When a meal order is messed up?

Ordinarily I just shrug it off as one I'm not a picky eater and two I understand mistakes happen.

But sometimes it just hits me wrong after I clearly describe what I want and it is a repeated mistake.

I avoid McDs a double hamburger plain seems to be unattainable there you know rocket science king of stuff. Either way the constant wrong order or all of the salt they put on that little patty is bad for my blood pressure.

What I’d like to do is slap it on the front window and watch it slowly slide down the glass but I’d never do that.

I gotta laugh.

It was about 10 years ago that McDonald's was looking at improving quicker wait times in the drive thru lane.

#1 problem they found was customers checking their order before driving away and making the line go faster.
You had to check your order , it was wrong A LOT.

So they implemented some kind of double checking system and put a little sticker on the bag sealing it.

Now it took even longer to check it because ya had to peel off the sticker to open the bag. Orders were still messed up.

Prob too busy making these transgender toys that are out now….
They ARE cute but I would rather have a Ninja Turtle OR HelloKitty, not a twisted mashup of both

Went canoeing with my bros family. Afterward with hit some bar and grill in Pinconning. Nice enough place but my wife is a picky eater. She ordered a grilled chicken sandwich plain. The waitress asked what plain meant she replied only bun and chicken. Her order came with everything on it. When she started scrapping stuff off the waitress noticed the mistake and took it from her. When it came out a second time it was a basket of fries with a piece of chicken in it (no bun). She just ate it. We are pretty chill with stuff like this. Like we just accept fails when ordering special. BTW the beer and wings were good. lol

The usual mistake is no onions on a burger when I clearly say extra onions. Understandable as there probably more folks that don't like onions than the onion eaters like myself.

Today's debacle was my local waffle house where I'm semi-regular enough to be recognized when I walk in.

Double order, smothered, chunked, capped, and lightly peppered. Yup, I call it off by memory and never say covered yet half the time I get it with cheese on top. Well, there's a lot of cheese eaters out there.

Remake is not cooked crisp at all and was lacking peppers, the texas bacon cheesteak is missing bacon, cheese, and onions. The whole tastes burnt from something burnt on the grill. All in all not up the usual standards.

I hate being a karen but where's the line?

The older you get the less pleasures in life you have to look forward to and food is probably one of the last one you’re going to have daily. My in-laws when they were in assisted care I noticed the place came to life at meal times them old folks picked up the pace a bit. Meals was the one constant that they still could prioritize in all the confusion that comes with old age.

Mess with my food or coffee and I’m not a happy camper on a good day. LOL

I've always kind of figured that you do a business a service by calling out mistakes so they can improve and provide better service in the future. Lord knows that when I had employees to manage I demanded mistake free service for my clients. Probably why I don't have any employees today, lol.

Maybe try ordering in normal language? LOL I have no idea what what you just said means.

It depends. Most of the time I just scrape off what's wrong and go on with my day. Exception is shredded lettuce. Lettuce literally makes me gag... so if there's shreds of it all over a sandwich or taco... it's either return it or throw it out, cos I can't eat it.

The other exception is how long I have to wait first. Fast food places around here... some of them... are incredibly inept. I worked as management in fast food for a number of years, so I know what it's like, and what it takes... and when there's 2 cars in the drive through and two customers in the lobby and you're waiting 30 + minutes for 2 sandwiches and an order of fries.... something is very wrong. So if I have to wait a very long time for my order... finally get it... and it's wrong?? Then yeah... I'm in a mood by that point!

Angela, I'm shocked that you dont know the Waffle House menu. We might have to review your application for a southern card if you dont know the Waffle House menu by heart, lol.

Smothered=onions
Covered=cheese
Chunked=ham
Capped=mushrooms
Topped=chili
Peppered=jalapeños

Double order=hashbrowns × 2

I just try and be nice or if it's an option I'll just order from the kiosk. Being petty is just asking for you food to get spat on ect with a lot of fast food people. And the kiosk is just less of a pain and my food it's also right ... Which kinda irritates me because all I usually want is a burger with just meat cheese and the bun...mabye bacon and some ketchup

At a nice sit down place... Still try to be nice have a few friends who work in kitchens and the head chefs apparently are always waiting for some petty customer to make there day.

At a waffle house.....well I don't wanna get stabbed so yet again ...nice

I send her back into the kitchen

I would never complain at a restaurant because whatever comes out the second time you know is going to have spit in it.

Ever seen the movie Waiting?

What’s being a little petty?
https://youtu.be/WlIAhjRwOIE?si=XUAwKHClL1yfRIzF

That's pretty dang sick and twisted.

we dont go to fast food but 2-3 times a year, in a regular restaurant I will ask them to correct what is wrong and be nice about it!!!

Second one reminds me of someone !

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Your paying for it to be right. Their getting paid to as well. Not much difficulty in understanding that. Your customers expect you to do what they ask.
Your not being a Karen. Just want to get what you ordered. Simple.

Sarge