Great to hear!
Awesome!
That is a fantastic update, and frankly, exactly what I expected.
You’ll keep learning, and keep doing better.
It’s only assholes who are all, “Oh, how hard can it be?” Dude, there’s a LOT to learn! It ain’t easy. But you’re trying to do your best, O.P. and that is really the most important thing.
Cooking in a 7-Eleven?
Did you think the hot dogs and pizzas cook themselves?
Pizzas I’ll give you, I guess, but I wouldn’t call putting hot dogs on a roller grill cooking.
What would you call it?
There’s also keeping the coffee machines running and, in our gas station, making popcorn. The roller-grill stuff needs to be monitored (I’ll eat our hot dogs because I know the people running the place actually keep up with proper timing/replacement of the sausages). It’s not high-end cuisine but proper food handling is an aspect of such convenience stores.
And chicken.
Monday is 3/$3.49 on any pizza or grill item at our 7-Eleven, and we were cooking them like crazy, and I was pushing them like crazy. I want my manager to know I’m serious about making our sales goals.
It sounds like you’re kicking some ass. Are you ready to be a manager soon?
Oh, lord, no. I took the job because I want to make extra money on top of my disability check; if I make more than (something like) $1600 a month at a job, I’ll lose my disability, and all the cash and medical benefits that come with it.
That’s great to hear. First day is hard, but you’ve got this.
It’s because this is simply a case of applying heat to an edible object to make it safer to eat and/or more appetizing.
…Wait, that’s the definition of cooking.
Monsieur Escoffier would beg to differ.
So, it’s not like Monsieur Escoffier invented cooking. He just copped an attitude because he was good at it. We all start out with the small stuff, and that includes tending the food service at 7/11. I say good for @ekedolphin.
Looking forward to hearing how day 3 went…
If the OP has a less than stellar day, all he needs to do is remember that at least he’s not at Dollar General.
Absolutely. I had a friend who worked there for two whole years because there wasn’t anything else available in her small town. She was fired for being sick “to much”. Her health improved once she was gone.
True enough and I’ve eaten my share of taquitos off of the roller grill (the sausages look suspect to me) but the food at 7-Eleven had a lot done to it before the staff there was “applying heat to an edible object to make it safer to eat and/or more appetizing.” I would say it was those doing the prep before the goods arrived at the store who were the cooks. Otherwise, putting a packaged sandwich into a refrigerator case makes you a “sandwich artisan.”
Now I agree that if you are just filling the cold case with pre-made sarnies you aren’t cooking. But if you are heating and tracking the timing of the food under the heat, you are cooking. And if you are assembling sarnies, you are doing food prep, which at home, might be called cooking but commercially called food-prep.