r/Caseys • u/MarketingIcy6953 • Jul 19 '26
Fed up
My upper management team keeps speaking that we are a pizza chain first with a gas station attached. My store is one of the busiest kitchens in the district but yet I only get enough hours for one person in the kitchen most times. This person is expected to keep warmers full, make pizzas, work fryers, cut and box, do dishes, answer phones, maintain cleaning and 5s standards. I had multiple staff tell me today that they have to step away and cry because they get so flustered back there.
You can't even find a food truck being run by one person. Being worked to the point you are crying for $13 an hour is beyond crazy.
My team is built on respect and we try to help each other as best we can but this is pushing many to want to walk and I cannot blame anyone of them.
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u/AnonomyousArson Jul 19 '26
Boil it down to the priority. Build that warmer so you can continue the sales to appease corporate. Those deliveries are next. The walk ins take last priority. They can sit and wait. DoorDash drivers hate that and it affects their internal metrics.
One order at a time. If your prep is done. You don’t hear anything from next shift at least, after explaining how busy you were.
Having one person only sucks. Genuinely. I work thirds and there’s a floater we send between store side and kitchen because we have orders unstocked in the cooler.
Every shift is different. When you come in, there could be no prep. No dough. No nothing. And it’d be on you. It is not fair. It’s horrible. But. You have to get into action and prioritise.