The Food Service Rant thread

How long does the typical MBM Olive Garden delivery take? I was doing my new Friday route and I saw an MBM truck at Olive Garden usually I see him there at 9:00am, but my new route has me going by that same Olive Garden much later. Anyhow He usually gets there at 9:00am and I saw him there also at 11:30am and 12:00pm I mean was he dropping off the whole truck there?

 

That's probably not out of the question. I can spend 2+ hours at a 400 case Applebee's delivery. Lots of frozen and refrigerated product, and those kinds of restaurants aren't exactly walk in the back door and drop the stack kinds of places. I can spend a lot of time snaking thru the place and waiting on people to get out of the way, as they're getting ready to open for lunch.

 

I heard the 'U' word flying around here over the winter. I had no idea where it came from, but apparently it was from MBM drivers in Ontario winning their court case that allowed them to withdraw from the teamsters.

I don't know how that turned into 'I heard they're trying to get the union in here' but I suppose that's how rumors go. McLane has made it very clear that there will never be a union house in this company. Which is fine by me. I've already wasted enough money with the teamsters.

 

What's funny is I always thought mclane was union as that's what I always heard.

I find most trucking companies kind of follow the union structure (bid on routes, senior man gets the best etc).

I remember when I was a fleet manager at jb hubt the very first video we had to show the newbies wasn't a welcome to jb hunt or a safety video but a say no to unions no matter what video and it was one of the longest videos too lol

 

Once in a while the U word comes up too, but not that often.

 

Local 63 is mbm ontario carls jr dc

 

Teamster

 

anyone know anything about UNFI out of Montgomery NY as a delivery driver?