Well, I guess I can't go back to that McDonalds!

[tekoa]

Great story thanks for the laugh!

 

[yoopermom]

Glad to know that my boring lil ol life can bring chuckles to others

Terri

 

[chisnpeke]

I have a funny McDonald's story...

I went through the drive-thru on my way to work one night. I should note that there is nothing but vending machines at my work place. Anyway, I ordered a plain hamburger. I get to work, ready to start my long night. I open my "hamburg" to find my roll, inside out (the white part on the outsides), with only 2 slices of cheese in between.

How did a plain hamburger suddenly become a cheese sandwich? Yuck. It was a hungry night at work.

This happened to us once too! We ordered a cheeseburger. We got everything but the burger! I can see this happening if it is busy but this was about 7-8 at night and they weren't busy so I don't understand how that happened. It's always a good story.

 

[keerymom]

This happened to us once too! We ordered a cheeseburger. We got everything but the burger! I can see this happening if it is busy but this was about 7-8 at night and they weren't busy so I don't understand how that happened. It's always a good story.

It's nice to know that we're not alone! What really blew my mind was why the heck the bun was inverted??

 

[cassiez76]

LOL!!

i have a few good fast food stories. when i was a kid (on our way to wdw) my dad ordered french fries with no salt. the girl behind the counter didn't know how to do that. my dad had to explain it to her. we still laugh at that and it's probably been 25 years now.

my poor hubby...he ALWAYS has trouble at places.

he worked late and would stop at wendy's for dinner. he'd order a sour cream and chive baked potato. got home, no sour cream. so he called them and said no sour cream for his sour cream potato. they said, come back tomorrow and we'll give you one free. he goes back the next night and they give him a free sour cream and chive baked potato.

goes home and there's still no sour cream. so he calls them again. they said come back tomorrow and we'll give you another free one.

he goes the 3rd nite and orders again. free. so he gets to the window and decides to ask for "extra" sour cream. figures this has to be the smart thing to do now.

gets home and there's sour cream....no potato.

he finally gave up and now everything gets checked very very well.

there's also the girl at the burger king window who had us repeat our order 3 times before she got it right. it wasn't a hard order. so as we're pulling up to get the stuff, she's singing pimpin' ain't easy. hubby goes, neither is taking an order, huh?

i'd rather cook than go thru the trouble sometimes. but they sure do make ya laugh sometimes.

 

[SandrA9810]

I never understood when I ask for a plain cheeseburger, they ask "do you want cheese on it?"... if I didn't, don't you think i'd order a plain hamburger?

My mom always order plain burgers for my brother, so from a kid, I've always been one to check my order before pulling away unless i'm in a hurry. I'm also one to "special" order, no mayo or plain, and they usually mess it up some how.

 

[PlainJane]

I have a funny McDonald's story...

I went through the drive-thru on my way to work one night. I should note that there is nothing but vending machines at my work place. Anyway, I ordered a plain hamburger. I get to work, ready to start my long night. I open my "hamburg" to find my roll, inside out (the white part on the outsides), with only 2 slices of cheese in between.

How did a plain hamburger suddenly become a cheese sandwich? Yuck. It was a hungry night at work.

See, this is why I'm very explicit when I order my cheeseburgers. Wherever I go I always say a cheeseburger with only cheese on it. If they look like they're confused, I go on to say just meat, cheese, bun. Whenever I say plain cheeseburger, I always either get no cheese, a pickle, or some other topping I have no desire to consume.

The servers always look at me like I'm crazy, but it's way better than having to ask for a new cheeseburger.

 

[MIGrandma]

Regarding her request for you to pull forward, I worked at a fast food establishment (not McDonalds) for four months in college (felt like years), and we were given exactly 30 seconds to exchange money, hand over the food, and bid the customer a good day. There was a timer over the drive-thru window and as soon as it hit 30 seconds, the numbers changed from green to red. When you're "in the red," your productivity goes down, and you're in trouble. If we knew the order was going to take more than, oh, 40 seconds to complete, we requested that the customer pull forward so that our productivity meter wouldn't drop. And thus fills my useless knowledge quota for the day.

Thank you for explaining this! I have always wondered why they ask you to pull forward if there is nobody waiting behind you. It just didn't make sense to me.

 

[Familyof4lovesDW]

We cannot get the carmel sundaes here and have not been able to ge them for like 10 years or so, my favorite. We only have chocolate and strawberry. Next time order a just ice cream no toppings and ask for an apple dippers carmel packet, that way they cannot screw it up. Our nuts also come in a seperate package. I think I could write a book for all of my fast food problems I have had lol. Taco Bell almost delivered to us once, since we went back three times and they still could not get it right (14 years ago when I was in HS). It is also good to know I am not the only plain cheeseburger lover. Bun, cheese, burger, bun, so simple, but yet so hard. I always check my food and get sooooo mad when DH does not and it is of course screwed up:mad If I was the OP I would have went inside and told them how they almost killed me with nuts and watched them make the new one so I know they did not do anything to it.

 

[Laura24]

similar event, I ordered a large tea at window 1, pulled up to window 2 and the employee, in a heated discussion with another employee, had her back to the window, arm extended out the window with my tea, never looking my way and when I reached for the cup I slightly touched it but missed it completely when she wasn't watching what she was doing and yep...there it went..on the ground!

 

[MM27]

Don't worry, I can't go to my McDonalds drive thru either anymore
My dog gets a small McDonalds hamburger every once in a while and I take her in the car to get it. I ordered and before I drove forward my dog, whose head was out the back window, let out a huge burp. The girl that was taking the order goes "Ewww". I just hope she didn't think it was me when I pulled up.

 

[IDoDis]

McDonald's stopped the practice of putting nuts directly on sundaes at least a couple of years ago due to peanut allergies. They've been serving them in small sealed bags ever since, so how did you get nuts on your sundae? Did the girl just include the small bag of them with your spoon & napkin or were they actually on the sundae?

 

[ReneeA]

Ooohhh!!! I have a McDonald's story from yesterday. DH and I drove through in the am for sweet tea and coffee. I ordered my coffee with a vanilla shot, one sweet & low and 1 cream. The girl repeated my order back to me, it was correct and when we pulled around...

They had a Coke with a vanilla shot, a sweet and low and creamer added to it. Who the heck orders THAT? I mean, it's 8am and common sense would be coffee with those additions...not to mention, she did at one time repeat my order back to me correctly.

When I told them that wasn't what I ordered, they looked at me like I was the crazy one.

 

[connorlevismom]

LOL! You didn't happen to be in upstate New York when this happened, did you?

Nope, Minnesota!

Kristine

 

[MinnieMe87]

They had a Coke with a vanilla shot, a sweet and low and creamer added to it. Who the heck orders THAT? I mean, it's 8am and common sense would be coffee with those additions...not to mention, she did at one time repeat my order back to me correctly.

When I told them that wasn't what I ordered, they looked at me like I was the crazy one.

Gross!! Seriously, who would order that? That makes me want to yack thinking about drinking something like that!

 

[SandrA9810]

well they did have vanilla coke at one point... But the other stuff is just gross.

 

[JustSoYouKnow]

There's a reason these people work at McDonald's.

 

[DarthKTrava]

Too funny.

Regarding her request for you to pull forward, I worked at a fast food establishment (not McDonalds) for four months in college (felt like years), and we were given exactly 30 seconds to exchange money, hand over the food, and bid the customer a good day. There was a timer over the drive-thru window and as soon as it hit 30 seconds, the numbers changed from green to red. When you're "in the red," your productivity goes down, and you're in trouble. If we knew the order was going to take more than, oh, 40 seconds to complete, we requested that the customer pull forward so that our productivity meter wouldn't drop. And thus fills my useless knowledge quota for the day.

I loved your relay race analogy. Sometimes, that's exactly what it felt like.

We've got one of those too. Not like I give a flip about it. I know Taco Bell doesn't... We do get the customer taken care of as quickly as possible without making it seem like a "wham bam, thank you, Ma'am".

 

[DarthKTrava]

Too funny.

Regarding her request for you to pull forward, I worked at a fast food establishment (not McDonalds) for four months in college (felt like years), and we were given exactly 30 seconds to exchange money, hand over the food, and bid the customer a good day. There was a timer over the drive-thru window and as soon as it hit 30 seconds, the numbers changed from green to red. When you're "in the red," your productivity goes down, and you're in trouble. If we knew the order was going to take more than, oh, 40 seconds to complete, we requested that the customer pull forward so that our productivity meter wouldn't drop. And thus fills my useless knowledge quota for the day.

I loved your relay race analogy. Sometimes, that's exactly what it felt like.

We've got one of those too. Not like I give a flip about it. I know Taco Bell doesn't... We do get the customer taken care of as quickly as possible without making it seem like a "wham bam, thank you, Ma'am".

 

[DarthKTrava]

I never understood when I ask for a plain cheeseburger, they ask "do you want cheese on it?"... if I didn't, don't you think i'd order a plain hamburger?

My mom always order plain burgers for my brother, so from a kid, I've always been one to check my order before pulling away unless i'm in a hurry. I'm also one to "special" order, no mayo or plain, and they usually mess it up some how.

I've been tempted to for giggles....

See, this is why I'm very explicit when I order my cheeseburgers. Wherever I go I always say a cheeseburger with only cheese on it. If they look like they're confused, I go on to say just meat, cheese, bun. Whenever I say plain cheeseburger, I always either get no cheese, a pickle, or some other topping I have no desire to consume.

The servers always look at me like I'm crazy, but it's way better than having to ask for a new cheeseburger.

You sound like a friend of mine..... he'd order a steak and cheese like that: meat bread cheese. No lettuce, no tomato, no mayo. Just meat cheese and bread.

And another friend gets weird looks when he ordered 4 sausage mcmuffins, no sausage (he's allergic to pork). I told him to check to make sure they're what he wanted: cheese on a mcmuffin. He'd also do egg mcmuffins without the canadian bacon on it.

LOL!!

i have a few good fast food stories. when i was a kid (on our way to wdw) my dad ordered french fries with no salt. the girl behind the counter didn't know how to do that. my dad had to explain it to her. we still laugh at that and it's probably been 25 years now.

my poor hubby...he ALWAYS has trouble at places.

he worked late and would stop at wendy's for dinner. he'd order a sour cream and chive baked potato. got home, no sour cream. so he called them and said no sour cream for his sour cream potato. they said, come back tomorrow and we'll give you one free. he goes back the next night and they give him a free sour cream and chive baked potato.

goes home and there's still no sour cream. so he calls them again. they said come back tomorrow and we'll give you another free one.

he goes the 3rd nite and orders again. free. so he gets to the window and decides to ask for "extra" sour cream. figures this has to be the smart thing to do now.

gets home and there's sour cream....no potato.

he finally gave up and now everything gets checked very very well.

there's also the girl at the burger king window who had us repeat our order 3 times before she got it right. it wasn't a hard order. so as we're pulling up to get the stuff, she's singing pimpin' ain't easy. hubby goes, neither is taking an order, huh?

i'd rather cook than go thru the trouble sometimes. but they sure do make ya laugh sometimes.

Poor hubby but that was just too funny....

Taco Bell's bad about not giving me a spork with a combo that REQUIRES an eating utensil. Good thing I was going somewhere I can get a fork...