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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • We figured 120 was “just too much enough” also 600 sounded like a nice big number, nobody actually thought they would get through them but we wanted to be sure you had to quit instead of running out.

    In the end we went to McDonalds and did large McChicken meals instead. I finished 4.



  • KFC had a promotion 20 nuggets for $10 (with the local conversion it was a good price) so my friends and I went into the local one, spoke to the manager and said “We’re going to order 600 nuggets on saturday night at 6pm, is that ok?” and the manager said it was. We called the store at like 3pm and reminded them and made sure it was still ok. It was. We placed the order online at 6pm exactly, waited half an hour and went to get them. We turned up and the shift runner said "Oh, we assumed that order was a prank so we didnt make it. We asked them to make it and she said “Its the middle of the dinner rush, Im not making you 600 nuggets.”

    Fucking cunts.





  • Delphia@lemmy.worldtointernet funeral@lemmy.worldW I N G S
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    Not as much as you think.

    If a staff member skims $20 you’re out $20 and the product cost, if they miscount the change by $20 you are out $20 and still owe the taxman. If its all processed correctly the taxman gets $4.

    Then theres the time savings of not having to count change or wait for customers to hand over money. If it allows you to serve 110 customers an hour per staff member not 100 in a busy bar you just sold 10% more product. Add in the labor savings of not counting out change, not counting tills, not having to have sufficient change on hand… it really does make sense in a high customer turnover business like a bar.



  • The problem with event sec (and I ran large events for a decade) is that organisers often dont treat you like you’re anything but a bunch of fuckwits and dont tell you anything about planned stunts or anything beyond “Dont let anyone past this point without a pass” asking questions and wanting to be in the loop often gets you told to “do your job” which is why I was very anal retentive about what was and wasnt our responsibility in our contracts and what we were/werent liable for. Often the “talent” or people attending will decide they want to do something off script and you have to take a moment to decide wether or not to crash tackle someone somewhere they shouldnt be who might also be a keynote speaker or the headlining artists manager… its almost always a shitshow of not enough info. I have a lovely story about a bass player for a band not wearing a lanyard and starting a fight with two of the security when they wouldnt let him back stage… theres an NDA involved though because he broke one staff members cheekbone before getting knocked the fuck out.

    The absolutely idiotic part was taking him to the ground, that outnumbered and not being aggressive it was unnecessary. Once it goes to the ground it almost always turns into a shitshow.