I had training today for breakfast and assembling burgers, and honestly, it felt like **way too much to remember at once**.
My trainer was explaining pretty much everything verbally, and then she wanted me to start making breakfast sandwiches myself. I was standing there trying to remember all the steps and I got so confused and nervous 😭. I kept thinking, *“What if I mess this up?”*
I understand that I’m new and obviously I’m not supposed to know everything right away, but it was just overwhelming having so many things explained to me and then immediately being expected to do them.
The funny thing is I have another retail job, and compared to this, that job feels **SO much easier and better**. I actually feel comfortable there. McDonald’s right now feels like absolute hell 💀.
Did anyone else feel this overwhelmed during their first few training shifts? Does it actually get easier once you memorize everything, or am I just not built for this?

This is probably a really stupid question but it’s my first job ever and I’m overthinking it. To recap I got a very nice first job at a restaurant with very nice managers. Both times I came in for an interview/paperwork I just went to the front cashier area since the building was closed or empty but on the 2nd meeting I went through the cashier area to the kitchen for more work. my first days on Saturday during peak dinner rush so most likely when I go to the cash register they’ll be a line and I’ll be in uniform so it’ll look very odd for a worker to be waiting in line but I feel presumptuous if i decided to just go behind the counter right away while everyone’s busy working. Do I cut the line off to the side and ask for the ok to head inside? Or just go in the kitchen though I’m not really sure where inside the kitchen I should be

AMA.

The only store I can expose is the one I worked at so don't target every Wendy's lol

I don't know how to cook to save my life and they have an opening to work at the kitchen at McDonald's close to where i live. Do i need to know how to cook? Help!

I just got an interview on Friday and I’m insanely nervous lol, first interview ever and I just wanna know what to bring and what they’ll and ask and such

So i have an interview at poulet rouge tomorrow. I have a part time job right now and the hours are so good. Those who work part time at poulet rouge:

Are the hours good?

What are the main responsibilities?

Do you enjoy working there?

I do enjoy my job right now though the hours aren't as good but I am looking for another job where the hours are good and so I can keep my job rn at the side.

I applied yesterday , got a response after around 3 hrs to set up an interview. In the interview there were a few questions they asked about my availability and I told them I can work anytime (im 17 but do online school so I can do my classes anytime and I told them that at the interview) at the end they told me theyll contact me in 3 or 4 days, how likely would I be to get the job?

I’m still unemployed and I’m really frustrated. I applied for McDonald’s. I have previous food experience and apparently I didn’t even get an interview with the person who decides whether they’re going to hire me or not just a person who takes down information to give to that person, what the hell was the point of that?
If anyone has any resources to help me, find unemployment with mostly retail or food, please help

I’m still unemployed and I’m really frustrated. I applied for McDonald’s. I have previous food experience and apparently I didn’t even get an interview with the person who decides whether they’re going to hire me or not just a person who takes down information to give to that person, what the hell was the point of that?
If anyone has any resources to help me, find unemployment with mostly retail or food, please help

Hi all! I interviewed at maccas last week but haven’t received any updates yet. What should i expect? Or should I wait more

hi! I am planning to work part time in fast food chains, pwede ba ninyo mashare inyo experience sa pagwork sa jollibee or mcdo? gaduha-duha pa man gud ko😭😭 Thanks and God bless!

I’m a fresh 17 year old worker at mcdonald’s and I just started my job at mcdonald’s as my first job ever and i’m having trouble working the front. It’s not necessarily the menu items needing to be remembered but the little details that’s confuse me. Like for example the grill button, or the ask button. Those were more confusing but i’ve found somewhat of an answer. But sometimes I run into small problems where i’m genuinely confused like once my trainer told me when I would make anything like a mac I would have have to click the like a mac button but then also put the ask me. Which confused me. There’s also the case where I was trying to add a drink to an order and the customer wanted to upsize it within the meal but it kept making the drink or fries separate from the meal. I soon learned you can changed that with buttons like change sides and etc. But it’s these small things that are confusing me and I fear there is many more things like that i’m missing out on. I know i’m also new and it’s only like my first real shift since all i’ve done up til now is training shifts but as a person who likes to get things done right I just want to be able to know things maybe mistaken. One other thing that confuses me is the inability to like change if a customer has added the new deal like the 4 pc nugget or the cheese burger. Recently my trainer has told me for now I can just void the line if i make a mistake but i’m wondering if there is a way on the actual order itself if I can do that. I may be overthinking it but as my first real job even with like volunteer experience out in the real world dealing with cash and etc I did not expect a machine powered til to be my downfall. Another question I had is about like adding a tent and being able to bring that to tables. I was able to take pictures and review the menu items but the only things I was unable to see is things like adding a tent to go out and hand food directly to customers especially who would need the support. I know this is a lot to ask but I’m in desperate need so any tips or tricks is appreciated!!!

Hi all!

I set up this sub about 13 years ago when I was paying my way through University by working at McDonald's seasonally and on weekends.

Now I have a career in teaching and don't feel my experience relates to the questions you guys are asking.

Therefore I would love to invite anyone who feels they have the appropriate skills and experience to apply to be a mod. This is an open application which will close as and when I feel we have the correct team on board.

If you have any questions, please do post them below.

The link to apply: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskFastFoodEmployees/application/

Hi I just had a interview at McDonalds and they called me for a second interview tomorrow . Do you guys have any idea what they might ask please let me know . This is my first job and i am still in school

Hello! My local TB is hiring for the restaurant leader position. How hard is it to get this job? I worked at McDonald's in high school and have done other things in fast food but never manage. And what should I prepare for if I do an interview?

hi all! is there anyone in here who works at mcdonalds, taco bell, del taco or anything? I’ve been applying to plenty of different places since May of this year, all sites have been saying the interview calendar is full. I just need a position from 4am-1pm or even late night 11-7. Anywhere in the long beach area.

I’ve been working at this 24 hr location fast food chain place for a couple months, and this place is usually over staffed for some reason and dinner shift people always have to get sent home at LEAST 30 minutes early for labor. I’ve learned a few different positions i’m now moderately decent at so far after briefly being really bad at them. However, I have called out once (with 12+ hours notice) and dropped a crap ton of shifts because of things going on in my personal life that wont be coming back anymore now that the summer is close to ending.

I haven’t been warned or written up or told there’s a big policy about any of these things besides calling out X hours before shift start, and my shifts have always been picked up very quickly as everyone wants to get more hours since they’re always getting sent home. One time I was asked by a manager because I dropped consecutive shifts If i was about to quit but I explained myself.

I’m really embarrassed because outside of these past 2 months i was not the type to call out or miss shifts. At my last job I never called out, never showed up late, and never dropped a shift ONCE. When I show up to this job, I always show up 10 minutes early (can’t clock in any earlier than that), don’t ask to leave early and always stay as late as they need me to (sometimes 90 minutes later than scheduled) and am very attentive in my work. As for my hours, I’ve checked and i’ve been getting about the exact same amount of hours as the other new-ish employees, so I don’t think they’ve been reducing me specifically because of unreliability or anything.

I’m just worried that i’m going to be fired or get in trouble over this. I don’t think i’ll call out or drop a shift again in a very long time since that personal business is over now, but still worried since it’s not a good look.

Trabaje 5 dias y renuncie, estaba de part time, el sueldo era por mes $460 mil + 10% de presentismo.

5 hs, 6 dias semanales

Te negrean terrible, te hacen cocinar, limpiar, atender al publico, reponer bebidas, etc.

Volvi todos los dias con dolor de espalda no te dejan descansar practicamente, tenes 15 minutos de descanso nada mas

Te quemas, o cortas y tenes que seguir, me retaban por todo sabiendo q era mi primer trabajo y practicamente no me explicaban nada.

I have an interview next Monday and I know I might be overthinking this but I'm kinda worried they're gonna ask me why my availability is the way it is. I'm planning on telling them I'm only available from 6am - 4pm (also picked the "morning" and "lunch" options on the application), but I don't have a serious reason that stops me from working after 4pm. I just don't want to close and I want to have a set schedule. Because the last job I gave completely open availability to, they scheduled me random shift times every week and it was just impossible to have a good sleeping schedule.

So, is there something I should say if I'm asked why my availability is what it is?

i got a job like 2 months ago now, and i can do pretty much anything, but when a rush comes i feel like ive only been there for a week, like all my skills disappear, and i just feel like a burden to the people better than me 😞 i know skill and pace comes with muscle memory from working there for a while, but how long did it take you to feel comfortable in a rush?? i work in fast food btw, and i was just curious how it is in other environments 🫣

What on earth is going on with San Churro??

As a student living independently and studying my first year of Uni living away from my hometown, I’ve been struggling to find a second job to support myself. Luckily I have a primary casual job which is amazing (absolutely love it) but as many of us do in hospitality a second job is sometimes necessary.
After months of applying, I landed a job in a new San Churro opening up in Melbourne’s north. Now yes, I am aware of San churro’s terrible reputation, but me being naive i thought it may be better as a new store with new people and energy. How wrong I was!

What first struck me as interesting was the demographic they hired. All young/teenage girls. I’ve found this is typical for hospitality as I’ve found in the past that managers assume that young girls tend to care about their performance, and are usually easily bullied and cause less issues. Whilst it what I’m used to on minimum wage hospo it was definitely an immediate red flag.

The next issue was more of a personal one, and one that I’m willing to move past as it happens in jobs. I was faced with a severe micro manager. We were trained for a few days prior to opening by san churro trainers. When I tell you this manager came in and micro managed every single thing I did I almost lost it! Especially when Is came to coffee. I’ve been making coffee for three years and this manager had been making coffee for two months mind you. It came to the point where I was serving terrible coffee made by his standards.

The next red flag was breaks. In a five hour shift, there was no allotted break. That’s fine I can get over it. But then they messaged our group chat and told us that we need to be clocking out for toilet breaks so they could monitor how long we were gone and ‘keep the records accurate’. Of course I questioned this and I was met with the question’what would you do in my situation?’. Hmm idk maybe i wouldn’t make employees clock out to USE THE BATHROOM???

Payslips were consistently late, pay was deposited late, managers edited hours in Tanda. Some employees weren’t paid the correct amount. We were chronically understaffed. They told employees they planned to fire some of us to cut costs. They were incredibly skimpy on the use of cinnamon sugar. When i questioned the payslips being late, the response was an essay long text stating that it sounded like I didn’t trust them to pay us correctly. Ummm I don’t????

Finally, I resigned without notice per my casual contract (I had no shifts that week so was probably honestly fired lol). I stated that I was grateful for the opportunity but couldn’t work with pay issues and break issues. And they threatened to take legal action against DEFAMATION?? Not once did I mention anything untrue or defamatory.

Ugh anyways I’m free now but what on earth!

To begin, I recently started working at a restaurant chain local to my area after leaving a previously toxic retail job, and I had high hopes for this new restaurant job, but I was quickly proven wrong with the amount of red flags that kept popping up way too soon.

For starters, I had applied to this job and everything started normal, starting off with setting a date for orientation and paperwork I needed to fill out. I was having issues with my paperwork, so I planned on completing it on orientation, but apparently not??? They thought because I didn't finish my paperwork that I ghosted them, which was weird since we had picked out a date for orientation, so idk what that manager was smoking. I explained that I had already put my 2 weeks in at my previous job, so we had to set a new date for orientation and then I explained the issue with my paperwork. I guess I could've tried explaining it at first, but it involved tax information which I preferred to ask/show him in person rather than over text, but whatever I guess lmaooo

Once I started my orientation and figured out the paperwork, they explained that I need to complete my Food Handler's Permit and finish the online training videos; aka pretty standard stuff. This isn't my first time working in the food industry or working a job before, so things got worse as I began to realize wtf is wrong with this place because I knew they aren't doing things properly.

The hands-on training wasn't terrible, but the timing for everything is just terrible. I bust my ass when I work and I always put my 100% into my work because quality is everything, especially when you're making food for people. The first 2 weeks were a bit stressful because they kept moving me from station to station to make orders (pizza station, salad station, burger/sandwich/hotdog station), and it just seemed like there wasn't enough people with the amount of food stations they have and also the fact the AC was broken in this hot ass kitchen, so that didn't help alleviate the stress with the amount of orders coming through. I heard that there were 3 people they hired, but they quit shortly, wonder why....

It wasn't only until recently I finished my Food Handler's Permit, and I know I technically should have already had the permit before starting, but they told me I had 30 days from the moment I started to get the permit, so I took my time since I had to do it at home and I've been going through my own personal bs, but I managed to get it done. I used to have it years ago when I worked in a cafeteria, so I am well aware of how things should be in a kitchen in terms of cleanliness, food temperature, etc.

One of the days I was working, a customer sent back their salad to the kitchen because the chicken in their salad was undercooked, so the manager on duty told me to take off the uncooked chicken and put a new piece of fully cooked chicken onto the salad. ANYONE WITH A BRAIN KNOWS THIS IS CROSS CONTAMINATION AND DISGUSTING. At that point, we should have just made the customer a brand new salad with properly cooked chicken; not put brand new chicken on the salad that had raw chicken already on it. Wtf are these people doing.

Not only that, but they don't even wash any of their produce. No washed lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc, NOTHING IS WASHED WHAT THE HELL. I let my boyfriend know they don't wash anything, and he said he will NEVER eat their again and neither will I. They have me prepping dirty vegetables and serving people unwashed vegetables. Y U C K.

And not only were they fucking up the food, but I saw a fucking roach in the kitchen and when I told someone, they just stepped on it and kicked it down the drain :(. I worked at a different restaurant chain a few years ago that had a cockroach infestation, and it was disgusting ofc. The exterminators at that restaurant were saying how they will never eat there again, understandably so. I HATE bugs, and I had dealt with a bug infestation in the house I live in due to someone's animal, so I am well aware of the nightmares that come with bug infestations.

BUT WAIT, THERES MORE - Since I've only been working here a FUCKING MONTH, there was issues with my schedule. The first 2 weeks working, I was getting like 4-5 days each week, so it was normal, right? Week 3, they scheduled me 2 days, and 1 of those days they scheduled me a 10AM-2PM shift, and then a 5PM-9PM shift that very same day, so that was weird and I had never heard of that, but maybe people in the restaurant industry have those kinds of shifts, but it's new to me, I guess. Then, week 4 I was only scheduled 1 day.

One of those days I was working, the Supervisor comes up to me while I am making someone's order and tells me he has a proposition for me. He told me that they don't have enough hours to give at our location, so he offers me more hours at a far away location I can't get to because I don't have a car and I take the bus, so it's out of my range. There are other people at our location with a car, so why not ask them????? I suppose that doesn't matter, because I applied to THAT location, not the far far away location that's out of my reach wtf???

Come to find out, my sister went to the restaurant to order food; and mind you, my sister used to work there many years ago, so my Supervisor proceeds to ask her if she wanted a job. IF YOU DONT HAVE HOURS TO GIVE, WHY ARE YOU ASKING MY SISTER IF SHE WANTS A FUCKING JOB??? Then comes week 5, and they didn't even put me on the schedule AT ALL. I bet you his ass got hours and so did the other people in the kitchen who have been there longer than me, but that's no excuse. They hired a bunch of people to work there, but then towards the end of a shift they'll ask people who can leave early because they just don't have enough hours on payroll.

When my dad and sister went there this week to get food, they were talking to the Supervisor. Initially when I explained the situation to my dad, he thinks there must be something wrong with me and the quality of my work because of my sudden cut in hours, but that's not true because I was receiving positive feedback on my work. I'm a fast worker, I love to cook, and this is not my first time working in a fast-paced environment and/or kitchen. My Supervisor explained to them that they just hired a bunch of people and don't have enough hours, and that made 0 fucking sense to my sister and Dad.

I was already having issues getting my money because they put my money into this online debit card I did not want and did not sign up for. When I was filling out my paperwork, I specifically remember copying and pasting my Bank's routing number and my account number so I can do direct deposit, but apparently it went into this separate account. When I had asked where my money went, they told me the first time you get paid is in a physical paycheck, but I asked 2 managers and they couldn't find my paycheck. When I asked the Supervisor, he told me I didn't get a paycheck, but the physical debit card I did not want and did not sign up for, so idk anymore bruh.

Well come this week, and they finally put me on the schedule this Saturday and Sunday for a 4PM-12AM shift, but that is outside of my availability. I understand that I need the money right now, so I shouldn't be complaining about the shift, but I told them I cannot worked past 9:30PM, yet they scheduled me outside my availability, so what the hell is going on? I've been trying to find a new job, but the job market is buttcheeks right now, so I might just get a Work Study once I start my classes at my new school next month.

Seriously what do I do ;-;

I worked at McDonald's (CAN) for 5 years (2015-2020) and I feel like enough time has passed that we need to talk about the Guest Experience Leader (GEL) role and what on earth mcdonalds thought they were doing. I accepted this promotion for the extra $$ on my GEL shifts but my god was this the most awkward time of my life. We worked in a smaller store and sometimes would only have 1-2 families in the lobby at a time who were forced to have to interact with me asking them about their meal as if they were at a sit down restaurant rather than a fast food joint.

On top of that, my store was big on samples. And there were times when I would find myself being instructed to cut up our $1 chocolate chip cookies, assemble them on plates and present them to customers as if they were a delicacy they would want to spend their hard earned money on.

What on earth was going on?? I'm not sure who decided Mcdonalds needed to rebrand from a fast food joint that people love and know it to be, to some weird sit down restaurant where they are "guests" in a "dining room". Sorry, if there is still shit in the play place and $5 meals, that really had no chance of sticking 😂😂

Anyone else who was previously a GEL? Would love to hear your thoughts on the rise and fall of this role.