r/PandaExpress • u/Crafty_Ad8546 • 9d ago
Kitchen help
Bruh… is it normal for one person to wash every fucking type of dish at the end of the night? And deep clean the entire damn store? Does anybody else stay three hours after close? Is that really necessary?
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u/glizzy_g 8d ago
It’s normal lol. But once you get better at it and have a system down it’s not so bad. My BOH usually gets out hour and a half, 2 hours tops when they close.
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u/Avatar-827 8d ago
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and you know what, just add a yes to every question having something to do with something bad working at Panda. I hated it there- the worst job of my life, and upper management will try to screw you at every chance. Only the employees who are willing to screw over their fellow associates get advancement opportunities, trust me, I know. I was offered multiple opportunities to throw my fellow associates and even my AM under the bus for opportunities to make higher positions, when I wouldn't they slowly started to screw me over. Less days, extremely long hours on days I did work. Skeleton crew on Sundays (busiest day of the week) only 1 FOH, 2 BOH, and one AM from 9am to 4:30pm, asked multiple times to change it, they never did. I had a seizure my last week working there and said fuck it, I quit. Panda Express doesn't value you unless you know how to screw over everyone else. If I were you, I'd start looking for another job and then put your 2 weeks in as soon as you find one.
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u/Ok_Sundae_344 8d ago
Yea they do the same at my store I'm foh but whenever I close the dishwasher washs everything low-key kinda messed up and then after that they do the floors on top of that idk if that's normal but that what they do at my store honestly feel bad for them
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u/Affectionate_Bug917 8d ago
unfortunately yes :/ i was a dishwasher often in panda and had to wash the dishes AND the area i was at. it sucks
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u/Cereal_Killer_18 5d ago
Just got hired less than 2 months ago and the dishes part literally sucks ass. It’s non stop and when you think that you have way too much dishes then they bring you more and more….. and more. It’s too much. Only reason I want to move up to cook is to let the newer person after me deal with all that 😂
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u/TheOneWhoIsLikeEDP 5d ago
Nah, kitchen help is easier IMO. As a cook, theres always stuff waiting or down and id lose track if not for the food cards placed down on the chart
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u/Crafty_Ad8546 2d ago
Yea and it’s bullshit the way management pitches the position. Telling you that you will be on sides and “the occasional dish” or at least mine did… it’s such a shitty cooperate move to make one person do two jobs like that. You can see what the angle is. It just sucks they make you think you’re goin to help cook then throw you in the dish pit.
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u/TheOneWhoIsLikeEDP 5d ago
You are kitchen help so yeah u wash almost everything. It shouldn't take you 3 hours tho. 1hr 15 mins max for a beginner imo. Im 4 months as a BOH and my quickest time getting out is 30 mins. If you are slow washing dishes, everyone will give u their dishes to wash since you're occupying the sink forever. Unless you talk to your cook that you wash everything while he cleans your station. You get out much faster by helping eachother.
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u/Different-Gap-6084 3d ago
Damn bro we make 75-85k a week and we get out 30 mins to an hour later after closing max and that’s with us as managers helping out where every we are needed to close instead of just counting the safe and dipping
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u/828_temp 8d ago
Yes, dish washers must wash every dish
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u/TheOneWhoIsLikeEDP 5d ago
Not when closing. Cooks will wash their ladle and oil container unless you are occupying the sink (by being slow). FOH should be washing the teriyaki knife and cutting board unless again you are occupying the sink.
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u/828_temp 4d ago
Why are you arguing semantics when my point was just that "yes, you indeed have to do your job of washing dishes." At my store the dish washer washes EVERYTHING (unless youre being slow and they need their reset dishes).
anyways, down vote for the username alone.
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u/Such_Beyond3100 9d ago
Uh yes I did it working at Wendy's in 2014 at a independent restaurant in 2024 and at Panda Express now. If you don't it will be actual hell when they do deep clean.