I don’t eat fast food often enough to have a usual way of dealing with that. But i picked up a dinner at McDonald’s on my way home from O’Hare on Tuesday. And i didn’t notice that they’d given me a single fillet in my order of a double fillet-o-fish until i was seated on the plane and we’d left the gate.
So i ate it. If they’d given me a burger, instead, i would have thrown it out. Returning to fix the problem was obviously impractical. But if I’d noticed before boarding, i would have done that.
Maybe this just wasn’t a question for people who don’t eat fast food regularly. It just bothers me that i can’t really answer because it just happened to me.
Which was part of the reason I didn’t answer. The other part of the reason is that I might do either of two things listed, depending both on what the error was and what mood I was in: I might park and go inside to try to straighten it out, or I might just eat what they gave me.
To a person my age, what they are currently charging for shitfast food is enough for me to create a kerfuffle about their FUs. I get that I am ranting at people at the bottom of a messed up hierachy, and the assholes at the top end will not even notice, but I still want what I wanted.
I’ll order fast food from a drive through once or twice per year. The most common mistake (less common these days) is putting condiments on a burger I ordered plain. I might scrape off the crud, but more likely I’ll toss it. I’m not going to check it when they hand me the bag.
Yes, i eat fast food 2-3 times a year, always when I’m traveling. I haven’t gotten many wrong orders. My gut feeling is that I’d likely toss it, but in this particular instance, when it was impossible to complain, and the order was just less of what I’d paid for, i ate it
I can barely remember the last time I bought fast food at a drive-through, but I kind of feel like there’s an implicit sort of “you rolls the dice and you takes your chances” attitude necessary in that situation.
When I did so more often, I would just take a quick look in the bag to make sure I had the right number of the right type of items, e.g. “Okay, looks like two sandwiches and two orders of fries to me. Let’s go.”
Any problems beyond that were likely not worth going back to correct. They gave me onions? I can pick them off. I got a chicken sandwich instead of a burger? Oh well, I like chicken too.
The only exception might be if I’d ordered chicken for my wife (who doesn’t eat red meat) and got a burger instead. I might have to go back and swap that out.
Same here. I’ll also take note of whether it looks like items are the right size. I mean, if I ask for a Whopper, it’s because I’m hungry enough to eat a Whopper-size portion of stuff. Don’t be giving me no damn Whopper Jr. But if it’s some other Whopper-size sandwich, I can deal with it.
For people with short legs like me, those rings are never high enough. So, I avoid bar stools. They’re hella uncomfortable for me.
Wasn’t it Melinda Dillon he was married to?
I rarely go for fast food these days, but occasionally I’ll be inexorably pulled into the In-n-Out drivethrough line. Almost did it on the way home from my cardiologist appt on Monday…but I resisted! And I can’t even remember any mistakes that happened to me. Just lucky, I guess.
To a person of my age and budget, what they’re currently charging for fast food (that I mostly don’t like anyway) is enough for me to just not buy the stuff.
You’re entitled to get it. But don’t rant at people at the bottom of a messed up hierarchy, OK? Just ask them politely for what you actually ordered.
This seems to be a common observation in other areas. In our area, I never notice a line of any significance. It would dissuade me if I saw one, though.
Taco Bell? I think might have et there once, but we have a chain in this area that is like why would I bother with Taco Bell? Just like, if you are in the Portland area hankering for a burger, there is one place (small chain) to go to, everything else is just a waste of time.
