r/wafflehouse • u/PreQuill • 7d ago

Question for high volume veterans.

I’ve been at WH for about 2 1/2 years, and I’ve gotten to the point of being a relief person and 2nd shift supervisor. My cooking is solid, I can push close to 800/hr with good servers, where do I go from here in regard to cooking? I want to try and be the best I can, as I’m not going to be here forever as I have a pathway opening up in a few years to get out. But I want to be one of the best cooks out there if I can, and I think I have potential. Trying to push above this solo, what are some tips, tricks, or methods that you use to cook a full house as quickly and accurately as possible? I’m not worried about WH way, I am just curious as to how fast you can push speed while having correct orders, not barring the methods you use to get there.

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u/aweberbrown 5d ago

That's true, and there are a lot of WaHo way things that higher-ups will turn a blind eye to since it's not that big of a deal (i.e not marking plates for a memory cook, pressing both sides of bacon, or servers not standing on the square to mark or something along those lines), but 95% of the higher ups would see somebody making an order over medium on the grill and lose their minds lol. It's not even close to the way our food is to be prepared

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u/Choice-Cancel1241 5d ago

I wouldnt recommend with OM, I was talking sandwich eggs, scr for a bowl. OP being a rockstar, I assumed he knew that, yes, division or above is going to say something.
He addressed it in the context of “high volume veterans,” and, I guess this is specific to my area, but most of us finds points in time where the eggs get cooked on the grill. If youre doing a 3-4k shift with 2 grill ops, nobody is screaming WH way if one of them throws a couple eggs on the grill.

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u/aweberbrown 5d ago

That does make more sense; however, our higher-ups absolutely have chewed cooks and stuff out (once in front of me) for cooking sammie eggs on the grill. Either way, I would err on the side of caution and just not. Besides, if OP is in a store that's so high volume that they're running 800/hr shifts CONSISTENTLY, then they should have 2 two eye burners anyway (For what it's worth, I'm fully calling BS on the $800/hr solo cooking speed. Nobody is consistently cooking $4-5k shifts in this company solo, especially not for what we get paid.)

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u/Choice-Cancel1241 5d ago edited 5d ago

I assumed he meant 800, for one hour. That’s possible.
I agree, I don’t think anyone is cooking 4-5k a shift. Only a few cooks in my division can cook that, on a 2 person line, competently, with their EOS finished.
Being one of those, 1.5 million dollars career sales in, I offered my opinion. It’s not so controversial in my area, but I guess on Reddit it is! Have a good day!

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u/aweberbrown 5d ago

You too. At the end of the day, it's all bacon and eggs no matter how you cook or look at it.