Is it just my luck or is going through a drive thru theses days a 2 trip ordeal. my wife gets mad when I sit at the window and go through the bag to make sure my order is in there. but I'm getting tired of going through twice. and you don't even get a sorry. actually the last time something was missing from my order, I waited at the window for the second time, so I said oh sorry about that and the kid said oh thats ok ( he didn't get the pun) the workers don't act like there representing the establishment they work for. what ever happened to service

 

I always check the bag before I pull off as well. Several times, I have gone to McD's and drove all the way home (or to a friends house) only to realize that they left off a few items. Also, you have to specifically ask for ketchup at the window to actually get it. And it's retarted that they only give you 3-4 packets for a large fry...

 

i takes less time to just get out of the truck and go in. ive been feed up with drive thru's for a long time now and i dont go to fast food places much any more

 

I hardly ever go to the drive through. Used to drive the kids nuts (another good reason for doing it I might add), but to me it usually took less time to park, go inside and order, pay and check the order before leaving than going through the drive thru. Especially if they'd wanted up to pull while they got your order ready so they could wait on others. Seemed like then you became almost forgotten.

 

That does realy tick me off how they are so stingy with the ketchup. you think that they get it taken out of there pay or somthing.

 

I don't go there expecting good service. Seems they forget stuff at least 1/2 of the time. Gotta watch them and check your order before you leave. When I want more ketchup I say "can I have some more ketchup please".

 

I rarely go, but we went into a McDs Friday night and ordered 2 Big Macs and fries and a couple other things.

Place was loaded with employees, but only one register was open, all others employees just walking around.

Finally got the order, no Big Macs, but 2 double cheeseburgers. We told cashier that was wrong, she insisted we ordered cheesburgers. Even a customer there waiting told cashier she was wrong, we ordered Big Macs.

So instead of waiting for them to fix Big Macs, and possibily getting some hockers, or other foreign substance on them, we walked out with what we had.

 

now they only give you 2 bbq sauces for nuggets. and its .25 for each one after that. Mc'd's

 

man isnt life a bitch

 

x2

There are so many people who are too lazy to get out of their cars that I can go into most fast food resturaunts in the area and get in and out in half the time than it would have taken for me to go through the drive through. And my order is usually correct about 99% of the time, opposed to having things routinely left out of my order when going through the drive through.

 

Aha, so I'm NOT the only one that hates drive thru's.

My girlfriend didn't understand why I don't like them. This is it (well, that and if you want to pay with cash, it's hard to get into your pockets).

I especially hate Long John Silver's drive thru. I tried asking for "a bunch" of tartar sauce. They'd give me 3 or 4 packets. So then I started asking for a "handful." They'd still give me 3 or 4. ugh.

I NEVER use the drive-thru anywhere unless the dining room is closed.

 

I do not go to fast food places because:

1. The food sucks.

2. Most of the people working there are morons and I have a very low tolerance level for people that make mistakes or that are lazy.

 

If that happens again, just hand the food back and ask for your money back.

I get quite involved with my order..if and when I order fast food.

I don't do:
McCrap
A&W
BK
Arby's

anymore.

The one place for a hamburger in Red Deer is Burger Boy.

They use fresh balled up lean hamburger meat and squish it down to patty size on the grill.

It takes longer to get but the product "is the best" and well worth the wait

Class place that BB

 

I understand everyone's problem with the drive-thru. But I figure, if they make it so easy for you to get food that you don't even have to get out of your own car to do it, I'll take what I can get. But yes, I do check the bag too because what is the use in paying for a meal only to get home and realize you don't have it. I do check it and they leave stuff out plenty of times but I don't get too mad.

A note about getting mad at drive-through workers - has anyone ever actually worked drive-through? I was lucky enough to never work in a drive-through window but I did have my share of crappy customer service jobs when I was starting out in college and I know what it's like to be on the other side of the cash register. It's not really a hard job in terms of difficulty of tasks, but it really is mentally exhausting to deal with angry people minute after minute. I know what they're going through and I don't want to make it any worse on them, because the car in front of me is a tempermental yuppee soccer mom in an SUV and the car in back of me is a daddy's little princess high school girl that is driving her dad's Benz into the ground. Not saying that y'all are hard on them or anything, but there are definitely those type of people out there. I was a cashier once, and I swear that some of those people came in to shop simply to take their anger out on someone else. And they know they can get away with it because the person behind the register can't fight back. Let me tell you, it is no picnic to stand behind a cash register and have older ladies stand there and tell you how incompetent and lazy you are because their check won't clear, when you know if you say what you really want to say, you're going to lose your job and not be able to buy textbooks for the upcoming semester.

One last thing, don't mess with people who touch your food. I hear too many stories of people putting nasty things in the food of ticked off customers. Any time you eat outside of your own home, you are taking a risk. I figure I am going to be as nice to the person as possible. A couple years back there was a story on the news that someone making a cop's burger at a fast food place in my home town got arrested for putting crack coccaine in his food. Can you believe that?

 

We don't have a "Burger Boy" nearby,
and I'm too far from Red Deer...