Fast Food Workers: Is it true?

Question

is it true that at the end of the day when you work at a fast food restaurant you get to take home the extra food if you want since they just throw it away?

Answer 1

Any leftovers at close we get to take... Cashieres and packers get first dibs but we never have lots left (usually a couple pieces of chicken, strips, popcorn, corn and potatoes), we stay open till we can sell as much as possible.Technically its all suposed to go in the garbage but why waste? If i find a homeless person on my way home i feed them otherwise its waste

Answer 2

That all depends on the restaurant.  I worked at Burger King YEARS ago, and they just threw it all out.

Answer 3

Only if its an extra order or the manager is nice I work at buger king and I rarely get to take home free food unless I'm a manager. At KFC/Taco Bell they let you.

Answer 4

depends on the place.  I alsoworked at Burger King about 12 years ago and they threw it out after counting and inventoring it

Answer 5

You are suppose to carryover ingridents that still have time left before they expire. The closing manager counts all the product and then so does the opening manager the day. There are daily variences printed that show how much was used throughout the day and how much was counted. Many times if you have a manager that doesn't care you can take it home as long as it isn't too much food.

Answer 6

my dad's friend hangs out at panera bread at closing sometimes bc they give all the leftover bagels and bread to the customers.. they bake fresh every morning

at my second job, we eat a few pieces of pizza and chicken at the end of the night but never take it home

Answer 7

Yes, but that's a pretty lousy perk.

We used to cook a bunch of food fresh just before close, hoping no one would order it, exactly for that reason!

Answer 8

I worked at a jack in the box and they gave nothing away.  If they were going to throw something away and you wanted it They made you pay for it.  This was a franchise and the owners were so cheap that on holiday weekends (i live in a tourist town)  Instead of 2 tacos for 99cts  the would sell them 1 for 99cts.  and when the holiday was over they would go back to the normal price.

Answer 9

i did at taco bell

late night shift rocks!!!

Answer 10

i worked at an ice cream place for about 4 weeks and if we messed up on an order then they was put in the frige and then we could eat them before going home at the end of our shift

Answer 11

My friend worked at a Dunkin Donuts and they had to keep putting in fresh donuts every 4 hours or so, so the old donuts were given to the employees throughout the day.

Answer 12

my sister worked at subway and every night she would bring back loadss of sandwiches and cookies

Answer 13

No, as a general rule that a good manager will follow, extra food is either thrown out or given to food banks. I know some places will carry it over to the next day if it was made after a certain hour.  The only exceptions I've ever seen is managers.

But any place that does that is just setting itself up for employee theft, and that's why they don't allow it.

When I was a kid, my mother was a manager at a pizza place and my brothers and I would call in fake orders and of course never pick them up , because my mother as a manager was allowed to bring some home at the end of the night.

However my mother started to realize that every night they were getting fake orders that matched my brothers and my favorite pizza's so that ended lol, but...

Yeah, any manager who gives the employees extra food is just setting themselves up for inventory issues later.

It's not rocket science that if you tell a teenager that any mistake food they make they get to eat at the end of the night, then they're going to make mistakes.