Any of you live in Lexington and work in restaurants in the last 20 years
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I was a night cook at White Castle for 10 years. No drug screen for employment. The one on the corner of 5th and constitution. Be there at noon. On the corner. 5th and Constitution.
I worked at McDonalds on New Circle Road when hamburgers costs $0.15 and french fries $0.10. Cokes were a dime
No drug screening because nobody knew what drugs were. We could smoke anytime we desired but I don't smoke so I just watched.
No drug screening because nobody knew what drugs were. We could smoke anytime we desired but I don't smoke so I just watched.
I worked at McDonalds on New Circle Road when hamburgers costs $0.15 and french fries $0.10. Cokes were a dime
No drug screening because nobody knew what drugs were. We could smoke anytime we desired but I don't smoke so I just watched.
My father (born in 48) always told me he never smoked because he had enough fun just watching the ones that did act like idiots.
My Pops (1936) and still playing golf 3 days a week said he smoked pipes and cigs but in the early 70’s just quit. He never smoked the good stuff, but I have made up for him and a few others.
I worked at KLair from 1999-2001.
Worked at the Paddock in mid around '04-'05 (college roommate has owned it for better part of 20 years)...worked at a restaurant that was next door to it, Fresh Bite. Was also working as a bank teller and radio producer at ESPN then.
4 jobs...all to survive. Didn't last long though.
Not a ton of restaurant experience for me.
I was more retail...Abercrombie during the hayday in early to mid '00's.
Also was a friend of Bellini's owner back in the day.
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Bellinis. Bar manager; also worked for liquor company in Lex.
Nope wasn't familiar. Guy I know owned the place (didn't even know his partner) probably met the person you are talking about but it would have been in passing.
The parking lot doesn’t count
YES! Loved Burger Broil. Was devastated one year when I came home on leave at Christmas and it was gone. The indignity of being replaced with a McDonalds. Also remember Tommy's Hotdogs. One on Harrodsburg Rd near Campbell House and one on Nich. Road near KFC at Pasadena (Stone Rd back then) intersection
Does anyone remember Ollie's Trolley on UK's campus ... at the corner of Lime and Euclid? That would have been in the mid to late seventies, I'm guessing.
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Definitely stumbled into K-Lair stoned for spicy chicken many evenings in 2001. Thank you for your service.
Haha. Yeah, I worked in the mornings mostly. Hardly ever worked a night. I've always been a weirdo and get up ridiculously early...hence my 5am reply.
I would start shift there at 5:30-6:00...work the breakfast rusg....primarily cash register. Off by 8:30-9:00, back to Haggin for a shower and then off to class.
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I’m up at 3:45 every day. 5:00 on weekends.
I get up at 5:30 everyday, love it. Tv and phone off by 9, bed at 10. Helps me sleep
will definitely be missing some ends of Kentucky games this year
will definitely be missing some ends of Kentucky games this year
I have 4 teenagers. I only sleep when they let me
Been cooking @ Cracker Barrel for the last 12 years. I like it rough apparently, but I make good money so there's that.
Yep, a short hike from Holmes Hall were I was housed.
You’re one tough SOB! CB can take your soul if you’re not careful
My kid’s mom has worked in a CB kitchen in Cincinnati for about 18 years, and I had a short stint as a mgr there several years ago, so I know.There’s a reason their GM’s bank $150K plus! You basically sell your soul.
The amount of Karen’s you’d have to put up with in a Cracker Barrel must be staggering
Looks like it was just you and I ... maybe why they went out of business? I could have sworn I was buying enough burgers to support it myself. LOL.
Those K Lair burgers were nasty as hell. Didn’t stop me from eating way too many of them but nasty as hell.
I worked at Sal's/Drake's when it first opened when I was in school. Was there about a year and a half until I graduated.
I ate at The Fresher Cooker one night when my mother’s car broke down in Lexington. Must’ve been around 1982.
Damn I wasn’t born for 3 more years. For some reason I picture you around 40. You’re telling on yourself you should have just let it ride.
You’re one tough SOB! CB can take your soul if you’re not careful
There’s a reason their GM’s bank $150K plus! You basically sell
Yeah its funny they used to do wellness checks when u clock in, I would tell them they need to do them after the shift before we leave back into society.You’re one tough SOB! CB can take your soul if you’re not careful
There’s a reason their GM’s bank $150K plus! You basically sell your soul.
I’ve earned every year man. Doesn’t bother me a bit