******* fast foodFollow

I do that with all my girlfriends anyway......

gbaji, perhaps what you're missing here is that a burger is not what comes on it, but the meat and the bun. I like McDonald's burgers. I do not like onions and pickles, so I ask McDonald's not to put onions and pickles on their burger.

I honestly don't understand why that's so hard to get... It's like you have a mental block from understanding some of the simplest things...

Edited, Oct 16th 2007 5:24pm by Belkira

ITT: Gbaji pulls a Stubs and argues his point into the ground even though it's clearly a stupid one.

No, Intelligence would be ordering what you want how you want and then getting it corrected when people ***** up. You always check to make sure you got what you ordered because the people who put the food together don't know what they're doing half the time.



And what if nothing on the menu matches my own dietary and taste requirements? I'm not going to go to another ******* fast food place, i'm going to ask for them to take off the god damn cheese. I'm not going to find *one* thing that will make me full without me having to make modifications because there is rarely multiple things for each weight class. A double quater pounder comes automaticly with cheese and stuffs and nothing else matches it. A quater pounder comes with cheese and stuffs and nothing else matches it. etc.

I'm not picky because I don't like cheese on my burger. I don't like cheese on my hamburgers because imo it distorts the taste too much. Picky would be going to a different store to order a burger because the place i'm at right now doesn't make one that I want right now without modifications.



Why am I there? Because if I ask for them to take off one or two things then ABRAKADABRA HOLY ****!~-~-~-They have matched their burger with the one I want!?

I'm not going to go to a grocery store and buy the stuff needed to make the burger to make it myself to my own specifications. It's a god damn fast food place and I'm probably going there because I'm short on time and because it's close. If I had the time to make my own burger all the time I would and it would be better then any fast food burger and it would be cheaper.

There's a point at which I have to wonder why you're using up money for gas just to go to another fast food place when you can get the same thing for the same price plus or minus a bit by just asking them to take something off. You do realise how easy it is for them to make something without something on it or to get it corrected, right? If you simply just order something and say "No <stuff here> Please" maybe they'll get the hint and not put the stuff you don't want on your burger on your burger.

The end of the line is, fast food has degraded itself to a point where it's now your own fault if you don't check the food before leaving. Why has we allowed this service to degrade itself so much? It's not that hard if you know how to read english to see "No ketchup" and not put ketchup on it. I like how that places food tastes and that combined with my lack of time and resources is why I'm going there. Don't tell me I don't like "their food" because I altered it a little bit; all fast food places that server alike foods serve stuff very similar, sometimes almost exactly the same, but that tastes different.

This thread has gone from Fast Food Mess-up Rant Time to Serious Fast Food Debate is Serious.

Lol...

No. Intelligence would be recognizing the pattern that when you customize your order, your order gets screwed up more often then when you don't.

Now, what you do with that information is up to you. Me? I'll just figure out what things I like at a given location that don't require any customization and order those things. If a restaurant doesn't have anything I like, I don't go there.

IMO, that's much simpler and leads me to a stress free life. However, if you want to make your world a little harder to live in, by all means feel free to follow a specific course of action in order to make it that way...


Unless you get some sort of perverse pleasure out of catching people who ***** up your order and getting upset at them for it. Then, I suppose the whole "I'll customize my order at McDonalds" idea makes perfect sense. :)



Then don't go there. It's not complicated. I don't like Sushi. You don't see me going to a sushi place for lunch and then complaining that they can't ever seem to get my order right. I'm sure that if I tried hard enough, I could likely find some combination of things to remove and change from their standard menu that would make a few of the dishes palatable to me. But that's just not worth the trouble, hence I don't go to sushi restaurants.

See how that works?



Why the heck not? Is this a magic fast food place? Did the same guy who sold Jack his beanstalk beans build it? Seriously. Unless you live out in the middle of nowhere, I'm betting there are a dozen different fast food restaurants within reasonable distance of where you live/work that you could eat at. Why choose to go to the one that doesn't have anything you like?



And at the risk of referencing another thread on a similar topic. A whopper does not have any cheese on it. And it's a vastly superior burger in every other way (cause I said so!). :)

Most Burger King burgers don't have cheese on them by default. Most Jack in the box burgers don't have cheese on them by default (the ultimate cheeseburger being the only obvious exception that springs to mind). Rallys? No cheese. In and Out? No cheese. Carl's Jr? About half and half.

And *gasp* if you're having so much trouble, that's before we even get into non-burger joints. Most chicken dishes don't come with cheese on them. So KFC, Church's, El Pollo Loco, etc... Not a whole lot of chinese takeout comes with cheese on them either. You might have a bit more trouble at a mexican food place, but a good old fashioned carne asada burrito doesn't come with cheese by default.

Not seeing how disliking cheese really puts that much of a crimp on the whole fast food dining experience.



And yet. I've very very rarely ever had an order messed up. See. There's that pattern recognition thing going on here... ;)



Newflash. Fast food was never that good. It's just that people have come to expect their bottom of the barrel spending to result in top of the barrel service. IMO, you're really expecting far too much of the minimum amount you're paying. If you want good service, don't go to a fast food place. Seems kinda obvious, but it's got to be said.

Edited, Oct 16th 2007 5:31pm by gbaji

Except that like I sort of said previously, my order is right more often then wrong, around 9 to 1 at least.



This is not the world of gbaji. Just because something is less stressful and is easier for you to do does not mean it's less stressful and easier for others to do. It's much easier and less stressful for me to order something at mcdonalds and correct it when it's wrong than to go all the way another fast food place. Good luck finding a place near me that serves double quater pounders with only ketchup. God forbid I sometimes feel like I want lettus or onions. Guess i'll have to go to a different place if I feel like I want those on my burger.



That's a horrible analogy and therefore no, it doesn't work. A more correct analogy would be going to a sushi place that puts crunchy stuffs on top of all their sushi, but you don't like the cruncy stuffs. I could then either: a. drive a few miles to find another decent sushi place that fits to my standards or b. ask for my sushi not to have the crunchy stuff on it.



Because like I said before, It's not worth it for me to go out of my way and drive or walk somewhere else when I could just say "nothing but ketchup please." The place I decide to go to will have plenty that I like, I just have to ask them to take some stuff off before I'm willing to pay them money for it.



Burger king is too far away for me to go there, eat, and come back within 41 minutes. We don't have ny Jack in the boxes near us, Rallys, in and outs, cary's jr, church's, or el pollo locos near us either. Taco bell I personally don't like because the one near us tastes like crap imo, let's not even go into how much worse taco bell is than another food place health wise. :P The KFC near me is also horrible imo so I don't go there. Within safe distance for me for lunch I have Pizza hut express, Mcdonalds, Wendies, Zorns(lol), randomchinesefoodplace, some pizza places, and Five Guys. Even if I did have the places you mention near me, it would still take a lot more effort to go out of my way and spend the extra time/money getting there instead of walking up to mcdonalds and asking for a double quater pounder with no cheese, just ketchup.



My order is very rarely messed up as well, because instead of asking for some things on and some things off I just ask for nothing but ketchup. It's much easier then going to another place and ordering it how they normally prepare it. I'll assume you're not talking about taste: while fast food never was that good it has lowered itself. I'm not expecting anything like regular resturant quality service. I'm just wishing that people would read exactly what they have to make before making it. If they actually make a mistake then so be it, **** happens. If they make the mistake because they're lazy or because they don't understand what they need to be doing then shame on them :/

Gbaji - Are you f'ing serious? Are you reallt arguing about this? The damn guy wants his food this way. STFU already.

She should have just got the big mac combo. Would have gotten closer to what she asked for.

Once you've tackled a job like that, you learn you can handle just about anything.

While I agree with you in principle, I can't help but wonder why it would be difficult for you to make a burger without three things. That's sort of sad if that taxes your brain power too much.

Id say something about this sounding like loser talk, which would be made funnier by the fact that you were talking about mcdonalds, but I never want to work in the food service (never did "fast" food) again. It really truly does suck to work in that industry in any way shape or form.

Is working in retail stores for almost 3 years now good enough as a substitute to fast food jobs? We get our share of idiots that complain because our flyer starts the next day like it's always been. And the fact that we're out of stock on the last day of the flyer when they come out to buy some. Or when they complain when we have a shortage and we'll be getting other during the week? I'm also annoyed by people that decided that cashier people (since they are the only ones in a shop stuck at their positions) were the best ones to show you where merchandise is.

I could give more.