7 Things Anyone Who Has Worked Food Service Will Understand
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7 Things Anyone Who Has Worked Food Service Will Understand

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7 Things Anyone Who Has Worked Food Service Will Understand
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Many people have had their first experience in the working world be in food service, heck many people make a living working food service. With this magical world of grease and misery comes many new experiences, most of which are not pleasant ones.

1. Closing

Trying to close? There will always be those people who come in ten minutes before closing time and stay until half an hour after. Every. Single. Time.


2. Customers

The customer is always right, except when they are horrifyingly wrong. It's pretty common to be blamed by a customer for things that you aren't even responsible for.


3. Filling In

It seems every time you finally have a day off, you get asked to come in from your boss. Conveniently, you always seem to be sick on those days, darn!


4. Taking Trash

Being asked to take out the trash is like a second break. You'll probably make multiple trips to the dumpster as you walk as slow as possible, only to hide for a bit on your phone.


5. Dishes

At the end of the night when all of your work is done, the menace that is dirty dishes rears its ugly head. Everybody is supposed to help do them, sure, but you seem to be the only one who will.


6. Messing Up

Sometimes you may "mess up" preparing food so that it must be disposed of. Just for the record, eating it is technically disposing of it.


7. No-slip Shoes

That's a funny joke. No matter how "no-slip" your shoes are, you will slip. Bad. Like you're walking barefoot on an oil slick bad.


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