this is good.
Hint if they screw your order up complain,a lot
I have got so much free food from restaruants( thanks to my wife)its incredible.We go anywhere and if the order is nor right she complains.I try not to say much because I work in customer service(tech support on the phone,for car salesman)
but,free food is free food.
Howdy Y’all
Beerman
right beerman. Complain to much and you dont want to know what people do to customer’s food. I’ve seen it. aint pretty.
Rule #1…Always tip drivers and waitrons. They work hard at a shitty job and make less than minimum wage. Plus, they gotta put up with rude customers and clueless managers.
I tip 10% for lousy service, 20% for good service, 25% for excellent service. Keep in mind that they may may be having a rough day: for example, huge church groups that work them to death and then leave religious pamphlets as “tips.” I picture the waitron’s home scene: “Sorry, Sally and Billy Jr., no food tonight, but read this propaganda and maybe we’ll get into heaven when we die of starvation.”
Rule #2…Never, never, never eat at McDonald’s. I believe we reviewed the reasons for this earlier.
Rule #3…Maybe it’s just a regional thing, but I still insist that Taco Hell is the best place for fast food. Never had a problem with them. Wendy’s is a close second.
Peace,
TN*hippie
"But I guess that’s why they don’t sell 39 cent burgers at In-N-Out. "
mmmmmmmmmm…In-N-Out…mmmmmmmmmmmmmm (was recently in California, and ate there 5 times in 4 days to make up for moving to Texas.)
I moved Beerman over for this one, I’m the queen of all fast food gripers. I think that we average a free meal once out of every 3 meals. The overall one that I have is when you get items (beans etc at Taco Bell) and they don’t give you silverware. Now come on, I know that we have evolved from something, but to make me lick the bowl as I’m driving down the road? I get some seriously strange looks.
Mrs. Beerman 
For normal Fast food, its gotta be Taco Bell. After seven times, they usually manage to get my burritos right.
But for perfect fast food, Ya-Yas. Ya-Yas grills chicken. They have the best grilled chicken, in fact. It beats dad’s barbeque. They will slice it little and spread it over lettuce with a tasty yogurt dressing for a salad. My favorite, personally.
And service! My mother and I decided to swing by and get dinner for the family. I felt like a sald, she felt like not cooking, two large chicken salads would do my family of five just fine. We pull up to the voice o matic and get actual English, as opposed to the local fastfoodese. We order our two large salads, extra dressing on the side and are rewarded with a total of about $12, please pull up. We pull up and watch the worker staple a reciept to a bag, open the window and ask for our money. And hand us the bag.
We were stunned. This little chicken chain needs to spread across the nation. It is perfect. No dirty looks, fresh, good food, decent prices. I miss it.
In my opinion, complaining just to get something for free is the same as stealing. SOMEONE has to pay for that food-that’s why prices keep going up!
And as mentioned before, don’t fuck with the people who handle your food.
YOu might find a little “present…”
Went to Taco Bell one time to get my son and his friend a couple of kid meals with Earth Worm Jim toys, got home, the food was fine but no Earth Worm Jim. That was the kids whole point of wanting it. So I called and very politely complained, they said come back and they would give me the toys and some free food. Got there and they handed me a BIG bag of food and appologized. I think it helps to be polite when you compain.
Being polite sometimes help, that I can admit, it’s just really hard to when they do the same idiotic things over and over. No wonder it’s am minimum wage job, poor underpaid workers have no real reason to want to excell at this stuff.
Kitty
I used to work at a barbecue place in Atlanta, in the catering office, which was separate from the main restaurant. Every day around noon, we’d call our lunch order over to the restaurant, and someone would go pick it up.
In the two months I worked there, I don’t think the order was ever exactly right. They’d usually forget something.
You’ve gotta have balls to mess up the order that’s going TO THE OWNER OF THE RESTAURANT, the woman who can fire you.
Either that, or you’ve got to be really, really lazy.
I miss that place. Miss their food too.
Cordially,
Myron M. Meyer
The Man Who
Originally posted by WolfLover
Here’s my peeve: I just came from lunch at Taco Bell, and I’d like to know why the hell they don’t put the cheese next to the meat so it’ll melt, instead of on top of the taco so it falls out. I mean, does this make sense to anyone elase but me?
it would be nice if they did. it was one of the selling points for taco tico in Wichita, KS, haven’t seen any since I left there. I always seem to get a deer in the headlight stare from the staff when I ask for the cheese to be placed by the meat.
:DJust made my day, John!
I hate tomatoes. Seriously. They are fruit from the Pits of Hell, if you ask me.
It really frosts my shorts when I specify “no tomatoes” on a sandwich or salad, and the damn things are on there anyway. Or, almost as bad, I can see the tomato spoor on the sandwich or salad where they simply scraped them off. Yuck.
Went to a local Dairy Queen where they have both chocolate and vanilla soft serve. Asked for a chocolate cone - drove up to the window and the girl was passing a vanilla cone out to me. I told her I’d ordered chocolate, so she went back in and gave me a chocolate cone. Actually, what she gave me was the vanilla cone with the top knocked off and chocolate on top. What kind of pissy service is that?
I like Big Kahuna Burger!
Great Service, plus I hear they’re the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast!
As a Burger King slave for over a year, I feel the need to respond to some of these complaints. First of all, Did I notice which way the money went? Yes, did you? It went into the cash register! The employee doesn’t get that money. They get the same paycheck whether you show up or not, and they probably would rather that you eat at Wendy’s because it’s one less customer to deal with.
Continuing my comments on the complaints… The reason for this is that a good 75% of customers coming through the drive through will tell you the meal number, then stop. I wait a good five seconds, then ask them what to drink. They tell me, and then often go on to order another meal, and STILL not tell me what they want to drink. I ask them again. They will tell me, then stop talking for a while. I ask them if that’s it. They go ahead and order some more. I, personally, didn’t interrupt the customers, but I could see how someone would, seeing as how most of the customers are idiots that don’t know how to order. We have to force them to tell us what they want. Most of the time, any time we spend waiting for them to tell us their order is wasted time. We have to poke and prod until we get a complete order out of them.
As other posters have mentioned, a lot of fast food customers will just say “I want a Whopper,” when they really mean they want a Whopper meal. They just look up at the board, see the picture of a sandwhich, fries and drink, with the word “Whopper” above it, and they just say, “Whopper,” expecting to get the whole thing. It doesn’t even necessarily have to do with suggestive selling. I never pushed food on people. They never bought anything I suggested. They knew what they want.
So, yes, there are a whole lot of dumb fast food employees, but some of the sheer stupidity you will find in fast food customers will blow your mind. Ultimately, it’s the customers that make such procedures necessary.
I went to McDonalds on Saturday night.
Me: I’ll have 3 cheeseburgers, a small fry, and a medium Coke.
McD: Would you like double cheeseburgers? They’re on sale for only a dollar, only 11 cents more than you’d pay for a single one.
Me: No, thanks, I’ll have 3 regular cheeseburgers.
McD: Okay, would you like a fresh apple pie for only a dollar extra?
Me: No, thanks, just my original order.
McD: Would you like to make your meal a value meal, get a medium fry instead of a small, and your 3rd cheeseburger included for 50 cents less?
Me: No, thanks. Bye.
And, I drove away. They won’t take a simple god damn order.
This thread jinxed me. I swear. I was fine. I’m a college student I live on fast food. (Its better than cafeteria food)
Then I read this thread. Then I went to arbys. (It doesn’t get capital letters anymore. No more respect. Like when I start calling profs by their first names.)
I ordered a potato. They usually manage those well, and I like their chicken fingers. It tasted funny. Sort of tangy funny. And the ‘butter’ wasn’t melting. I watched this for a bit, thought about it, poked it with a fork.
Salad dressing/mayo. On my baked potato. Not…bad as in inedible … just made me no longer hungry. Got my money back. It was cute to see the girl who was just recieving her potato look worried when I gave mine back.
Perhaps because their boss is standing near by, and they have to push these sales! Sheesh, people!