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Yeah the only thing I could see being a pain in the rear end would be the chicken. I dunno people modding food has to be a pain In the rear end. Like my buddy, is HC at a small Irish Pub and the owner has basically let his clientele make up there own menu.
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Feb 6, 2016 05:24
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One of the most head scratching tickets I ever had from being an expo was four kid's marinara pasta dished and a couple sides. It never fails how the low dollar items are the ones that get modding all to gently caress and back. As a server I once had five ladies split a salad. They camped my big top for three hours. Yes they were all drinking water and had binders of the types of bullshit housewives have meetings about to make them feel that their two kids and empty marriage aren't the only meaningful things in their lives.
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Feb 6, 2016 05:30
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Before I go sit down to play Destiny fuuuuuuck me the modifiers you get if your place suddenly decides to start serving breakfast with the rest of their menu. "2 Eggs - Sep. Plates - Sunny Side Up - Hard but slightly runny - Cooked in olive oil - No salt" Aaaand soup and salad with old people. I used to have some regulars that had to have their roma tomatoes cut in halves...not quarters.
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Feb 6, 2016 05:33
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I work in a hospital, making food for the patients. The most  tickets I've seen come up are bread-y things pureed. Such as french toast and pancakes at breakfast, or pasta and grilled cheeses at lunch/dinner. I get why they need them pureed and the like, but it's still a weird concept to me.Thankfully the new company in charge is *slightly* less rigid on the recipes, so I can actually make things taste good. The room service line is a 5 person group on the schedule, we're right at the top of the list. AM/1st shift cook (5:30 - 2), PM/Cook 3 (11:30 - 8), and me, Cook 2, which I typically have a 10:30-7 shift. Ideally we have a second Cook 2 that comes in the morning, usually 6-7 and out at 2:30-3:30. Unfortunately we're down a person, due to the former Cook 1 disappearing when she was needed. The Cook 2 folks do most of the more labor intensive prep, 1 and 3 do the cooking on the line itself. I make the soups, gravies, sauces, proteins (that aren't burgers or chicken), and most of the sides. It's also far, far less stressful and busy than most restaurants. At our highest, we do 500ish tickets for a 150 or so bed hospital, when we're at "Status C" or (near) full capacity. On weekends or lower bed count, it tops out at 3-400 tickets for the day. Better pay too than my last few jobs. I started out making 12.48 day one, compared to the 11.30 I was at in my retail/grocery foodservice job I've talked about, or the 12 (and very much part time) I made at this chain which is a *slightly* upscale bar food kinda place. So, there's another option for y'all trying to get out of the industry. Come join us in the medical-related world. Get good benefits, better pay (hopefully), and less stress. This is all in addition to us also having a cafe for visitors and staff. Our kitchen is pretty loving huge. The dishroom alone is at least as big as the whole of the kitchen and pit at my last job. Those big industrial dish beasts really are pretty rad. e - oh, and pureed cream of tomato soup. We use straight up Campbell's condensed soup. You can't puree that one, it's liquid tomato already. 
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Feb 6, 2016 06:13
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I do feel sorry for hospital cooks sometimes. Mom was a nurse, and stepdad was a cook in the same hospital, and he would sometimes bitch about the hoops he had to jump through. Like the obese diabetic heart failure patient, who was calorie-restricted to lose as much weight as he could before a heart transplant. Zero salt, minimal sugar, low fat, 1200 calories, and strictly restricted on liquid intake to lose water weight and give his heart and kidneys a break. He bitched and moaned to everyone and everything how hospital food was complete tasteless poo poo and those assholes in the kitchen were worthless and the nurses were so mean when the family brought him a large pizza and a cold 2L of Dr. Pepper (just for him! They brought even more for themselves) and the nurses would stop them and take it all away. Mom did admit there were days she wished she could stare him straight in the eye and tell him "Your poor life choices and lack of self-control have already killed you. Here's your loving pizza." rndmnmbr fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Feb 6, 2016 |
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Feb 6, 2016 06:28
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Bartending lunch and brunch is barely bartending. I make like 4 different cocktails and the rest is just pouring beer and wine. It's a ton of fun though and I love the atmosphere compared to my night job which is pretty stuffy. Can't wait till I have enough money saved and can move back to one job.
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Feb 6, 2016 07:10
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rndmnmbr posted:Mom did admit there were days she wished she could stare him straight in the eye and tell him "Your poor life choices and lack of self-control have already killed you. Here's your loving pizza." While this is a hilarious story, and all too true I'm sure, my poor life choices and lack of self-control have already killed me. So your mom can blow me while I eat a pizza.
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Feb 6, 2016 09:09
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A Man and his dog posted:How the gently caress you gonna mod traditional chicken and waffles. So. You abbreviate LMAO but you spell out smh?
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Feb 6, 2016 09:10
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We used to be the dessert end of a local food tour. It always came at 3 or 4, when we were switching over to dinner. Easy for the kitchen - they knew in advance what dessert they were having, how many, and it was ready to go 20 mins before they got here. But every once in a while it'd be a 10 top, and they'd all want coffee drinks. Cue 4 cappuccinos, 2 decaf latte, double espresso, macchiato, etc. for my one drip espresso machine. 15 minute ticket at least, in a vacuum. Ugh. Not to mention it was all comped anyways.
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Feb 6, 2016 09:58
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In a testament to the wide variety of people you meet in bars I'm drinking in a local casino bar because it's close to my work and on my left was a dude who ordered a shot and because they give you a free beer back he asked me what I was drinking, ordered that for the back and then just handed it too me. To my immediate right is a guy who asked for water then tried to order food and flipped the gently caress out when they told him the 24 hour menu is only available to people playing in the Casino.
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Feb 6, 2016 10:01
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Turkeybone posted:While this is a hilarious story, and all too true I'm sure, my poor life choices and lack of self-control have already killed me. So your mom can blow me while I eat a pizza. Easy now, you say that too loud and she just might come knocking at your door with a pizza in her hand.
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Feb 6, 2016 10:08
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The Maestro posted:We used to be the dessert end of a local food tour. It always came at 3 or 4, when we were switching over to dinner. Easy for the kitchen - they knew in advance what dessert they were having, how many, and it was ready to go 20 mins before they got here. But every once in a while it'd be a 10 top, and they'd all want coffee drinks. Man, having espresso machines in restaurants is loving stupid imo. It's a pain in the rear end for the service staff, the drink itself will probably be mediocre since most people working there probably aren't coffee pros and couldn't care less about it, the machine won't be used often enough to keep the temperature stable, there's probably old-rear end grounds still in the grinder from the last time some jackass ordered an espresso drink, and on and on. There's just no good reason for it. Drink the loving drip/french press/whatever the default is, people.
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Feb 7, 2016 03:28
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Yeah, I loving hate it. over the holidays we had egnog lattes which were even worse because for whatever reason it's like 3 times louder to steam eggnog than milk. One of my favorite dumb customer comments was when our machine broke someone asked for an eggnog latte and the waiter said, "I'm sorry sir, our espresso machine is broken'" and the guy replies "Oh, I'll just have a regular latte then."
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Feb 7, 2016 03:58
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rndmnmbr posted:Easy now, you say that too loud and she just might come knocking at your door with a pizza in her hand. pr0k?
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Feb 7, 2016 06:01
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Yeah I had a loving espresso machine at an Italian place I started at back in the day. It was loving horrible and slowed me down considerably. And then the person would say the Espresso was poo poo.
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Feb 7, 2016 06:06
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I've worked off and on in food for over fifteen years and I can honestly say I know gently caress all about how to make fancy coffee. I don't drink it and I think I'd get antsy if making those drinks was in my job description.
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Feb 7, 2016 06:12
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Errant Gin Monks posted:pr0k? I think my mom and pr0k's mom share notes.
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Feb 7, 2016 07:24
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A Man and his dog posted:Yeah I had a loving espresso machine at an Italian place I started at back in the day.
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Feb 7, 2016 07:53
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What shoes do you guys wear? I work in a dog grooming salon as a bather, and I'm on my feet 8 hours a day 5 days a week, gotta move from tub to table to kennels, and pick up dogs of all sizes. I used to go with new balance, but I wear 'em out in about 2 months now and I've been getting knee pain with 'em. I figure you guys would probably be able to give me some good brands to check out.
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Feb 7, 2016 07:57
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poo poo bitches, just got back from Puerto Rico with Bacardi, work two days, I've been up for 18 hours and I'm at the airport headed to Miami on the red eye en route to Guatemala with Ilegal Mezcal. Laying on the floor trying to sleep for 25 minutes and getting paid for it. Miami, I'll see you for brunch bae. E: the tourists in town for the Super Bowl are somehow even more retarded than the usual ones, I miss my boyfriend and I never stop being amused by the faces I get at security when I take off my shoes/coat and they see how tattooed I am. MAKE NO BABBYS fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Feb 7, 2016 |
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Feb 7, 2016 08:09
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I was trading stories at work about the grossest thing you had to clean and I won with an old grease trap that was swarming with maggots. drat thing was tucked away in the back of the property after a move only the slobs who moved it didn't bother cleaning it first. Luckily it was just a big metal box used to catch drippings from a portable barbecue the size of a large garden shed. All I had to do was pour a couple gallons of straight bleach into it and watch the maggots liquify, which was kinda neat. How about you guys?
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Feb 7, 2016 08:19
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HogX posted:What shoes do you guys wear? I work in a dog grooming salon as a bather, and I'm on my feet 8 hours a day 5 days a week, gotta move from tub to table to kennels, and pick up dogs of all sizes. I used to go with new balance, but I wear 'em out in about 2 months now and I've been getting knee pain with 'em. I figure you guys would probably be able to give me some good brands to check out. I use these and I love them, throw a good insole in them and they're wonderful. I usually go through a pair in 6-8 months.
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Feb 7, 2016 08:45
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Thoht posted:Man, having espresso machines in restaurants is loving stupid imo. It's a pain in the rear end for the service staff, the drink itself will probably be mediocre since most people working there probably aren't coffee pros and couldn't care less about it, the machine won't be used often enough to keep the temperature stable, there's probably old-rear end grounds still in the grinder from the last time some jackass ordered an espresso drink, and on and on. There's just no good reason for it. Drink the loving drip/french press/whatever the default is, people. Probably right. The bar manager before me hated it. I love the americanos and espressos I make for myself and they are miles ahead of the drip coffee. I also like having a steam wand (for house-spiced hot apple cider toddies, for instance - so good) and being able to pull espresso for cocktails, and my weekend barback is an ex barista who genuinely cares about the machine. We take care to use fresh grounds, to clean the portafilters before using, and to "dry" run the machine for a second so the water is clear before using. I think it's worth having just for the sheer use it gets by employees - bartenders, managers, upstairs office guys, owners. Whether that's profitable, probably not.
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Feb 7, 2016 09:39
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Captain Log posted:I've worked off and on in food for over fifteen years and I can honestly say I know gently caress all about how to make fancy coffee. I don't drink it and I think I'd get antsy if making those drinks was in my job description. Sink or swim. I look at it as something else to learn how to do, and how to do right. If you're not trying to be the best (whatever that may mean to you), what are you trying to do?
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Feb 7, 2016 09:43
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HogX posted:What shoes do you guys wear? I work in a dog grooming salon as a bather, and I'm on my feet 8 hours a day 5 days a week, gotta move from tub to table to kennels, and pick up dogs of all sizes. I used to go with new balance, but I wear 'em out in about 2 months now and I've been getting knee pain with 'em. I figure you guys would probably be able to give me some good brands to check out. I actually work at a dog place too, and I wear these guys, I'm sure there's a men's equivalent if you need. I bought these when I worked at a kitchen and they've lasted the longest of any shoe I've ever owned, 3+ years. I just keep replacing the insoles and I'm good to go.
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Feb 7, 2016 10:29
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Republicans posted:I was trading stories at work about the grossest thing you had to clean and I won with an old grease trap that was swarming with maggots. drat thing was tucked away in the back of the property after a move only the slobs who moved it didn't bother cleaning it first. Luckily it was just a big metal box used to catch drippings from a portable barbecue the size of a large garden shed. All I had to do was pour a couple gallons of straight bleach into it and watch the maggots liquify, which was kinda neat.  Not the grossest thing, but last night the cooks, in their infinite wisdom, decided to clean out the walk-ins just before the serving line was breaking down. So I'm already slammed with shotgun after shotgun of old hardboiled eggs going down the disposal (which has been backing up), and all of pots & pans smells like farts. Then the line comes down, and when the cart loaded with steam table pans comes back, some asshat has placed a stockpot of NE clam chowder teetering on the edge of the cart. My co worker bumps into it, and yeah, now we're ankle deep in creamy chowder and it smells like fish and farts and  On a regular basis, I get to clean the pulper room. For those unfamiliar, the short of our disposal system is: - plates with uneaten chow come into the dishroom - we scrape em into a trough that goes into a grinder about the size of a super capacity washing machine, and mixed into a slurry - then the stuff goes to the remote pulper room, where the garbage water is taken out and reclaimed to help run the system - the pulper room is located on the outside of the building, facing the afternoon sun, and in Virginia summer smells delightful - because it's outside-ish, you get to chase down roaches the size of German shepherds with a hose while trying not to gag over the stench I guess that brings us to the shoe question: I have a pair of $29.99 Chuck Taylor knock-offs made by Safe-t-Step that I got from Payless. They've lasted 7 months, and gently caress if I'm spending anything more than that to wade in what's essentially vomit minus the bile
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Feb 7, 2016 13:14
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The Maestro posted:Probably right. The bar manager before me hated it. I love the americanos and espressos I make for myself and they are miles ahead of the drip coffee. I also like having a steam wand (for house-spiced hot apple cider toddies, for instance - so good) and being able to pull espresso for cocktails, and my weekend barback is an ex barista who genuinely cares about the machine. We take care to use fresh grounds, to clean the portafilters before using, and to "dry" run the machine for a second so the water is clear before using. I think it's worth having just for the sheer use it gets by employees - bartenders, managers, upstairs office guys, owners. Whether that's profitable, probably not. I think about 1/100 espressos are consumed by customers at our place. If anything ever happens to that machine we'll probably have to close.
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Feb 7, 2016 13:35
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HogX posted:What shoes do you guys wear? I work in a dog grooming salon as a bather, and I'm on my feet 8 hours a day 5 days a week, gotta move from tub to table to kennels, and pick up dogs of all sizes. I used to go with new balance, but I wear 'em out in about 2 months now and I've been getting knee pain with 'em. I figure you guys would probably be able to give me some good brands to check out. Dansko 4 lyfe. The break in period sucks, but after that they're super comfy. I get at least a year out of a pair and I run around a kitchen 5 to 6 days a week for 8-14 hours a day.
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Feb 7, 2016 16:15
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Republicans posted:I was trading stories at work about the grossest thing you had to clean and I won with an old grease trap that was swarming with maggots. drat thing was tucked away in the back of the property after a move only the slobs who moved it didn't bother cleaning it first. Luckily it was just a big metal box used to catch drippings from a portable barbecue the size of a large garden shed. All I had to do was pour a couple gallons of straight bleach into it and watch the maggots liquify, which was kinda neat. The floor grease trap by the 3-part sink in the back of a place I used to work after it got backed up. I opened the panel and was immediately assailed by the most odiferous odor. The opening had tangible stench lines. I about puked. The worst part was I had to lay on the floor and stick my whole arm into the hole and bail out the water for a solid 10 minutes before I got to the junk clogging the thing. That was unequivocally the worst thing I have ever smelled. It smelled like an amalgam of vomit and death. 
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Feb 7, 2016 16:39
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HogX posted:What shoes do you guys wear? I work in a dog grooming salon as a bather, and I'm on my feet 8 hours a day 5 days a week, gotta move from tub to table to kennels, and pick up dogs of all sizes. I used to go with new balance, but I wear 'em out in about 2 months now and I've been getting knee pain with 'em. I figure you guys would probably be able to give me some good brands to check out. I have a pair of red wing oil and slip resistant shoes that have lasted three years now with cushy insoles. The only thing wearing out have been laces, and the slip resistant texture on the soles since one kitchen I worked in had a super abrasive spray-on no-slip textured concrete floor, which shredded everyone's soles. There's a bit of a break-in period, but then they're fantastic and rugged, no spills or drops on them have ever gotten through to my feet or damaged the shoes.
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Feb 7, 2016 18:32
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Until recently we didn't even have a grease trap and it just kind of...seeped. I wasn't aware of this when I first started and just thought the concrete flooring in the basement was really dark. Then the new GM took over. I still reflexively convulse walking around the basement sometimes.
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Feb 7, 2016 18:59
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HogX posted:What shoes do you guys wear? I work in a dog grooming salon as a bather, and I'm on my feet 8 hours a day 5 days a week, gotta move from tub to table to kennels, and pick up dogs of all sizes. I used to go with new balance, but I wear 'em out in about 2 months now and I've been getting knee pain with 'em. I figure you guys would probably be able to give me some good brands to check out. Hiking shoes with industrial strength insoles. I've had good luck with Merrell and Oboz but those were gifts bc I would never spend that much on shoes and I'm sure there are less expensive brands that are just as good. Lots of cooks I know swear by Crocs but I can't even.
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Feb 8, 2016 02:43
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Shoes: My wife bought me a pair of Bragard slipper style clogs and I love them. They look like samurai shoes, feel great, and somehow they are non-slips yet you can intentionally slide as if you were wearing socks on a hardwood floor. Perfect. Espresso: where I work we have the luxury of a full service cafe in the front of the restaurant with two trained baristas who can jam out on coffee drinks. Most people opt for appertifs, though. (Maybe, who knows.)
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Feb 8, 2016 06:51
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Republicans posted:I was trading stories at work about the grossest thing you had to clean and I won with an old grease trap that was swarming with maggots. drat thing was tucked away in the back of the property after a move only the slobs who moved it didn't bother cleaning it first. Luckily it was just a big metal box used to catch drippings from a portable barbecue the size of a large garden shed. All I had to do was pour a couple gallons of straight bleach into it and watch the maggots liquify, which was kinda neat. I have done that! It was really cool. It caused a big fight with my girlfriend when I got home smelling like that. I like fighting with loved ones, and earning a very small pittance of money.
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We had a full on break in our disposal line that nobody noticed. It kept pumping poo poo from the disposal sink into the wall the pipe ran in. Eventually the wall burst forth drywall and spinach sludge, but not into the dishpit, out the backside of the wall into the bakeshop.
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Feb 8, 2016 15:01
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What I'm hearing here is that restaurants should have a small, cheap sump pump on hand.
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Feb 8, 2016 19:57
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The closest I've been to a grease pit in the last few years is the trap for a smoker, which isn't nearly so bad as what you all are describing. What did suck was power spraying the racks, which required someone outside to continuously drain the runoff and take it to the dumpster. In the winter this was Not Fun, which is why I did it twice and then refused to anymore.
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Feb 8, 2016 21:08
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HogX posted:What shoes do you guys wear? I work in a dog grooming salon as a bather, and I'm on my feet 8 hours a day 5 days a week, gotta move from tub to table to kennels, and pick up dogs of all sizes. I used to go with new balance, but I wear 'em out in about 2 months now and I've been getting knee pain with 'em. I figure you guys would probably be able to give me some good brands to check out. Just some LaForst nonslips I got off amazon with Dr. Scholl's insoles.
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I splurged and bought a pair of carbon-fiber tip work boots after this idiot managed to drop an entire slicer off the counter and it missed my toe by like half an inch. We found out later before we fired him that he had been coming into work on psychedelics pretty regularly and I just don't even loving know what is wrong with people.
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