Have You Been Employed in the Food Industry?

[gtx6970]

Closest I ever came to ' food industry' is I worked at a Convenient food mart many many years ago

I've been a grease monkey for pretty much my entire life / career

My youngest daughter is the General Mgr of a Jersey Mikes

 

[Bird 426]

Worked at the Jolly Green Giant in Montgomery, MN. Got fired on pea pack for something that I didn't do. Hired back on sweet corn pack, worked in the area for creamstyle corn. Liked creamstyle corn till then, wouldn't touch it since then. One night at a Sandy's making French fries, quit after the first nite. Eagles food stores, packing bags and produce dept. Lot of KP in the Army. Hauled produce from west coast to the Midwest. Last job in food was Thoms Prestler, a restaurant and all foods purveyor warehouse. I don't miss any of it. End career was as a truck driver , 37 years. Happy belated Thanksgiving to everyone! Retirement is good.

 

[halfafish]

My dad owned a restaurant when I was a kid. I started there as a dishwasher at 12 years old, and since I wasn't big enough to keep up by myself my brother and I (he was a whopping 10 years old) did the job together. We split the going wage, $1.25 an hour. 62.5 cents an hour doesn't go very far, even in the late 60's.

At 14 I became a cook when the regular cook - a seriously hell on wheels lady - got thrown in jail for drunk and disorderly one Saturday night. I was the breakfast cook on Sunday morning, and did short order till I graduated high school.

In college I was the morning cook for the dorm's cafeteria for a couple of years. Then, like Bird 426 above, I got into trucking where I spent the next 45 years. And I agree, after 57 years in the labor pool, retirement is great!