Restaurant closes at 11

It's unbelievable.

>tfw i can tell people we are closed if its 15 mins before our official close time

Idiot

>I don't have an argument so I'll insult him instead
Yep. That user is the idiot for sure and toooootally not you.

>I love wallowing in my own shittiness

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The restaurant I work at posts a 'Final Seating' time 30 minutes before actual closing time. Anyone coming in after that can sit at the bar and order appetizers which one cook can take care of while everyone else in back starts to clean the kitchen.

Seems like their manager is a moron and has them cleaning up and turning things off BEFORE they close so they can all leave at closing time. Proper management starts that process either at the time of closing or after the last customer leaves or after the last customer orders. There's been a few times where I've ordered at the closing time and at my meal while staff were cleaning everything.

>Or they'll just fire you since they can replace you with minimal effort.

I am a regional market admin manager for a office electronics company and do hiring/firing. Let me tell you, I see young kids make this mistake ALOT. They vastly over-estimate their value and replaceability and try to make demands like their the fucking all-star of the team. I call their bluffs urge them to quit since I can't fire them for that. But usually they stay and cause ripples in morale by spreading their version of the story of their righteous battle against the cruel overlords. Annoying as hell.

We don't close down the kitchen and start cleaning until after we close so I don't really care at all. Unless you bring a shitty demanding attitude I'd be glad to make some extra sales. Hell when it's busy at closing time I don't mind letting some people order after closing. Now what fuckboi?

I had a cat do this to me once. But I was wearing shorts and no shirt.

>10:50 pm
>all supermarkets are closed
>just have tin of sardines in pantry at home
>no fast food places in sight
>see restaurant finally
>"T-table for o-one please..."
>"Sorry we're closing"
>"O-ok"
>come home and make this thread while eating straight from the sardine tin

>40 minutes until close
>fryers cleaned and turned off
>grills cleaned and ready for tomorrows open

>uhh can I get 3 big macs and 5 double cheese burgers no pickles?

If you try to pull this stunt there is a 110% you WILL have your food tempered with. Enjoy that saliva (if you're lucky that's all you'll get). It amazes me how people think they can pull this off and expect their food to be spit free. Even the fucking managers are in on it. Some buffoon had the audacity to order 7 cheeseburgers 22 minutes from close, jokes on that fat fuck he's probably in the ER right now

95% of the time nothing particularly bad is going to happen to you. You're just going to get shittier food than usual because no one wants to put the effort in to make it well. 5% of the time you're getting spit or pubes in your food.

I used to work in a restaurant a while back and would sometimes get annoyed if our foh sat a big group right before closing time, but I understood the principle behind it. If we posted that we closed at 11pm and our doors are still open, of course people can come in at 10:45 and order. If we didn't want them to do that, then we would close earlier. If you're open, you're open. If you're closed you're closed. You just have to deal with it. I personally would never take a seating anytime after an hour before closing time, but I see how others would.

As long as the employees are getting paid to stay late, I don't see what the big deal is. Sure we might start cleaning up before closing if things were starting to get slow, but we always kept the kitchen open in general for last minute request. It's the service industry, deal with it.

Hell, I now work in an office now 9-5. And when a client makes an appointment for 4:30, shows up late at 5, I still stay late and spend the time with them. And I don't complain about it as long as I'm paid

>restaurant closes at 11
>come in and order at 10:50
>escorted from the building ten minutes later
You sure showed them, sport.

If it's a fast food restaurant, why are you turning everything off and cleaning it 40 mins before closing? It doesn't even take very long to make seven cheeseburgers. I worked fast food in high school. Your own stupidity is why you're still stuck in that job.

I did this back in high school once before I realized how badly it inconvenienced the staff, never again. The look on those people's faces, you'd think I'd asked them to kill their own pet and fry it up for me. And I have friends who are servers now and they get stuck past closing for people like that all the time, I would be autisticly angry

>My uncle was a manager at Golden Corral back in the late 80's and locked the doors when a greyhound pulled up 10 minutes before close.

He got fired but didn't regret it. Showing up close to close is one thing, but showing up knowing you won't actually be finished eating and heading out the door at close is a dick move. People at Panera bread did it all the time when I worked there; we closed at 10 and would have people lingering in the dining room until the actual BoH staff got off because management didn't want to get a bad survey for kicking out somebody that's just sitting around in the dining room and bringing dishes back 40 minutes after the store's closed and all the other dishes have been washed/sink has been cleaned out etc.

first of all, I have the power to close the kitchen preemptively if the place is empty for long enough

second of all, I get paid by the hour, if you make me work 30 minutes just for you, that's half an hour of extra salary for me.

oh and don't expect to get your food on time

>upset that a customer does business with an establishment that is advertising they're open for business
>cleans equipment before closing

This is bait, right?

Panera bread is basically a homeless shelter for people that want to leech off their wireless all day, I can believe it.

please stop posting this fucking pasta

>40 minutes

this has to be a troll, nobody is this lazy

I don't know about Mcdonald's but we'd close one side of the line an hour before close at Panera Bread because that way those people could clean up their side and traffic was never high enough to keep both the drive-thru and dine-in lines open at the same time. Then we had 3-4 people available to clean one half of the line once doors closed.

>there's nothing you can do about it
>Sorry we're closed.

Wait what, which country is this? The ones here explicitly state when they close and when the last order is taken (usually 30 mins before closing)

What's to stop me from kicking that door in and making the food myself huh faggot? You? Open the door or i'll smash it in and kick the white boy out of you.

Restaurnts here usually have a last order time around 30 minutes before closing. No orders are accepted after that.

That's probably because you're autistic. Just because the business has posted hours for closing, doesn't mean a employees leave at that time. No one would expect that. Those are the hours that are for the public, not the employees.

Why would a restaurant ever post its closing time as anything other than the time they stop taking new customers?

>you have to serve me while you're still open and there's nothing you can do about it.

Literally have the right to refuse service to anyone.

Because upper management faggots want to milk the employees for as many dollars as they can get out of them, but then fail to factor in that depressed and angry retards work the jobs so the customer is the only one who gets screwed over when all they want is a hamburger and maybe some leftover fries but instead get some "secret suace" for daring to give them their patronage.

>5% of the time you're getting spit or pubes in your food.

As someone who actually works in the kitchen, this is a hollywood meme that will get you fired and possibly even sued by the owners of the restaurant. I understand the angst that comes from working around a bunch of felon dickheads and serving jewish customers, but just don't fucking do it. Unless you're working in a total backwater restaurant in bumfuck nowhere, there will be cameras recording everything done outside of the bathroom.

>implying im going to waste more money on some faggot doing his job

>arrive at Wendy's at 11:45pm
>workers are visibly tired
>some are trying to shut down the grills and fryers early
>I go up and order Baconator combo
>with large seasoned fries
>the cashier looks back to his prep room buddies
>they were not happy but they turn on the equipments anyway because they know that if they don't serve me as if I were their lord and master they wouldn't be able to keep the job and continue to feed themselves - or their family, if they had any remaining - and live in squalor
>mfw I took the entire 15 minutes until closing time just savoring ever bite of the burger and fries, seasoned with their misery

It amazes me that in 1 to 2 generations people have lost all concept of empathy. I wonder if it's because people don't read anymore or we all live such miserable, hopeless existences in a ruthless late stage capitalism that we've become numb to how our behavior might negatively impact others, or worse yet, take a sadistic pleasure in it. It's so simple to just say, "oh, ok, I'll go somewhere else then." But, no, it's better to spread your own misery by making someone else miserable. Pathetic solipsism.

You are so sheltered and ignorant of history it physically pains me.

Wendy's has seasoned fries?

The proper take away from this anecdote. I'm glad somebody is paying attention.

I remember working as a waiter and having to do a large order for a single table at 10.50. I told the chefs. They all burst out laughing at once

>not tipping US waiters

dude what's to be empathetic about? you're on the clock and you're scheduled to a certain time,

Enjoy your spitghetti.

That’s good thinking user

>work at place with a liquor licence
>customers get moved off by security each night at close

Heh

>Enabling jews to pay workers less than minimum wage.
Good lord.

>the the scowls of the workers who can't actually say anything about it.
I've only seen that at really low end franchise places that probably force their workers to work off the clock if something unexpected happens. Any decent restaurant compensates their staff fairly so that they don't end up taking out their resentment on the customers.

Unsurprisingly, Veeky Forums's resident animeposter can't afford to eat at decent places and probably goes to Subway at 10:50 PM on a Friday.

>yurop
>come in at 10:50
>waiter tells you to fuck off
>next time take personal responsibility not to be an asshole and come at an earlier time

feels good

every time this is posted the amount of minutes until closing seems to increase. In a few weeks it'll be

>90 minutes before closing.