There is a scrub bar on bottom of TikTok’s. At least in the app there is.
I love sonic. Mostly because of half priced drinks with the app (also during happy hour). But I love the foot long chili cheese coney.
There is a guy whose whole tiktok is recapping other people’s TikTok’s in a sentence and telling you how much time he saved you. People do love to hear themselves talk.
I remember when tiktok first came out and 1 minute was the max.
My 15-year-old son got a summer job at Jersey Mike’s. They won’t let him slice meats, but they had him working the grill to make cheese steaks on his first day. Said his first one was crap, but the rest were good. He love’s Jersey Mike’s (and it’s around the corner from our house, so he can walk), so getting that employee discount is a dream come true.
He brought home a bag of over-baked bread the other day.
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I would bet money (I would not bet money) that he will not eat it anymore after about 6 months. And it may take him decades to recover to where he’ll be able to eat it again. Cursed by working at favorite pizza place in high school.
Amateur tip: Always try to order pizzas right at opening. Do not order between 6-8pm in most places. It’s more hit and miss from 2-4 and late, but you’ll have the biggest problems ordering from 6-8 with mistakes if that bothers you. If you order right at opening you will almost always get the best pizza with no mistakes a place has to offer. That favorite pizza place is again a favorite pizza place by sticking to those rules since 2013. Worked at the pizza place (it’s a small chain) in 1989.
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I worked KFC as a teen, I still enjoy their food.
Omg thanks for reminding me. This morning I was making a left hand turn at intersection and there was a full bucket of kfc chicken in the road.
Had fun trying to figure out how it got there.
It will be interesting to see what happens. In the end, they are just sandwiches, so maybe he’ll get sick of sandwiches?
He worked at McDonald’s last year and he’s not sick of it. It’s also the WOAT McDonald’s in the area. Not even the worst example: I was going to my kid’s school for a freshman meeting thing and it was during my son’s lunch period, so I brought him McD’s. I went in to the restaurant instead of the drive-thru to stretch my legs. There was one car in the drive-thru and I was one of two or three in the restaurant. Took 12 minutes from the time I got my receipt from the kiosk to when I was handed my food. The employee even acknowledged me and confirmed what my order was a minute after I got my receipt.
My kid is 16 and having the toughest time finding a job. Hes put in over 50 applications at this point.
It’s also probably a lot better than when I worked in that industry because there weren’t grades or food preparedness standards like today. Every fast food restaurant was very inconsistent and he wouldn’t still like McDonald’s if he worked in that era. Now with the grades and standards it’s a lot more tolerable and consistent but it wasn’t then and I still don’t trust pizza places.
Here was the experience that did it for me at the pizza place. I generally worked during the rushes and my job was rolling out the dough and pre-saucing of the crust as fast as I could. When you see an air bubble in your pizza it means the person did a crap job rolling the dough. I worked too slowly to get it right and was eventually fired because of it. I got free pizzas and never took one after a while. On a particularly busy Saturday night, I noticed whoever prepared the dough on one or more of the small size platters had made a serious mistake and didn’t say anything because we wouldn’t have enough dough (bad I know). I tried to avoid the dough as long as I could and don’t think I used it but it loomed over me throughout that shift. What was the mistake? Someone had put mushrooms in several pieces of dough. From that point on, it was all I could think about and I found it revolting that someone might have gotten that. Now, I always thoroughly check pizza because almost every time there’s a mistake it’s that a mushroom got on the pizza because of someone moving too fast through toppings and getting it into the cup. That just completely ruins a pizza for me when it happens. But it never ever happens at open.
I worked for a while for a pizza chain prepping ingredients overnight at one of their stores. We would grind up a hundred pounds or so of mozzarella and cheddar for the toppings, nothing gives you Popeye forearms like cutting 15 pound bricks of mozz in half using a two handled knife and then sinking your hands in a little garbage can to shake up the mixture coming out of the grinder. I think I still have a scar from trying to save one of the pizza skins I was par-baking from falling out of the oven. Worst high ever is getting a lungful of gas when punching down and turning 40 pounds of dough…
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Maybe it’s just our area. My son and his friend were out one day recently and decided to just walk around to fast food joints and grocery stores to see if they had any job openings. The manager at Jersey Mike’s was there and interviewed him on the spot.
I have a feeling they are understaffed there. A couple months ago, my wife, son, and I were out and ordered subs from the app on our way home. Place closes at 9, we were there maybe 8:15. The door was locked. My wife saw a couple employees inside, but they shooed her away.
I called the next day to request a refund and the person I spoke with apologized and said those two people just up and quit and decided not to finish their shifts. My son has only worked a few days and he’s part time (probably age, plus he has other summer commitments), but he’s enjoyed it so far. Said everyone has been nice to him.
My daughter (17) told me she might try to get a job, too. Her 16-year-old friend got a couple offers and is working at Mellow Mushroom (pizza, for those who don’t have one in their area).
Yeah, I think being where we are, a lot of families moved in around 15-20 years ago, so the teen job market is pretty saturated. Even with an ever growing population, the bump to $20/hr has made the market for FF jobs much more competitive. I am encouraging him to apply at more retail focused and less food focused places.
Mellow mushroom is awesome btw. Maybe the only thing I actually miss from the Nashville area.
I’m really hoping to cast him in my show in a major part, but he needs to lose a lot of weight now to do it. I hope he can. I think he would be perfect for it but that’s still probably years away.
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Im pretty sure its because he was bulking for The Iron Claw, but yeah maybe that too
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He seems to have a pretty small frame. I could picture him losing the weight without much trouble
Can he explain the gap in employment?
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That might be it. Places don’t pay nearly that much to kids here. My son made $10/hr at McD’s last summer and he’s making $11.50 plus tips (pooled and split based on percentage of time worked that day) at New Jersey Michael’s.