Our flattop has been catching fire and we've been needing to put it out with the extinguisher and having to turn it on to clean and I'm just wondering if I'm in the wrong here. I'm worried about contamination, but our kitchen manager (bill) has been acting like this about it. (Also yes, hopefully the flattop will be fixed tomorrow, but we'll see)
by Spunkyguy02
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Bill a bitch
pretty sure if you use an extinguisher in the kitchen the health dept has to come open you guys back up. also your grill is on fire. you shouldve left last year.
Lol dudes like “but it’s just a little bit of toxic chemicals on the hamburgers”
You should not be using equipment that is faulty. Full Stop.
Your manager knows this but does not want to hurt sales.
The use of a fire extinguisher in a kitchen environment would require a full deep clean involving shut down.
Give your local health inspector a call. Please.
Bill just terminated himself with these texts. If you were remaining open for the owners sake and greed, a limited menu should have been executed with foods that don’t touch the flat top until it is repaired. If there are burners and a salamander, cast iron skillets are always an excellent backup to keep wrapped up on top of the walk-in with the secret stash of towels.
Flat top catching fire is not a normal thing, regularly using an extinguisher in the kitchen is definitely not a normal thing. Fire extinguishers are for emergency use only.
Why the fuck is your flat top catching fire?? Gas leak? Massive grease overflowing from the trap? Whatever it is it seems the priority should be getting that shit fixed
the (-coworker) after Bill really sends this home. Calling a Manger a coworker is petty in the best way.
Bill is the toxic chemical
Sounds like a gas leak to me. Call the fire department, the health department and OSHA, in that order
Bill sounds like a dick
I had a km like this. He is no longer my km.
Does the owner know this is happening?
Bill is what I call an arm chair specialist or a professional moron with an ego. Sounds like he’s the only one that’s “interjecting when he knows nothing about the situation”. Someone already said health and safety needs to come in and give the ok to open back up, pencil pushing, corner cutting, bottom liner.
He doesn’t want to go the long way around to ensure safe food production but he also doesn’t make sure the equipment isn’t faulty to avoid the situation in the first place. I swear these people are made in a factory using the same mould, they’re all the same flavor of idiot.
Bill seems like a real dick
Dry chemical extinguisher should definitely not be touching food.
And why isn’t it getting repaired? Between the wasted labour for clean up, the loss in sales, and the cost to refill the extinguisher it’s going to eventually cost more to keep dealing with it rather than repairing it.
Honestly, I’d contact the health department about the texts, contact the fire department about the same piece of equipment catching fire, and find a new job. I’d also consider pulling the Ansul for each fire, that chemical is not cheap at all. Maybe then they’ll repair it.
I think you know the answer to this, but let me frame this in a different way.
Would you rather;
A.) Keep working at your dead end job with not enough in the way of pay and then find out down the line that those chemicals from the fire extinguisher gave you cancer.
B.) Report this travesty to every authority you can, thus protecting yourself and others from risk and potentially be out of work for a week or 2.
Either Bill sucks at his managerial job or he’s stuck in the middle of trying to get it fixed with the boss but the boss won’t let him and he’s sick of the problem.
I’m gonna go the former though.
Stop fucking around, and call the non emergency fire number. Explain to them what is going on. If NO ONE in your kitchen knows how to fix this FIRE and HEALTH HAZARD just fucking go. I’m fucking squirming how easy this is to fix. But it’s not your fucking job. Please don’t serve food that you know got treated with fire extinguisher chemicals. Please.
Wtf kind of manager does this?? If this happened on my shift, the grill would be shut down immediately, emergency services would be called, and anything that cannot be cooked without the use of the grill would be 86’ed. This isn’t hard.
You are getting fired.
First of all, if you discharge an extinguisher, you must discharge the whole extinguisher. Having half full fire extinguishers lying around is unbelievably dangerous.
Second, “our grill has been catching fire” is a wild thing to say so casually. And you’re right, you shouldn’t be using fire extinguishers around food and then just carrying on with service.
You need to call the fire dept.
Get a new job, he’s going to get that place shut down
Where in MN, so I can avoid this places grill menu😂
Bill shouldn’t use words that are too big for him, as you typically don’t interject “in” something but “into” or better without any preposition entirely. I feel like bill is the type of guy who’d get really mad when corrected.
And a bit less petty: please all of you refuse work on that flat top. It’s not safe. If you don’t even know what causes it it’s genuinely very dangerous.
Is that a boss of any kind? You asking if it got of the food and being told (with really shitty grammar) to stop interjecting would be enough for me. Someone is sensitive with a shitty attitude.