Random Thought Thread

Nathan the Machinist said:
Random thought: My very first paying job was working at a seafood restaurant when I was a teenage boy.

To this day I do not eat "popcorn" shrimp
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Mine was delivery driver for a Chinese restaurant. A very equalizing job: the richest people in town as well as peep show and bordello employees - everybody orders Chinese take-out. One of the quirks for me was free Chinese dinner 2-3 times a week. These days I order to go and pick up myself :)
 
I briefly worked in a Pizza Hut. Everything about that place, from how they made the dough, how they made the pizza, and how they handled the food was disgusting. All the toppings that didn't land on the pizza fell through a grate onto a pan and would get scraped into a bucket and then put on pizzas "with everything on it" after a long time in open air and at room temperature. I once saw someone drop a buffalo chicken wing on the ground. The manager rinsed it off and served it. I will not eat at Pizza Hut.

I also worked at a Papa John's. Their mantra about better ingredients and fresh food was totally accurate and true. Food safety was real and the sanctity of food being prepared for people was a religion. Every night, every surface was scrubbed clean, even areas of the restaurant that weren't easily visible. We used sanitizer and a deck scrub throughout the entire restaurant before mopping. I learned how to mop correctly there.

I still eat Papa John's. Except for that pepperoncini pepper they put in the box. I wouldn't eat those.
 
I once had pizza delivered to my vehicle on a surveillance in Miami. The guy that took the order, (one of the well known delivery establishments), thought I was putting him on. I told him what car it was, where it was located and told him there was a nice tip in it for him if he arrived before we had to go make an arrest. LOL. (We were starving...having been out for hours on this case.)

He delivered.

True story.
 
The pizza delivery drivers are just normal people driving around in their cars. Some people are gross people. Some people don't wash their hands after they use the bathroom. Some people pick their nose. You've got these pizza delivery drivers driving around in their ride, smoking cigarettes, cleaning their ears with their pinkies, and otherwise being disgusting human beings.



As a rule, the drivers are not allowed to touch the food. But, if they're waiting on a pizza to fill their route and it hasn't been cut yet they can scoop it into the box and cut it without technically touching the food. They're not supposed to, but it's common.

There's a jar of pepperoncini peppers on the cut line. They start off the night in a fresh clear brine the color of mountain dew. As the night goes on, and the drivers are sticking their hand in there and pulling out some peppers and then squeezing the brine into the jar before dropping the peppers into the box, their hands get cleaner and the brine gets cloudy and gray. The last few peppers are swimming in a brine that looks quite a bit different than it started.

Don't eat the pepperoncinis.
 
My first job was as a carnival game type operator at Marriott's Great America in Gurnee, IL. (Now it is owned/called Six Flags Great America Chicago). I ran a game where you threw baseballs across a certain distance and had to break 3 ceramic/china plates to win a stuffed animal prize.
 
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