Beer vs food

Both suck ,IMO.

 

Foodservice is a fast way for a young healthy guy to get ahead of the game financially and early in life.
I'd go that route before beverage delivery.

 

Agreed.
Food service paid 2.5x better with less hours. Beer had to be priced, rotated, damaged picked up at your cost, and stocked in the shelves/coolers. Food service, you roll it off the truck and drop it in the kitchen.

 

At the expense of his knees.

 

I wish I hadn’t had this lower back injury. I’d be doing food service.

 

I like both

 

Doesn’t some of this go back on us?

If all drivers refused to deliver beer for the rate the company wants to pay, it would go up

Goes for all of us and no matter what trailer we pull
If it’s cheap and no one will do it the pay goes up but if it’s cheap and they get it moved then it stays cheap

Sorta like the shower cleaner at the TS
I personally would do that job for the $$$ I make driving but they seem to have people doing it for less
Either that person made a poor life decision and has to bicycle to work
Or they made a good life decision and are home taking care of kids or parents or?? And it’s a job that allows this

 

I think foodservice gets paid better because a lot of times you gotta work graveyard. Then you have a little more responsibility in some instances. You have access to many restaurants, and you have to stack it in their freezers, not to mention rotate it. The beer vendors will roll it in and either drop it or merchandise it after check in, all of it during day time hours. Beer is more along the lines of Coke, Pepsi, those types of vendors. You'll be home every night there. Foodservice may require you to be away from home for some days. I looked at PFG some years ago, when I was younger, and that was the job description....if only I could have stayed out of trouble back then lol......both of which are backbreaking jobs with ridiculous turnover. A fat guy will lose weight very quickly lol

 

My dad's best bud was a driver for the local Coke plant years before the no deposit/no return bottles.

He had huge hands and used to grab 4 cokes at a time in each had while filling vending machines, etc.

He retired with at record of 40 years, their longest term employee.

He's 91 now and his knees are long gone and he sits in the chair playing solitaire on the 'puter living on pain killers...

Sad to see a mountain of a man looking so beat and broken.