When I was 16, I wanted a job. I went and got my food handler’s
license and started applying for jobs at local fast food restaurants.
I was hired by a local Sonic. My first and last day on the job, the
manager showed me around. While giving me a tour of the different
work areas, he showed me where the frozen tater tots were and picked
one up. As he went to put it back on the shelf, he dropped it.
Instead of throwing it away, he actually put it back on the shelf.
After picking my jaw up off the floor, I grabbed it, and the ones
around it, threw them in the trash, pulled off my work shirt, and
walked out the door. I worked there all of 10 minutes. On my way
home, I got another job at a chicken restaurant. I worked there for 2
years.
good man or girl well done
hahaa….i work at sonic…at least at mine we never serve food thats been on the ground..,,my boss always says “i’m cheap,but not that cheap”
I remember having cheesecake bites that tasted somewhat of something quite different – I can’t remember off-hand – at Sonic. Their food sucks, and I’m glad you’re gone.
No worries, the frying oil will kill any germs anyways.
And as usual you (like oh so many like you) failed to report this public health hazard…
Food handlers license? Never heard of one.
Sounds like you did the right thing for you. Rather than put up with things that made you uncomfortable, you left. Good job.
Did you overreact to a minor thing? Perhaps.. I would have put that tator-tot back at home, but thats just me.
What you didn’t know was that he inserted that tater tot in his anus before putting it back on the shelf.
Where do they make people get food handler licenses?
Food handler’s license?
Um, it’s called a “Health Card” for those who don’t know (i.e. a “food handler’s license”). I know I had to get one back in high school when I worked in a cafe.
Seriously? NO ONE has ever heard of a food handling license? That’s mandatory in my state, you can’t work in food service unless you have a license to do so. It’s a one day “class,” (in my town it’s at the health inspection offices) and then you get your certification.
It’s so that people who work in food service can understand why you shouldn’t serve tater tots that have hit the floor.
I worked as a bartender/server and never heard of a “Health Card” or a “Food Handling License” and I handled food regularly. That may be something only certain states have.
A food-handler’s license must be something required in some states. Where I live we don’t have those.
Did I miss something here? Frozen tater tots on a shelf…would they not be in a bag or box of some kind? Why throw it and surrounding ones away if it was simply dropped and placed back on a shelf? Am I to assume that this was already a cooked frozen tater tot? Maybe I’m having a slow day today, but, just asking…
“Food handling license?”
Did some guy sell you that out of the back of his van?
Greg…some states require a license to work in the food industry. Bitch.
Wow, I didn’t know every state didn’t require a food handlers license. Then again I have only lived in three states and they all required them. Part of the training for those licenses is procedures for keeping food and work areas sanitary.
cmburns, I was wondering about that too, actually. Why in the hell would they keep frozen tators tots just rolling around on a shelf? That makes zero sense to me. Then again, maybe I’m having an off day, too.
Yeah, and I’m sure nothing like that ever happened at the chicken place, huh?