I don't want to order by number!!!

Why oh why do people feel they need to educate me on how to work at a food establishment just because I want to eat there?

I order what I want to eat. I don't care how you ring it up.

I know that your ad says the pizza has one topping. I want more than one topping. I told you exactly the pizza I wanted. Figure out how to sell it to me and tell me the damn price.

I don't care that if I want fries and a drink and a burger that it is a "Number 5". I told you what I wanted, you figure it out while I drive around.

I don't want your job, I just want your food.

But, but, but, then they'd have to THINK - arrrrrrrrrghhhhhh

I have to agree.... nothing worse than someone trying to make me order their way 'cause they can't figure out how to ring it up without a meal number.

Besides I really don't need a whole days worth of food in one meal, I don't care if it is cheaper!!!

hehehe, it just makes me think of that scene in Brazil where the waiter keeps insisting that he has to say the number on the menu.

I only ever order the Number 1, so it's no big deal to me. But they still get my order wrong.

Have you seen Jack Nickelson trying to order toast in Five Easy Pieces?

Is one reason why those things are keyed to number is because it's easier to punch into the machine?

Yes Torley the keys say thing like #1 and #2. Some places even have it written out like "3 pieces of original fried chicken and mashed potatoes".

It's so the fast food places can hire the lobotomized.

Oh, and zombies too. Anyone seen Shaun Of The Dead?



P2

I never looked at the other side of the counter so closely. Thanks.

I find that I can never order a #2. Number 2 is a euphemism for ..you know... and it acts a reminder that when I eat fast food what I am really eating is ... um... shit.

Having worked for the Colonel for a very short time in my youth I am very familiar with the brainless system.

I'm dating myself, but I worked at Mickie D's during my sophomore year of high school. Back then, we had to write each order on an order slip, and then ring up each item (using an old fashioned register). We were required to memorize the prices of every item, and we got a "demerit" if we looked back at the menu to get a price. We even had to count change back from the purchase price back to the amount tendered (e.g., Total is $4.56. Customer gives you a $20. You assemble the change, and count back, "44 cents makes five, five makes ten and ten makes 20".

I dunno. It all went south when they started posting product pictures on the register.

I haven't had KFC in ages... I remember the taste tho.

You guys are making me hungry.

*heads to kitchen*

coco

Anyone try their new chicken and gravy bowls? They're yummmmyyyy!!!!

You probably got a little extra spit on your pizza

I don't think so. It would be a lot easier (and from experience those machines are REALLY farking annoying) just to enter in the price, but if they did that (which they can't) then nothing would appear on the screens in back for the cooks.

Me too! Now I want to order the Number 6 at my favorite Chinese resturant.

Aaaaaand - If I want fries, I'll ask for 'em.
If I want a "meal", I'll say so.
But - nooooo - I have to place every order thus "One cheese burger, just the burger - one deluxe, just the burger - a wrap, just the wrap - and a small coke, no fries"

pretty soon they'll just have pictures cause you know, numbers can get confusing

Why don't they just turn the register the other direction and get rid of the staff?

That's genius... It's like those self-checkout stands in groceries now.

I remember days when people in buisnesses tried to help you.

I remember a time when if I dropped off a roll of film to get it developed, they did all the work... No, now I have to address the envelope, I have to look up their packages and select the one I want, I have to ensure I've placed all the forms and canisters and envelopes where they go... then I have to look through the bin to find my damn pictures. I remember when I would give them film, they would ask me a few questions, then I would return in a few hours and they would go get my pictures for me. I don't want to be told "Please fill out these forms, sir."!

I had to take a joystick back a few weeks ago. I had to do everything. I had to fill out all the forms, I had to go get a replacement off the shelf. I had to fill out the *new* product warrenty forms. Then I had to take it up to the cashier to get the stupid security whatzist disabled.

When I do a custom order at a bookstore anymore, I'm the one who has to fill out the damned custom order card - And oh lord forbid I don't know the damned ISBN number, exact spelling of the first and last name of the author, title, and publishing company... They can't find ANYTHING on their computers. I once faught with one of the mindless drones for five-ten minutes, ending with the "Sorry, we have no record of this book, we can't order it"... I turned around, drug him by his bloody nose piercing over to the damned "You Search!" terminal, and showed him in 10 bloody seconds that they not only could order the book, but that they usually STOCKED the book and it was simply sold out.

Damnit, nobody will even pump the bloody petroleum distillate into my automobile and squeegee the windows these days!

I 'effing HATE the modern world. What the hell am I paying these people for? That's why they are going out of buisness... people have realized that stores provide no value-added to a product these days - that is, no service - and the same product can be obtained online for less work AND less money.

So, needless to say, I hate the damn self-checkouts, though I admit they are occasionaly handy when you have a jug of milk and would otherwise have to wait behind Momma and Brats buying a months worth of junkfood and poison.

Wait till you end up in a nuclear holocaust. Try looking for food, water or gas. Theres no power or SL either. I'd be bored to death before I die from hunger.