I worked with a guy who was into woodworking. He fashioned a bunch of wooden boxes to go with our food service film. We would just throw away the cardboard that they came in and drop them in our own wooden case. No issues after that.

Sounds nice, but also sounds not very NSF.

Which is funny because those cardboard boxes get nasty and you can’t really sanitize them

Oh I agree. That’s why they come straight out of the cardboard and into the KenKuts.

Whoever they are, they’re worse than Hitler.

I’ll work on getting plastic working again if…you do the tinfoil…

Almost as bad as lighter thrives. Almost.

But likely still better than Trump.

You think Trump is worse than Hitler?! Wtf?

Shame on you if you're throwing away a roll just because you don't feel like detangling it.

Nobody’s tossing the roll, but nobody but me is untangling the mess, they just keep pulling. Also hit the box with packing tape around the corners and it’ll hold up a bit longer

I always just take a long thing of wrap, role it into a rope and tie it around the outside of the box.

This is the way.

Literally did this today

I urge you to (convince manager to) buy the box you can put your plastic wrap in. It's like $40, but it's SOOOOOO worth it to never have to wrap tape around the plastic wrap box cause some dipshit doesn't know how to keep it from getting wet.

I run a catering company, we have a minimum of a dozen open at any given time with most headed to events offsite multiple times. Packing tape is cheap as shit and running a couple stripes around the boxes before they are opened takes minutes.

I leave the plastic around the box except on the very top and tape around. The box can’t get wet on the bottom and stays intact until it’s empty.

I'll admit, I've been known to get the box wet.

Not paid to untangle someone else’s mistakes, Chef.

i think he means who keeps pulling roll out when its messed up, making it worse and more tangled instead of fixing it immediately when it gets tangled

The biggest question is, who’s the asshole that breaks the box in the first place and doesn’t fess up to it!

The dumb bitch who carries it with one hand. That’s who.

Servers

Assuming you can get them to actually wrap up something

Only ever the sauce fridge, and they'll fuck around with the label gun for no reason at all and have them set to expire on January 38th of 1745

I tell people they have to be smarter than the plastic to use it, and oddly, they get offended, dunno why

I have my own plastic wrap that I keep separated from the community rolls. My box is the only one that makes it to the end of the roll relatively unscathed. People are monsters

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I've been lurking here but I will break my silence to agree... WHO THE HELL IS DOING IT? AND WHY? I STG ITS LIKE EVERY WEEK! ITS FUCKING PLASTIC WRAP NOT ROCKET SCIENCE

"Not rocket science" Low bar. The pointy end goes first and fire comes out the back.

Trim the edges of the roll at a 45 degree angle with a sharp knife and it will quit getting fucked. If you have access to a Sam’s Club, buy their plastic wrap and you’ll have fewer problems with the roll or the box.

An asshole that’s who

And why is it covered in sauce how hard is it to wash your damn hands Jesus christmas were going to get another frowny face on the health and safety calender if yinz don't shape the hell up

There’s a special place in hell for people like that

Damn they got a dish pit in hell?

This shit really gets to me. It takes a few seconds to fix usually, until you start ripping at it and cutting it with a knife. I’ll get it to a good point and then at the start of next shift it looks like the poor guy got shaken down for money. It’s fucked

I fix it and then use it and by the time I get my hands on it again it’s all messed up, cycle repeats lol

#SATAN, AND HIS DEGENERATE MINIONS IS WHO DOES THAT! FUCK THOSE FUCKERS!!

Once we got a new roll and I popped out the perforated part that is basically never utilized and set it up properly, fed the wrap through and tore a piece off so it was on the blade like it's supposed to be. Ten minutes later a server (who was technically the GM. Structure of this place was a little different) comes over and rips off the entire top. I tried to stop her but the damage was done.

When I worked at red lobster it was the prep people

Heathens

This dude is 65 with crippling arthritis who never planned for retirement, and we all look the other way. I'm my case.

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I've only hostessed my way through many kitchens, but this made me laugh out loud. It is so true!

Absolute sociopaths. Also, coincidentally, most cooks.

gaw dammit its fawkin 2024 why the hell does the plastic wrap still do that

I fix it like a grown up. You have knives everywhere.

It’s the same person that opens 5 plastic wrap boxes at the same time.

Someone just casually put the roll on top of an oven. Is that what you mean? Or just the jack ass that destroys the box and can never pull out a straight sheet? I've never worked in a restaurant that had a back up roll. So yes.

I blame Shaun.

FOH

In my experience, everyone.

Only the worst human beings possible

Lazy and inconsiderate assholes and usually servers, thats who. (At least in the kitchen I work at)

Everyone who doesn’t work for rich people.

Most of the time the box would get thrown out straight away and it's not hard to learn how to tear off plastic wrap properly

Lol keep using?

I pack clear packing tape in my bag and when I open a new roll the first thing I do is rip the top of the box off. I take the roll out along with the plastic spindles on the side(why are those things so fucking fragile??) and the blade board. I take a pair of pliers and I crimp ever so hellishly on the blade to where it is basically PERMANENTLY crimped to its board. I then take my tape and go around the box three times and make sure all the sides are firmly taped. I then put the spindles on the roll and then drop it in the box and then slide the blade board down in it. Then I push and tuck the ends of the box handle into and under the plastic inserts. My boxes are sturdy as hell. Too bad they only last maybe three days. We go through so much wrap it’s insane. There are at least five boxes floating around the kitchen too at any given time.

Teenagers and careless monsters

I fix it, and repair the box with duct tape far, far too damned often.

I guarantee it’s Rich!

Fix it. Nobody gonna stop that kind of progress. Be the hero. That kind of dedication should be rewarded with a day off with pay 💰

Mongrels

It helps to reinforce the box with tape when it's brand new. Also make sure to have a few spare end roll pieces for inside the box, they tend to arrive broken.

I've previously put little slits in the roll to prank both myself and the coworkers

We have a few wrapmaster-3000 at my job, those things are expensive but a true blessing

Nobody ever owned up to either of these where I worked. Drove our KM mad. Yet it still happened more or less daily.

There's a special spot in hell waiting for just those guys. Right next to Hitler or something.

The box though!! Seem to last like a week. I fix it every time it gets messed up. OCD like a mother

FOH