How Long Do You Take To Order At Fast Food Places?

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How Long Do You Take To Order At Fast Food Places?

  • As long as I damn well please - don't you DARE rush me.

  • A good 10 minutes - I have questions and need to make decisions.

  • Less than 2 minutes.

  • I am a raging moron.


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BUTCH1

Lifer
Jul 15, 2000
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People that go to fast food places, either to eat or to work ain't all the bright.

If the menu stumps you, they you should definitely apply for a managers position, you have proved you are totally qualified.

So you've never set foot at a Burger King?, if that's what your claiming your so full of shit your eyes are brown.
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
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Chew on these processed words, zealot:

My observation is that the backup is almost always the establishment and not the patrons, at least around here.

I needed to break a $20 bill so I could split rent with my roommate this morning and McDonald's was right next door, so I lined up in the drive through. I ignored their question offering me some promoted item and did not return their greeting just to hurry up and say "I'll get a large Coke Zero with no ice and that's all" (anticipating their question asking if that was all I wanted).

Even when the car in front of me got its order, I still couldn't pull up to the window for mine because the two cars ahead could not pull out (drive thru traffic completely wrapped around the building). When I finally did get to the window a very polite girl I hadn't seen there before tried to hand me a bag while saying "Sausage biscuit?" I politely replied that I ordered a large Coke Zero with no ice. She turned around saying "Oh. Of course. Coming right up." It took much longer than it should have taken before she came back out and told me that they were out of Coke Zero. While she was still saying that and moving on to ask if there was any other drink I would like, I interrupted and said "That's fine. I'll have Diet Coke instead." She turned around and said "Regular Coke?" as she prepped the drink machine with a cup. The window was already closing so I quickly blurted out "DIET Coke." She had a thick accent from some African country but I had no problem understanding her before and I could swear that she said "Diet Coke" when finally handing it to me, so I thought everything was cool. Because I really just needed change and was saving it for later, I didn't realize I got sugary Coke until I finished my morning caffeine and was at work an hour later.

Total time in the drive thru: at least 20 minutes to spend a single dollar. Seeing the line wrapped around the building I would have simply gone in but I had more than 20 minutes of YouTube videos to catch up on, enough to time before work to tolerate it, and I thought a single item order that doesn't need to be cooked would help improve their average drive thru order times. They squandered my goodwill.

Firstly, your definition of zealot is as buggered up as your one for reconstituted meat.

Secondly, that's a really fascinating story about you getting the wrong drink. Thanks for sharing it... At length.

Honestly, I really appreciate the detail you put into them giving you not only the wrong type of diet drink, but one with sugar in. You're a regular riot at parties aren't you? Do you tell everyone about the time they gave you pickle when you asked them to leave it out?
 

Ichinisan

Lifer
Oct 9, 2002
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Firstly, your definition of zealot is as buggered up as your one for reconstituted meat.

Secondly, that's a really fascinating story about you getting the wrong drink. Thanks for sharing it... At length.

Honestly, I really appreciate the detail you put into them giving you not only the wrong type of diet drink, but one with sugar in. You're a regular riot at parties aren't you? Do you tell everyone about the time they gave you pickle when you asked them to leave it out?

I guess you don't want him to go back on-topic. :colbert:
 

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
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Firstly, your definition of zealot is as buggered up as your one for reconstituted meat.

Secondly, that's a really fascinating story about you getting the wrong drink. Thanks for sharing it... At length.

Honestly, I really appreciate the detail you put into them giving you not only the wrong type of diet drink, but one with sugar in. You're a regular riot at parties aren't you? Do you tell everyone about the time they gave you pickle when you asked them to leave it out?
*woosh*

Your shameless attempt to strawman me with your false equivalence was expected. Go on denying scientific consensus on food preparation terminology. Zealot.

You are a shameless ideologue and war-monger who perpetuates fear of McNuggets to fund the organic non-GMO industrial machine complex. Racist. We have a black president now. DEAL WITH IT.
:colbert:

...AND you are a zealot because you have excessive amounts of quantifiable zeal for condemning Chicken McNuggets and labeling them as "processed." Most statements require at least some zeal in order to have been made. Obviously, it's not usually enough zeal to label anyone making a statement a "zealot." The amount of zeal you used is excessive beyond the expected amount, making it a noteworthy enough attribute to be worthy of labeling you with.

No I really want to hear his pickle story.


One time, I asked them to leave the pickle on the side but either they left it in or it worked its way back in because they wrapped it together. Either way, the pickle was on my burger. Horrifying.
 
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Perknose

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*woosh*

Your shameless attempt to strawman me with your false equivalence was expected. Go on denying scientific consensus on food preparation terminology.

You are a shameless ideologue and war-monger who perpetuates fear of McNuggets to fund the organic non-GMO industrial machine complex. Racist. We have a black president now.
:colbert:

...AND you are a zealot because you have excessive amounts of quantifiable zeal for condemning Chicken McNuggets and labeling them as "processed." Most statements require at least some zeal in order to have been made. Obviously, it's not usually enough zeal to label anyone making a statement a "zealot." The amount of zeal you used is excessive beyond the expected amount, making it a noteworthy enough attribute to be worthy of labeling you with.




One time, I asked them to leave the pickle on the side but either they left it in or it worked its way back in because they wrapped it together. Horrifying.

:biggrin: