Then I will be a social clod. I put out my hard earned money and I expect to get what I ordered. And no, I am not going to the end of the line because some idiot in the restaurant can’t get an order right. If they ask me to pull forward while they correct the order then I will.
If that offends you, tough.
IMHO you are entitled to at most 10 seconds to verify the order before you MUST pull away if no discrepencies are found. The drivethru is suppose to be fast first and formost, a convience second, and a place to actually get the correct order far last. The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who violate the 10 second rule.
Large orders are not exempt - you should not be ordering large orders at the drivethru - large orders take time and drive thru’s are about serving food fast.
Look into the bag if and see if the corrrect number of items (and basic shapes) are there, sip the soda if you must and drive away before the 10 second mark!
If you wish to insecpt the order more carefully , go inside, that’s where you should do that, not on a drive thru that is there to serve food fast.
How charming you are.
Does this actually help you win arguments in other arenas? Because I doubt it will help you in this particular thread.
Going through the line twice is a waste of everyone’s time. I don’t care about your estimates; I care about my time.
Julie
Julie, WTF are you going to do about it?!? The way I see it is that you can ONLY waste other people’s time by doing something you can do nothing about. And that is unquestionably rude, almost the definition of it.
I call a misuse of nomenclature. Expecting to get what you’ve ordered and will pay good money for isn’t finicky in the least.
Man, if checking your bag at the window is so rude…you guys are going to hate me. I was told a couple of times to move forward and my fries would be brought right out to me. Both times they forgot about me. so now if i’m told to move forward,I just smile and say “I,ll just wait right here, thank you.”
I know…I know. My wife gets pissed at me when I do this also.
But I figure, If I gotta wait, So do the people behind me.
If I get a wrong order once every 12 visits, and it’s typically a $4 sandwich, am I justified in the stop-n-check?
Am I the only dumbass who checks his order halfway home, and then has to drive all the way back to get if fixed? Not that it happens often, but they have forgotten the fries a couple of times. Can’t skip the fries.
Mmmmm… Beef Tallow. Tallow is a long chain hydrocarbon with a consistency somewhere between wax and solidified fat at room temperature. It is also a common flavoring in fast food. McD’s fries, for example, were fried in 93% beef tallow until the early 1990s.
Basically anything you order at a fast food restaurant has been processed well beyond an inch of it’s life. Actually… it’s probably been processed to death, reincarnated, processed to death again and then embalmed in a tasty mixture of artifical colors and flavors after being mechanically retextured in a acid etching reaction not unlike how synthetic sponges are manufactured.
That it bears even a passing resemblance to real food is grand praise for the artifice of the food technician in this brave new world.
However, your double quarter-pounder with cheese, add bacon, could be made to taste like strawberries, freshly cut grass, salmon, or any one of thousands of flavors available from a number of chemical manufactories.
Why you think it’s okay to use others’ time because the meat flavored synthetic sponge has a few picoliters of artifical chicken flavoring rather than artificial cow flavoring is not beyond my comprehension… I just find the preference for one over the other amusing.
Has someone been reading “Fast Food Nation” lately?
I’m one of those diabetics who have occasionally been given regular coke.
That’s why I ALWAYS check it before pulling out, there have been several occasions when I have had to dump and entire cup and have nothing to drink with my meal.
If I’m by myself, I’ll check the bag, if I’m with the kids, I’ll pull over.
One thing that really gets me though is the Wendy’s by my house has a bad habit of forgetting to give a straw. It’s their policy to not give it when they give the drink, but to put it in the food bag and half the time they forget to do it. Now I ask for the straw when I get my drink.
SmackFu- No, I haven’t. Is it any good?
Odinoneeye bring ups an interesting point and pretty much the only one I would accept as a compelling justification for wanting to check your food- to make sure it doesn’t have anything it in that might kill you rapidly.
In the case of food allergies, though, I don’t think I’d place much trust that my food would be free of cross contamination from, say, pickles, just because I ordered my sandwich without them.
I dont believe what I am seeing here.
You go to a drive thru because of convenience. Do we then sacrifice accuracy and my satisfaction for that? I order food at a walk thru, do you think its easy getting back in to the person who gave you the food to correct their mistake? You gotta go thru some stares and wait behind the guy being serviced and time your complaint well.
In a drive thru, if they screw up, then you people want me to park my car, get out and try to talk thru a window designed for people in cars just to tell them they made a mistake? I dont think so If They screwed up, the delay is their fault. If they didnt screw up the delay is minimal. CMON people, its a bloody 60 seconds! Are you all so harried and stressed that you cant wait one frikken minute?!
I’m with the “you’re paying for it, you should get what you paid for” crowd.
I don’t know where some of you live that your fast food service is nearly impeccable with regards to little or no errors in your food orders, but in my neck of tbe woods, it’s definitly buyer beware, for ALL fast food chains.
When they get the order RIGHT it’s the exception rather than the rule, and except for lezlers (I think it was) description of people that are OH so slowly and OBVIOUSLY taking their sweet time with everything and are obliviious to those behind them, most people who visit drive up windows here are willing to wait the 10-30 seconds the driver ahead of them takes to check their order.
I also agree with the poster who described being asked to “pull ahead and someone will bring it out”. Um NO they don’t, you sit there forever and finally have to go in and remind them. I do the same thing as the original poster, I smile sweetly and say “oh, that’s okay honey, I’ll just wait here in case your clerk gets lost again” (or some such).
How fast do you think they’ll move if you’re blocking the lane as opposed to if you’re safely out of their hair??
That said, I agree that “checking your order” shouldn’t consist of an FBI caliber inspection of each and every item including unwrapping it (unless said restaurant routinely does something strange to one of your items and you’re checking for that).
Also, a comment to the person who disagreed that going in to the store to get your order corrected slows everyone up. Um, hello? How well staffed, and what caliber of worker exists in your fast food restaurants anyway??? Here it’s almost exlusively teens on qualuudes (okay not really, they just move like it :D).
And the times this has happened to me? Once a customer comes in from the drive-in with an incorrect order, the whole STORE comes to a screeching halt. Everyone has to join in the fray to see “whose fault” it was, who is supposed to fix it…The drive through window person gets called over by the manager, and on and on.
So now, oh YAY (sarcasm) you’ve gotten your car out of the way, but believe me, those 5 cars that were behind you? Waiting for their turn? They’re still waiting, but now they’re going to be waiting even longer than they WOULD have if you’d have fixed your order at the window.
Their window person is now being chewed out by the pimply-faced teen assistant manager, who’s already in a bad mood because he had to work on a Saturday night. The cooks have stopped microwaving burgers to watch. The person who’d been out on the floor bussing, has hightailed it to the bathroom to wait out the storm.
And the people out in the cars wonder WHAT on earth is going on, and now they’re mad at the next guy in line who pulled up to the window and whom it seems is the cause of the delay.
UGH, what a mess, no wonder I rarely go to these places anymore.