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

[Lazzi]

the fact that the food is not fast

 

[Stan the Great]

Other than getting an order wrong, I only have one complaint: forgetting my order.
How can you forget something when I'm the only other customer not including the drive-thru and the order is on the little "this is what you're making" screen!?!

 

[milskidasith]

Thanks for the tips, Khell.

 

[Shivari]

You want a salad, go to a fucking salad bar.

Whoa, so if it's late at night and the only things open (outside of Denny's, of course) are fast food, I'm supposed to just sit there and watch everyone else eat? You can't cater to vegetarians at all?

Come on, that's a stupid statement.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

You want a salad, go to a fucking salad bar.

Whoa, so if it's late at night and the only things open (outside of Denny's, of course) are fast food, I'm supposed to just sit there and watch everyone else eat? You can't cater to vegetarians at all?

Come on, that's a stupid statement.

Well you could take something healthy like a glass of OJ, And for food. You could eat crackers for an energy boost.(If we are talking dinner though, Water and salad would be the best.)

 

[The Lyre]

You want a salad, go to a fucking salad bar.

Whoa, so if it's late at night and the only things open (outside of Denny's, of course) are fast food, I'm supposed to just sit there and watch everyone else eat? You can't cater to vegetarians at all?

Come on, that's a stupid statement.

You could always...ya know, eat meat.

I'm sure the cows won't mind that one time, you won't be visited in your dreams by the carcass of a bitter bovine.

Also, I'm sure that fast food places do vegetarian alternatives nowadays - they may taste awful, but if you're a veggie you probably don't like meat, either, so why you're going in there anyways is beyond me.

Wait, wait, wait - I have an awesome idea;

Go home.

You have a fridge.

Fridges have the salads and the vegetables.

Yum/Profit?

I also feel the need to point out that Mcdonald's salads are still not considered healthy; the dressings are supposedly full of fat and sodium, one of which goes all the way up to 18g of fat - a quarter pounder has the same fat content as a packet of McDonald?s Creamy Caesar salad dressing, I do believe.

This may have changed recently, but fast food salads should not be considered to be the healthy alternative.

 

[poleboy]

lettuce can also make a bun soggy, doesn't do it as fast though. Cheese is the ideal separator if they like cheese. Myself, I'm partial to A&W hotdogs (as mentioned) and I wouldn't stand for mayo on the things, so its ketchup and soggy buns, but I don't really notice. If it's not sitting pre-made, the sogginess is minimal.

You know, for all the horrible depravity McDonald's has wreaked upon the world... they've really nailed the art of burger engineering. Burger King (at least mine) could take a few cues from them (I'm looking at you, the last Whopper I had with quadruple onion for some reason).

Some asshole put mayo on my fries.

Heretic. Mayo or bust! Trust me, once you get over the weirdness of it, you'll never go back to ketchup except for variation.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Fast food chains are pure evil.
Those toys to lure little kids in, the piles of trash dropped by chavs and other uncaring people, the corporations making billions of pounds off shitty food...

I loved those little Beanie Babies though...

Maybe not Burger King though, since their food is, well, pretty good actually.

 

[Zallest]

Here are mine.
#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.

OH GOD YES! I hate fast food and there is nothing that i can say that hasn't been said about peeves but this is what gets my...goat..

I can understand if your new and don't know the stuff that well but some people just put ZERO EFFORT into their damn job. Oh big deal! saying you hate your job and working there sucks but just because you couldn't get a more decent part-time and had to become the latest McSlave doesn't mean you have to ruin my day by making me argue with you because you refused to listen to me when i order.

This kind of behavior should be punishable by chest punches or swift kicks to the groin.

 

[Arehexes]

3 - All you assholes with the $50 and $100 bills go fuck yourselves! Don't come into my restaurant for a $5 purchase and pay with a hundred, I won't take it. I don't take 50's for a purchase any smaller than $40, and I don't take hundreds for anything under $90.

THANK YOU! I was once at a starbucks 10 minutes after opening and this nitwit was swearing at the cashier because he didn't have change for a 100 on a 3 dollar order.

I know this isn't about fast food, but I wanna agree on that also. I worked at a pool and was cashiering(sp), a guy came over with a 50 to pay for the $1.50 charge. I told him to bring 1.50 or leave and we got in a fight, and I told him to just leave.

Ok 5 biggest peeves
5.I'm scared to order a hamburger now because I just want a plain burger with onion. Last time I tried that I had a hamburger with onion, but it also had mayo and mustard. Why can't we just say if we want a sauce on it instead of saying "yeah I want a plain hamburger with onion oh and no sauce on it"shouldn't the plain say the no sauce part?

4.People in the drive through who order almost half the store. The drive through is for ordering quick food and to get going, not ordering about 3 big bags of food because you want to sit in your car. During lunch time, I had like 30 minutes to go get food and come back and eat it. I get their in like 4 minutes, but I'm in the drive way for about 25 minutes because someone made a huge order (And I know this because they gave her about 4 big bags like you get at food lion or someplace like that).

3.Paying for a small amount with a big bill. Well I already explained that

2.People who can't take a order, just listen to what I'm saying instead of your co-workers new ring tone then getting mad when I ask for you to do your job and take my order.

1.I don't have a one so I guess this spot is open for sell lol.

Well those are my 5...er 4 reasons.

 

[Parattchi]

I work at a pizza place. Here's mine:

1) Crappy pay for what you do. By the end of a shift I'll be physically wrecked from all the stuff I have to do. I have to dose myself up to the eyeballs on painkillers to make it through my shift, all for like 20 bucks.

2) Customers who demand special treatment for no reason. No politeness just 'Make my pizza good." "Put lots of toppings on." "Give it to me cheap." You aren't special, and we don't care. Maybe if you were polite and courteous we might go to the effort of making a real nice pizza for you, but if ya demand it, screw you.

3) People who blame you for pizzas being expensive. People don't seem to get the fact that the poor dude behind the counter doesn't decide the pricing. He doesn't send out vouchers in the mail. Yet we still get chewed out for it.

4) People who call up with absolutely no idea what they want, and get you to read of EVERY SINGLE PIZZA on the the menu while their drunken friends are shouting in the background.

5) My personal biggest one: People who take their sweet time coming to get their pizzas, then complain because they're not that good. We tell you when the pizza will be ready for a REASON. If we say 10 minutes, it's going to be ten minutes, NOT AN HOUR. So we end up getting shouted at because people are too lazy to show up on time.

 

[Clairaudient]

I had a wonderful woman come into Tim Hortons (essentially a Dunkin donuts but classier) yesterday. It's not her first trip or time I've dealt with her either.

She comes in usually around 7-8 at night demanding a dozen chocolate chip muffins. To which I always explain to her that we stop baking muffins around 3 or 4 pm. There's still a decent selection of other muffins on the rack, but chocolate chip are popular so there's usually not more than 3 or 4 left. She then does her rants about how we never have them and blah blah blah.

Some interesting points of her rant are that she has to come 20 minutes out of her way to get here after work to try and get these muffins (for her son, who I learned from a co-worker/classmate of his that he's a little slow on the uptake). If you're from Canada, you know there's a Tim Hortons every 5 minutes driving and about 15 minutes walking. I don't understand why OUR Tim Hos is the one that she NEEDS to go to for her precious muffins, even though there is quite literally another Tim Hortons 5 minutes west and two more about 8 minutes north of us.

I told her that she could place an order and I'd have the muffins ready for her whe she came in. So she did and said she would be back to pick them up the next day at 4 pm. She shows up at 8:30 pm, (after I had sold half of them because I gave up on her) an proceeds to freak out about it. Granted I could have kept the muffins in the back until my shift was over, but I get some flak from higher ups for needlessly making extra stuff that we end up throwing out. I figured that I might as well try and sell them after she was already 3 hours late.

And that was just yesterday. Food service is fun!

 

[Arehexes]

I don't envy you fast food workers, I try to be nice cause I got the shit end when I was life guarding. Now I do have my headphones on while ordering, but I keep it in one ear and pause the music till I get my food. I don't like how when I order "a plain burger with nothing on it but onions"(I said those words ver batim(sp))I get the onion but mustard on it.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

When the pizza shop downtown doesn't distribute the toppings equally (one side free of everything which is mine, the other peppered with whatever my dad wants), and in the case of ordering a Medium one they don't cut it in 4 but instead cut it in 8.

 

[chronobreak]

Eh, a couple things that bother me I guess is the whole sense of entitlement that the industry perpetuates. I mean, "I want my food NOW and HOT and FAST, and you know what? If I don't get it that way I will flip out, try to get you fired, and demand free things!" I seriously think people turn into creatures in the drive thru.

Also, the low pay. Granted, most of these people working these jobs are probably kids, or live at home, but being a few dollars over the poverty level makes it hard to get one's life together, I mean what if they have families, rent, etc. There's no excuse for such a demanding position, serving thousands of people a shift in a drive thru window, to be not making a living wage.

I don't like unsalted fries either.

 

[CrazyBerk]

Don't really give a flying frick as long as i get my order within an hour really...i mean sure they screw up sometimes but so does everyone. Just go back and frikkin' ASK, i don't think asking for things or reordering is such a major inconvenience that you have to piss and moan about it.
Y'know as Charlie Brooker said "MAYBE we should stop blowing eachother up first, yeah? Then we can target the food industry?"

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

You want a salad, go to a fucking salad bar.

Whoa, so if it's late at night and the only things open (outside of Denny's, of course) are fast food, I'm supposed to just sit there and watch everyone else eat? You can't cater to vegetarians at all?

Come on, that's a stupid statement.

Eat chips (fries).

You want to restrict your food options, that's up to you, but don't then ***** about it when the world doesn't bend to your goddamn tastes.

and yes I realise that bitching about how I hate ketchup, then saying this, can be interpreted as being hypocritical, but it's hardly going "I can't eat so EVERYONE must bend to my will and make it so I can".