One New Year’s, I went to a Subway at the Embarcadero, desperately hungry, and they ran out of bread.
To be fair, they were the only goddamned place open within a mile, despite the fact that there were going to be thousands of people in the immediate area. The store probably didn’t have enough space for all the bread they woulda needed.
Fosters Freeze is my arch nemesis. I always have to wait a good 10 minutes there (MINIMUM) for my food. Every time.
I was there with the now X one time and he ordered a sundae. They say it’ll be a minute. Cool. So we go and wait at the “pick up” counter. And wait. And wait. 3 customers come in after us and get their food. We’re still waiting. For a freakin’ sundae. Finally the X walks up to the cashier and asks what’s up with the sundae from hell (the “from hell” part is mine of course). The cashier screams to the guy in the back “you gotta sundae back there?” he goes “oh yeah, I forgot” she looks at my X “it’ll be a minute”
:rolleyes:
[My current fast-food complaint is that the chocolate shake machine seems to be “down” at a lot of places in my neighborhood. How can you go to a McDonald’s three times in a week and be unable to get a chocolate shake? It’s wrong on many levels. **
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Agreed 
I’ve decided that the Ice-Cream Machine is the most unreliable, useless machine known to man because no matter which restaurant one goes to, there’s NO ICE CREAM AVAILABLE BECAUSE THE MACHINE IS DOWN! Maybe all the ice cream machines can be rounded up and melted down for scrap or something.
Welcome aboard(s), Little Plastic Ninja!
The KFC near me seems to be chronically low on chicken. (Yes, I eat there enough to notice a pattern. I have a problem. Damn you Colonel Sanders!)
Anyhoo, a couple of weekends ago, I asked the drive-through guy why it was they always seemed to be out of chicken. He said they weren’t out of chicken, they were out of breasts. And whatever it was I ordered had to have a breast in it, so I had to wait. That was just the rule.
Which I guess is good – if I ordered a three-piece meal and got three wings, I could see myself being less than thrilled.
Does KFC in UK boil the chicken?
ewwww not as far as I know they don’t. I might complain about the wait, but the chicken is usually good (fried). Well as misery loves company, I’m glad to see I’m not alone in waiting for my ‘fast’ foodstuffs.
Agreed I’ve decided that the Ice-Cream Machine is the most unreliable, useless machine known to man because no matter which restaurant one goes to, there’s NO ICE CREAM AVAILABLE BECAUSE THE MACHINE IS DOWN! Maybe all the ice cream machines can be rounded up and melted down for scrap or something. **
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Is Microsoft making ice cream machines now?
Well, I just mentioned ‘burgers’ - I was actually talking about the Zinger BUrger (chicken) …mmm. 
I’d rather wait 5-10 mins than get a piece of chicken that’s been sitting under the heating lamp for 4 hours.
My friend’s sister works at KFC and we usually go there for free food. Since he knows how to use the cooker he "custom’ makes all his food (like a ‘double’ big crunch, or poutine with extra cheese and gravy).
The fish and chip shop that I used to fequent did not keep fish and chips sitting around. They always made it fresh when I ordered it, which is something I prefer.
No. For two reasons:
Because if it did they would have to change the name to KBC.
Because a pot of boiling chicken would be called soup.
Thanks, Kal. I hadn’t thought of that. :smack:
When I worked at Burger King some decade or so ago, I was also galled at the waste of food - if a burger sat under the heat lamps for more than 10 minutes, it had to be thrown out.
I asked why we didn’t just sell them cheaper, or give them to a homeless shelter, or any other solution than wasting food. The manager explained that food that’s been heated and let sit is a prime breeding ground for bacteria, and the corporate offices determined it was cheaper to throw away old food than it was to defend themselves against the inevitable lawsuit of “I bought this hamburger that was expired and it gave me rabies” or some other cockaninny story.
Yeah, if the fast food restaurant has a “buy at your own risk” sign above the expired food, knock yourself out …
$60?!?
At KFC?
Please tell me this is take-out for a lunchtime party somewhere, and not a family of four sitting down to snarf $60 worth of fried chicken in one pop…
Is Microsoft making ice cream machines now? **
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Uh, I think a little translation would be helpful right now.
“I’m sorry but the shake machine has broken down” …
translates into
“We just cleaned the shake machine and if we make a shake for you, we will have to clean it again.”
My first summer at McDonalds, I was working at a ghetto store where everything in the world was broken. The first week of June, the ice cream machine died. It wasn’t fixed until the last week of Novemeber, because it pretty much required an entire new machine, and the corporation didn’t want to put up that much cash for a dying store. Every day, for 6 months, we had people screaming and yelling because they couldn’t get their sundaes. It was insane. MY favorite was the lady who threatened us with calling the corporation…please, call them, maybe they’ll fix the damn machine…
You’re going to the wrong fast food places, dude… or, at least, you’re ordering the wrong things.
Avoid McDonald’s like the plague. Not only is their food actually infected with the plague, it’s overpriced by about 100%. A buddy of mine, the other day, had a BIG hankering for McDonald’s for some ungodly reason. He ordered a Double Cheeseburger for 99¢. To supplement it (because he didn’t think it’d be enough), he got a regular cheeseburger. It was only AFTER he sat down and enjoyed his food, and I saw his receipt, that I pointed out to him that the regular cheesburger was $1.09… 10¢ more than the double.
Yes, that’s right. McDonald’s literally charges you MORE for LESS.
Contrast this with Burger King… the Whoppers may be too expensive these days, but their regular cheeseburgers are 50¢, all the time. Sometimes, when I REALLY have the munchies, I just pick up six of them and gorge myself.
My favorite, though, is Carl’s: I’ve made their spicy chicken sandwiches a staple of my diet.
'Course, if I want REAL fast food, it’s In 'n Out, baby.
Let me just interject and say:
"cockaninny"
I love that word! 
In this “I want it fresh, and I want it yesterday” world, I can’t help feeling sorry for the food servers…they get the brunt of our verbal abuse.
A few years ago, I went into a Micky-D’s, and ordered a burger and fries. The poor cashier got a scared look on her face and said
“I’m sorry, but it will be 5 minutes for the fries to come up”
I laughed and said “hey! the day I can’t wait 5 minutes for my meal, I guess I can just go home and try to cook it myself faster.”
She looked SO SHOCKED and relieved, I figured she was used to being yelled at…poor thing.
I’ve about given up on fast food. When I want fast food, I go to one of the neighborhood Vietnamese pho restaurants. Now THAT is fast food. Beef noodle soup, in which you put hot sauce, sweet sauce, mint, lime…a positive bouquet of flavors on the tongue, nutritious, lowfat – everything fast food AIN’T!
I pity all the poor souls who’ve never experienced the delights of pho.