Your five biggest pet peeves about the fast food service industry?

[milskidasith]

Here are mine.

#5: Cold condiments. Is it too much to ask to have my hot burger or plate of cheese sticks not be smothered in freshly refrigerated ketchup or marinara (sp?) sauce? It just tastes weird, and unlike ice cream and hot chocolate syrup, it just doesn't work out.

#4: Refusing to put onions on food. I've only really encountered this at a couple of Burger Kings (I beleive, my memory is a bit foggy) that I've gone too, but I love onions enough to mention this. I know they have onions somewhere in storage, and I know they put it on other burgers, so why can't I get onions on a double cheeseburger?

#3: The person who takes orders repeatedly failing to remember what I did and did not want on my food. I want fast food, and having to repeat that I don't want mayonaise or tomato slices on my burger three times does not contribute to that.

#2: Mayonaise. Why is it that it has to come on nearly all food nowadays? I remember when the only thing that went on burgers by default was ketchup, and all was well and good because I could deal with forgetting to order mustard on it, but now if I slip up even once in my order, I have a burger smothered in a condiment that I wouldn't eat if I was dying of starvation.

#1: Slow employees. I don't mean stupid, I just mean they seem to move slow. It seems like half the fast food workers in my area delight in taking half a minute to take the bag in front of the window and hand it to me. Sonic is the worst of it, because you can see the employees slacking off on making food while you wait for 10 to 20 minutes for your food if it's even remotely crowded.

So... what are your pet peeves?

 

[ElephantGuts]

I have to say the thing that bothers me most is how fast food establishments are used as a negative stereotype for America and the American lifestyle. Not that I like America or the American lifestyle, but I don't feel that it's appropriate.

 

[jim_doki]

5, People who yell at me for getting their order of 5 whoppers, 3 medium fries, 2 large fries, four large onion rings, a water, a fanta, and three cokes, two diet and one zero wrong by giving them three diet cokes

4, People who demand "No Spit" like i make it my buisness to spit in every burger

3, People who pretend to mess up the drive through order by making static noises and speaking unclearly in the hopes of getting free food

2, ANYONE who demands their food faster when they've already ordered something that requires more work than the average burger, particularly when there are no burgers ready

1, people who dare complain to me

You see what i did there?

 

[Spartan Bannana]

1.The fact that none of the employees seem to speak English
2.They get your order wrong EVERY FUCKING TIME!
3.Slow workers
4. Messy tables
5. They give you enough ketchup to feed a developing nation

 

[Kyriptonite]

1. They cant speak good english or is forgein.
2. Most of there food is pre-made.
3. They play the shittist radio channel ever.
4. The workers are usually teens.
5. They can FUCK with ur food.

 

[milskidasith]

5, People who yell at me for getting their order of 5 whoppers, 3 medium fries, 2 large fries, four large onion rings, a water, a fanta, and three cokes, two diet and one zero wrong by giving them three diet cokes

4, People who demand "No Spit" like i make it my buisness to spit in every burger

3, People who pretend to mess up the drive through order by making static noises and speaking unclearly in the hopes of getting free food

2, ANYONE who demands their food faster when they've already ordered something that requires more work than the average burger, particularly when there are no burgers ready

1, people who dare complain to me

You see what i did there?

You know, normally this kind of "witty" comeback is done with each of the points being you slyly insulting each of my points on an individual basis, not generalized complaints about customers that have little relation to my points of the same number.

 

[Copter400]

I really wish I could say something, but I love fast food and one of these dreaded fast fod companies has employed me, so - wait! I've got it!

1. I don't have anything to say.
2. If I did, it would be irrelevant, as they're employing me.

 

[jim_doki]

its not a comeback, its a direct shot. people in the fast food industry have enough to worry about (ie minimum wage, the fact they get no respect from anyone, the abuse they cop on a daily basis, often family to support) without you yelling at them

 

[Shivari]

I don't often get fast food since I'm a vegetarian, just the occasional sub from Jimmy John's or something. But I remember one time before I was a vegetarian me and my brother got Taco Bell and got 2 crunch wraps. They ended up giving us that and 2 tacos because they thought we got the whole meal and they didn't want to throw them away. Yay free tacos! So sometimes their incompetence is good.

 

[electric discordian]

I am lactose intolerant and the phrase "No cheese" seems not to have permiated the consciousness of the average McDonalds employee.

The fact that I dont want Diet Coke, I am ordering a Large burger and large fries which probably equates to the entire calorie intake of a Ugandan family for a month and you think I need a beverage that tastes like donkey urine to balance it out

The fact that in the UK fast food tends to mean anytime before the third Ice age.

That all the bloody fast food outlets are run by people who cant speak English at all. So I have to repeat the word fries four or five times. I once ordered a Big Mac and got a hot apple pie

and finally the way that all the outlets decided they are now healthy, this gave them lea way to prove their health credentials by shrinking the size of burgers and therefore their overheads and not salting the fries. Im sorry I dont have a cruet set in my glove box add salt you cheap bastards! If I didnt want high cholesterol and heart problems I would be at home eating a salad

 

[SimuLord]

1. Either they don't speak English or they speak "McEnglish" where the only words they know are the menu items' names.
2. I don't like to have thrown in my face the fact that my fast food habit supports illegal immigration, but when I worked at the bank I saw plenty of "Non-US Citizen Without TIN" account holders cashing paychecks. How they're working without Social Security numbers...do the math.
3. The next time a drive-thru employee gets my order right will be the first time. I've reached the point where I tell my friends to park the car so we can order inside and check the order before we leave.
4. This is strictly personal, but there is no experience on Earth quite like the violent reaction my digestive system gets to the grease in KFC.
5. Get those fucking salads off the menu. You're not fooling anyone. Putting healthy items on the menu that don't sell just to keep the Food Nazis off your ass symbolizes everything that's gone horribly wrong with America. God bless Carl's Jr., home of a meal (large Western Bacon Six Dollar Burger combo with criss-cut fries and a Coke) that actually manages to exceed 2,000 calories and a hundred grams of fat. I don't eat that often (three times a year, max) but I'm glad it's there.

 

[Shivari]

5. Get those fucking salads off the menu. You're not fooling anyone. Putting healthy items on the menu that don't sell just to keep the Food Nazis off your ass symbolizes everything that's gone horribly wrong with America.

I order them. When my family gets McDonald's or something it's my only choice unless I feel like making myself a something at home. Some people actually eat healthy in this world.

And greasy, insalubrious food isn't what's "right" about America.

 

[Acaroid]

My bigest peeve is that the fast food industry exists

Slow food for me thanks

damn i love the slow food movment

 

[Gitsnik]

5. Managers who don't step in to save the poor trainee girl who is being yelled at by some fucktard who didn't get his order right in the first place.
4. The same managers who quietly suggest that I leave the store after mocking the prior fucktard
3. Cold fries
2. Sneaky Charges/Miscalculations. Hungry Jacks (Burger Kind to the rest of you) charge you half a buck for cheese on a double whopper (what the hell!), or i'll do a double take and think 'what, that's not the price' only to find out that it was "miscalculated" by the cash register. Yeah...

And my number one pet peeve about the fast food service industry:
1. People are allowed to serve small planetoids. As a full time geek I get the overweight thing, but some of these are worse...

 

[ThePoodonkis]

1) Stupid people that try to order Whoppers at the McDonald's and argue that the cashier is wrong about McDonald's not serving Whoppers. We have the Big-Mac, my good sir/madam. Big Macs.

2) For the last time people: we don't want to hear you do the "Big Mac Rap" or whatever its called. Just order the freaking sandwich and move along.

3) Having to clean up after the small child that decides to wait until he/she gets to the very top of the PlayPlace before throwing up their McNuggets. 'Cause who has to clean it up? This guy!

4) (See Khell_Sennet's Dealer-end #3)

5) If you order 25 Double Cheeseburgers during the Lunch Rush, we won't have them out for you in 30 seconds. Patience is a virtue.

 

[qbert4ever]

The fact that it takes LONGER to get me my burger in the dead of night with nobody around then at the 12:30 lunch rush.

I wish I was joking.