Comments on: We Double Checked Your Order

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:25:00 +0000

Ha ha! Right. Forces of natural selection are not so strong in the case of fast food drive through orders, but they are very steep when it comes to prescriptions, and I don’t think young George Bailey is going to be working at my Rite Aid. So either we’ll get good at double checking those or we won’t…. Could dovetail nicely with death panels!

By: Brett Nordquist

Brett Nordquist — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:14:00 +0000

Mark, you just scared the crap out of me. I hadn’t thought about who will be handling my prescriptions in a few years. What a though! Thank you for the great comment.

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:55:00 +0000

Brett,nI totally agree with everything you and your readers say here, except that I’ve never observed the $8-$10 rule in the operation. Pretty much any order involving more than two things is 90% sure to fail.nnThe scary thing is that these kids are the ones that will be handling our prescription and Medicare processing in the near future. Better get good at double-checking those orders.

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:55:50 +0000

Brett,
I totally agree with everything you and your readers say here, except that I've never observed the $8-$10 rule in the operation. Pretty much any order involving more than two things is 90% sure to fail.

The scary thing is that these kids are the ones that will be handling our prescription and Medicare processing in the near future. Better get good at double-checking those orders.

By: Brett Nordquist

Brett Nordquist — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:44:21 +0000

I removed the captcha altogether.

By: Big Robby

Big Robby — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:43:02 +0000

My biggest problem is paying .50 cents extra at wendy’s for sauce. That’s the only thing that makes their mashed beaks and wingtips fried in fat taste good!

ps.. WHY, lord, why is your captcha UNDER your submit button?

By: Amanda Collins

Amanda Collins — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:47:22 +0000

I don’t go out a lot but Burger King is my favorite and I usually order pretty simply. A Whopper Jr and chicken tenders for abi.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:36:28 +0000

It’s not just the drive-throoughs. Our local KFC/Long John Silvers is now 3 for 3 in leaving something out of an order. I really need to learn to check before leaving the store. Last time I did check – and saw that they’d missed on “fries instead of hush puppies” — but in the confusion of fixing that, I did NOT notice that they’d forgotten to give me the extra (paid for) chicken plank I had ordered.

And then there’s Burger King, where “Have It Your Way” seems to come with the invisible disclaimer “unless your way involves more than two changes and then, it’s whatever we felt like doing…”

By: Nordquist Blog » Blog Archive » Taco Time Does Not Want My Feedback

Nordquist Blog » Blog Archive » Taco Time Does Not Want My Feedback — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:45:57 +0000

[...] combo meal by taking a customer survey. I figured I’d take the survey because this Taco Time has screwed up our order on a number of occasions. But they always fix it so I was planning on filling out a [...]

By: Mike H.

Mike H. — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:01:01 +0000

My longest wait for food: 45 minutes at Taco Bell. Let’s just say I didn’t pay for anything that night.

By: No Hippos

No Hippos — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:20:35 +0000

A few years back, my friends and I had a rule about Taco Bell, the 8 dollar rule. Any order that exceeded 8 dollars in cost, the order was gonna get goofed.

In keeping with inflation rates, the rule has subsequently gone up to 10 dollars, but it’s pretty much still 100% effective.