• monogram@feddit.nl
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    52 minutes ago

    Stop going to your local multinational corporation for cardboard “food”.

    • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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      25 minutes ago

      i have food allergies. when i’m traveling, sometimes the local multinational corporation is the only place i can get reliably safe food and we’re not really willing to drive all over a new town trying to find a safe food truck in the middle of a road trip. consistency across the chain is a valuable selling point. but yeah, i agree with you in general.

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        23 minutes ago

        For me it’s a guilty pleasure. I don’t go often but I know exactly what I’m getting when I do. It’s fairly consistent.

        What’s not consistent is the pricing. Holy shit they’ve gotten expensive. Nice local places can be cheaper nowadays… If you’re local enough to know where to look.

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    7 hours ago

    I thought for a bit too long there, that he had ordered a liter of fries…

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    15 hours ago

    Veggie burger is the issue there. You always get extra wait with veggie options unfortunately.

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      14 hours ago

      Can confirm. Sometimes I’ll order one, only for them to go check and come back to say “Oh, I guess we don’t actually have any.”

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        13 hours ago

        I’m gluten free due to allergy and the amount of times they say “oh we don’t have the gluten free option” is staggering. I mean I know I should eat at home 99% of the time, but I wanna go out sometimes…

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    15 hours ago

    I want everybody to know that in fast food you are not entitled to a place in line. If you are not physically stuck in the drive-thru line then there’s no real reason to get your food out in exact order. You get your food when it is the most convenient to push out as fast as possible. Sometimes that means somebody ordered before you ordered a way easier meal gets their food first.

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        8 hours ago

        Well we try to go in order but if your food is still cooking and the guy behind you can get his food hotter now why wouldn’t we do that?

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      18 hours ago

      Have you ever waited in line for an order, with a ticket, and it seemed like you got skipped? I assume that was a coincidence, and probably your order just took a little longer, or the ticket numbers aren’t in order anyway. This comic jokes that it’s intentional to spite you.

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        17 hours ago

        And it happens in a particular high frequency to people that ask for unpopular items, like the veggie burger there.

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          17 hours ago

          Or the people that ask for unsalted fries so they’re fresh. The people know exactly why you ask, sometimes they get upset with the extra work so they let them cool off anyways.

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            13 hours ago

            I just don’t want salt on my fries. You mean to tell me, they’re secretly judging me as someone trying to hack the fast food ecosystem?!

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            16 hours ago

            Which is one of many reasons why I won’t go for fast food anymore.

            I’m on a low sodium diet, and have been all of my life because high blood pressure runs in the family. (I started blood pressure meds at 17 despite being an athlete with a great diet)

            I used to swing by after work 2 days a week and get fries on my way home, a treat after the 12 hour days (2 days a week were 12 hrs due to how the workflow had to be).

            Eventually they started being cold, and like… they aren’t any good cold… haven’t bought fast food in decades as a result, even as a treat, or when on a road trip. If my health is such a problem that you’ll punish me for asking for what I need in order to spend my money with you, you aren’t getting my money ever again.

            I get it, they aren’t paid enough to give a fuck and do “extra” work, and I don’t blame the workers. That’s why I didn’t complain about cold food to management, I just stopped spending money there.

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            16 hours ago

            Sometimes they just take the salted fries, throw them back in the fryer for a few seconds to “wash away the salt” and then give them to you. Now you get slightly older, extra oily fries instead.

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              11 hours ago

              This is the same reason I don’t get ice at restaurants. I’ve worked in too many kitchens that had mold in their ice machines.

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                  14 hours ago

                  The customer would tell right away.

                  Not salt, but that goes against every food handling process, and if you did that once, management would have been informed by the customer.

                  Sure, some edgy teenagers probably do it once or twice, but they’re not gonna have a job much past that day. There’s a bunch of other “legal” stuff to do, that’s gonna bother them even more.

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              15 hours ago

              I’ve never heard that one but I’ve heard some fast food workers say that when they get those customers, the unsalted fries are typically ones that have been left out longer, not a fresh made order.

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                When I worked in fast food, unsalted fries were such a rare request it didn’t make sense to keep any on hand. Especially considering fries are only good for 15-20 minutes. Also, we didn’t have anywhere to keep them. They had to come straight out of the fryer, or else they’d have to be stored under the heat lamp on metal that is slathered with salty oil.

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            Or, they just had to cook an entire new batch of fries for your “unsalted” order that you’re going to throw a bunch of salt on anyway. No maliciousness required, that takes time to cook. The two other people in line with you can just get a large fry shoveled out of the already existing batch of fries, you have to wait because you specifically requested them make a new batch of fries.

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        9 hours ago

        Plus, badass goth mommy will happily step on your balls and grind them into the dirt for you.

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          16 hours ago

          This frequently happened when I got the quarter pounder deluxe, which has extra vegetables, so maybe it checks out.

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        17 hours ago

        Weird for that to happen. But it makes sense now.
        I can count with my hands, the number of times I’ve had to take a coupon and wait.
        Guess it would have been funnier had that actually have happened to me before.

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          17 hours ago

          Almost any non-chain burger joint operates with numbers.

          Even most McDonald’s have even been like this since Covid now too….

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              17 hours ago

              Well it’s either a number or a name to call your order when it’s done, and the comic can apply to both.

              Lots of places don’t use names so it’s not repeated wrong, it’s more “personal” but only when done right.

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              13 hours ago

              My reason is just that I don’t really go to McD etc.
              Although I did use to use SubWay, they tend to make and serve right there.

              I have had the coupon stuff more in hospitals and such