Burger King - "No Fries, No Snacks, No Chicken!"

barbiedoll

Fluff15 wrote: »

I used to work in Greggs and occasionally we'd run out of something like sausage rolls or steak bakes, because there was a manufacturing fault and we wouldn't receive our morning order. With the responses of some of the people, you'd think we'd switched off their life support.

I popped to a Greggs recently, but it was closed for refurbishment. Although I was a tad disappointed, two of my fellow customers-to-be were distraught. They were trying to peer into the windows, and kept expressing their astonishment at how the shop could possibly be shut "especially in this weather"....like we're all going to die from hypothermia without our Greggs pasties! :rotfl:

I once went to a Pizza Hut restaurant which had run out of mushrooms AND cheese! :eek:

sulphate

Starbucks frequently run out of ice in the summer. I'm not sure why they can't purchase a few ice cube trays and make their own ice!

Oddjob

Pennywise wrote: »

Tesco and Asda in-store cafes are hopeless. Yes, they often run out of stuff and yes, they won't go on the shop floor to buy it. Tesco often have a very poor range of food anyway. Nothing cooked to order, you just have to pick what's on the hot counter. We've stopped even trying to eat there. No surprise that they're hardly ever busy. What a waste of valuable space and loss of profit potential.

Morrisons are on a different level. We've bee in many stores and they're often packed at lunchtimes with a very wide ranging menu, and we've never been told they've run out of anything at all. Everything cooked to order - they don't have hot counters. And cheap too!

Never tried Sainsburys.

We've found McDonalds have often run out of apple pies and their ice cream machines are often out of order - not just one branch, but experienced it many times all over the country.

I've eaten in Sainsbury's many times, mostly the meals are very good although they do run out of things sometimes.

JReacher1

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

How many times does this has to be said? It's not they won't, it's they CAN'T!.

It is not a privately run shop/restaurant where they can source the stock willy nilly. I don't work in one & even I understand that. I'm not sure why some people have so many problems understanding how large companies are not ran like a small private business?

But as they sell toast for thirty pence a slice and you can buy a loaf of bread on the shop floor for a quid it does seem like they should have some flexibility in their stock purchase system to allow them to buy out of stock items if there is a demand for them.

For one thing they operate under the tesco name and it reflects baldy on the store that their cafe has run out of a key food product that the store sells!

Money-Saving-King

JReacher1 wrote: »

But as they sell toast for thirty pence a slice and you can buy a loaf of bread on the shop floor for a quid it does seem like they should have some flexibility in their stock purchase system to allow them to buy out of stock items if there is a demand for them.

For one thing they operate under the tesco name and it reflects baldy on the store that their cafe has run out of a key food product that the store sells!

I can imagine it's a loss prevention thing. You could get staff to buy bread for themselves & when questioned just say they had ran out of bread or the bread they had one that day had gone mouldy so they needed more.

Although things often don't seem logical, there usually is a reason.

ThumbRemote

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

How many times does this has to be said? It's not they won't, it's they CAN'T!.

It is not a privately run shop/restaurant where they can source the stock willy nilly. I don't work in one & even I understand that. I'm not sure why some people have so many problems understanding how large companies are not ran like a small private business?

Can't? Is there a giant wall physically preventing them from walking across?

They could, but they won't. Whether that is due to employees or management decisions is irrelevant; if the desire was there they could occasionally replenish stock from the shop floor. However they choose not to.

They could.
They won't.

Money-Saving-King

ThumbRemote wrote: »

They could.
They won't.

With who's money then?

They can't just take random amounts from the till to go shopping withto bits & bobs they've ran out of. You are completely wrong!

mrxry

Pennywise wrote: »

Tesco and Asda in-store cafes are hopeless. Yes, they often run out of stuff and yes, they won't go on the shop floor to buy it. Tesco often have a very poor range of food anyway. Nothing cooked to order, you just have to pick what's on the hot counter. We've stopped even trying to eat there. No surprise that they're hardly ever busy. What a waste of valuable space and loss of profit potential.

Morrisons are on a different level. We've bee in many stores and they're often packed at lunchtimes with a very wide ranging menu, and we've never been told they've run out of anything at all. Everything cooked to order - they don't have hot counters. And cheap too!

Never tried Sainsburys.

We've found McDonalds have often run out of apple pies and their ice cream machines are often out of order - not just one branch, but experienced it many times all over the country.

Tesco in my home town used to rent a site of a previous supermarket which was well built and well run(even when rented by Tesco) the cafe was cheap, food was cooked to order and the cooks were there for about 20 years, I remember ordering cheese omelette and chips for like £1.99(special offer normally was about £3), a large plate of chips was like 60p, then Tesco built this cheap and nasty store of their own and the cafe was run by Eurest, a SMALL bowl of chips was like £1.75 omelettes were about £5 and for those high prices you got staff who couldnt cook, they were all about 19, oldest looked about 25 who often burned food and all food was pre made.

ThumbRemote

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

With who's money then?

They can't just take random amounts from the till to go shopping withto bits & bobs they've ran out of. You are completely wrong!

It would be quite straightforward to implement the correct procedures if they had any desire to do so.

Caf! manager takes £1 out of the till to buy a loaf of bread. They put receipt for £1 in the till. It all balances. Hardly rocket science.

rdr

I recently visited a pub that had run out of proper beer and chips.