Please pull ahead.

I had such a nice reply all entered and turns out I was not logged in so all that was LOST!!!!

Anyway....most fast food restaurants have a metal detector at the window that records the time it takes for the complete transaction. They get inspections by their managers and supervisors and the window service time is a big factor in their score.

I used to be a manager at Wendy's and the service time in the 80's was 30 seconds from pull up to drive off and when some people place multiple orders or things like no salt fries then that really makes the average time go through the roof. The original concept for the drive-thru was for speedy service for those that had simple(get-in-and-get-out) types of orders. Things like no salt fries or like at MD's no yucky onion were not intended for the drive thru.Of course then there are also the ones that sit at the window and pass out all the food,straws,condiments etc. while there is a line of folks that need their food!! LOL!!!

The way I used to do things was that if it was OUR fault I did not ask the customer to pull ahead but if it was a delay because of a special request then I would ask them to pull forward. Many times customers refused to pull ahead and if there were cars behind them that had small orders the cashier would go outside and collect money and deliver food to the poor souls having to wait behind the person that refused to pull ahead.

I myself usually pull forward if asked but I also do not make multiple orders or special requests. If we by some chance lose our sanity and go to McD's then I will go inside because I do not want those nasty onions on my sandwich and I know it takes a long time to do that!!
 
mum4jenn said:
The way I used to do things was that if it was OUR fault I did not ask the customer to pull ahead but if it was a delay because of a special request then I would ask them to pull forward. Many times customers refused to pull ahead and if there were cars behind them that had small orders the cashier would go outside and collect money and deliver food to the poor souls having to wait behind the person that refused to pull ahead.
Would this make the person who refused to pull forward feel like a big jerk? :lmao: What would they do? I'm dying to hear some of their reactions!

mum4jenn said:
I myself usually pull forward if asked but I also do not make multiple orders or special requests. If we by some chance lose our sanity and go to McD's then I will go inside because I do not want those nasty onions on my sandwich and I know it takes a long time to do that!!
Dh worked at Burger King in high school. He freaks out on me if I try to give a complicated order at the drive thru. I don't do it anymore because he explained why (it holds up the line and defeats the purpose of the drive thru window). His funniest story is about a person who gave this really complicated order for multiple Whoppers at the drive thru. It made him so nervous trying to get it right that he forgot to put the meat patties on! :lmao:
 
babiesX2 said:
Would this make the person who refused to pull forward feel like a big jerk? :lmao: What would they do? I'm dying to hear some of their reactions!


Some people would apologize when they realized why we wanted them to pull forward but most were jerks to start with and 'once a jerk always a jerk!!" LOL!!!

This is probably for another thread but once I had a cashier that was cute a button and (the type that could tell you off but was so cute you did not realize that you had been told off) once she had this car load of guys that made multiple orders and then refused to move. Once their order was ready and she was handing the driver his "biggie" drink the lid came off and all the tea went in his lap!!!! And he was NOT mad!!! If I had done that he would have pulled a gun on me!!!!
 
I usually pull up. If I don't want to wait, I'll cancel whatever they don't have ready.

DH will not pull up. I give him grief about this, but applaud him in my heart. :)
 

Cool-Beans said:
I usually pull up. If I don't want to wait, I'll cancel whatever they don't have ready....

I cancel usually too. I've done the whole pull ahead and park only to be forgotten. That drives me batty. I rarely use the drive-thru as I despise most ff anyway, but if I go, I always go at peak hours and never order any special things, so it just annoys the heck out of me to hear "we don't have ________ ready right now, can you pull ahead and we'll bring it to you?" It's friggin lunch time; how can they not have any fries ready? Grrrr.
 
I hate "pull ahead". I'm in the drive thru line because I'm in a hurry. If I had extra time I would be eating some place much nicer. :)
 
mum4jenn said:
I had such a nice reply all entered and turns out I was not logged in so all that was LOST!!!!

Anyway....most fast food restaurants have a metal detector at the window that records the time it takes for the complete transaction. They get inspections by their managers and supervisors and the window service time is a big factor in their score.

I used to be a manager at Wendy's and the service time in the 80's was 30 seconds from pull up to drive off and when some people place multiple orders or things like no salt fries then that really makes the average time go through the roof. The original concept for the drive-thru was for speedy service for those that had simple(get-in-and-get-out) types of orders. Things like no salt fries or like at MD's no yucky onion were not intended for the drive thru.Of course then there are also the ones that sit at the window and pass out all the food,straws,condiments etc. while there is a line of folks that need their food!! LOL!!!

The way I used to do things was that if it was OUR fault I did not ask the customer to pull ahead but if it was a delay because of a special request then I would ask them to pull forward. Many times customers refused to pull ahead and if there were cars behind them that had small orders the cashier would go outside and collect money and deliver food to the poor souls having to wait behind the person that refused to pull ahead.

I myself usually pull forward if asked but I also do not make multiple orders or special requests. If we by some chance lose our sanity and go to McD's then I will go inside because I do not want those nasty onions on my sandwich and I know it takes a long time to do that!!
Thanks for the insiders perspective! I generally will pull ahead, especially if people are behind me. Unfortunately, if I do pull ahead and they get the order wrong, I am stuck having to either drive back through the drive-thru to get it corrected, or park and go in the restaurant (which can be a real pain if I have one of the kids with me).
 
Oh gosh! What memories! I worked at Burger King in High School, I worked the drive thru and boy did I had a blast doing that job!!! I worked with a lil old lady who used to set me up on dates LOL I gave the hot guys a lil extra fries :lmao: I had soo much fun talking to the people in the cars!!

Now I am also having flash backs from when I was a kid and McD's had those lil RED hats(with a number) they would put on your car :lmao: :lmao: we got those darn things all the time because we were a big family... it was like OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :guilty: the red hat is coming :rotfl: for a bunch of teens, it was pretty embarassing and sooo NOT COOL!
 
miss missy said:
Oh gosh! What memories! I worked at Burger King in High School, I worked the drive thru and boy did I had a blast doing that job!!! I worked with a lil old lady who used to set me up on dates LOL I gave the hot guys a lil extra fries :lmao: I had soo much fun talking to the people in the cars!!

Now I am also having flash backs from when I was a kid and McD's had those lil RED hats(with a number) they would put on your car :lmao: :lmao: we got those darn things all the time because we were a big family... it was like OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :guilty: the red hat is coming :rotfl: for a bunch of teens, it was pretty embarassing and sooo NOT COOL!


I don't remember anything like little red hats!!! Of course I rarely went to McDs except for after the football games for fries (back when the fries were really good and really bad for you!!!
 
kdibattista said:
Now I understand... I wouldn't give them a hard time... I would be afraid they would spit in my food :p

I was thinking the same thing. Pull up, no big deal.
 
For me, it depends.

If I was the only car in line, no, sorry, I won't pull ahead. The only "special" thing I ask for at the drive thru is if I happen to go through McD's and I get a steak, egg and cheese bagel for breakfast, I ask for extra cheese, or if I order a burger, I ask for no onions (their onions are gross!).

If there are people behind me, sure, I don't mind pulling ahead.

What hacks me off is when I pull ahead and I ask for something such as mayo packets or bbq sauce or something to be brought out to me and they say sure, then the person who brings it out didn't bring those and I have to wait even longer for them to run in and get it.

Kimya
 
I love this thread because the McD's by us is run by a bunch of idiots. They had a wonderful way to boost up their statistics - you pay at the window and someone is waiting down at the end of the drive thru (no window just where you pull into the rest of the parking lot) with your order. Now, if they got your order wrong you had to either park and go in (with the kids) or drive back through. After having to get out of my car twice with my DD I refused to pull forward and pick up the food. I know that sounds stupid but it negates the whole point of the drive thru if you have to get out of your car to straighten out their mistakes. BTW, a chicken nugget happy meal and a value meal with a diet coke was as tricky as the orders ever got. I would be a PIA and make him walk the food back. He would even shake the food bags at you like "come and get it"! One shake too many and I actually e-mailed McDonalds. I know that sounds really juvenile but boy did he use to get my goat. They used to do this if there was a long line or if you were the only one in line. I would have to say that about 3 weeks after my e-mail this practice stopped. Not sure if its related but my ego likes to think so. :rotfl:

And can I ask a question.... Why pull forward if the fries aren't done? I can see if the chicken nuggets aren't done or you have a special order. But fries? Don't the majority of the orders contain fries? :confused3 I've never worked fast food so I may be wrong.
Okay, now I will take a deep breath and go on about my life. :blush:
 
miss missy said:
Oh gosh! What memories! I worked at Burger King in High School, I worked the drive thru and boy did I had a blast doing that job!!! I worked with a lil old lady who used to set me up on dates LOL I gave the hot guys a lil extra fries :lmao: I had soo much fun talking to the people in the cars!!

:lmao: about giving a few extra fries to the cute boys!

Dh worked with his mom at BK. She worked there first and got him his job. There was some sort of peer evaluation system, and Dh gave his mom a 4 out of possible 10! :rotfl2: He said she only deserved a 4 because BK's function was to serve burgers and she didn't know how to do that. Her job was keeping the dining room clean and tidy. :lmao: She still brings it up fairly frequently.

The BK they worked at is at a really busy intersection. We were at the drive thru one day at that BK with his parents in the car. MIL started telling us about all the times she had to risk her life walking across the intersection :tiptoe: to get change for the registers. Dh said he felt bad and that if he had known that he would have given her a 4.5! :lmao:
 
disney4us2002 said:
It's friggin lunch time; how can they not have any fries ready? Grrrr.
All I can figure is that they didn't realize anyone would want fries that day. :crazy:
 
Cool-Beans said:
All I can figure is that they didn't realize anyone would want fries that day. :crazy:


Lunch rush in fast food can be very stressful. There were days when I would have 3 people call in sick(or their grandmother had died for the 5th time!!) and you have others trying to make sandwiches or cook on the grill or run the register AND trying to keep up with the fries. Also there were days when sales were so high there just was not enough room in the fryers to cook that many fries. Many days someone would walk in or drive up with 25-30 separate orders and would order them all separately so we had no way to know what they were going to order. And then there were the times when we would get several buses at one time....Once when I was fresh out of training (back in the day when Wendy's pattied their own ground beef and cleaned the tables off instead of the customer throwing their trash away) I had 8 buses and 12 vans pull up within minutes of each other......There is NO WAY to keep up with FRIES on a day like that!!!!!! Did we run out of fries??? YES!!! We ran out of tomatoes and lettuce and pattied meat. I was the only one old enough to use the patty machine so I had to leave the fry position to go patty meat and slice tomatoes and prep lettuce.

Yes the folks that work in fast food may be idiots in the minds of many people but until you have had to deal with situations like this.....well....it looks so much easier sitting in the drive thru!!!


So...it IS possible to NOT have fries ready at all times during a lunch period!!
 
I've seen people run food to cars before in a drive thru, I figured big order or parts were just not ready (and I was in line for a drink)
 
babiesX2 said:
:lmao: about giving a few extra fries to the cute boys!

Dh worked with his mom at BK. She worked there first and got him his job. There was some sort of peer evaluation system, and Dh gave his mom a 4 out of possible 10! :rotfl2: He said she only deserved a 4 because BK's function was to serve burgers and she didn't know how to do that. Her job was keeping the dining room clean and tidy. :lmao: She still brings it up fairly frequently.

The BK they worked at is at a really busy intersection. We were at the drive thru one day at that BK with his parents in the car. MIL started telling us about all the times she had to risk her life walking across the intersection :tiptoe: to get change for the registers. Dh said he felt bad and that if he had known that he would have given her a 4.5! :lmao:

hey give her a full 5 for that :lmao:
 
Pet Peeve:

Items that seemingly NEVER ready and available.

Why offer it on the menu in the first place then? I'm smart enough to know better than to order things that aren't on the menu board, though I will admit I've been behind more than 1 angry person trying to get Whoppers at McD's.

My main gripe is Potato Cakes at Arbys. Apparently, i'm only human in my area who eats them. They're never ready, no matter what Arbys I goto, and I always have to pull forward (and this is Arbys, there's no one there but me!)

I have a local old fashioned ice cream shop, soda fountain, burger joint, etc. It's a real treasure. They serve a billion things from fried okra to chili dogs to maple walnut milkshakes to full banana splits in the drive through. They have a little sign that says "making food fresh takes time and effort, we appreciate your patience." They have little numbered parking spaces that they direct people to - this all makes sense.

But not having a type of french fry ready? C'mon...
 
mum4jenn said:
Yes the folks that work in fast food may be idiots in the minds of many people but until you have had to deal with situations like this.....well....it looks so much easier sitting in the drive thru!!!


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GREAT! it's SO nice to know I'm married to a fast food idiot!!! I sure was wondering ----
 


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