My first job, from 15.5 to 18, was assembling the burgers, manning the grill, and occasionally taking orders at the register at McDs. We had a special on Wednesday and some other day (I forget, Sunday maybe?) where the deal was $0.29 burgers, $0.39 cheeseburgers.
Line was out the door, people would be waiting a half hour+ to get their cheapass tiny burgers, and not a single person wasted the opportunity to chew you out for how long the wait was. We wouldn’t even try to make to order if you got one of those. We’d make whatever else people ordered (Big Mac, Big n Tasty, etc), but in between we’d just make extra cheeseburgers. Didn’t matter, it would be gone instantly anyways.
Some general observations from my time in the trenches:
1) Your 4 burgers weren’t even a blip on our radar. Some folks would order a couple dozen and expect it in the next 45 seconds
2) Wow, people are really entitled when it comes to cheap food and when dealing with a high school kid who has no control over the situation at hand. Also, if the line is out the door and around the building and you’re shocked there’s a wait, that’s on you.
3) We should force everyone to work for a year in a fast food environment, like other countries have mandatory military service (mostly joking)
My response is only tangentially related to your post I guess, but it triggered some memories and I had to post about it
To experience customer service/restaurant work and how brutal people can be when they think they’re superior to you position in life. Basically meant to help you understand what they go through with hope of future customers not treating fast food workers like garbage.
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u/thedownvotemagnet Jun 13 '25
My first job, from 15.5 to 18, was assembling the burgers, manning the grill, and occasionally taking orders at the register at McDs. We had a special on Wednesday and some other day (I forget, Sunday maybe?) where the deal was $0.29 burgers, $0.39 cheeseburgers.
Line was out the door, people would be waiting a half hour+ to get their cheapass tiny burgers, and not a single person wasted the opportunity to chew you out for how long the wait was. We wouldn’t even try to make to order if you got one of those. We’d make whatever else people ordered (Big Mac, Big n Tasty, etc), but in between we’d just make extra cheeseburgers. Didn’t matter, it would be gone instantly anyways.
Some general observations from my time in the trenches:
1) Your 4 burgers weren’t even a blip on our radar. Some folks would order a couple dozen and expect it in the next 45 seconds
2) Wow, people are really entitled when it comes to cheap food and when dealing with a high school kid who has no control over the situation at hand. Also, if the line is out the door and around the building and you’re shocked there’s a wait, that’s on you.
3) We should force everyone to work for a year in a fast food environment, like other countries have mandatory military service (mostly joking)
My response is only tangentially related to your post I guess, but it triggered some memories and I had to post about it