I think 30% is low. I’ve seen 100+ lobsters, 100+ steaks, 200+ salmon, and more in a single night. It was very frequent, no one who worked there paid much for food since you could live on the Munchery diet as we called it. Every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (and Sunday at one point too) were big giveaway days. At least 2000 meals per week were given away.
Best side job ever. But I said this years ago when I started, “how can they keep giving away this much food?”. I was told it was never a profitiable buisness and it was kept alive by investors. They did pad the tip pool, especially around the holidays. But typical pay was between $20-$25 an hour with tip, $15 without tip. It was less but it’s always been minuniun wage for SF.
The one thing the food did do was keep everyone very happy and loyal to the company. Most have been there for 5+ years, a few since near the beginning.
I never understood why they missed the mark so much in predicting the amount of food. The last few weeks, they have been making less food, letting items sell out.
My biggest complaint is I didn’t even get notification ahead of time. In the middle of the shift, they shutdown and told us we’re being laid off. Everyone is scrambling to find new jobs as no one is getting paid anymore and no one knew it was coming this quickly, we all thought at least another 6-8 months. Even a 2 week notice would have been nice. I found it very disrespectful to just close one day with no notice to your employees that this is coming.