# Taking orders at fast food places

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-orders-at-fast-food-places/314432>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 27, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-orders-at-fast-food-places/314432 "2005-07-27T17:16:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-orders-at-fast-food-places/314432/21 "2005-07-28T21:00:48Z")

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The book in question is _The World is Flat_. You must have good taste in books 😃

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**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-orders-at-fast-food-places/314432/22 "2005-07-28T21:10:28Z")

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Thank you. And according to me, I do. xo, C.

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**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-orders-at-fast-food-places/314432/23 "2005-07-29T07:14:02Z")

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> [@chaoticdonkey](#):
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> Oh, and at my McDonald’s, the registers aren’t capable of handling very specific requests (like “Put the cheese between the sausage and egg!”), and such, and so we just yell it back.

Do people really ask for things that specific, or was that just a silly example?

> [@ltfire](#):
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> Cheeseburger…cheeseburger…cheeseburger…
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> Pepsi!

Eh? What’s all this then?

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**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-orders-at-fast-food-places/314432/24 "2005-07-29T07:58:07Z")

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> [@TJdude825](#):
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> Do people really ask for things that specific, or was that just a silly example?

Yes they do. I worked at a Steak N Shake for a summer.

Additionally, during heavy times (lunch, bar closing time) you would basically throw 12 steakburgers down on the grill, cook them, scoop them off, and repeat for about a half hour. Usually they assigned another worker to deal with toasting the buns (making sure they were the right kinds) and dealing with the cheese and other stuff like that. The cook was busy with repetedly making the steakburgers. Also, if there was a spare, I would sometimes wear a drive-thru headphone set, so I could hear the orders as they were being said. Sometimes the extra 30 seconds between when the person made the order and the cashier finalized it (so it would show up on my screen) actually helped quite a bit.

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> Eh? What’s all this then?

[No fries – cheeps!](http://www.billygoattavern.com/home.html)

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**Author:** ![MizGrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@MizGrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizGrand)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-orders-at-fast-food-places/314432/25 "2005-07-29T11:25:14Z")

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> [@TJdude825](#):
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> Cheeseburger…cheeseburger…cheeseburger… PEPSI!  
> Eh? What’s all this then?

Wow, you’ve not seen the classics of SNL? What about “basaball?”

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