I have to find a new MacDonald's

[chops]

I always order my drink with no ice

they always give me extra ice... then when I ask for it to be fixed the person who took the order argues with the person who poured the drink.....

The beauty of self-serve fountains!

But yeah, I know where you're coming from. I was with my gf at a food-court Subway one time when we ordered a drink with no ice. Of course, they're slammed and the clerk quickly forgets, not hearing us remind her as she's putting ice in the cup. Then, just as she's about to give us the drink with ice, she catches herself and corrects the order.

Naturally, a customer behind us in line who's there with her Abercrombie-wannabe bf and whose nose is about twenty feet up in the air has to mutter something at us as we're walking by with our ice-free drink.

[HYHYBT]

Unfortunately, self-serve fountains are impractical in the Drive-Thru...

As for the nugget pricing, I've yet to see a McDonald's with either a 5-piece at all or any nuggets on the dollar menu, but it makes sense to me depending on how you ordered it. Each item on the menu has its own price, with no necessary relationship to anything except what people are willing to pay for it. It's not at all consistent logically: a Big Mac might be less than a Quarter Pounder, but the meal is more, for example. Now, had I been taking your order, with the prices you mentioned I'd have *offered* the four five-pieces instead of the 20, but if you just say "30 nuggets" it could be a twenty and a ten, a twenty and two fives, three tens, two tens and two fives, etc. Each possibility would have its own price and given how the prices change and the number of times I've had to go over and tell someone how much change to give back since they entered it wrong and can't subtract or count, I wouldn't bet on the person taking your order to know what's cheapest

[chops]

Unfortunately, self-serve fountains are impractical in the Drive-Thru...

And I chuckle at the thought of people trying to use one while in their car.

[MadRocketScientist]

Yes. It probably is where I got it.

And I'm enough of a generalist to (probably) please Laz, too.

Yeah, I got the generalist bit down OK, although I am not sure how well I would do at planning an invasion.

[myswtghst]

I'm late to the party, but after reading through the thread, I wanted to add my two cents.

I have several McD's in my area. One is generally good. They occasionally mess up, but are incredibly polite about fixing mistakes, and never give me any crap about it. I've ordered 8 items or more, including several special orders, and had no mistakes. However, that's the one near work. The one near home has yet to get my order right on the first...second..or even third try. I've had them try to ring me up for one item when I've ordered three, three when I've ordered one, etc, and they have yet to get a special order right. So it's Wendy's if I'm craving fries but want to stay close to home.

In regards to the Supersize Me/Fastfood Nation comments - I am probably a little bit overweight, but I carry the weight well (or so I'm told) and I get enough exercise that my cholesterol, etc is still good. I eat fast food all the damn time, thanks in large part to my work schedule/coworkers. I try to be smart in my choices (i.e. instead of a big fries, I get a small and then eat apple dippers w/ no caramel) and eat small portions, instead of gorging myself. Honestly, when I cook for myself, I probably eat worse, as I go for things that are quick and have a tendency to pile on the cheese.

[Kiwi]

The beauty of self-serve fountains

we also dont have them in NZ

believe me if I could pour my own, I would!

[Seshat]

Yeah, I got the generalist bit down OK, although I am not sure how well I would do at planning an invasion.

If my results in computer games counts for anything, I do just fine.

[JustADude]

Sweet and salty, so good! )

No...

Just no...

Too easy...

No...

Not going there...

I'm really not...



Yes, I'm sick, twisted, and oh so wrong in the head, but that's why you all love me.

[MadRocketScientist]

If my results in computer games counts for anything, I do just fine.

Having been on the pointy end of the stick, video games fail to account for everything

[IceLee]

I've had similar experience, but with Hungry Jack's ( The Aussie term for Burger King), Once, a few years back, my grandfather went to HJ's because we both wanted burgers for dinner, and ordered my usual order of a whopper junior without tomato and pickles ( No tomato= less mess) and somehow, somehow the worker there assumed no meat either, and just made a burger with cheese, lettuce, onions, mayo and tomato sauce, wrapped it up and handed it to him. My grandfather had the bigger burger with more than one piece of burger meat mind you, so his was fine, I bit into my burger, then wondered why I wasn't tasting the beef....

Then recently, my partner(my partner's Edible_Hat of course, waiting for my introduction post in the new members thread to pop up :/ ) and I were at a HJ's and I ordered my usual burger again, with partner helping me making sure they got the no tomato and pickle order right, then when we arrived at our anime club, I went to a well lit area outside the screening theatre, bit into my burger... and sure enough there was pickles in it! I'm more beamused than pissed off about it though.

[greensinestro]

We have a Mickey Dee's near us that is just God-awful on service. Any more, my wife gets the food there, but if she asks me to get dinner there on the way home, I find another one to go to. Each time I go to this one, they never ask me what sauce I want with my McNuggets (I always have to mention it to them!). Last couple of times I went there, it was "Sir, can you park off to the side? The fries are still cooking." Five long minutes after sitting, I had to go in and ask where my food was. "Oh, it's right here, sir. Sorry, we're kind of busy." Yeah, there was nobody else in the drive through, and when I got in there, the two employees at the counter were talking about what they were going to do after work.

I sympathize with you.