Micky D's

[Jeff Helgeson]

Rookie mistakes!

You guys are concentrating too much on the deep fryer and single burner work. If you don't give the proper attention perfecting your ice-cream swirl maneuver, you'll be stuck in the back tossing salad all day long for the salad shackers.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, that's when it really goes south.

Don't step on anyone on your way up the later. Remember, "todays A-hole, tomorrows CEO (Chief Pilot)."

Always use protection when operating the fryer. It's an OSHA requirement.

 

[100LL... Again!]

B190-

Yes, I am a McDonald's washout. The school is now going to make me into a pilot.

That fry sim is WAY more touchy than the real thing, and the warning lights never stop ringing.

 

[ERJpusher]

I failed the fry sim. I dropped the basket into the fryer too fast and heard "SINK RATE. SINK RATE." That was all she wrote.

Just off the wire...

McDonalds announced today that they would be laying off nearly 1500 employees currently working in the corporate offices. In an attempt to place these laid-off workers, McDonalds has come up with a plan known as Burgers For Jobs (B4J). This plan will give individual restaurants the option to obtain additional burger flippers, as long as 70% of them are being operated by corporate furloughs. If the plan is rejected by the restaurants, McDonalds will restart the alter-ego chain, McDowells (as seen on the movie "Coming to America" with Eddie Murphy).

Employees nationwide are in an uproar, since the new burger flippers will be starting at assistant managers' wages instead of the regular wage. Fortunately for them, the scope clause in their current contract will prevent any start-up restaurant from having more than one burger pattie on any sandwich.

 

[PilotMonkey]

I heard from a "reliable" source (that would be the MEC Chairman of the ABFA [Allied Burger Flipper Association] ) that the number to be furloughed would be 2000 and not 1500. He also said that the fry station was being retired and all of the fry guys were going to be displaced into the ice cream swirl machine and salad tossing line. This would be a big blow to us in the oil pool at McDonalds...However, this all could change soon because I also heard that there was a new contract coming with Frybardier, for 100 and 150 notch fry holders. Just remember that fast food is a volatile industry and anything is possible. Regards!

 

[SmoovFlight]

Be careful...

The fryer grease is extremely hot. Be sure to watch all your gauges!!! Don't let your guard down.

 

[bobbysamd]

News flash

I heard Carl's Jr. is hiring. So's KFC, but there's a "secret recipe" to getting on with the Colonel.

 

[whereamI]

Fry Guy, Inc.

Hey would someone be willing to walk my resume in for me? No matter how many times I fax it in and call them, I still have gotten no response. Then I flip open the latest issue of Fry Guy, Inc. magazine, and Kit Farby is telling me how there is this huge shortage of fry guys.

 

[bobbysamd]

Fry Guy "shortage" and age discrimination in fry guy hiring

Then I flip open the latest issue of Fry Guy, Inc. magazine, and Kit Farby is telling me how there is this huge shortage of fry guys.

Farby has been whistling that tune for 16 years, which, by the way, is the minimum age for earning your FTP (Fry Transport Person) certificate. Of course, Farby made millions as president of FAFA (Future American Fryers' Association).

During his incarnation as FAFA, Farby published the magazine Frying Careers. In about 1990, he renamed it to Career Fryer.

Farby puts on these career seminars from time to time. He invites reps from companies, such as McDonald's, the Colonel, Taco Bell, Burger King, and Wendy's. You have to dress for an interview. Complete waste of time; I was told that experience in broadcasting is not helpful at all for a burger-flipping career. I also was told, in not so many terms, that I was too old. It's really frustrating when you send in tons of materials for burger jobs and people who are young enough to be your children are getting the jobs while you are not. I always understood that age discrimination is illegal. At any rate, not being able to find a job flipping burgers and needing a job that paid money were more than enough to prompt me to go to paralegal school.

 

[PilotMonkey]

Re: Be careful...

The fryer grease is extremely hot. Be sure to watch all your gauges!!! Don't let your guard down.

Come on SmoovFlight, your never going to be a professional fryer with a lack of technical terminology!

It should be "Don't let your lard down."

 

[SmoovFlight]

i stand corrected...

 

[bobbysamd]

P-F-T

The ethical implications of P-F-T (Pay-for Fryer Training) need to be addressed.

People who P-F-T are cutting in front of the line ahead of those who opted not to P-F-T and who earned their chance by bussing tables, stuffing napkin holders, and taking out trash. Fryers who paid their dues sit on fryer hiring boards. They know all, see all, and tell all. You might get past McD's H.R., but the hiring board will blackball you.

Don't screw your fellow fryers by P-F-T. Do not even consider attending Frystream or any other P-F-T "organization."

On the other hand, there is McDFD (McDonald's Fryer Development). You can go there and get your Commercial Fryer Certificate and a chance to interview at McDonald's with little frying or flipping experience. It is an excellent program; I instructed there and had students who were hired immediately as burger fryers without having to fry instruct or other nonsense.

 

[CaptBuzzard]

I have a friend who was hired by Taco Bell. He has been there six months and started on the fryer making Mexi-nuggets. He just bid reserve cashier. He gets Wed-thur off this month. He says it sure beats the fryer. He had to declare an emergency and went to single burner and the manager said the fryer sim training paid off. He did mention the scope clause and it'll be a while before he can go on to KFC and Pizza Hut.


Oh, I did hear about the McDonalds low cost start up (McDowells)
They have the golden arcs.

 

[Floyd94]

Oh, I did hear about the McDonalds low cost start up (McDowells)
They have the golden arcs.

LOL

 

[Pilot877]

That was on TV last night! Reminded me of this thread when Louis Anderson did that scene about washing lettuce, moving up to fry, and making Assistant Manager.......thats when the big bucks start rolling in! Good Thread, y'all, nice to have a couple of laughs in these times.

By the way, a friend back home was recently offered a position as store manager (domicile chief pilot) for a Burger King, so if I can help any of you out by walking your resume straight to the boss, let me know! Right now, the position requires only a ninth grade education but he prefers applicants with a degree from McDonald's esteemed Hamburger University- The Embry-Riddle of the fast food world.

 

[cornbread]

In your rush to make the big bucks at the bigger chains you all forget another option...

I hope to get hired at Krystal's as soon as they start hiring again. Sure they aren't as big as the majors (McDs, Burg.K, etc.) but the job security is definately there.

Sure others might crack a southern joke once in a while, but I would be completey happy frying on the same type fryer for my career. As for the clientele, hell, everyone has to eat.

As for the pay, it is all realative. I promise I won't be jealous of the guy frying at McDonalds on a FryMaster Seven for $225 a week. I will just go along frying on a measley old FryDaddy for $160 a week until I retire.

I even hear that McDonalds is opening up a joint called "Wong's" or "Wrong's" or something like that in efforts to capture what Krystal's has done right for so many years. Imagine that.

They used to ask me "Cornbread, you really want to operate a Frydaddy the rest of your career?" (looking at me like I was a dang fool) Now they say "Cornbread, you is a dang genious!"

 

[Rich Man]

I'll try Sonic

Sure here instead of the cars coming to the drive trough we have to roller blad our @rses to the cars, but heck, thats all I can do for now

Besides, Im getting good at this in-line roller skate thingamajig, I only hit the dirt 3/4 times I go out now.

Rich!


Good thread

 

[FLpilot]

Since the job market for Fryers is so bad I'm thinking of opening my own Fast Food chain. How do I get my business started and does anyone know where I can get a good deal on a used fryer? I don't know anything about the Fast Food business but I do eat at Fast Food restaurants a lot and I think I have a pretty good idea of what's involved. I figure I can keep my overhead down and undercut the "big boys". What do you guys think?

 

[murfdawg998]

Sounds like a new JO to me! We had a new lost-cost fryer chain open here in the Northeast by the name of Checkers.

We at Mikey D's, and my friends at BK, Taco Bell, etc., don't accept employees of Checker's (they're called 'seeds,' not scabs)at our drive through windows!

 

[Airpiraterob]

he heh

" don't worry about it, yeah youre mopping floors now, but look at me, im in lettuce , and soon.... ill be moving to fries!! ...
-<louie anderson>


cant wait for the upgrade.

 

[aldassy]

Our local union rep here at T. Bell is trying to get us sour cream and guacamole guns on line. He tells us that the customers will feel much safer since we won't be using our hands. I don't know how the other guys will feel about it.