I work at insert chain coffee shop and recently out district manager has said that as a store we must now keep the temperature at 80 degrees minimum. For awhile this was alright as I work the night shift and had access to the thermostat and could put the temperature down a few degrees at night (I only work nights) when no one was looking. Recently, the managers office where the thermostat is located has been locked due to incidents at other stores and I can no longer access the thermostat and am now dying in a 80+ degree (plus oven heat and whatever heat idle coffee gives off). This has been causing the night crew to become exhausted and practically unable to function, especially as holiday season rolls around and more people are wanting coffee and attending the store in general. Is there anything I can do? I can't keep a door or window open and I've already takes to my supervisors and they won't/can't do anything about it.

No time to proof read typing this at work yolo

Okay so I used to work for a pretty prestigious college and I worked in the kitchen, well one day I got a bunch of glass shard in my finger from a broken screen protector on my phone and bacteria from I’m assuming the raw chicken got into my fingernail bed (paronychia). I had just started this job recently and I was told to smash out hamburgers, somehow while I was doing this. The infection in my fingernail busted open. My theory is that the glass in my hand was also being pushed out bc the pus would seep through the glove. I was new and afraid to tell anyone because the pus which was (white and kinda bloody like the fat from the meat) and smelled really bad like raw meat as well. I changed my gloves super frequently as it was building up in the glove as well so I knew it was pus not fat from the meat. I also kept washing my hands and would push blood and pus out my hand down the sink. I tried my best to keep it out the burgers but I know it was mixing. This is the darkest secret I’ve ever kept and have told no one. But I couldn’t eat a burger their for like three weeks.

Yes, you heard the title right. It’s true. Every time I hear someone say they went to the McDonald’s near my college, I always hear “the manager doesn’t care” and “the girl is drunk at the window”… and it’s entirely true. The manager literally doesn’t care about who they hire. Heck, they even hired—and I’m not even kidding you—drunk-ahh people.

When my best friend drove up to the speaker at this specific McDonald’s, the girl speaking was slurring her words horribly and you could clearly tell. (My friend was with some other friends of hers at the time, btw.)

Once my friend got to the second window, the girl opened it very awkwardly. She told me that the girl was VISIBLY drunk, no joke. She said that she could SMELL the blatant alcohol on the girl, who was swaying back-and-forth. Two other workers in there didn’t give two chicken nuggets about it at all… and neither did the manager. (At this point in my friend’s story, I assumed the manager was on something.)

Once my friend got her food after literally waiting forever there, she went through only to find that they messed her order up ENTIRELY. After that horrifying experience, my friend and her friends just said “screw it” and left, feeling creeped out and grabbing food at a different place instead.

Is your horror story worse than mine? Let’s hear it!

I went to Taco Bell with my dad one day in 2013. He asked if I wanted to go when we went to Taco Bell. I don’t remember what I got, but I think it was a double crunch wrap and the Doritos Locos tacos with a burrito and whatever that Mountain Dew drink was. When I ate the tacos the experience was amazing the taste of the burger meat and the sauce dripping down my chin it was so good . when we got out and left and went in the car we drove away. I noticed halfway home my stomach made this big noise. I don’t know what it was. I thought it was something outside at the moment. I laid out the biggest fart possible. I accidentally shit my pants when we got in the driveway. I ran up the steps and went into the house and sat on the toilet. I took my shirt off and my pants because the sweat was so unbearable. as soon as I hit the toilet, it all came out out of my ass. The stench of the diarrhea was unbearable. After I wipe myself, my finger went through the toilet paper, but thank God I had an extra roll after the situation. I realize I’m never going to eat Taco Bell again.

I went to Canes and got something to eat. Came home, ate the food and I use one of my straws. The other I didn't need. while I was putting my food up..I noticed on the straw that I didn't use had something on it. I thought it might be ketchup up but it wasn't. It looked like blood dried up blood..

So I checked online to see how you can test for blood and I found out you can put peroxide on it so I took the straw put it in the sink and I dropped peroxide and it bubbled up which confirmed to me that it is blood.

I checked all of my containers my wrappers my bags and I didn't notice anything with blood on it. the straw that I use has a paper covering and looks like it had one tiny very small drop up on it.which did not look like it went through the paper wrapper.

I guess whoever handled my straws and maybe my drinks, hand was bleeding. there's no blood on the containers or my food or my drinks. It just the straw wrappings.

I called up canes and they told me they did have an incident where somebody cut their finger but he's in the kitchen and did not interact with the front and they took care of his problem immediately. They also knew the type of drink I had which is high-c and they said that actually stains and dries a reddish color and states they have reassure customers that it's just juice.

what I saw isn't Hi-C it's too dark for that. looks like it might be blood.plus I don't think would hi c would bubble when touched by peroxide. So I'm going on the side of caution..

To be honest I'm a little freaked out I mean I don't have any cuts and I'm about 99% sure I didn't ingest blood. But it's just the thought of having someone blood near my food!

Does this look like blood? Or dried soda or juice?

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If you’ve worked in a fastfood restaurant or as a costumer.. we all have a story don’t we? Share it with us please!

Just found out that White Castle and Taco Bell are using ai to take orders in the drive thrus. Not only do they suck at taking orders but this feels like the beginning of the end. Anyone else annoyed/concerned about this?

I work at a Burger King. For the most part, we have good days. Sometimes we can be slower, and honestly that can depend on who you have in the kitchen. Granted, we are also significantly short-staffed, so much that we usually have one person working on each board and making food for every order coming in. But other than that, orders aren’t wrong or anything. And then there are some rare days that feel more chaotic. 5-10 minute wait times for front counter and drive thru orders. I had this one lady tell me if I knew we were short staffed, we should have closed the dining room, because we caused an “inconvenience” because of how slow/chaotic we were. But there are a lot of things customers don’t understand is out of employees’ control, and these customers take it out on us. And it really sucks. I definitely do not have the jurisdiction to decide to close dining room, anyone should know higher up management would NEVER allow that. And as far as our speediness goes, we are truly trying our best but you cannot expect one person to make every single order so quickly, then still take it out on us. Do people like this just already come in with a negative attitude towards fast food workers in general? I wish the view on fast food would change. You cannot expect top quality food but also expect fast times. You cannot expect me to fix something way beyond my control or power.