Sheesh, if they were smarter, they wouldn’t be working at McD’s.
My husband has a rabid dislike of condiments and pickles. When he orders a burger, he orders meat, cheese and onions on a bun. That’s it. Nothing else.
So one day, I go to McD’s to surprise him with lunch. I go in (cuz the drive thru people can never get it right), order a cheeseburger with only cheese and onions. I open the bag to make sure everything’s in there, and sure enough, his sandwich feels kinda light. I opened the wrapper and sure enough, there was a sandwich with only cheese and onions. I learned to be a little more specific after that.
Robin
P.S. Don’t get me started on the moronicness of fast food customers.
My ex-roommate worked for great hamburger joint. There was a regular customer who would come in and order a hamburger on wheat bread with no meat. Carla, my roommate, would call out the order as a “hamburger on wheat, no meat!”
If you’re ever in Austin, Texas, stop by Dan’s Hamburgers on S. Congress. Delicious burgers.
Silver Fire, I was at a Jack in the Box once during a long road trip and the guy in front of actually order a burger hold the burger.
Wanted a Sourdough Jack or something and wanted everything left off except the cheese, extra cheese.
The counterperson was very confused but the guy was eventually able to explain that he just wanted a grilled cheese sandwich. Paid for a Sourdough Jack, though.
Let’s see if this link works. If it does take you to the “secret words” for In and Out Burger note what happens when you order (even if it ain’t on the menu):
Grilled Cheese, Veggie Burger and On The Sal. http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/sleuth/sleuth2a.htm
Yeah, right! The staff isn’t even expected to be able to read – they have to have pictures of the items on the cash registers. McDonalds wouldn’t even consider that their customers could type. And they’re probably right.
I love my wife. I really do. However, I would rather have my eyes poked out than go through a drive through with her. She is what is referred to as “a picky eater”. No onion, no pickle, extra mayo (apparently this combo is next to impossible to accomplish correctly). I can’t count the times we sat in line while she argued with some high school kid over a bad speaker and mike about her order. God help them if they screw it up. Hell hath no fury like a woman with onions on her Whopper!
In high school my friend Tim worked at the McDonald’s near my house. I found ordering like this really fucked with them in the drive through:
“I’ll Mac a Big have, a fries order of large, Coke-ium meda-Cola, app two-ple pies, and a cookie of McBoxland Donald’s.”
I’d do that and if they asked to to repeat myself, I would (speaking normally) cuz I knew it wasn’t a friend working the window. If I ordered like that and heard the voice say, “Ron, pull your dumb ass to the window.” I near it was Tim or Brandi (another friend) working the drive-through that night.
LOL, Silver Fire, that is hilarious! I probably would have just kept on driving, though, I hate confronting people about stuff like that.
When I worked at Kenny Roger’s Roasters, a woman once ordered the Cajun Grilled Chicken with no meat. I said, “You just want the bread?” And she asked if I would let the cajun chicken spices soak in the bread first. She just wanted the flavor. I thought she was batty.
Hijack:
Every damn time I am in Taco Bell, I have issues. Can I jusy have a Nacho Cheese Chalupa with nothing else on it? That’s all, just nacho cheese and meat. If I wanted a fucking salad bar I would be somewhere else. When I am at Taco Bell, I don’t want to pick hard nasty lettuce rhines (sp?) out of my chalupa, ok?
I hate that. And I really don’t think cold juicy tomato bits mix well with taco meat. I like it all seperately, but I don’t like it together!
Nacho, you’re nuts! My biggest beef with Taco Bell is that they charge extra for tomatos! I mean, how can you have a taco w/o tomatos? Why should I have to pay$.25 extra for something that should have been there in the first place???!!!
I dunno. I used to work as a waitress, and people would order the strangest things. After a while, nothing surprised me. So, it’s not a surprise that they would leave out the meat. Chances are people order that all the time, as several others have mentioned.
But seriously, people really do order the strangest things. Cremated bacon (her words - totally burned to a pile of powder), tea - hold the teabag, greek salad with everything “held” except one or two ingrediants, steak that either hasn’t touched the grill or has been burned to a crisp. The mind boggles.
One time I was in Burger King with a friend, and this woman comes through the drive-thru and orders a cheeseburger with no meat, thats it. The guy taking the order was like alright, that’ll be 75 cents (or whatever a cheeseburger costs) and the lady just went crazy! She spent probably ten minutes screaming at this poor kid over the speaker about why in the hell should she have to pay full price for the cheeseburger when she wasn’t getting any meat on it? The entire restaurant could hear. Someone went and got the manager and he backed the kid up. When the lady finally pulled up to the window, she just kinda threw the money at him, snatched her bag, and tore ass out of the parking lot. Afterwards, it got really, really quiet and all of the kids behind the counter just stood there in wonder. It was hilarious!
I worked at Burger King for about six weeks a long time ago. They had a “Vegetarian Whopper” on the menu, which was basically a Whopper without the meat. This lady comes in and orders one of these things, except she wants it without lettuce, tomato, onions and mayonnaise. I’m thinking to myself “you want two hamburger buns with just ketchup and mustard on it?”. Well, I gave her what she wanted and she seemed perfectly happy with it. If she didn’t want a hamburger, why did she come to a hamburger place?
Another time, I’m running the drive-thru and these teenage kids pulled up and ordered chili dogs, then spent the next several minutes arguing with me about it after I explained to them that if they wanted chili dogs, maybe they should try the Coney Island restaurant that was right next door.
Silver, actually there are people in this world who go to fast food restaurants and order meatless cheeseburgers. A friend of mine who managed an Arby’s or Hardee’s ( I get them confused) told me it was a fairly common request. They are usually vegetarians.
Sidenote, I just noticed the McDonald’s sign stating *Over 99 billion served *
Along the lines of the great article that Cecil covered a long time ago, it makes you wonder how many cows have gone to the big pasture in the sky because of that franchise alone. ( not that I’m a vegetarian.)
My biggest beef with Taco Bell is that they charge extra for tomatos! I mean, how can you have a taco w/o tomatos? Why should I have to pay$.25 extra for something that should have been there in the first place???!!!