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is frontliner a legitimate job for one person in restaurants?

I don't mean legally, of course it's legally a job, but I'm wondering what the general opinion is if you're the frontliner. at my job at a Wendy's, I'm the “frontliner” which I didn't even know was a job, I just assumed it was “The cashier” but no. the person at the cashier isn't only meant to take orders and hand them out. they're also supposed to: take out the trash clean up the lobby so it's always looking nice(including the restroom) become the janitor at the end of the day to spend 3 hours cleaning the entire front-end of the restaurant solo.(bussing tables, sweeping, taking out the trash again, mopping, cleaning the restroom, cleaning the trays, and more) make sure you don't run out of lemonade work on the fries do the dishes help take back this giant thing for all that fryer grease help stock up the mini-fridges…


I don't mean legally, of course it's legally a job, but I'm wondering what the general opinion is if you're the frontliner.

at my job at a Wendy's, I'm the “frontliner” which I didn't even know was a job, I just assumed it was “The cashier” but no. the person at the cashier isn't only meant to take orders and hand them out. they're also supposed to:

  • take out the trash
  • clean up the lobby so it's always looking nice(including the restroom)
  • become the janitor at the end of the day to spend 3 hours cleaning the entire front-end of the restaurant solo.(bussing tables, sweeping, taking out the trash again, mopping, cleaning the restroom, cleaning the trays, and more)
  • make sure you don't run out of lemonade
  • work on the fries
  • do the dishes
  • help take back this giant thing for all that fryer grease
  • help stock up the mini-fridges and make sure we don't run out of sauces or drinks for the machines.
  • do whatever the managers happen to ask you to do (even unusual and hard to clean things like the back of a fridge and the frosty machine

all while only ever getting a break once a day *if* I happen to be working 8+ hours. obviously, I ask a lot for those breaks when I am working 8-9 hours.

obviously, the hardest job is the sandwich maker, which spends several hours standing there making hundreds upon hundreds of sandwiches, solo. but my job still feels like a lot just for one person to do, especially during rushes and hard days.

but despite all of that I feel like I might be stupid and complaining about nothing, or complaining about a soft job that doesn't require much skill, but I'm going to ignore that feeling for now so I can post this, just so I can know wether that feeling is correct or not. is this like, a job that should exist? should there be at least two people working this job? or am I complaining and being weak?

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