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 ( now called Ameri Stop)

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!

 

[kiwigtx]

They're no longer in the area but are still in New Zealand, Australia and the U.K.

They're still around here.... it used to be my go-to when I was working in the central city area. I remember some long lines to place an order in the mornings.
I took my son to a closer outlet not far from home a couple of months back...not bad, but not quite as I remember them.

 

[YY1]

Fortunately I have escaped the need to work in the food service industry.
The closest I've come was-
1- Night stock at a family owned, regional grocery. 8:00p to when ever we got done, usually around 4-5a
That was FUN although fairly poor paying.
Buying a case of beer at 7:00am was especially entertaining.
2- 3rd shift building maintenance, including some kitchen equipment, at a 1000 room 1200 acre resort complex.
That also could be fun, but there were some dickheads.

 

[Budnicks]

I used to process & then deliver 'Ice' for (the Iceman Cometh)
Union Ice Delivery Co. I worked in & out of Concord Ca., & Oakland occasionally
mostly delivering to every 7/11 stores, in the greater bay area
Longs Drugs/CVS, Lucky's, Albertsons, Safeway, bulk deliveries, pallets
& after all the big deliveries were done I'd go to bait shops & piers
Berkeley Oakland Richmond ElCerrito San Pablo to Crocket
I sold them dry ice & crushed ice in 50# bags, for cash
Then I'd delivered to all the vending machines, in Oakland/San Leandro area
300# blocks on them steep *** hills, sliding down a ramp off my truck
very adventurist, very hard work, handle everything at a min. 3 times
'it kept me in great shape for football or track seasons'
load the belts & stock the venders,
12# blocks 7# bags & 25# blocks I'd chip off the 300# blocks
ball buster job
all along E-14th Street, all the way to San Jose (usually in a bobtail truck)
All while I was going to college, JC DVC college in Pleasant Hill/Concord 1st
& then summers before & after, going to Univ. Oregon
or during holidays, when I came back home for a couple weeks at a time,
to make some much needed cash, to carry me over tell the next holiday,
living off top roman & hot dogs...
Living above a gas station in Eugene Or.

 

[DeltaV]

Yes, in a busy grocery store for six years during the 1970's.

 

[Virg464]

First part-time job (16 yrs old) after I got tired of my paper route, "Bus Boy" at a short order restaurant "The Golden Nugget", Mack Ave in Detroit MI. Loved working the weekend, when the ladies would come in and make all the desserts! Slipped while cleaning the deep fryers, spilled and fell in the oil. Burned the crap out of my forearms, went looking for another job and ended up at a production welding shop!