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[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus fucking Christ. I can debug across four different servers using three different databases and four languages more easily than what cooks have to do at waffle houze. What Soylent green cracked out motherduckers came up with that insanity?

[–] P1r4nha@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This must have been developed for people who couldn't read. Obviously just having the waiter's notes should be enough.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m also thinking that, or maybe it’s a super old system before POS terminals.

A comment on YT was super interesting, an autistic person said that whoever came up with this is likely autistic, and it make a lot of sense to them, but not others.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

You don't have to be autistic, just bored. After <200 hours of waffle housing I bet you could come up with an equally archaic system that only you really fully understand.

[–] JohnnyH842@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

No wonder there are so many shootings at Waffle House

[–] bakachu@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

If I had to watch that and then be expected to work the same day/week - everyone's order is going to fucked up.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol the YouTube comments

"The customer has ordered an omelette! I place my jelly packet in the Defensive Position!"

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

You may have asked yourself why I made sure to keep the jelly packs vertical when marking the egg breakfast.

No. No I did not.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's bullshit from last century, right? Nobody orders that way nowadays. I hope.

[–] Vryoptic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Was at Waffle House this week, can confirm they still do it this way

With declining education in the US, I suspect that might be getting more common.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 8 points 1 year ago

It's not unskilled.

[–] SirToxicAvenger@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

what the actual fuck was that? just adopt the order wheel (which existed before waffle house was created), or get a pos/ticketing system already.

[–] Plavatos@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think a lot of people miss the point, and the trainer here actually says it in so many words: it isn't supposed to be efficient, it's supposed to blow the minds of the customers (I.e. "magic").

Similarly, I'm often blown away by waiters that don't write my order down AND get my meal completely correct, the showmanship makes it a funner experience.

WH without this system is just very good drunk people food.

E: I worked at WH for a couple years, watching the cooks in action is just plain impressive. Especially when there's 10+ plates lined up, they're marking more, managing to not burn already cooking food, AND plating orders.

[–] makuus@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

Nearly 24 minutes of instruction, and not a word on when to drop a thrown chair, or how to mark a knuckle sandwich for a customer.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it just me or did he never go over what to do if the customer orders waffles...

[–] Seventhlevin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

24 minutes into Waffle House training vid:

Trainee: "Uh boss, what do I do if someone orders waffles?"

Boss: "...FUCK"

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And if you're lucky you're able to afford for half a month the meth so you can endure this.

[–] londos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Genuinely, is this real? I can't tell if it's parody.