What area is Johnny Rockets in??? Area 1???

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TGIFridays 2002
Screamster 2002
Johnny Rockets Super Server Girl! 2003

I have never worked in Foods, so I don't know how they organize things - I think they go by Zones rather than Areas? I know that in my department, Johnny Rockets is considered to be in Area 1 (front of the park). Are you asking where it is located, or just what Area it is considered a part of? I am assuming that you know where it is, but if you don't, it is in the very front of the park... :)

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Area 2 Restrooms '01

Zone 4 Sweeps '02

Area 2 Restrooms '03 - Ready to show Cedar Point no mercy!

I think Zone 1, Area 1?
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Screamsters 2001
Millennium Force/Screamsters 2002
If I dont get out of here and find me a sweet bus station skank, I might do something disgusting that I might really regret!

Thanks!

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TGIFridays 2002
Screamster 2002
Johnny Rockets Super Server Girl! 2003

Well actually the foods stands in the front of the park are considered to be Area 1 but that does not include Johnny Rockets. It is technically under Area 9 (Franchises).

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Foods 98-02

Yeah Christie...Area 9 Franchises. I worked as an Area 1 Food Sup. last season and had to walk by those ridiculous dancers every day! ~Dusty

Hey Dusty!!!

It's Grac.....hows life treating you? Coming back for another season. Drop me an email sometime at grac_torres@yahoo.com

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Foods 98-02

Area41 said:
Yeah Christie...Area 9 Franchises. I worked as an Area 1 Food Sup. last season and had to walk by those ridiculous dancers every day! ~Dusty

You loved those dancers and you will love them even more this year when you come visit!! Smile Dusty!:) Look everyone wants you to come back!!

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TGIFridays 2002
Screamster 2002
Johnny Rockets Super Server Girl! 2003

Hmmm Dusty... Zack Korzelius and Adam Pearce... and some other kid from DL...

Mikey B loves our asses. That's for sure. Zack actually sent in his SFDL rehire just "to see what happened." Hah...

Hi Andy!
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TGIFridays 2002
Screamster 2002
Johnny Rockets Super Server Girl! 2003

Word out.

I'm going to be in NY in a couple of weeks! I'll come bug you guys!! Haha!! We are going to Buffalo Niagra Darien Lake something or another!! So I wont be too far away!! Dusty we can kidnap u and take u back to Sandusky!!

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TGIFridays 2002
Screamster 2002
Johnny Rockets Super Server Girl! 2003

Hey Dusty! Hope all is well, email me sometime! MiniMegs33@aol.com Kloc, I'd say hi but I already talked to you today.

Grac....IM me sometime!

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--Megan, Foods Unit 33.
Zones 5/6/7 Forever!!
http://www.angelfire.com/oh4/baseto61/
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I spent time in foods at another park, and just out of curiosity, how many areas does the park break into? And how is it done? By general location or size of stand or maybe some other catagorization? And how does the unit outside of the park work into it?

From my experience, the park i was at broke into two supervisor (highest seasonal rank) areas and then each unit had its own management team, one manager and one or two assistants. But then we were run with little seasonal management. It worked very well for us at the time. Out of four to six supervisors they would rotate "sides" daily or have set "sides" depending on the year. The one exception was the restaurant supervisor who ran the eat in locations.

If you're just talking about stands in the park (excluding restaurants and wagons) it's 3 areas. It's just divided into the front, middle, and back.

The hierarchy in areas is something like this:

Area manager

Area Supervisor- 4 per area, one of them is a head area sup

Specialty unit sup (bigger stands/saloons)

Head Unit sup

Assistant Unit sup

Auditors

Food hosts

I assume that a wagon is a "cart" or a "portable" (aka Lemon Chill or the Bavarian Nut guy).

It sould like the wagons and restaurants have their own area. Have the portables ever been attached to other units? Like one outside of the Raptor being attached to the Burger joint right up the way?

So basically the areas break into about 14 or 15 units in three areas. Sounds like an Area Manager is a full time slot. And what the heck is an auditor? To me that means someone who balances the drawers, trains on cash handling, "audits" drawers and generally worries about money and theivery. And if it is how it sounds it seems like that is a funny place for auditors to fit into the chain of command.

I assume that a wagon is a "cart" or a "portable" (aka Lemon Chill or the Bavarian Nut guy).

Yes.

It sould like the wagons and restaurants have their own area.

Yes.

Have the portables ever been attached to other units?

Not to my knowledge.

So basically the areas break into about 14 or 15 units in three areas

Enh... sort of.

Sounds like an Area Manager is a full time slot.

Yes.

To me that means someone who balances the drawers, trains on cash handling, "audits" drawers and generally worries about money and theivery.

They basically help count money and balance the drawers. The higher-ups take care of any problems that come up within there.

And if it is how it sounds it seems like that is a funny place for auditors to fit into the chain of command.

Not really, auditors are generally trusted workers that generally carry more responsibilites than your general food host.

I can see where that logic fits into the sceme. It's just that anywhere i worked (in or out of parks) the management and/or the cashier counted the money from the till. From there it would goto the vault/bank/accounting dept (or what have you) where it would be varified and recorded. In all of my experience the auditor was a seperate entity answering to someone outside of the unit. For example, the (using CP jargin) the Head Unit Sup (or the Asst when the Head wasn't there) would see to it that the registers were loaded and ready to go. The cashier would run the thing and then either the HU or AU would count or supervise the cashier in counting and then see to it that the money made it back to the vault. Auditors answered to someone else. They were not a park of the midway crew. Having a third party involved with the money just muddles it when shortages do occur. (The whole, "well so-and-so also touched the money) Less is better when you're talking about hands in candy jar.

But like i said, if i'm interpreting this correctly, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the way it's set up. Obviously if there was that wouldn't continue as the system. It could definately help keep management more focused on the primary job of running the joint and handling the staff. Which we all know is the most difficult part. After all money doesn't run away when you try to talk to it. It doesn't call off or fight with the other money. It doesn't flirt or talk to their friends outside of the stand. And you can most definately smack it around if it gives you some lip ;)

Actually, wagons were once divided into the zones (now areas) and run by those area managers, the last year for this was 1999, they were made their own area in 2000 (if I remember correctly, my seasons are all blending together now )

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--Megan, Foods Unit 33.
Zones 5/6/7 Forever!!
http://www.angelfire.com/oh4/baseto61/
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/cppride

Interesting you say that Megan. The park i was at went to the one manager for the carts in 98. It seemed to work out a lot better for us because when the carts were attached to a unit they tended to get closed more often during staffing crunches, or the worst employees would be banished to toil away with the Dippin' Dots :)