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I hope my real-life responses to the people this strip was based on weren’t as mean as Chuck’s. The truth is, though, I could go on forever with the categories discussion. Should we talk about the distance-order? That’s the guy who doesn’t want to come up to the counter and order, because he’s far too good for that — instead, he stands with one foot out the door, leaning in, ordering at a normal voice as if I can hear him, or even know that he’s there. Then there’s the baby orderer, who thinks it’s cute to come in at a dinner rush, and with about 48 people standing in line behind him, and let his 1-year-old try to order their own food themselves. The kid doesn’t even know how he got to this miserable grease-pit in the first place, nor will he remember in 3 days… don’t waste 15 minutes of my time by making me listen to the kid spit-up on himself, or then act surprised when I didn’t know that meant ‘hold the pickles.’
Whew… ok, I got that out of my system… that was a little harsh. Jokes aside, I think everyone should have to work in food service for atleast a year or three at some point in their lives… because if everyone dealt with the abuse that most servers take, maybe everyone would try to be a little bit nicer to each other…
August 18th, 2008 at 9:53 am
What about the “Overly Custom Order Jerk?” These are the people that order something off of the menu, but by the time they get done listing all of the specific things they do and do not want on it, they are actually ordering something else altogether. I kid you not, when I worked at Schlotzsky’s we actually had a regular lady that would come in and order the sourdough pizza (awesomeness by the way) but she didn’t want the cheese. A pizza with no cheese?!?! It was the crust, tomato sause, and pepperoni. What the??? I also had a person come in and order the original (if you know your Schlotzsky’s you’ll know why this is funny) and by the time they got done adding and subtracting things it was actually a whole other sandwich, I think it was like the rueben or something, like he added and took off so many things from the original it would have just been easier to say “give me the rueben” instead. People rock.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Yeah, I agree about people having to work for at LEAST a year. I worked at Braum’s for a year, mostly doing the drive through. At one point, I almost dragged an old dude out of his car and THROUGH the window. He basically cut in line during a lunch rush, not wanting to order at the sign like EVERY SANE PERSON DID. Then, thinking that he was my next order in line, I give him that total (I said something like, “$4.84 please”.) To which he replies, “Don’t you say that to me! Give me a half gallon of whole milk.”
Of course, I’m thinking, “How about I give you a half gallon of a$$ whippin’.” But, being the good guy that Jesus makes me be, I go and get him his milk and ring it up. I give it to him and give him the total and he says, “Good job, son”, like it was some test or something. It was at that point that the devil on my shoulder ALMOST won and I thought about grabbing him buy his collar and dragging him out of his car. That would have been fun. Looking for a new job NEVER is.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I would agree with you about special-ordering, except that I myself sometimes am guilty of this crime. I special order everything. My regular chili’s meal is to get the “chicken ranch sandwich, no lettuce, wing sauce on the side.” Then I take off the tomato and add ketchup.
I try not to go special order crazy, but every now and then I’m “that guy.”
August 18th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Oh yes! Chris, you win the restaurant story game — that is awesome! Or terrible….
August 18th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Cheeseburger- no tomato. that’s it. ‘Cause tomatoes is nasty.
I don’t think I’ll ever work in any sort of food industry. I’ve heard way to many horror stories, and besides, I have retail on my side. If I were to encourage anyone about their first job, I’d tell ‘em to go work at officemax or something. And I will grab them by their shoulder’s and I will whisper in their ear, “Don’t EVER let me catch you working at a restaurant, EVER.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Haha.. yes Mike.. yes. Hey, great job on the comic. I particularly like the way you portrayed each talker with the appropriate chat bubble. And ofcourse what they say is great too. Anyway.. you know where I stand on this. I would also say, there is a definite difference between what you might special order and what a total moron would special order. I can handle a special order if u just tell me exactly what you want. But if your clueless, and wishy washy, and it takes 5 minutes to actually figure it out? Well then shame on you, go home and make a sandwich.
August 18th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Thanks Mike. When is the medal ceremony?
I think Patrick is confusing Tomatoes with Onions. Onions, IS Nasty!
August 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
How about the categories of food servers? They’re the ones blowing it for me. I know what I want and I know how to order it. There job is to repeat what I say in a way that makes somebody else “prepare” what I want and then take my money and give me correct change. AMERICA!
August 18th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
And by there job I mean their job. Don’t correct me!
August 18th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Gary, that’s great — let it out!
Onions… tomatoes… it’s all nasty, the point is, you don’t want to mix plants with your cow parts.
I’ll back up champ a little bit. I had a waiter the other day that was WAY too drunk and/or high to be doing his job. I understand sometimes you get busy on the job, but I don’t understand that sometimes you get wasted on the job. Show a little bit of responsibility, even if you don’t mean it. Please.
August 18th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
“…the point is, you don’t want to mix plants with your cow parts.” Wow….Mike H. for president!!!
(I’m not sure why, because I don’t agree with it, but…anyone who can cut through the bull like that NEEDS to be making important decisions about the future of our country.)
August 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
beleive me i know how it is, i work at a gift shop
i dont have to deal with as many people as the workers in the food industry, but the stupidity is ever present,
and i have seen younger people in a nursing home, closet thing to Dawn of the Dead you will ever get
August 18th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Everything that is happening on this board right now is awesome.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Joe, you’re absolutely right — everything here today is awesome. And Coughman… oh man, I feel your pain. Your comment made me burst out laughing — now people around me are looking at me curiously. Success!!!
Yeah, I’m in for president.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
well since we r beating up on the orders so much (of which I am am beside a musician) I’d like to hit an server in the teeth really quick, once i was had ordered a soda from a Taco Bueno while I was touring in California (by that I mean coming home from the mall, down Hebron, by that QT)
anyway the man went to hand me my buddy his soda, but instead shoved it into the top frame of the door, which made the lid brak and part of the cup explode, still not realizing that he has fucked up already keeps shoving it into the car so it’s tipping over spilling all over the drive through window, my buddy attempts to push it back, now the server in the window realizes wats going on, but instead of taking it back, he grunts with rage and crushes the thin paper cup in his hand. after a talk with the manager we got a new soda. that story not only full of detail is also full of truth, and I think unemployment
August 19th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Damien, your grammar is awfully lacking for a musician of your caliber. I think I might return your last CD and instead trade it for someone with better english skills, like perhaps that “fifty cents” everyone is so keen on these days…
August 19th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Something happened, something terrible. I think Damien was typing so fast that he lost his slim grasp on the English language. You know, he IS Irish. On a more important note, I have been the the Bueno he is referring to and they SUCK! Someone should take their Bueno license away, they are mocking the proud name on their building.
I think we’ve learned that people that eat at, as well as people that work at any place that serves food are dumb or jerks. Which is probably pretty true, because that pretty much covers everyone, and I have long believed that everyone is a dumb jerk.
’nuff said.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Sooooo I worked at the Fazoli’s on Josey and Hebron (which has since closed. RIP Fazoli’s) for the longest time. We had some crazy people come thru there, but I think the craziest was this older couple…probably in their late 40s/early 50s…and they brought in a newspaper. They would always order the chicken fetaccini (or however you spell it. It’s gross, therefore I don’t care) with broccoli on the side. One time we heard this insane cackling from the corner where they were sitting. So one of my coworkers went to go “clean off a table” over by where they were and came back a few minutes later to tell us that they are reading the obituaries and laughing at how people died!
Plus, I hated it when people come thru the drive thru with their damn diesel trucks and I had to ask them to turn off their car so I could hear them.
Grrrr fast food…
August 19th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Don’t judge me
August 20th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Ooh…the diesel trucks…as a fellow drive-througher, I can sympathize. But, the good thing is that there are hardly ANY diesel trucks in Texas. I mean, those suckers are as rare as Ferrari’s around “these parts”. So you probably only had to deal with it once in a blue moon.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Raychel, I remember that place… oh man, I am so sorry you had to work there. But seriously, when I’m an old man, I would probably be doing that same exact thing!
And you guys are totally right about the trucks!