Worked in Food?

[Austin]

I'm kind of curious to see how many people started working in the food industry?

[RiponredTJ]

If that includes the Food & Beverage Department, I'm in.

[blucher]

started in food and moved to booze.

[bisjoe]

Started peeling potatoes at a fish & chip shop at age 14, ened up head fry cook at 18, that was enough for me.

[blucher]

At 15 my pop pulled strings and got me a job as a dishwasher for the sub contractor that handled their cafeteria. I loaded & emptied big shallow bins of china & glass. We ran them thru a staged "carwash for plates" that ran at just below boiling point.

Lost the skin on both forearms in 3 days. The only defense was to hold the bin away from your body to prevent scalding. I liked that job. For the next 20 years I had steel forearms and a scary grip.

Kitchens get insane. Lots of drama and cliques are what I recall most.

[Austin]

Originally Posted by blucher

At 15 my pop pulled strings and got me a job as a dishwasher for the sub contractor that handled their cafeteria. I loaded & emptied big shallow bins of china & glass. We ran them thru a staged "carwash for plates" that ran at just below boiling point.

Lost the skin on both forearms in 3 days. The only defense was to hold the bin away from your body to prevent scalding. I liked that job. For the next 20 years I had steel forearms and a scary grip.

Kitchens get insane. Lots of drama and cliques are what I recall most.

2 years out of the kitchen and my knuckles are just now growing hair back, I think that's a good thing.

[RiponredTJ]

The happiest day in my hotel career was when I graduated from dishwasher to busboy.
And then there was the time....

[HiHood]

I was a dishwasher then busboy at a high class restaurant as a kid.

[blucher]

By age 15 I was used to being held to adult criteria as a worker. I learned a good deal about several industries as a young worker and I've seen how it helped me later in life.

In PA you really had to beat the bushes to find a kid to cut your lawn. Forget about shoveling snow, they're allergic.
Lazrus Long;
"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."

I never found work hard.

[BCboy]

It was not my first job, but I was a bus boy, and waiter at a hotel restaurant for a while.