Any (EX, Or Current) Pizza Place Workers? Need Some Advice

I use to be a driver for a local place...nah making pizzas is easy, but can get stressful depending on how busy it is on any certain night.

 

you sure do have a SHIT load of plans for the money you're planning on making at Pizza Hut bro, lol. but i support big dreamers so...!

in terms of the environment, your friend getting you the job is the best person to ask about that one. even if she's a delivery person she'll know what goes down in the kitchen. def. ask her!

hope you get the job

 

depending on how they make it, its about 7-8/10 to make pizza's once you get the hang of it. where i used to work about 4 years ago had a heat press, place dough in the middle, bring it down and it would stretch the dough out, picked it up and stretched it out by hand a little more to the desired size. then comes sauce cheese and toppings, with a spoon or two of sauce, and about 1-2 handfulls (both hands) of cheese, and toppings accordingly (depends on pizza huts recipes obviously).

as far as drug testing, the place i worked was a mom and pop type of shop, and near the beach, so the owner blazed and didnt care if you did, as long as you got the job done without it affecting your performance (in a negative way haha). but im 75% sure that pizza hut will test you when you are hired, not sure on during.

dont know if youve worked in other kitchens, but it will be pretty fast paced. most of the work in pizzas is waiting for it and making sure it comes out perfectly cooked. we used to have 2 pizza overs stacked up on top of each other. i think pizza hut uses an automated system where you place the raw pizza at one end of an oven, it walks across a long oven like on a platform, and comes out the other size ready for boxing and delivery, but im not 100% sure on that.

as far as advice, definitely pay attention when they train you on how to actually make the pizza. a big part of this job is consistency, and being able to multiply that consistency all day long. record it in your mind, create a procedure for yourself, and repeat it. really practice it, you know. for me it was repeating it in my head to make sure i never forgot anything. dough, press, stretch, put it on peel (large wood/aluminum spatula), sauce, cheese, toppings, oven.

careful with those ovens. we used to have ours running at about 450-500F, so you burn easy and you burn quick. try and protect your arms, hands, and fingers because in pizza making, they ARE your tools.

have fun with it. pizza making is actually a lot of fun if you see the fun in it. id take a toke out of my one-hitter before my shift sometimes, and boy, watching those pizzas twirl in the air with the radio blasting in the back, they were fun times.

plus, you cant beat the pizza hook up

 

are you 12? lol. you have never made a home made pizza before? you raise the dough, kneed it flat, add tomato paste, cheese and toppings, throw it into the freakishly hot pizza oven, and in no time flat you have a pizza.

If you want my advice, the work place is basically just a pig pen. There's the more dominant individuals (not necessarily based on size) who try to run everything and boss every one around. Don't get baked before or during work, get baked after, otherwise your shifts turn into this weird time shift dimension of shit where you're so high you can't function, i've been there when I have worked in a kitchen. Don't start fights, and do your best, it's fucking fast food. it's easy.

 

Really, bro? Is he twelve years old because he hasn't been hand kneading pizzas in his mother's kitchen for years? Ehhh...

 

I worked at Pizza Hut for 3 years when I was in high school. I wasn't drug tested before or during my stint there. If PH began drug testing, they would lost most of their employees. At my old shop, there were a total of 3 out of the 20 or so people who worked there that didn't toke; This old guy that's been working there since 1983, and still does (no joke) the GM and this chick who was 17.

I loved it. My main manager was a backyard wrestler and crazy as fuck, and still a good friend of mine, another manager I had was also crazy as fuck and both of them smoked me out a lot.

The job did suck sometimes, I'm in Orlando so it's really busy, especially on Friday nights. Expect to get slammed on weekends and big holidays, especially the superbowl. PH always comes out with a new thing on the day of the superbowl, they've been doing it for years. However, I'm in a very college-town type place, just between Valencia Community College and UCF, so there was a lot of college girls and that was a big plus.

The pizza isn't made in the traditional way. PH uses frozen disks of dough that you get from the truck, which are left to thaw and rise overnight. The assembly of the pizza is easier than at a lot of pizza places, in that you don't have to weigh out your toppings like at Little Ceasars. (although that may have changed by now, this was years ago)

I ended up quitting because my main manager got fired, and this dick GM moved in and made a whole bunch of stupid changes that made it really suck to work there. All the people I liked quit, so I quit too. Only reason I liked it was because the people were awesome, and once they were gone there was no reason to stay.

Hopefully your experience will be cool, like mine was. Good luck.

 

easy peasy. pizza hut is lazy and they use premade stuff and they use measuring cups for ingredients. so if you can take dough and stretch it to a certain point your golden

90% of my staff smoked. ha. yeah no testing.

all depends, same with any place for that matter. different people everywhere want to run things their own ways. my store was layed back during week beside rush hours, with weekends non stop busy. but this was in a pretty big town.

btw if you can, you might want to look into delivery. insiders made shit money