Like WTF!? "Starving? You can't afford 'good' food working here, but you can afford the food you're already making!"
Also, I worked in a lot of kitchens before and never once paid for a meal. "Damn son, didn't mean to put cheese on that! Guess I'll have to make another one."
Never pay a company for your food if you're the one making it.
they're basically making the free meals explicit. what else can they do, pay people more?
To me that's signalling that they're going after young/inexperienced labor. Guess they can't keep an employee longer than a month. I go about once a month to get a single bean burrito and it's always new people I've never seen, except for the manager of course.
a someone who would go after work for dinner 3-4 times a week last year, they knew me and would always hook me up and we would shoot the shit sometimes. they definitely were there 6+ months shockingly
(my new job and roomies make it so i get home at a normal time and my roomies cook alot so i thankfully dont so this anymore)
Not that this is shock, but a lot of the people who the "superiors" at these restaurants often go on power trips.
I remember that I worked at a Dairy Queen, where I was often given vague instructions about something and it was like playing a game of 20 Questions, meaning I would often misinterpret the directions.
There was also the expectation that a meal needed to be prepared within about two minutes. I was a bit slower, as I felt it was more important to do job fairly well, rather than rush through it.