Новости за 08.04.2023

A restaurant worker recently took to TikTok to poke fun at customers who order off the kids menu—and subsequently expect adult-sized portions. 

If you're the type of person who knows exactly what they want to order from their favorite restaurant before you even walk out the door of your house, then the #blindorderchallenge that's currently trending on TikTok may give you a tinge of anxiety. The name of the trend pretty much sums it up: You walk into a restaurant and when your server asks you what you'll have, you ask them to order for you. Sometimes, these orders don't always go as planned, like this Starbucks customer who asked a barista to "surprise" her... Читать дальше...

One of the Olive Garden's most popular menu items is the chain's unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks. For a fixed price, the menu item allows one diner access to eat as many single server salad, soup, and breadstick orders as they would like. The latter item is arguably the chain's most popular dish, and Mashed reported that in 2014, it was calculated some 600-700 million breadsticks were doled out to hungry diners in a single year.

Many who have worked in the fast-food industry would be familiar with the problem of being short-staffed or otherwise having issues with the number of people scheduled to work.

If you're learning or speak another language, then you've probably noticed that there are some words, sounds, or phrases that are completely innocuous in your native tongue may mean something raunchy or just downright offensive in another. For instance, the word for "carp" in Albanian is pronounced similarly to "crap" in the region, which could leave English-speaking diners at a lakeside restaurant in the region confused if they're asked by a smiling waiter if they'd like to try some of the establishment's freshest... Читать дальше...

Moving from a job that requires being on one's feet all day long can make an office job where the majority of time is spent sitting at a desk appealing. However, as one TikToker found out, it is not always the better alternative in terms of engagement.

There's no shortage of Chipotle meal "hacks" by brand devotees who claim they've found a way to buy meals at a discounted price. Some of these hacks have been summarily shut down for burning up employees' time and wasting in-store resources.

Following interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve, the American labor market appears to be cooling down. American employers reportedly added 236,000 jobs in March, which is below expectations, and numerous online users complain that it’s harder than ever to find a job.

Normally, if a food delivery service like DoorDash messes up your order by grabbing/delivering another person's, you'd be pretty bummed out. For a TikToker who goes by T.swirl (@t.swirls3rdaccount), a delivery fumble ended up being an Easter miracle.

A TikTok chronicling ordering a Starbucks drink with light ice set off a storm of comments that exposed the folly of light-ice orders, even though some remained loyal to the concept and sided with the creator.

A man on TikTok claimed that his ex-girlfriend created fake job postings on Indeed to make herself more competitive in the job search, saying in a viral video that, “When it came time to negotiate a salary, she could use her fake company, write an offer letter to herself for 30K more than the other job was offering, and ask them if they could match it.”