Right, Imagine asking that question for 8-10 hours a day, from 5am to 3pm or so. I know what you're thinking, who, honestly, who would choose that life? I didn't choose, but my bills sure chose, things like rent, auto, renters, and health insurance, credit card payments, and bank accounts. THAT is who chose, if it were left up to me, I would start my own business and clean my house a lot. I spend days at home experimenting making new juices and smoothies for my future smoothie/juice bar I plan to open on Park Ave. Everyone who had a birthday would receive a card in the mail from me, friends who live in far away lands wouldn't have to wait so long before I could call them again...unfortunately none of those things (at least not right away) allow for any of those bills to get paid.
Anyways, I no longer am a slave to dunkin donuts, instead I work in insurance, and spend time helping people, or calling people telling them they are late on their payments, when I myself haven't quite found the time to pay my own auto insurance. I work 50+ hours a week, and only get paid for 40, and my boss is most often inn appropriate, and even more often obviously sexist. But I fight those battles every day so that I don't have to work at dunkin donuts.
I told you I would find some time to tell you all about my adventures in the dunkin donuts world.
Working in Dunkin Donuts, despite what many may have heard is certainly no picnic. In order for them to be qualified in any realm of sanitation in any way at all there had to be rules. I mean, there were rules, and making rules. There were unflattering terrible uniforms, with even more uncomfortable headsets (for the drive thru) and if all of that wasn't bad enough...there were "up selling phrases" everyone was "required" to say. Personally I didn't take part in that, not because I'm a bad employee, but rather because I knew what I was selling could be partially blamed for the death of certain people, of that much I was sure and certain.
There is mopping that occurs 2-3 times a day
There is re-stocking
The "sandwich" egg/meat are refreshed every 10 minutes (so only the freshest most processed foods are ingested)
There are specific orders in which the coffee, sugar and cream/skim milk/2% milk are to be added to the cup.
You MUST write the order on the cup.
As for the severe health downsides...
Here's one or two things to think about:
One Large Iced Dunkin Donuts Coffee / Latte = 32 ounces. That is far too much for anyone to consume, and incredible unhealthy.
The Delicious coffee cake muffins, amongst a few other muffins, have 400+ calories in them.
in ONE muffin folks...ONE muffin.
All of Dunkin's health info can be found conveniently at their website, but certainly not in store. They also are sure to keep the health information from their employees, and should any find out, we were instructed fiercly not to report our findings, or what we knew, we were instructed to instead, refer customers and consumers to the website for specific ingredients.
That would have been fine with me except that there was the slight issue involving ingredients for less than just health purposes, for food allergy. We had to appear dumbfounded and useless when asked questions regarding ingredients in order to protect the Dunkin name.
Here are a few other fun tips:
All the donuts in the greater Rochester area come from ONE donut shop in Buffalo. At said shop the donuts are all prepared at 3am, at which point they are driven to Rochester for store openings at 5:30am. By the time those of you who enjoy these "treats" or "death sentences" depending on which side of the fence you sit on, by the time they reach you, or your mouth, they've already been shelved for almost 12 hours. How about that one to think about?
Just a few notes on my experience at working at dunkin donuts, it is only opinion, and while i appreciate the job, so that all those bills could be paid, I'm not sure how i ever worked there.
So then after working there, i officially loved the D&D medium iced coffee, with 2.5 pumps of Carmel...This was until just recently really, I've been off DD for about a month now, but it swear they put something in their coffee to keep you coming back. Folks there is nothing cool about DD...find a cafe, if you're a real coffee drinker places like Starbucks and DD can't be pleasing because (and i was a Barista at a few real cafes for some time) they don't make half the drinks the right way.
Well, another post later, on the most delicious round of smoothies Jeremy and I have come up with, our latest on meatless Mondays, and how we're surviving life without meat, a posting of a "Day in the life, Raw food lifestyle at 50-50 for now"
Until next time....keep keepin it healthy, have you tried a new fruit yet today?
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