Fuyumi Todoroki Works At McDonald's

A Week Later

Her time at McDonald's has been enjoyable so far. Her coworkers were nice, and the customers were always friendly. Minus the few assholes but thankfully, she doesn't have to deal with them. That's where Takahashi comes in. An intimidating looking man with a heart of gold and cuddly as a teddy bear. She always appreciates his help.

Having one weeks worth of work at McDonald's, she's come to the conclusion that it is nice and easy. After working the front for the whole week now, she can finally begin what she originally applied for. Kitchen. Grill, deep fryers, the line. The heart of the restaurant, where the food is cooked and prepared and served.

The kitchen makes or breaks the restaurant as it is up to them to make sure the food is quality and proper to serve.

(A/N: I used to work kitchen, and we got so much shit for stuff we had no control over from front but the managers never punished us cus they knew we would fuck them over if they did. They needed us. Also fuck morning and night shift crew.)

That's where Fuyumi wants to be. Working kitchen and making tasty food, as tasty as McDonald's can get.

Today is the first day that she'll be taught how to work the kitchen, and the first thing they're having her do is cook the meat patties. Regular patties to be exact.

The grills are relatively simple.

Don't do stupid shit and you'll be fine.

"It's simple, really." Said JJ, the young man who is currently in charge of grill. Not much is known about him, but he's chill, and everyone likes him. No one knows his first name either except for the boss, but even they call him JJ. He's been tasked with the job to teach Fuyumi the grill and make sure she doesn't mess anything up and/or burn herself. Grill burns are really painful.

JJ is a relatively kind man, always supporting others and making sure they do a good job, sort of a natural leader kind of guy.

"You grab a stack of patties from the freezer right there on the side, grab eight in total. You could use one or two hands, however you feel comfortable but I use one and go like this" JJ stacked 8 patties into one hand and hovered slightly above the grill surface and dropped each patty one by one.

"Once you drop them in there, you press this green button down here, and it's gonna bring the press down right on the patties and cook them to perfection. "You gotta make sure the patties are centered perfectly. Otherwise, part of the patties will stick out and will not cook. Should that happen, just turn it around and press with the spatula until it is cooked. Better slightly overcooked than to serve raw meat. Not protocol, but I personally would prefer that shit than pink ass burgers. Sorry for cursing. That's just me."

"No, it's fine. I don't mind it. What comes after the patties are cooked?" Fuyumi asked, curious what's next.

"See this timer?" JJ pointed to a tiny screen right on the grill. "Each press has a timer. Once it goes off, the press will come back up, and once that happens, grab this yellow dispenser and season the patties. Make sure they're all evenly seasoned." JJ demonstrated how he seasoned them and placed the dispenser back. "Once that's done, you take them out. Grab the metal spatula and slide it eight underneath the patty. You gotta do it right so no meat gets stuck to the grill." In one swoop, he scooped up all four patties onto the spatula in perfect fluid motion.

Fuyumi was impressed. She began clapping. "That's amazing.

"Practice makes perfect, but for your first time, you could do it like this." JJ scraped the patty off and placed on top of another one, scooping that one up and placing it on top of the third one, and then the fourth one and picked them all up and placed then on the yellow tray. "Never forget the sheets. Otherwise, the tray will get super greasy quickly."