I had a run in in the drive thru a couple years back. I pulled into one of the two lanes at McD, and another car went through the second lane. I wait my turn, and then try to pull forward, but the person in the other car was riding up on the bumper of the person ahead of them, like, clearly intentionally making sure there was no room for me to take my turn.
So I roll down my window and call out "Hey, they're gonna get our orders mixed up" and before I'd even finished my sentence the driver GOES BALLISTIC on me. Just screaming "oh my God, really? Really?? Over a burger? Really?? Really? Really??" And I just rolled my window back up. The person drove forward just far enough to keep me from moving ahead, but not far enough to get to the first window to pay. They waited. Waited until the line cleared up. Then they gunned it past the pay window and straight to the food window.
I pulled up to the pay window, rolled mine down and loudly declared "Yeah, could I get my receipt too? I think this person ahead of my is trying to take my food!"
At which point the driver ahead of me peeled out of the drive thru without having received any food.
Window person said that such a tactic had been done a few other times that month by other people.
a cheeseburger hold the cheese, a hamburger add cheese, a Big Mac with no onion tomato lettuce or special sauce, a large coke, no ice, a small coke with extra ice, 7 large fries with no salt
I was driving back from Atlanta a few years ago and stopped into a chicfila drivethru to grab some lunch on the go. I didn't realize how backed up they were until i was already stuck in line and had no way to get out. There were 2 parking lot entrances merging into 1 drive-thru lane, the guy in front of me let a car from the other lane go in, then he went, so I figured the understanding was zipper merging and just taking basic turns so I let the other car go, then I went. When I got to the person to take me order she said "The guy in front of you has already paid for your meal for letting them go in front of you."
When basic courtesy is so rare it needs to be rewarded.
Same. Every day was like a lengthy masterclass in infinite fresh flavors of assholery and Karen-hood. As soon as you think you've plumbed the shadowy depths of the human condition, the floor comes out from under you. Then, all of a sudden, you're gazing straight into the maw of a clapped out Chevy Trailblazer where there used to be a drive thru window, and the driver is now prancing around nude, ranting about dipping sauces and firing a 12-gauge into the ceiling tiles.
I assume people do not like what I say to some topics and downvote me everywhere regardless of what I say. I am fairly sure of this since some replies to me can even be as simple as "you are correct" and have 20 upvotes while I am at 4 or something. Odd but who cares at the end of the day.
In any case, if you have a car and go to these places and this happens once(!), you can clearly afford it.
I assume people do not like what I say to some topics and downvote me everywhere
Aren't you glad you have more going on in your life than following someone around on the internet trying to lower their post scores whoch don't even matter.
This literally happens all the time.. Have you been through a drive through?
You order first, then at the first window you pay, then at the second window you pick up what you ordered.
So you can pay for the car behind you, people do it, sometimes they get a long chain of people doing it, all paying for the car behind them.
Personally I think the long chain is dumb, and I won't participate if I'm in the middle. If nobody ends it then nobody benefits from it. Might as well be me, I'm not rich.
However.. you are right, I don't think it would be easy to take the food of the car behind you, even if you paid for it. I've never worked in fast food but I'm sure there's checks in place to make sure the right car gets the food, so you'd have to explain yourself. I imagine?
Drive through consists of five distinct locations:
Ordering at a speaker stand.
Paying at the first window (which is not where you ordered)
Waiting at the second window to get told to go to the third window.
Being told to move out of the line, and park next to it, because an order of a royale with cheese, a medium fries with mayo, and a medium sprite is too complex of an order to process fast.
Going down the highway, crying because nobody remembers pulp fiction, and eating your bag of crap.
I've definitely gotten receipts from either window I'm pretty sure. Hell sometimes you pay and receive at the same window and one window isn't even being used.
Yes. It's how it works with most restaurants here as well. Hand it to them, they leave and return with the thing to sign and the card. Or in the case of drive throughs, the card and the receipt.
It's weird to hear for a lot of us Europeans because most people here don't use credit cards (so you're out of your own money if fraud happens) and also all cards have been chip and pin for a few decades now, we don't do this signing thing
Most cards here have the chip, I think. You mean how to put the card next to a reader and it goes beep, yeah? Those are available, but for some reason restaurants and drive through food places just...don't do that? The only place I think that uses the tap part is something like Red Robin, a fast casual burger place. They have machines on the table you can tap. But for the most part you hand the card and the check/slip to the server, they disappear, return with a thing to sign and your card. But from my understanding it's pretty easy to do chargebacks on the card or the like if someone were to charge extra or the like. But part of the reason for handing you something to sign is because you also can put the tip on there, being in the USA.
I'd almost put money on the attendant asked the guy to wait a moment, then this lady honked because she had to wait in line for an extra 14.7 seconds...but when it was her turn to order she stared at the menu for 2 minutes, then ordered for more people who can fit into her car.
The same type of person at the grocery store who will complain yOuRe TaKiNg ToO lOnG if someone is looking at something she wants, but then will park her cart in the middle of the aisle and stand there for 4 straight minutes.
At my Walmart, everyone tends to be so polite, Ive unintentionally left my cart blocking the aisle until I realize why someone is standing there holding a basket. I kind of wish more people would be like "Oi! Move it!"
But why not just move it yourself? I mean the person waiting? I am not going to wait for an inanimate object that someone left in the way for various reasons.
Yeahp you're right there boycott them all. Haven't touched one of them since the start of the genocide and my local independent places are so much better, like ridiculously better flavours not relying on adding addictive shite to keep you going back
You just ask. It's an American thing to do. They think it's funny to do. Like tipping and charity and other things where you can pay for feeling good about yourself.
What happens is that the next car also pays forward and so on until the chain breaks. It makes the news every once in a while when they manage to keep it up for an entire day.
Sorry, maybe I'm just sunbeat and can't think straight—or just an idiot—because I still don't get it.
This is what I'm picturing. Blue car orders as the pink car waits (and honks like a jerk) in fig. 1, right? Then the blue car drives up to the pick-up window to pay for and get their food in fig 2, at which point the pink car can make their order.
At which point between 1. and 2. does the blue car have the opportunity to pay for pink car's food, get the receipt, and take their order? Did the blue car just wait at the pick-up window until pink made the order? If that's the case, wouldn't the staff know that that's not their order?
Some drive thru have two windows, one where you pay and one where you pickup. So you just tell the pay window that you have your car and the car behind you.
Nowadays most places either only have one window and make one person do both jobs, also they don't have to pay as many people. The overall service is slower, but no one seems to care enough.
Sometimes you can even find older restaurants that have two windows and one is just permanently closed.
Also Starbucks had (still has?) a trend where you pay for the car behind you as a sort of pay it forward thing. Although in that scenario you probably can't take someone else's food.
When I was working fast food, during rush they prioritized the drive-thru orders over the indoor customers. Drive time was tracked and needed minimized, people waiting inside were presumably expected to be more patient.
It's been a few decades, but I still see cars slide through a lot faster than our orders when we go in.
It varies by restaurant, but I've had my family waiting in fast food restaurants, order already placed, for 15-20 minutes while I'm seeing cars entering the parking lot and leaving within four minutes or so. And it's not like they forgot us (had that too), usually others were already there and also had to wait a while.
It's not everywhere, but Ive seen it multiple times with multiple chains. Online pickups don't seem to have it as bad, but drive times are absolutely prioritized over indoor wait times
But also you should have an idea what you want before you go through the drive through.
They have a menu for a reason. You don't get to act entitled to other people's ability to look at a menu at the restaurant to decide what they want – nor do you forfeit yours – just because you decided not to leave your stupid car to get your food. "Oh, gee, I'm wasting gas waiting for them to order." Then go inside or order ahead.
You could give the extra food to someone who needs it and wasn't being a hugely entitled bitch.
The reason would be that the rudely impatient person has to wait in line again. Unfortunately the punishment will be lost on them, and they'll take it out on the employees that don't get paid a living wage.
It just seems like you'd be paying for two meals and slowing yourself down even further without much payoff, since the other person can quickly resolve the situation anyway. Might as well just slowed down ordering in the first place, that way you wouldn't have had to pay for a second order
And hers? They took both... making her need to order all over again after being told the person in front paid. So, she likely got excited for free food then was even more pissed when said food was neither free nor available at the second window...
I mean it wasted a bit of time on both side but she could probably just order at the receiving window, since the workers would know the situation already
Sounded like she was in more of a rush than he was and even if it did have an easy solution, the type that gets pissed off at a slight delay from a person being ahead of them in a drive thru is likely going to get pissed off every time she thinks of it.
And even if the workers understood what was happening, I'd say it was a coin toss whether they prepared to help her vs just wanted to enjoy the guy's trolling.
Though there's a decent chance that the person on cash and the person handing out the food didn't stop to talk to each other to figure out what was going on and that it took more minutes just to understand what was happening when she got to the front of the line.
And then places will refuse to let ppl pay for the food of others because ppl like you exploited that system of goodwill to do evil. Thanks for that, making the world worse, one petty small step at a time.
Also in the US, so many fast-food places have actively dismantled large parts of their dining areas since the Pandemic so they can cut cost and staff fewer people. The food is also almost as expensive as many restaurants now, so literally the only appeal to these places anymore is that they're faster.
This isn't because we're unfortunately car-centric, it's because toxic corporations have made eating inside mostly inconvenient
Yep. And I'm sure you have some implications about my intelligence as a result of being an American but let me just go ahead and jump right out there and tell you, I'm not the one complaining about how hard it is to read plain english.
I'm not saying it's hard to read plain English. I'm saying that when an American says "I was at McDonalds" apparently he means "I was in the McDonalds Drive Thru" because Americans are car-brained.
What I'm telling you, in plain english, which you seem to be having trouble understanding even now, is that reading at a second grade level is when you start to learn about context clues in writing like someone honking at you in line at a fastfood restaurant, is the indicator that you are in the drive thru. It isn't implied by being in line at the fast food place. It's implied by the additional context of being honked at.
And are far less commonly used than the counter inside the restaurant. In fact, I'd guess that the most popular fast food restaurants are actually inside train stations where there is no drive-thru lane, of course.
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Tidesphere@lemmy.world · 146 pts · 42d
I had a run in in the drive thru a couple years back. I pulled into one of the two lanes at McD, and another car went through the second lane. I wait my turn, and then try to pull forward, but the person in the other car was riding up on the bumper of the person ahead of them, like, clearly intentionally making sure there was no room for me to take my turn.
So I roll down my window and call out "Hey, they're gonna get our orders mixed up" and before I'd even finished my sentence the driver GOES BALLISTIC on me. Just screaming "oh my God, really? Really?? Over a burger? Really?? Really? Really??" And I just rolled my window back up. The person drove forward just far enough to keep me from moving ahead, but not far enough to get to the first window to pay. They waited. Waited until the line cleared up. Then they gunned it past the pay window and straight to the food window.
I pulled up to the pay window, rolled mine down and loudly declared "Yeah, could I get my receipt too? I think this person ahead of my is trying to take my food!"
At which point the driver ahead of me peeled out of the drive thru without having received any food.
Window person said that such a tactic had been done a few other times that month by other people.
django@discuss.tchncs.de · 27 pts · 42d
Sell car, buy food
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 42d
In Soviet US, door dashes you.
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 42d
McD is the kind of place where they would say “Tough shit, re-order” as well. That’s why I stopped going like a decade ago.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 42d
Would have been hilarious if they slid into a curb while peeling out and got stuck because their wheel got fucked up.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 94 pts · 42d
And the lady order?
55 BURGERS 55 FRIES 55 TACOS 55 PIES 55 COKES 100 TATER TOTS 100 PIZZA 100 TENDERS 100 MEATBALLS 100 COFFEES 55 WINGS 55 SHAKES 55 PANCAKES 55 PASTAS 55 PASTAS AND 155 TATERS
Tidesphere@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 42d
And 100% reason to remember the name
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 42d
Wow, I haven’t heard that song in a long time… thanks for the ear worm…
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 42d
Nah, it was
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 42d
a cheeseburger hold the cheese, a hamburger add cheese, a Big Mac with no onion tomato lettuce or special sauce, a large coke, no ice, a small coke with extra ice, 7 large fries with no salt
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 42d
I was driving back from Atlanta a few years ago and stopped into a chicfila drivethru to grab some lunch on the go. I didn't realize how backed up they were until i was already stuck in line and had no way to get out. There were 2 parking lot entrances merging into 1 drive-thru lane, the guy in front of me let a car from the other lane go in, then he went, so I figured the understanding was zipper merging and just taking basic turns so I let the other car go, then I went. When I got to the person to take me order she said "The guy in front of you has already paid for your meal for letting them go in front of you."
When basic courtesy is so rare it needs to be rewarded.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 42d
Saw this a few months ago but it was from a woman. Congrats on the transition!
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 45 pts · 42d
And everybody clapped
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 41d
LET ME HAVE THIS
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · 41 pts · 42d
This definitely happened.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 42d
I worked a drive-through for long enough to believe it.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 42d
Same. Every day was like a lengthy masterclass in infinite fresh flavors of assholery and Karen-hood. As soon as you think you've plumbed the shadowy depths of the human condition, the floor comes out from under you. Then, all of a sudden, you're gazing straight into the maw of a clapped out Chevy Trailblazer where there used to be a drive thru window, and the driver is now prancing around nude, ranting about dipping sauces and firing a 12-gauge into the ceiling tiles.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 41d
Then everyone clapped and he was crowned king and now he lives on McDonald's Mountain.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 41d
A king of burgers, a Burger King
5wim@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 41d
Wendy
Taleya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 41d
That's his wife
osanna@lemmy.vg · 3 pts · 40d
that's his wife, the Dairy Queen.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
In-N-out...shake shack...five guys....
KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 42d
Not acusdomed to drive throughs. How would the guy get the karens receipt?
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 42d
By paying for it at the first window. He's in front of her. He gets to pay, says "I'm paying for me and car behind me. I need both receipts please"
Goes to second window for pickup. Shows both receipts, gets given both orders.
Leaves.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 11 pts · 41d
And only McDonalds wins.
Sasquatch@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 41d
eh. they get the same amount of business either way
KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 42d
Ooooh. Thanks for explaining :)
Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 42d
I wish i had fuck you level of money.where i can afford to do things like this
Eheran@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 41d
Is that not like only a few $? And that only happens like once in a live time to begin with?
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 41d
Not any more. It's at least $10 for a combo meal these days.
The real mystery is why you're getting downvotes.
Eheran@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
I assume people do not like what I say to some topics and downvote me everywhere regardless of what I say. I am fairly sure of this since some replies to me can even be as simple as "you are correct" and have 20 upvotes while I am at 4 or something. Odd but who cares at the end of the day.
In any case, if you have a car and go to these places and this happens once(!), you can clearly afford it.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 41d
Aren't you glad you have more going on in your life than following someone around on the internet trying to lower their post scores whoch don't even matter.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 41d
The employees then say 'this order is for a white sedan' and then hand you your order and only your order.
axx@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 41d
How would the person behind have already ordered if they're behind?
Why would the cashier not check with the person behind that they want someone else to pay?
The whole thing sounds implausible and ragebait.
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 41d
This literally happens all the time.. Have you been through a drive through?
You order first, then at the first window you pay, then at the second window you pick up what you ordered. So you can pay for the car behind you, people do it, sometimes they get a long chain of people doing it, all paying for the car behind them.
Personally I think the long chain is dumb, and I won't participate if I'm in the middle. If nobody ends it then nobody benefits from it. Might as well be me, I'm not rich.
However.. you are right, I don't think it would be easy to take the food of the car behind you, even if you paid for it. I've never worked in fast food but I'm sure there's checks in place to make sure the right car gets the food, so you'd have to explain yourself. I imagine?
Edit: reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATjL9CmwkCo
axx@slrpnk.net · -1 pts · 41d
I have, but not in a long time.
I didn't know payment chains were a thing. Makes little sense to me, the Tim Robinson sketch kind of shows the gist of why, but why not.
Doom@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 41d
You are assuming that A) drive thru workers give a fuck & B) drive thru workers give a fuck.
"I want to pay for the car behind me" THEM: "ok"
"I need to grab both these orders." THEM: "ok"
They aren't paid enough to care. At worst the second car had to wait for her food to be remade and got it for free - the horror.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 41d
Drive through consists of five distinct locations:
rekabis@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 42d
McDonald’s doesn’t provide receipts at the first window, they provide them at the second along with your food.
They don’t even have a receipt printer at the first window.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 41d
I've definitely gotten receipts from either window I'm pretty sure. Hell sometimes you pay and receive at the same window and one window isn't even being used.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 42d
The McDonalds near my house works as I've written. I hand them a card, they ask if I want a receipt, they hand me back my card and the receipt.
Trail@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 42d
You physically give them your card?!
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 42d
Yes. It's how it works with most restaurants here as well. Hand it to them, they leave and return with the thing to sign and the card. Or in the case of drive throughs, the card and the receipt.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 41d
It's weird to hear for a lot of us Europeans because most people here don't use credit cards (so you're out of your own money if fraud happens) and also all cards have been chip and pin for a few decades now, we don't do this signing thing
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
Most cards here have the chip, I think. You mean how to put the card next to a reader and it goes beep, yeah? Those are available, but for some reason restaurants and drive through food places just...don't do that? The only place I think that uses the tap part is something like Red Robin, a fast casual burger place. They have machines on the table you can tap. But for the most part you hand the card and the check/slip to the server, they disappear, return with a thing to sign and your card. But from my understanding it's pretty easy to do chargebacks on the card or the like if someone were to charge extra or the like. But part of the reason for handing you something to sign is because you also can put the tip on there, being in the USA.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 42d
Yes? One of the biggest benefits of a credit card is the charge back option for fraud. (Not pro credit card... Just pointing out this feature)
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 41d
The receipt printer is hooked up to the computer with the card swiper, which would be at the first window, in the case of my location.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 42d
I'd almost put money on the attendant asked the guy to wait a moment, then this lady honked because she had to wait in line for an extra 14.7 seconds...but when it was her turn to order she stared at the menu for 2 minutes, then ordered for more people who can fit into her car.
The same type of person at the grocery store who will complain yOuRe TaKiNg ToO lOnG if someone is looking at something she wants, but then will park her cart in the middle of the aisle and stand there for 4 straight minutes.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 42d
At my Walmart, everyone tends to be so polite, Ive unintentionally left my cart blocking the aisle until I realize why someone is standing there holding a basket. I kind of wish more people would be like "Oi! Move it!"
Eheran@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
But why not just move it yourself? I mean the person waiting? I am not going to wait for an inanimate object that someone left in the way for various reasons.
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 42d
Bro ended up with Big Smoke's order
SaorSol@startrek.website · 5 pts · 42d
No one should be giving money to IDF burger
Apartheid burgers and a geno-side of fries
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 42d
Is McDonald’s all that much more active in supporting Israel than any other corporate fast food chain?
SaorSol@startrek.website · 2 pts · 41d
Yeahp you're right there boycott them all. Haven't touched one of them since the start of the genocide and my local independent places are so much better, like ridiculously better flavours not relying on adding addictive shite to keep you going back
jdr@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 42d
Ya they control the government
EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 41d
Plus their "food" is just trash anyway!
Summzashi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 42d
🥇
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 41d
I haven't used a drive through in decades. How is one able to pay for the next person's food?
bstix@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 41d
You just ask. It's an American thing to do. They think it's funny to do. Like tipping and charity and other things where you can pay for feeling good about yourself.
What happens is that the next car also pays forward and so on until the chain breaks. It makes the news every once in a while when they manage to keep it up for an entire day.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 41d
Sorry, maybe I'm just sunbeat and can't think straight—or just an idiot—because I still don't get it.
This is what I'm picturing. Blue car orders as the pink car waits (and honks like a jerk) in fig. 1, right? Then the blue car drives up to the pick-up window to pay for and get their food in fig 2, at which point the pink car can make their order.
At which point between 1. and 2. does the blue car have the opportunity to pay for pink car's food, get the receipt, and take their order? Did the blue car just wait at the pick-up window until pink made the order? If that's the case, wouldn't the staff know that that's not their order?
bstix@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 41d
There are usually more steps: Order, wait, pay, wait, get food.
When you're at pay, they already have the bill for the next car who is in wait.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 40d
Add in a long distance between order and pay (or a slow blue driver).
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
Some drive thru have two windows, one where you pay and one where you pickup. So you just tell the pay window that you have your car and the car behind you.
Nowadays most places either only have one window and make one person do both jobs, also they don't have to pay as many people. The overall service is slower, but no one seems to care enough.
Sometimes you can even find older restaurants that have two windows and one is just permanently closed.
Also Starbucks had (still has?) a trend where you pay for the car behind you as a sort of pay it forward thing. Although in that scenario you probably can't take someone else's food.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 42d
This is some god-tier trolling
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 42d
The last time i went through a drive thru was many years ago.
S’nice
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
How long does it take to say, "One sack of shit, please."?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 42d
If this is true that’s incredible
But also you should have an idea what you want before you go through the drive through. That’s common curtsy.
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 42d
Dude I eat fast food like twice a year. I have no idea what I want when I roll up. The menus change often as well.
I think you mean “courtesy”
django@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 42d
Cutesy
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 42d
Are you srsly flirting with me rn?? While I’m trying to read the new taco bell combos?! Omg 😳
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 42d
That’s fine, but there are people don’t think about it until they get to the front, even inside.
And for the record I think drive through should be abolished. They’re a waste of space.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 42d
Often it’s actually quicker just to go inside.
5too@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 42d
When I was working fast food, during rush they prioritized the drive-thru orders over the indoor customers. Drive time was tracked and needed minimized, people waiting inside were presumably expected to be more patient.
It's been a few decades, but I still see cars slide through a lot faster than our orders when we go in.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 42d
Yeah, but only a couple cars can have orders placed at most, so your wait time is the sum of all cars in front of you.
That’s changed now a bit, there are multi lines and they ask you to pull over and wait. But still.
5too@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
It varies by restaurant, but I've had my family waiting in fast food restaurants, order already placed, for 15-20 minutes while I'm seeing cars entering the parking lot and leaving within four minutes or so. And it's not like they forgot us (had that too), usually others were already there and also had to wait a while.
It's not everywhere, but Ive seen it multiple times with multiple chains. Online pickups don't seem to have it as bad, but drive times are absolutely prioritized over indoor wait times
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 42d
They have a menu for a reason. You don't get to act entitled to other people's ability to look at a menu at the restaurant to decide what they want – nor do you forfeit yours – just because you decided not to leave your stupid car to get your food. "Oh, gee, I'm wasting gas waiting for them to order." Then go inside or order ahead.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 4 pts · 42d
Eating random extra garbage for what? She just goes around ordering again.
Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 42d
You could give the extra food to someone who needs it and wasn't being a hugely entitled bitch.
The reason would be that the rudely impatient person has to wait in line again. Unfortunately the punishment will be lost on them, and they'll take it out on the employees that don't get paid a living wage.
5too@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 42d
Yep. A mild inconvenience for a mild offense
courval@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 42d
Of course it's made up. How does one pay for an order which hasn't been made?
Saapas@piefed.zip · 0 pts · 42d
Their revenge on the woman was to pay for their own food
village604@adultswim.fan · 20 pts · 42d
Their revenge is delaying her even longer because they'd have to put in and make the order again.
Saapas@piefed.zip · 0 pts · 42d
Probably could just order at the receiving window after explaining the situation
Now that I think about it, you wouldn't even have to explain much since they'd most likely know you told them you'll pay for her order
village604@adultswim.fan · 12 pts · 42d
It's still an additional delay for someone already upset that OP was taking too long to order.
I think it's the perfect consequence for being an ass in the drive through.
Saapas@piefed.zip · 0 pts · 42d
It just seems like you'd be paying for two meals and slowing yourself down even further without much payoff, since the other person can quickly resolve the situation anyway. Might as well just slowed down ordering in the first place, that way you wouldn't have had to pay for a second order
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 42d
And hers? They took both... making her need to order all over again after being told the person in front paid. So, she likely got excited for free food then was even more pissed when said food was neither free nor available at the second window...
Saapas@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 42d
I mean it wasted a bit of time on both side but she could probably just order at the receiving window, since the workers would know the situation already
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 42d
Sounded like she was in more of a rush than he was and even if it did have an easy solution, the type that gets pissed off at a slight delay from a person being ahead of them in a drive thru is likely going to get pissed off every time she thinks of it.
And even if the workers understood what was happening, I'd say it was a coin toss whether they prepared to help her vs just wanted to enjoy the guy's trolling.
Though there's a decent chance that the person on cash and the person handing out the food didn't stop to talk to each other to figure out what was going on and that it took more minutes just to understand what was happening when she got to the front of the line.
Saapas@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 42d
I mean he did have to explain to someone he was paying for the other person's order so someone there was aware
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 41d
And then places will refuse to let ppl pay for the food of others because ppl like you exploited that system of goodwill to do evil. Thanks for that, making the world worse, one petty small step at a time.
rekabis@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 42d
McDonald’s doesn’t provide a receipt at the first window, they provide it at the second along with your food.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 42d
That's not true at the McDonalds I've been to. They always ask me at the first window if I would like a receipt.
merc@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 42d
Americans are so car-brained that "I was at McDonalds" means "I was in the drive-thru line outside McDonalds"
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 42d
No that’s just basic context clues. He said the lady honked at him so it can be inferred that he is in the drive thru.
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 42d
Also in the US, so many fast-food places have actively dismantled large parts of their dining areas since the Pandemic so they can cut cost and staff fewer people. The food is also almost as expensive as many restaurants now, so literally the only appeal to these places anymore is that they're faster.
This isn't because we're unfortunately car-centric, it's because toxic corporations have made eating inside mostly inconvenient
merc@sh.itjust.works · -7 pts · 42d
Yes, you have to context switch once that part comes in after the initial context was "I was just at McDonalds".
Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 42d
So you're upset that the bit that gives you context doesn't explicitly say "in the drive through"? Do you read at a second grade level?
merc@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 42d
Are you American?
Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 42d
Yep. And I'm sure you have some implications about my intelligence as a result of being an American but let me just go ahead and jump right out there and tell you, I'm not the one complaining about how hard it is to read plain english.
merc@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 42d
I'm not saying it's hard to read plain English. I'm saying that when an American says "I was at McDonalds" apparently he means "I was in the McDonalds Drive Thru" because Americans are car-brained.
Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 41d
What I'm telling you, in plain english, which you seem to be having trouble understanding even now, is that reading at a second grade level is when you start to learn about context clues in writing like someone honking at you in line at a fastfood restaurant, is the indicator that you are in the drive thru. It isn't implied by being in line at the fast food place. It's implied by the additional context of being honked at.
Soulg@ani.social · 6 pts · 42d
Do you carry around an air horn to honk it at people in restaurants?
merc@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 42d
No, which is why it was weird to read about a lady honking at jarrett when he was "at McDonalds".
Soulg@ani.social · 1 pts · 41d
Because you can't read? Drive thru exist in Europe.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 41d
And are far less commonly used than the counter inside the restaurant. In fact, I'd guess that the most popular fast food restaurants are actually inside train stations where there is no drive-thru lane, of course.
courval@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 42d
"I hope they see me in the drive through lane!"