Hello there!Im in college and work at a restaurant. Its like a mix between fast food and sit-down.
Well anyway, i thought i would Just document some of the stupidity and humorous remarks that i hear daily from my coworkers.
Here we go!!! These are serious questions lol
" Do we sell Raw potatoes?"
" Do you want some fries with those fries"
" Do our milkshakes have milk?"
"What kind of milkshakes do we have?" ( they are right in front of the machine)
"What time is it?" (standing by a clock) /facepalmallday
This is just a small list. Thought y'all might get a kick out of it.
This just goes to show what the world has come too....
It sounds to me more like something a customer would ask, and an employee wouldn't have an answer for readily available. Most restaurants of the type OP works at receive their stuff premade in large minimalistically labeled containers, and won't legitimately verify their ingredients even if they did have a listing readily available. Instead asking another employee / chef. Could be because of time / energy constraints, or because they don't fully understand the implication for the customer of having the wrong information.
Well, I've never actually had a milkshake... guess I learned something today. I figured it might be one of those things that has a misleading name, or tends to use replacement ingredients for what it was originally named for.
It sounds to me more like something a customer would ask, and an employee wouldn't have an answer for readily available. Most restaurants of the type OP works at receive their stuff premade in large minimalistically labeled containers, and won't legitimately verify their ingredients even if they did have a listing readily available. Instead asking another employee / chef. Could be because of time / energy constraints, or because they don't fully understand the implication for the customer of having the wrong information.
Our milkshakes are home made and all employees are trained to make them.
Based on your history I can see it's hard for you to keep things simple but just try.
There are no cottages in cottage cheese. (Bad example, but it was the only one i could think of :P)
It was reasonable of him to not make assumptions about the beverage actually containing what the name implies.
There are plenty of foods/drinks that have names that imply they have something in them, while they really don't.
I guess another example would be candies with Lemon and Strawberry flavors not containing any lemon or strawberry. Only artificial flavoring.
I worked over a year in retail at a gas station, the amount of stupid questions that pop up on a daily basis there had me and my co-workers cracking up.
"I have a big tank, do you have enough gas?"(I swear, he had some lil hatchback Honda)
"How much will gas be on (some future date), I get paid then!"(I'm a fortune teller also! Its on my badge.)
"Can you just, change the price for me and help me out here?"(Yep, I set prices for items and gas also.)
"I can get gas now and drive back from home to pay you, right?"(more than once-btw its pre-paid only)
"Do you have left hand gas pumps?"(wot)
And when I worked in a grocery store bakery, we sold "Buttercream frosting," which contained no butter. It's not unusual for artificial ingredients to replace what was once natural, especially in a setting that sells cheap food. Milk could easily be replaced with soy.
There are no cottages in cottage cheese. (Bad example, but it was the only one i could think of )
It was reasonable of him to not make assumptions about the beverage actually containing what the name implies.
There are plenty of foods/drinks that have names that imply they have something in them, while they really don't.
I guess another example would be candies with Lemon and Strawberry flavors not containing any lemon or strawberry. Only artificial flavoring.
Dr. Pepper does not have pepper.
Who would have known?
And when I worked in a grocery store bakery, we sold "Buttercream frosting," which contained no butter. It's not unusual for artificial ingredients to replace what was once natural, especially in a setting that sells cheap food. Milk could easily be replaced with soy.
+1
Be informed about what's in your food.
For the record, Dairy Queen's ice cream does not contain cream.
I.. I still don't.
We had never been taught. It's all digital nowadays.
Allow me to teach you, then. The number that the short hand points toward is the hour. You determine the minute with the long hand, but since the numbers are based on the hour, you have to do a little math. 3=15, 6=30, 9=45, etc. If there is also a second hand, it should be pretty easy to distinguish, as it would be the only one that is moving every second. Sometimes it's thinner than the minute hand, and sometimes it's red, but not always.
Now here's where it gets somewhat difficult for most people- because everything is moving with gears, the short hand is not going to be pointing directly at any number for most of the hour, so many people will misread it and think it is either an hour later or earlier than it really is. You just need to take your time and look carefully.
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Oh, and for the record, not EVERYTHING is digital nowadays. There are still plenty of applications in which a digital gauge is either impractical or impossible. Knowing how to read a clock gives you the foundation to be able to figure out how to read an analog gauge.
I worked on the F22 (the most advanced fighter jet in the world), and we used analog gauges for tons of stuff. For example, there is a mini jet engine inside that aircraft that is used to start the main engines. That small engine is started with air pressure, which is stored in a tank. Normally it is replenished automatically by the jet running, but we still had to check it, to make sure it was within the required pressure range.
For the gauge to have been digital, it would have needed a source of electricity to run it. This would have meant one of two things. Either they would have made it so that you would have had to start up the jet just to read it, which would have been a huge waste of fuel, and time since you would then have to service it (or waste even more fuel waiting for it to build back up pressure by itself) or they would have made it so that it took batteries, which would have added to the list of things that could go wrong and needed to be serviced.
Dont know where this thread went. Milk is in milkshake, there is no cream in ice cream because it's frozen milk (basically).
I can't name any stupid questions because I forget them because their idiotic. I've asked stupid questions to other people so think twice act once.
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Allow me to teach you, then. The number that the short hand points toward is the hour. You determine the minute with the long hand, but since the numbers are based on the hour, you have to do a little math. 3=15, 6=30, 9=45, etc. If there is also a second hand, it should be pretty easy to distinguish, as it would be the only one that is moving every second. Sometimes it's thinner than the minute hand, and sometimes it's red, but not always.
Now here's where it gets somewhat difficult for most people- because everything is moving with gears, the short hand is not going to be pointing directly at any number for most of the hour, so many people will misread it and think it is either an hour later or earlier than it really is. You just need to take your time and look carefully.
Oh wow, thanks!
With this comment and Khan Academy hopefully I'll learn soon enough. It's pretty confusing for me.
Dont know where this thread went. Milk is in milkshake, there is no cream in ice cream because it's frozen milk (basically).
I can't name any stupid questions because I forget them because their idiotic. I've asked stupid questions to other people so think twice act once.
I was thinking the same thing. This thread took an interesting turn!
Well anyway, i thought i would Just document some of the stupidity and humorous remarks that i hear daily from my coworkers.
Here we go!!! These are serious questions lol
" Do we sell Raw potatoes?"
" Do you want some fries with those fries"
" Do our milkshakes have milk?"
"What kind of milkshakes do we have?" ( they are right in front of the machine)
"What time is it?" (standing by a clock) /facepalmallday
This is just a small list. Thought y'all might get a kick out of it.
This just goes to show what the world has come too....
Stay Genuine. Stay Fearless.
How is this stupid?
Not sure I follow...
It sounds to me more like something a customer would ask, and an employee wouldn't have an answer for readily available. Most restaurants of the type OP works at receive their stuff premade in large minimalistically labeled containers, and won't legitimately verify their ingredients even if they did have a listing readily available. Instead asking another employee / chef. Could be because of time / energy constraints, or because they don't fully understand the implication for the customer of having the wrong information.
Well, I've never actually had a milkshake... guess I learned something today. I figured it might be one of those things that has a misleading name, or tends to use replacement ingredients for what it was originally named for.
Our milkshakes are home made and all employees are trained to make them.
Stay Genuine. Stay Fearless.
Someone in my German class doesn't know how to read a clock. I'm like did you pass 1st grade?
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There are no cottages in cottage cheese. (Bad example, but it was the only one i could think of :P)
It was reasonable of him to not make assumptions about the beverage actually containing what the name implies.
There are plenty of foods/drinks that have names that imply they have something in them, while they really don't.
I guess another example would be candies with Lemon and Strawberry flavors not containing any lemon or strawberry. Only artificial flavoring.
I.. I still don't.
We had never been taught. It's all digital nowadays.
"I have a big tank, do you have enough gas?"(I swear, he had some lil hatchback Honda)
"How much will gas be on (some future date), I get paid then!"(I'm a fortune teller also! Its on my badge.)
"Can you just, change the price for me and help me out here?"(Yep, I set prices for items and gas also.)
"I can get gas now and drive back from home to pay you, right?"(more than once-btw its pre-paid only)
"Do you have left hand gas pumps?"(wot)
And when I worked in a grocery store bakery, we sold "Buttercream frosting," which contained no butter. It's not unusual for artificial ingredients to replace what was once natural, especially in a setting that sells cheap food. Milk could easily be replaced with soy.
Who would have known?
+1
Be informed about what's in your food.
For the record, Dairy Queen's ice cream does not contain cream.
Allow me to teach you, then. The number that the short hand points toward is the hour. You determine the minute with the long hand, but since the numbers are based on the hour, you have to do a little math. 3=15, 6=30, 9=45, etc. If there is also a second hand, it should be pretty easy to distinguish, as it would be the only one that is moving every second. Sometimes it's thinner than the minute hand, and sometimes it's red, but not always.
Now here's where it gets somewhat difficult for most people- because everything is moving with gears, the short hand is not going to be pointing directly at any number for most of the hour, so many people will misread it and think it is either an hour later or earlier than it really is. You just need to take your time and look carefully.
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I worked on the F22 (the most advanced fighter jet in the world), and we used analog gauges for tons of stuff. For example, there is a mini jet engine inside that aircraft that is used to start the main engines. That small engine is started with air pressure, which is stored in a tank. Normally it is replenished automatically by the jet running, but we still had to check it, to make sure it was within the required pressure range.
For the gauge to have been digital, it would have needed a source of electricity to run it. This would have meant one of two things. Either they would have made it so that you would have had to start up the jet just to read it, which would have been a huge waste of fuel, and time since you would then have to service it (or waste even more fuel waiting for it to build back up pressure by itself) or they would have made it so that it took batteries, which would have added to the list of things that could go wrong and needed to be serviced.
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I can't name any stupid questions because I forget them because their idiotic. I've asked stupid questions to other people so think twice act once.
This killed me. My sides are somewhere in orbit around Mars right now.
Oh wow, thanks!
With this comment and Khan Academy hopefully I'll learn soon enough. It's pretty confusing for me.
Can some people seriously not read clocks or are people pulling legs?
I was thinking the same thing. This thread took an interesting turn!
Stay Genuine. Stay Fearless.