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| Friday, January 07, 2005 |
We all go to McDonalds or Wendys or any of the other fast food resturants in our respective communities. But why is it that none of these people can get a simple order correct? How many times have you driven to one of these establishments only to find that that when you get your order it is not what you had requested? It has happened many times to me. A prime example of that was a visit to Crystals in Orlando Florida. Me and a friend decided we wanted a quick lunch between classes and figured Crystals was both cheap and within walking distance. We got to Crystals and decided to order the 10 pack of cheese burgers. Now for those of you who may or may not know what Crystals is it is the eqavalent of White Castle Hamburgers southern style. Any way back to my story. We ordered 5 burgers with cheese and no mustard ( I hate mustard on my burgers) the other 5 were ordered with cheese and mustard. Simple right? WRONG the moron who attended us couldn't have possibly had a 8th grade education, she gave us our drinks and told us that our food would be up shortly and that she would bring it to our table. Cool. So we wait for about 10 minutes and sure enough here comes our food. We start looking over the burgers only to find that they are not cheese burgers and all of them have mustard. So I assumed it was a simple mistake it happens the lunch hour can be busy I understand this so I went to the counter and explained my situation to the tard behind the counter. She gave me a quizical look and asked me what was wrong 3 different times and I slowly had to explain each time. So she finaly appeared to understand what I was trying to say and took the burgers back and told me that my order would be up in a moment and that she was sorry about the mistake. An additonal 10 minutes went by and our server returned with our burgers. Once again I checked our order to make sure that this time my concerns were addressed. And what do you know this time they were all cheese burgers but guess what they all had mustard on them. By this point I was furious and running out of time seeing that class would begin in 20 minutes and that it took 10 to get my burgers and an additonal 10 to drive back to campus. Humm what to do. My friend was already cracking up at my frustration and asked me why don't you just wipe the mustard off so we can eat and get out of here. I refused to do so when I had made such a simple request for a meal one that possibly a 3 year old could have compleated but not the tard behind the counter or the dumbass who was actually making the order. I returned to the counter for a 3rd time. The attendant looked visibly confused and scared because she knew something was wrong for the 3rd time. Before I could even say anything a manager apeared from behind the fryers somewhere and asked if he could help me. I explained that I had ordered 10 cheese burgers 5 with mustard 5 without, and that this is the 3rd time that I had to return to the counter with my order not properly filled. He paused for a moment and took the burgers back and told me that he would personaly make them to assure that it was correct this time. I thought to myself let see if the high school drop out with the white shirt and gold name tag can figure this out I mean hell it can't be as hard as nuclear physics right? Well the alloted 10 minutes passed when the manager apeared from behind the counter with our burgers I waited with antcipation as to what would be brought to us from the superior intellect of the store manager. Well he brought the burgers to our table and waited as we inspected them. Would you belive that this Store manager brought us plain burgers I just looked at him my friend just busted out laughing because he knew what was comming next. I took one of the tiny burgers from the container and opened it up NO CHEESE humm whats wrong with this picture. The manager smiled at me and asked is everything alright? I paitently asked him does there look like there is any cheese on these burgers? He looked at me with a look like ut oh I fucked up and asked you did request burgers with now mustard right? I just said to him as calmly as I could and I quote I want 10 cheese burgers half without mustard. He looked as if I had unlocked the secrets of the universe for him and asked him to understand it... So the 4th time he got the order right and refunded my money to boot. OF course it took the better half of 40 minutes for this transaction to occur but hey at least I didn't have to pay for it. So not only will this poor schumck be jocking a counter at a burger place but chances are good that he will be doing it for a long time to come maybe not at Crystals but I am sure that some where some time he will probably look at you with that deer in the headlights look and ask you Would you like fries with that ??
Wired Wizard |
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