Finding a condom? Arrrgh.
Oh, Wendy’s is the best over here. I LOVE IT! Taco Hell is the only place that I have ever had this kind of trouble.
Of course, I don’t eat ketchup, much. When I go to fast food, I always try to get barbeque sauce. Wendy’s never gives me trouble, but McDonald’s CHARGES your for it! I buy 20 nuggets and they give me three packets of sauce – that is NOT ENOUGH! And any extra packets are 10 cents a pop.
a half-eaten Life-Saver in your hamburger…
I’m going to go with “half a Life-Saver”. Do I win?
That is DAMN eerie.
-Myron
While it lasted, the $.99 Texas Double Cheeseburger was one of the greatest fast food deals ever.
I’ve had a couple bad Wendy’s encounters down here in Texas… but pretty good on the whole. Vin, for no stirrer they get tossed from the park.
Mmm…Wendy’s.
The bag out the window is to improve service times. A lot of people don’t realize it, but as soon as you pull up to the speaker, a clock starts. It runs until you leave with your order. The times for each car are averaged together, and sent to the corporation for evaluation. Good times reflect good service, and thus bigger bonuses are awarded. The stores are also more likely to win stupid prizes, and company recognition. When a customer takes 3 minutes scrounging up that 96 cents, it eats away time, and annoys the hell out of the employees, who have the order ready at 64 seconds. By the time the car leaves, it can be as high as 195 seconds. Pretty wasteful considering there’s nothing you can do to force the customer to the nextwindow. By hanging the bag out the window, the customer is more likely to realize they’re going slow, and give in and break a dollar, or stop talking on their phone, or whatever it is they’re doing to slow things down. We had a lady yesterday get to the window, realize she had no money, and spend the next 7 minutes collecting pennies from her back seat in hopes of scrounging up the $10 she owed for her meal. It was horrible…
And to whover it was who said fast food places give so few ketchup packets like the money’s coming out of their pocket, that also ties into the bigger bonuses aspect. While the teenager making min.wage doesn’t benefit directly, you can be sure his managers are riding him to monitor the ketchup distribution…
I have no beef with Wendy’s except their lack of gravy. When did that happen?
Ah, the Wendy’s curse. They can’t seem to get an order right if their life depended upon it. I like their food but they always fuck up the order.
A new Wendy’s opened up in my neighborhood about August or September.
I have been there four times and four times they screwed up my order. I always order the same thing, a single with mayo, ketchup, lettuce tomato and onion with small fries.
#1. There was cheese on it. ICK, I love cheese but not on my burger. I ate it anyway because I was hungry.
#2. They failed to put on ketchup. That’s okay, I got some packets of ketchup intended for my fries so I will use less ketchup on my fries.
#3. They put, get this, SOUR CREAM on my burger. Yes, SOUR CREAM. The manager didn’t believe me but I insisted it was NOT mayo it was SOUR CREAM. I got a free “value” meal but I don’t eat that much so I have never collected it.
#4. They put cheese on my burger AGAIN.
Anyhow, I like their food but damn they suck to get it right. I realize that we buy cheap food at fast food places but for the love of Cecil, can’t we get what we order? We still pay for the food.
It plain ticks me off.
OH and BTW, you need to ask to make sure that the utensils are there.
And SANKA? Holy crap, that’s just gross. Even McDonald’s has brewed coffee and they always give me a stirrer even when I don’t ask for sugar or cream…I rarely drink coffee but SANKA? GROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
The Sanka and the lack of a stirrer take the cake, Vinnie. I was thinking it was an ordinary, two out of five star rant until you got to the Sanka. Then my Bullshit-o-meter went off the charts.
Seriously, SANKA?
I rarely eat at fast food restaurants, except for Taco Cabana and Whataburger. (I love bean and cheese tacos and Whatachicken sandwiches.) On the rare occasions I’ve eaten at Wendy’s, it’s sucked. And the reason I eat at Cabana and Whataburger is b/c their food is usually so tasty I forgive them their inevitable fuck-ups…if I ate anywhere else, like Jack in the Box (DO NOT GET ME STARTED!) or Wendy’s, I’d already be pissed off and, if Sanka were involved, very unlikely to leave with anything less than the manager’s head in a Value Meal.
Most fast food restaurants fuck up all day long. The question is: ARE THEY TASTY ENOUGH TO LURE YOU BACK, STILL HOPING AGAINST ALL ODDS?
Let’s see…the grossest thing I’ve ever found in food? It wasn’t at a restaurant, true, but back in college I bought an eggroll from a vending machine and it contained a gnat.:mad:
I still miss there (former) wonderful salad bar.
There’s a flip side, as with every rant. “Would you like some ketchup?” “No.” (Server dumps 50 packets of ketchup in my bag.)
Bleah. I hate ketchup.
OK, it’s minor. But I hate throwing away perfectly good food, too. So I end up storing the packets in my refrigerator in case anyone in my household ever wants ketchup for anything. But the only person in my house who doesn’t hate ketchup is my five-year-old son, who eats pretty much anything that doesn’t eat him first. (Watch your fingers when he’s hungry …) (And yes, I mean anything. Cream cheese and ketchup on a pickle with some lime juice to drink-mmmmm. Doesn’t that just make you hungry?)
[/hijack] It really comes down to the local store, how its managed and the quality of employees they can find. There’s a Burger King in Dallas that has never once screwed up my order. It’s not a Burger King thing-the one by my house screws up something on at least half of my drive-through orders; I don’t leave without checking, because I know I’m going to have to go back for something. But the one up in Dallas, I’d sometimes drive a couple miles out of my way for, just for the security of knowing I’d get what I ordered. (Sadly, I haven’t been even in that part of town in the last couple of years, so I don’t know how their quality has kept up, but I sure hope it has. It was a bright beacon of hope in the desolate wasteland of the fast food industry.)
I don’t do fast food anymore. I just go to 7-11 and nuke me a couple of beef bean and cheese burritos.
Finding snot on it?
Well I’m sure there’s nothing that the lowly drive-thru cashier can do about the fact that you get served shitty decaf coffee instead of the real thing (that is really bizarre, BTW. Every fast food restaurant I ever worked in in my teen years brewed their decaf. Huh.), but forgetting your straw, stirrer, napkins and cream and sugar is absolutely inexcuseable. They’re supposed to automatically set out every damn thing you could possibly need, and especially a straw, but especially napkins!!! I mean, every ketchup packet or straw or salt packet or anything like that is supposed to be set ON TOP OF YOUR NAPKINS in order on the counter so that the drive-thru person can keep their orders straight.
At least, that’s how I always did it, and I never got angry customers coming back in for something unless their sandwich was made incorrectly.
Go back and complain, you’ll probably gets lots of free food!
Oh, and Wendy’s may use lots of mayonaise, but they are NOTHING compared to Burger King. I have to threaten those people with bodily harm to keep them from slathering an inch thick layer of mayo on everything; even asking for “EXTREMELY light light LIGHT mayo” doesn’t cut it. Now I tell them to wave the bun over the mayonaise container and call it good. Still, sometimes I take a bite and mayo squirts out the sides. shudder
Why won’t Wendy’s give me mustard in a packet? They used to. I like mustard on my fries, and so I always ask for it. I certainly don’t expect them to put it in without asking, but for some reason, they have gotten rid of the packets of mustard. I still ask, and so now they have to get a little plastic cup, scoop some mustard into it, and put a lid on it. All the while, I’m sitting at the window and the clock is ticking.
And let me tell you, the attitude I get from the girl inside, (it’s always the same person) is fabulous. As soon as I ask for mustard, she turns around and screams at the grill…MUSTARD CUP! It’s as if I asked her to wipe my ass with her tongue.
I suppose I could do without the mustard, but I don’t want to. Frankly, I am a little worried about what else they may be putting in my precious mustard cup, but I needs my mustard.
Are packets of mustard a rare commodity these days? Would it kill them to by a box of packets and have them there at the ready. Wouldn’t it be more cost effective than the little cup and lid they give me?
I still get my mustard, and I guess it’s up to them to decide what’s cost effective, but I don’t like worrying about whether I’m getting a little poupon in my mustard.
Never eat the chili there
Take this from a guy whose first job was a Wendy’s.
What do you think they do with the old burgers they fry up at lunch rush but never use.
Swear on a stack of sweaty mash notes to Cecil.
NEVER eat the chili there
Now I feel ripped off. I’m competant for only $6.15.