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• dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They pay cooks less than $20/hour

  So their cooks get paid less than ‘cooks’ at McDonald’s? Fast food minimum wage is $20/hour throughout California.

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  • Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Why did you put “cooks” in quotes? Do you think fry cooks aren’t cooks? Churning out food in a hot kitchen is work, regardless of what you think of the end product

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      While most work is hard, and I dunno how bespoke this gig is, there’s a massive difference between a generic fry “cook” and a restaurant line cook/chef.

      Most fry cooks, like a Macdonald’s, are a finely tuned production line where most of the food is pre-prepped and premade (most of the “cooking” is done in a factory). The “cooks” in those roles usually just assemble the pre made components, and in the case of fast food, have finely tunes tools to serve their generic menu.

      A restaurant cook/chef requires significantly more attention to detail, skill, flexibility, and knowledge because most of the food is made from scratch, using raw ingredients, which is why there are culinary schools. Real restaurants can’t succeed with a kitchen full of deep fryers and teenagers pushing buttons.

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      • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        We’re already making the (existing) distinction between cook/chef though.

        There’s no apparent need for a “cook”/cook/chef distinction.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m not saying that McDonald’s isn’t hard work - I definitely agree with you there. I was just referring to the fact that McDonald’s food is fairly straightforward to cook compared to a restaurant where they have many different menu items and things are made to order.

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  • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Correct.

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