I'm back!

[BrandonK]

Hey everyone I'm back!

I've been gone training to be co-owner of a fast food franchise. Much to learn! :)

[troy]

Fast food,
Good choice something everyone uses
thats the key to making money.Choose something thats going to be around for a long time and something everyone uses.
good luck

[TK_Killer]

Fast Food!!!
<3

[John]

That's McCool man!

:D

[bobdog]

Hoo Boy BrandonK,

Careful what you wish for...

I spent over 20 years in the restaurant industry, and was a health inspector for a branch of the military as well before going into web design.

Best memories:

Waitresses are in heat after closing time. Especially if there is free bar for employees if we did a good night.

I got to inspect restaurants and fast food places. I am God, hear me roar. I shut down an upscale restaurant in Hawaii. Gawd what a cesspool of a cockroach hotel- that served their "famous prime rib".

Some of the cleanest restaurants were fast food chains like BK or McD's. They had a food safety program clearly documented.

Worst offenders were upscale privately owned restaurants.

To this day, I will not go to restaurants. Period. I know what happens!

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Funniest memory? I thought you'd never ask:

The year 1986. I was hired as a line cook for a brand new restaurant chain to emerge in my town. Things were tough when opening this new restaurant, and the owners were jerkhole brothers from Argentina.

We would make soup of the day in advance and store it in 5 gallon containers and put it in the walk-in. The next day, as I was on the line handling the lunch rush, the soup ran out. Time to scramble to the walk-in and grab another 5 gallons of beef vegetable soup.

The brand-new refrigerated walk-in was flooded from the new cooling unit. Water everywhere. I got out of the walk-in with soup in hand, and the water caused me to slip and fall- and 5 gallons of soup with me. Ka splash!

I had to clean it up as fast as possible or the jerkhole loud-mouth owner would probably fire me. So I grabbed a broom and dustpan and started scooping up soup off the floor. Among the other items captured were cigarette butt, trash, dirt, food scraps. All went into the soup bucket. Now all to do was run it down the disposal, but the owner came around the corner and yelled at me for taking so long. He grabbed the soup bucket, chastised me for taking so long, and told me "You're Fired."

He then proceeded to heat up the soup bucket and serve it. I just walked out after being fired, thinking "Who is gonna get the cigarette butt in their soup?"

[Dustin]

Yikes... uhh... yeah lol Remind me never to eat there. But I'm glad to hear fast food chains rate well, I would not exist without my beloved dollar menus.

I also hear opening a resturaunt is one of the hardest businesses to start and get off the ground, but I would love to own my own bar/resturaunt one day.

[bobdog]

Be careful what you wish for Dustin, it might become true.

BTW, I have dozens and dozens of stories in the food service business. Your $100 dinner is not what it seems.

You might want to become familiar with the FDA guidlines.