Today is my first day of work at a fast food place and i'm really nervous. Please help?
Your first step is to BE EARLY! Not 'on time'. You will most likely go through some briefing before you actually start working. First impressions are important. Act the way you want them to see you as because no matter how long you work there, they will remember you for being that. Always carry a pen and something small to take notes on. When they show you around, it all the things they will be telling you will go by quick and after your introduction process, they will let you work independently and you don't want to be confused on what to do. Take your notes. But of course do not be afraid to ask questions. You just don't want to be the kind of person who keeps asking the same question 3 or 4 times because you 'keep forgetting'. Since you are going to be in fast food, avoid habits (if you have) like touching your face/hair, scratching your nose/arms, touching things around you, leaning on counters. Your body language shows a lot. I hope this helps.
Working at jack in the box?
So recently got employed at jack in the box (this is my 1st job). i have been working there for 4 weeks already and i only been there 8-10 times working there so i am not really experienced at my new job. But i i have been getting into trouble at work because i dont do somethings right. for the time that i have been working there i have done register and fryers, certain days i get fryers and other days get cashier. Well it doesn't matter what i am doing because even if i am doing fryers or cashier i have to clean the dinning room and restrooms and take out all the trashes..... some other stuff i cant really remember. But is it normal for a person that is doing fryers or cashier to do all that cleaning because would imagine that they should have someone else that specializes in that because im out there to often and it just makes my job so much harder. I have only been in there 8-10 times and only for 6 to 4 hour shifts (cleaning half the time) and they expect me to be a pro already. Ohh and i already got written up because a order took 10min and i wasn't erasing my orders from my screen fast enough.
What's it like to work at Jack In The Box?
Jack can be a decent place to work. It really comes down to leadership. If you work at a store with a Restaurant Manager who cares about their people and keeps the store properly staffed, Jack is an easy job. On the other hand, if you get a manager who could care less the store can frankly be hell. I've worked with both kinds over the years. Some pros and cons of working for Jack: Pros: 50% discount while working 20% discount at all other times Free soda, coffee, and iced tea Medical/dental/vision benefits after 90 days Thanksgiving and Christmas are paid overtime Flexible hours Vacation pay if you work enough hours each week Stations/job tasks are easy to learn Jack promotes from within. If you exceed at your job you could possibly go very far with the company. My prior Area Coach ($100,000/year job) started as hourly crew in 1985. Cons: Those (im)famous 2 for .99 tacos will be the bane of your existence. EVERY employee hates making them. You can go home smelling like grease if you work in the back. This isn't such a problem for front-of-house people. You will deal with the public all day, regardless of what kind of mood you're in. Corporate policy is to never argue with even the rudest or most difficult guests. This can be hard at times, trust me. You will have to work on short-staffed shifts. You will have to work holidays and weekends. Some stores can be extremely busy for long periods of time. I have worked some rushes that lasted 5 hours. All in all, I view Jack as being above average as far as fast food jobs go. The benefits they offer even regular crew are (from what I've been told by people who work for the competition) better than other company's.
What was your first day working at McDonald's like?
The store I was hired for didn't have space or time to accommodate training new staff so, I was sent to a different location to train. So, excluding that.... My first day working at my store, which is in a very busy mall wasn't great. The mall had two McDonald's locations and both made good profit. I was hired at the food court location right when school was starting so a lot of their students were taking days off for school and the location was now short on staff, hence me getting hired.In the intermediate, they borrowed staff from other locations to work at store. So, when I started, they assumed I was from another store and basically "beat me up" for being slow and not knowing what to do.I cried. I explained I am new, right from the get go... But they didn't really understood it until I cried. I was ready to just take off and quit. A manager spoke to me and said, "Sorry you are treated this way. On behalf of the others, I apologize. Our store is really busy, so it can get really hectic and people forget you're new."I managed to keep up with coworkers eventually. But, this kind of work environment and the treatment I got from my coworkers weren't any good. I'm surprised myself that I stayed there for two years. And, through that two years, I've actually just left in the middle of my shift, at least twice, not telling anyone because I was very frustrated by how everyone was treating me and the workload they out on me. Of course, they had to give the talk everytime. But, I stayed until I found a better workplace.Over the course of my employment there, I learned which positions/stations I had to talk least with my coworkers or be able to work independently while still helping the team. That's how I became the Grill Master. I can cook all the meats, fry the fried stuff, and wash dishes nearly all at the same time. I liked that routine. They kept me on that routine for a good portion because nobody really liked the grill station, and nobody really had the time to wash dishes efficiently.
Im almost 18 and im applying for a part time job at jack in the box?
The basic breakdown of crew position is front-of-house (Guest Service Specialist) or back-of-house (Food Quality Specialist). There are also maintenance and prep positions, but these are rarely open. If you feel that you could learn to do either register or cook, I would put down 'any open' for position desired. When you turn the application in, try to hand it to the hiring manager(s) in person. Introduce yourself by name. Be polite, show some interest in working for Jack, and have a positive attitude. It also never hurts to ask how the manager's day has been going. This will make your name stand out above the other people who just give the application to any random person and then leave. Making your application memorable in a positive way can work wonders. I have seen people get hired off the street in 3 days by doing similar to what I've described.
Do fast food restaurants like "jack in the box keep all their drive thru video surveillance records?
Yes. I worked at 2 corporate-owned stores over a span of eight years. The first was an older store with a VCR-based system. There were enough tapes on hand to keep one week's worth of footage. If nothing important happened during the week, the tapes were reused next week. The second was a new build store with digital security cameras. All of that footage is stored on a dedicated DVR computer in the ofice. I'm not sure of the hard drive capacity on this machine, but I have seen first-hand that they have the ability to go back at least a month when need be. EDIT: One of the others was correct. Even the video footage on the DVR system is eventually overwritten unless it is specifically saved or burned to DVD first.
How do fast food employees react to stoned customers?
Maybe not ‘Fast Food’, but I ran a pizza shop (locally owned… now closed) in my old hometown. It was downtown, and ALL the college students, not to mention any and all their friends, would do one of two things in my hometown for fun, get drunk or get high.Ag the pizza shop, both were my tip jar’s bread and butter. Literally. We would usually split up the leftover pies after we closed, which was officially 2:30 AM…. right after the bars closed. I would make an extra pie most nights and take it home to sell on the walk home for nearly five bucks a slice. I’ve has drunk ladies offer me ‘trades’ for pizza, plenty of high customers begged me to trade them for ‘a j, a blunt or even a nug ’ for anywhere from a slice to a whole pie.Often times my friend (manager of the Delivery side of the house) and I would leave with a minimum of 50 a piece. Normally, we would then go and spend our tip money on, you guessed it, weed. And Thus, the great circle of life completed itself daily.Drunk people were fun to watch come and get a slice, down it, and then proceed to re-decorate the curb outside with it. They were also the ones who seemed to care much less which TYPE of slice they got… so long as they got something down.working McDs, drinks were more the vagrant/homeless types than fun, and the stoners were more annoying… they didn’t really know what they wanted, didn’t prepare ahead, wound up clogging up the drive thru, or made you open up a second register, for the same reasons. Then when. They DID eat, the only blessing was they might have been too paranoid to stay in public high as a kite, so they would take the food to go.if they didn’t, they RARELY cleaned up, and cleaning a stoners mess when you’re sober, is NOT fun.