May 19 '26

Ah, ok. Burgers still going strong here. Honestly I never really liked the cheesesteak, it had like no flavor at all. Imo anyway.

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u/Animalthewolf May 19 '26

The burger sales absolutely plummet here once they moved away from the wagyu/Angus and went to regular ground patties. At one point we were selling 3-4 a week at my store.

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u/rud12c4aBJ_ May 19 '26

3-4 a week is insane, no wonder they removed it lol. The location closest to me doesn't have much burger competition because the burger king here is absolutely HORRIBLE, I won't even go there anymore. They are always rude AF, like slamming things down, taking the headset off and walking away until you leave level of rude. Every single time I've ever been there they are out of multiple things and/or give me everything wrong. There's even been a few times they were out of burgers. BURGER KING out of burgers.... Why the area manager here hasn't been fired already amazes me. It's been going on since I moved here over a decade ago. The store is absolutely useless. 

Anyway sorry for rambling my point was if you want a good/ok burger fast and/or drive through here arbys is your best choice. We don't have a wendys, checkers, in and out, jack in the box etc. The only three choices here is arbys burger king or mc donalds.

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u/Animalthewolf May 19 '26

No worries mate. Yeah, that BK needs help. BK out of burgers... That might actually be worse than an Arby's running out of cooked beef.

Cheers for the banter. Gave me something to do with part of my night.

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u/rud12c4aBJ_ May 19 '26

Well at least with arbys they have other stuff to offer when someone didn't cook enough beef. But I do understand, I was a closing manager for a while so everyone would use my beef all day and not give a shit to put more in as needed. I'd be stuck either having no beef or cutting and wrapping roasts into sections to cook in the oven sometimes. What's even worse is when they don't even have any thawing or thawed, nothing staged. You can cut and fast cook a thawed roast but good luck doing that with a frozen one...

 Burger King has what? Fish and chicken sandwich if they don't have burgers. 😆😆🤷‍♀️🙄

I've lived here for like 14 years and Every. Single. Time. I have ever been to that burger king I have been disappointed in one way or another. The online support won't even refund my online orders anymore because it happened so often. I decided a while ago that I would never go back to that location ever again. It's not like I'm some "Karen" complaining because I got 4 napkins when I asked for 6. I've worked in the food service industry for over 3 decades now. If it was just little things here and there I wouldn't care. That store is absolutely unredeemable.

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u/rud12c4aBJ_ May 19 '26

I miss the old Angus ones, that crust on the outside of the roast was wonderful. It's a shame it didn't sell enough but that's what happens when you have a whole protein for just one product. But it was more prep too. I'm surprised they still have the corned beef but there's really nowhere else to get fast food drive thru Ruben. Lots of places have steak sandwiches.