PineRidge
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I'm still eating with my hands..... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Pet Peeve, Upset then redeemed
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Junkman
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I heard that you have been eating with your hands and fingers your whole life!!!!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Sometime while traveling I will stop a a McD's or BK and what really frosts me is that you will place your order and they have to make the sandwich, and then a drive through order will come up and they will put your sandwich into the paper bag for that customer and leave you standing waiting for the next one. If it is near noontime, this can happen quite frequently. I have found a quick solution, I just say "that was supposed to be my sandwich..... I have been standing here at the counter for 10 minutes.". This will usually get all the other people that are standing in line waiting for there food to start thinking of what is taking so long. The same thing happens at the auto parts store. You go to the counter and he starts to look up your part and the phone rings. He drops what he was doing and takes care of that phone customer and then when finished, he comes back to you.
Sometime while traveling I will stop a a McD's or BK and what really frosts me is that you will place your order and they have to make the sandwich, and then a drive through order will come up and they will put your sandwich into the paper bag for that customer and leave you standing waiting for the next one. If it is near noontime, this can happen quite frequently. I have found a quick solution, I just say "that was supposed to be my sandwich..... I have been standing here at the counter for 10 minutes.". This will usually get all the other people that are standing in line waiting for there food to start thinking of what is taking so long. The same thing happens at the auto parts store. You go to the counter and he starts to look up your part and the phone rings. He drops what he was doing and takes care of that phone customer and then when finished, he comes back to you.
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A few years ago we were in a big retail establishment (initials JCP) in the ladies apparel section. My wife was asking the lone salesperson a question about a coat. The phone interrupted, and the salesperson greeted the caller and asked if they would hold, that she would be right with them. Sure impressed us and we told her so. To bad other clerks can't figure this out. Never seen that happen before or since. To bad that is not standard operating procedure for all businesses.
Wingnut
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Since my group is a service group, I have always tried to impress on my people that there is NOTHING worse than interrupting service for one customer to answer the phone or answer a co-workers question. Answering the phone when you are speaking with/servicing one person and then stopping to answer the phone says, in very loud terms ... "I have no idea who this is but it's sure to be more important or interesting than you are!"
I hate it when the car in front has 5 orders with something changed on each one.........come on folks it is a drive thru for a reason, drive thru, dont change the menu. If you must get your hamburger different than offered, walk in please.
I have at times, placed my order only to be held up by a special order. I simply drive around the car, and out the parking lot.........makes the "order" of things out of whack. If the person at the window is really not with it, someone is going to get my number 2
I have at times, placed my order only to be held up by a special order. I simply drive around the car, and out the parking lot.........makes the "order" of things out of whack. If the person at the window is really not with it, someone is going to get my number 2
Libertine
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thcri:
<font color="blue">Three couples came in, sat down, and two of them had their drinks and almost finished their salad before we even saw a waiter. </font>
Well, that would be very unlikely to happen in a French restaurant!
hmmm, hope you got the humor in that . . .
jeh
(The French eat their salad AFTER the main course - to clear the palate before cheeses etc. So it is unlikely you would be kept waiting that long.)
<font color="blue">Three couples came in, sat down, and two of them had their drinks and almost finished their salad before we even saw a waiter. </font>
Well, that would be very unlikely to happen in a French restaurant!
hmmm, hope you got the humor in that . . .
jeh
(The French eat their salad AFTER the main course - to clear the palate before cheeses etc. So it is unlikely you would be kept waiting that long.)
Varmintmist
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I only really had one time that I got ignored. It was at a unFRIENDLY restaraunt.
It was on my honeymoon, and we both were tired and didnt feel like a big meal so we hit the chain store. The burgers came up in a reasonable time, then we ordered ice cream. A bus came in, the bus people ordered ice cream, ate, got coffee, and I had had enough.
Normaly I am pretty easy going and understanding because I work in a service industry also. But it was just ice cream, nothing special and they were apparently able to make it because the bus folks got served.
Anyway, a penny tip was left. I shouldnt have paid for the meal but I did. The manager wanted to give me coupons for a meal in the same chain restaraunt and I told her I didnt need them because I wont be eating at any unfriendlys again. Havent since.
I can understand slow, crowded, understaffed, or theat good food takes time. I cannot understand being dropped down in priority after the order is taken.
It was on my honeymoon, and we both were tired and didnt feel like a big meal so we hit the chain store. The burgers came up in a reasonable time, then we ordered ice cream. A bus came in, the bus people ordered ice cream, ate, got coffee, and I had had enough.
Normaly I am pretty easy going and understanding because I work in a service industry also. But it was just ice cream, nothing special and they were apparently able to make it because the bus folks got served.
Anyway, a penny tip was left. I shouldnt have paid for the meal but I did. The manager wanted to give me coupons for a meal in the same chain restaraunt and I told her I didnt need them because I wont be eating at any unfriendlys again. Havent since.
I can understand slow, crowded, understaffed, or theat good food takes time. I cannot understand being dropped down in priority after the order is taken.
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I've got a 10 minute rule no matter how good the food is at a place. If I get seated and haven't seen a server in 10 minutes, I leave. I won't sit there and sit there, getting hungrier by the minute.
My wife is an angel, she tolerates this, bless her heart.
I also won't wait in line for anything anymore unless it is something we HAVE to have. To much waiting in lines in the
Army.
- Tim
My wife is an angel, she tolerates this, bless her heart.
I also won't wait in line for anything anymore unless it is something we HAVE to have. To much waiting in lines in the
Army.
- Tim
