Shop assistants who don't bl**dy listen

daytona0

geerex wrote: »

That is totally brand new information which adds so much to this thread, thanks!

I should add, although it does seem a little pointless, that this thread is about customer facing workers who don't listen. It would appear that a number of you on this very thread don't actually read things either.
Whether you agree at not about the grammatical accuracy of the aforementioned burger order is moot. I'll reiterate one final time for the hard of thinking:

The accepted terminology (amongst McDonalds staff in my area) for this particular order is a " plain quarter cheese". Thats what the serving staff refer to it as when relating the order to the grill staff, and that's what the grill staff refer to it as when telling the serving staff that it's ready ("that's your plain quarter cheese ready").
Now, I am an occasional patron of said eating stablishment, so I asked which would be the most efficient way to procure said burger in a way both parties could understand. This is what I was told, also evidenced by observing the communication between workers.
Like I have said, I dont care particularly if the terminology is flawed, as long as I get what I asked for, which in general, i do.
My vent was simply about, on occasion, the staff member not, (in my opinion) listening. Whether they were simply confirming out of niceness, or indeed out of surprise that a member of the public knew their top secret terminology, I don't know. What then annoyed me was that they would then use the EXACT SAME phrase that I just did to convey the order to the grill staff.

I'm sorry if some of you find this too difficult a concept to grasp.

No no, I get what you said and one of my earlier posts acknowledged that both you/Azari and the Jp guy have a legitimate viewpoint but I seem to have missed your reply to that? Just to quote myself:

daytona0 wrote:

In fairness, Azari and JReacher1 both have valid points, but it is getting out of hand a bit!


No harm was done by asking you the extra question, and all we can speculate on is either why:

1. The cashier asked you the question

2. It annoyed you


Ultimately it is silly to criticise the cashier, and one must respect that this is something which annoys you. People will have their own opinion on this, and they are no less valid than your position of being annoyed.

I just commented (the coke no ice post) because it isn't a relateable situation in my opinion. Saying "quarter pounder with cheese, no cheese" is different to saying "coke with ice, no ice" so making reference to Jp and the possibility of him correcting you is a bit unnecessary and only serves to drag the thing on, but alas it is still raging on at the moment!

bod1467

geerex

daytona0 wrote: »

No no, I get what you said and one of my earlier posts acknowledged that both you/Azari and the Jp guy have a legitimate viewpoint but I seem to have missed your reply to that? Just to quote myself:



I just commented (the coke no ice post) because it isn't a relateable situation in my opinion. Saying "quarter pounder with cheese, no cheese" is different to saying "coke with ice, no ice" so making reference to Jp and the possibility of him correcting you is a bit unnecessary and only serves to drag the thing on, but alas it is still raging on at the moment!

All this thread has really achieved is to demonstrate that JReacher1 has made a fool of himself and apparently it's irrational of me to be annoyed at someone for not knowing what is a generally accepted way to order a menu item.

I can live with that.

Azari

bod1467 wrote: »

Love that cartoon!

Here's another goody:

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George_Michael

geerex wrote: »

You have made an utter fool of yourself on this thread, trolling does indeed have its just desserts. :rotfl::rotfl:

As long as one of those desserts isn't a Smarties McFlurry with no Smarties on it.

System

jb66 wrote: »

I get cheesed off when they tell me to enter my PIN in before the machine says enter the PIN, I bloody know what to do thanks

Some older customers and those left their reading specs need to be prompted.

System

About this burger saga.

When me and my ex were together, this was about 9 years ago. We got a takeaway menu through our door.

We laughed at it on reading it.
Cheese Quarterpounder with cheese
Bacon Quarterpounder with bacon
Mexican Quarterpounder with Mexican. (!!!!!!?)

The list went on. The above was all in the same font, colour and size.

Azari

Moglex wrote: »

This poster gets more goaterish as time passes. Can't give it up when he's obviously wrong, spends ages researching other threads looking for things to hit opponents with, posts all day long, and if he can't find anything substantive about the issue will suddenly inject some, usually unprovable, irrelevancy that he thinks will make his opponent look bad.

One of Goater's specialities was claiming a poster had made some statement and, when the poster denied making the statement and asked for a link, saying the the thread had been deleted.

At least Mr Reacher has not sunk that low, yet.

JReacher1

ScarletMarble wrote: »

About this burger saga.

When me and my ex were together, this was about 9 years ago. We got a takeaway menu through our door.

We laughed at it on reading it.
Cheese Quarterpounder with cheese
Bacon Quarterpounder with bacon
Mexican Quarterpounder with Mexican. (!!!!!!?)

The list went on. The above was all in the same font, colour and size.

What makes a Mexican burger a Mexican? I'm hoping it's something appropriately random.

NBLondon

JReacher1 wrote: »

You've wasted more time on this thread than you ever would than just saying everytime you go to McDonald's. "Can I have a quarter pounder with cheese without onion, gherkin or tomato sauce".

I don't eat at the place often enough to find out what their internal phrasing is but this makes most sense to me...


I would have interpreted "Plain" at the start to mean "No additional ingredients" and "with cheese" to mean "Yes I do want the cheese". "Plain Quarterpounder" to mean no cheese and no additions. If there's enough people asking for this, wouldn't that be a clue to McD to have a product called a "Quarterpounder" which you can have with or without cheese?


Or maybe I should stick to Burger King - who campaign on the basis that you can specify the additions at ordering time - now wonder why they did that?