Fast Food

GoodSpeak · February-9th-2004, 10:44 PM

OK.

Help me out here...

Why is it when I go to the fast food restaurant of my children's choice and behest [especially in the Drive-Thru] the person behind the mike makes that same old insipid and obligartory opening statemnt: Would you like to try our BLABLAHBLAH or our BLAHBLAHBLAH?

To which I respond: No. I would like a #4, two #5s and Slap Happy Meal.

THEN, at the end of my order, they ask if I want one of their frickin' apple pies or shakes.

GEEZ.

If I wanted that...I would have ORDERED that. Ya THINK?

Crimony.

And don't EVEN get me started on ordering things without cheese [omigod]. You'd think I was holding Ronald Mc-freakin'-Donald at gun point, for crissakes.

The counter help [which, to be fair, isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer...if you know what I mean] just stares at me like a deer in headlights, punches a miriad of cash register buttons...and never gets it RIGHT! Not f'ing EVER!

Bring it back ten times, fries are cold, kids are whining, cokes are flat.

OK...I'm done.

I just had to vent right now.

Thanks for being there.

Now you can share.

Wheeeeee

Pete C · February-10th-2004, 08:22 AM

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Originally posted by GoodSpeak
OK.

Help me out here...

Why is it when I go to the fast food restaurant of my children's choice and behest [especially in the Drive-Thru] the person behind the mike makes that same old insipid and obligartory opening statemnt: Would you like to try our BLABLAHBLAH or our BLAHBLAHBLAH?

To which I respond: No. I would like a #4, two #5s and Slap Happy Meal.

THEN, at the end of my order, they ask if I want one of their frickin' apple pies or shakes.

Because that's what they're told to say. It's called a sales pitch, and it's part of their job. They are under constant surveillance by their managers, and would probably lose their jobs if they didn't follow the script.

Jimmy Cantiello · February-10th-2004, 09:06 AM

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Originally posted by GoodSpeak
Bring it back ten times, fries are cold, kids are whining, cokes are flat.

And you keep going back for more?.............

SinginSumo · February-10th-2004, 10:14 AM

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Originally posted by GoodSpeak
OK.

Help me out here...

Why is it when I go to the fast food restaurant of my children's choice and behest [especially in the Drive-Thru] the person behind the mike makes that same old insipid and obligartory opening statemnt: Would you like to try our BLABLAHBLAH or our BLAHBLAHBLAH?

These are the menu items that carry a much higher profit.

Tanager · February-10th-2004, 11:09 AM

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Originally posted by SinginSumo
These are the menu items that carry a much higher profit.

The actual term used when I worked as an asst. manager in a Burger King (during some time off from college) was "suggestive selling." You may get pissed off at it, Goody, but it works much more than you would think. And that makes it an effective strategy for increasing revenue, something most companies consider a positive.

Enforcer · February-10th-2004, 11:22 AM

I worked at a McDonald's in Ann Arbor on the U of M campus and we called it "suggestive selling" back then, too. That was when I was working "window," which actually meant I was standing at the cash register. That always confused me, because there was no window. It seems like "window" would be the drive thru. We didn't have a drive thru, though. Maybe that's why we got to call the cash register in the store the "window."

Wasting everyone's time,
Larry

Jimmy Cantiello · February-10th-2004, 11:41 AM

Many restaurants have what is known as a "push list". The wait staff is told to suggest the items on the "push list"..........

Pete C · February-10th-2004, 11:42 AM

"The three-day-old fish is excellent tonight."

moneyp · February-10th-2004, 11:58 AM

And for chrissakes, do your kids a favor and avoid the junk food. Don't they have a Subway or a Quiznos out in Visalia?

jesus marion joseph · February-10th-2004, 12:05 PM

Where is Cy's Quicky Sprouts when you need it?

Al in NYC · February-10th-2004, 12:20 PM

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Originally posted by mone peterson
And for chrissakes, do your kids a favor and avoid the junk food. Don't they have a Subway or a Quiznos out in Visalia?

Or at least In n' Out if you insist on eating the greasy kid stuff...

jesus marion joseph · February-10th-2004, 12:54 PM

Mmmmmmmmmm, In 'N Out............................................

SinginSumo · February-10th-2004, 01:08 PM

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Originally posted by mone peterson
And for chrissakes, do your kids a favor and avoid the junk food. Don't they have a Subway or a Quiznos out in Visalia?

Sir, you are in dire need of a real Philly Italian hoagie. In you are ever in the area, the treat's on me.

The only thing that could compare (a bit different but equally tasty) is the New Orleans po' boy.

moneyp · February-10th-2004, 01:10 PM

Sumo:

Had 'em both and loved 'em, but decent hoagie stands are rarer in Southern California than Eskimos.

I'm just trying to help Goodie's kids eat right.

SinginSumo · February-10th-2004, 01:12 PM

I knew my faith in you was warranted.

Pete C · February-10th-2004, 01:24 PM

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Originally posted by SinginSumo

The only thing that could compare (a bit different but equally tasty) is the New Orleans po' boy.

I can't imagine that Italian hoagie could come close to comparing.

But the best fast food in the world is the patatas bravas at the Las Bravas chain in Madrid.

Lazy River · February-10th-2004, 02:09 PM

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Originally posted by GoodSpeak
Help me out here...

Surely you have a nice clean Mongolian barbecue up there. Do your kids and your car a big favor!
Lazy River

SinginSumo · February-10th-2004, 02:31 PM

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Originally posted by Pete C
I can't imagine that Italian hoagie could come close to comparing.

My bet is that you've never experienced one on a Sarcone's roll.

Enforcer · February-10th-2004, 02:52 PM

Baja Fresh is my current favorite. You can get the really spicy salsas and stuff if you want, and they give you the nutritional info for everything, too. Tastes good, it's actually fresh and there's one on my drive home from work.

Larry

Nathaniel Catchpole · February-10th-2004, 03:26 PM

Every time I call my bank, they keep offering me a loan, must be because I haven't owed them any money recently - when I had an overdraft all the time, they never offered me one. Next time it happens, I'm going to tell them to put a note on my account to say never, ever do that again, or I'll switch bank.

shrugs · February-10th-2004, 07:11 PM

Think I'll have a hot and sloppy roast beef po-boy for lunch tomorrow. I had a fried shrimp po-boy last week that almost gave me an orgasm.

GoodSpeak · February-10th-2004, 07:52 PM

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Originally posted by mone peterson
And for chrissakes, do your kids a favor and avoid the junk food. Don't they have a Subway or a Quiznos out in Visalia?

On my salary?

Besides, what teenager [or eight year old, for that matter...well, especially her] would be caught dead eating anything even remotely associated with adult eating habits?

And I fully understand suggesting a sale to the customer...I was in retail sales [and as a manager] for several years before I got into education. We, however, made meaningful suggestions and wouldn't take an hour to do it. The problem is, these fast food folks merely recite or read off of a list which takes them 2-3 minutes to monotone through.

Geez. Just gimme the damn food a let me outta here.

GoodSpeak · February-10th-2004, 07:54 PM

J'u wah fries widdat?

Nathaniel Catchpole · February-10th-2004, 08:02 PM

you'd be better off feeding them cardboard than McDonald's GoodSpeak.

GoodSpeak · February-10th-2004, 08:07 PM

True enough.

However...just wait until you have kids.

It is one thing to profess, quite another to execute.

moneyp · February-10th-2004, 08:13 PM

Consider it professed. I swear by all that's holy that no progeny under my watch has never and WILL never so much as sniff McDonald's, or any other crappy fast food. Halftime Superbowl tits, I don't mind. But not that garbage.

Six inch sub doesn't cost much more than a Big Mac, Goody.

Sergio Zamora · February-10th-2004, 08:16 PM

I do love the sausage mcmuffins, though.

Jazzzoline · February-10th-2004, 08:18 PM

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Originally posted by GoodSpeak
True enough.

However...just wait until you have kids.

It is one thing to profess, quite another to execute.

If you don't "develop" the taste for the crap you call "fast food" in your kids, they won't "need" it.
I'm not into fast food, and my son either.

GoodSpeak · February-10th-2004, 08:25 PM

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Originally posted by mone peterson
Consider it professed. I swear by all that's holy that no progeny under my watch has never and WILL never so much as sniff McDonald's, or any other crappy fast food. Halftime Superbowl tits, I don't mind. But not that garbage.

Six inch sub doesn't cost much more than a Big Mac, Goody.

Happy Meals are a buck 99.

Most fast food sandwiches meals are under $5 bucks...that's including the drink and fries.

A six-inch Subway sandwich alone is almost $4 dollars.

You will further note that McD's isn't the only fast food joint available to us...

GoodSpeak · February-10th-2004, 08:33 PM

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Originally posted by Jazzzoline
If you don't "develop" the taste for the crap you call "fast food" in your kids, they won't "need" it.
I'm not into fast food, and my son either.

Please note: Kids have friends and peers who will influence their food choices as well.

While I am happy for you and your son, it is not always possible given the media influences and peer presure to fit in these daze.

We teach our children to make good choices in food. At home they eat a balanced diet and have learned to moderate their intake of empty calories and carbohydrates. However, when my son's basketball team stops for a meal...I can absolutely guarantee you they aren't going to pick a five star restaurant. We teach them to pick the less insidious items on the fast food menu...my daughter, however, is still a work in progress.

They are kids and I think the best we can do for them as their parents is to teach good eating habits and help them not eat so much SUGAR and/or empty carbs which, if I may be so bold, are FAR worse on kids then any Big Mac will ever be.

They do eventually become adults...good eating habits and even the lesser ones [fast food] begin NOW.

Fast food is a reality, how you deal with it is a choice we parents make. Being purposefully blind to it only sets kids up for certain failure, IMHO.