Drive Thru Fun

[calulu]

So I'm out and about today on my day off and I made the mistake of wanting a taco from Taco Hell. Now, Taco Hell is one of the few places I can eat at because of my extreme food allergies. There's no wheat in some of their items, so I don't have a lot of choice when I go out.

Get into the drive thru line with a sigh because this particular Taco Hell usually leaves stuff out if you forget to check the bag before leaving. But I know that and I just pull forward and check. No big deal? Right?

Two cars ahead of me, it's slightly after lunch rush times, no one sitting at the drive thru window. Piece of cake, right?

Car number one holds a couple of ladies and their squalling brats, first they tell the poor beleaguered cashier they need these things, then change their minds, then change their minds AGAIN! It takes a good ten minutes for these idiots to finally order enough crap to give you a three foot wide ass. They pull forward.

WTF! When you order half the menu you should be going inside or for the sake of speed calling in your damn order!

The next guy pulls forward, workman in a pickup truck. Cashier tries to wait on him and he snaps at her that he needs a few minutes to look at the menu. Which is complete bullshit as he was right behind the other ladies and within full view of the menu. He dawdles and takes another ten minutes or so as the angry traffic builds up behind me, people are starting to honk and shout.

How hard is it to decide what greasy fake mexican meal to get? I feel sorry for any of you here that work in drive thru, it looks like it has the potential of a nightmare.

Have to give Taco Hell props, they did get my order right and very quickly.

[joe hx]

i try to never use drive thrus. i always find it amazing that they'll be a long line in the drive thru but no one inside. most the time i get my food before the drive thru has moved any

[Imogene]

I personally HATE going through the drive through. It puts the transaction entirely on my bad side. I would have to park my car to the side and actually get out of the car to conduct the transaction, and that's frowned upon.

[JoitheArtist]

I like my Taco Bell drive thru, but largely because the guy who's usually working the window when I get off work is a great worker. He tries to remember customers, remember what they like (i.e., I never want sauce), and just generally be awesome.

Plus, drive-thru equals less human interaction, which is GREAT.

[Becks]

i always find it amazing that they'll be a long line in the drive thru but no one inside.

Too bad for me that the majority of the time I decide to go to McD's, Wendy's or Taco Hell is after work...which means the lobby is closed.

[Pagan]

i try to never use drive thrus. i always find it amazing that they'll be a long line in the drive thru but no one inside. most the time i get my food before the drive thru has moved any

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

[Megg]

The people working at Taco Bell hate those losers even more than you do. I promise, I was one for 4 years. They are timed on:

1) How long it takes them to answer the beep. (5 second average)
2) How long the car is at the menu board. (45 second average)
3) How long the car is at the window. (1:10 average)
4) The length of time from the moment they pulled up, till the moment they pull away- aka total time. (2:30 average)

The averages are the goals, what they are supposed to be. It is harder than one would think. So, I have to second it- if you don't know what you want, get off your lazy butt and go inside!

[JPD]

If I go through the drive through, I know what I want when I get up there. It helps that I get the same thing every time since at a lot of places around here, you can't even see the menu board until you are up at the speaker.

Also, going inside is not always faster. I went to a fast food place, the drive through was long, but I didn't see anyone inside, so I thought it would be faster to order in the lobby. I was ignored untill everyone at the drive through was finished.

[traylk]

I feel sorry for any of you here that work in drive thru, it looks like it has the potential of a nightmare.

Have to give Taco Hell props, they did get my order right and very quickly.

Yes...yes it does. I put in 10 years at TB and I will push carts at WM before I ever work for TB again. Most of my resentment comes from working the drive thru. It astounds me the level of stupidity of some of those people.

[Tuxian]

When I worked at JITB, we had some really unreasonable goals we had to meet as far as time contraints for the drive-thru. From the moment someone pulls up to the board to the time they drive away with their food, the expectation was under 3:00 per car.

Which is all well and good... except when you consider that on graveyard shift (which is when I worked), we didn't keep food very long, since customers would be scattered through the night. And when it takes 2:30 to cook a hamburger patty, and 3:05 to cook the fries... well, you can guess what kind of crap we'd get for not reaching goals. Our times would sometimes go over 5, 6, sometimes 10 minutes. Why? Because late-night munchies would hit, and we'd be the only ones open in town, and EVERYONE wanted those gods-be-damned TACOS. And those take forever to make. Out of the fridge, into the rack, close the rack, into the grease for :50, then out, drain, open the rack, burn your fingers prying them open, put in cheese, lettuce, and sauce, then bag them... and they'd never order just 2, no no. It was always 10, or 14, or 20... one time we had an order for 50 tacos. For TWO PEOPLE.

Yeah, that was hell. x.x

[Pagan]

Also, going inside is not always faster. I went to a fast food place, the drive through was long, but I didn't see anyone inside, so I thought it would be faster to order in the lobby. I was ignored untill everyone at the drive through was finished.

Now that's just not cool.

[taurinejunkie]

This is Drive Thru Fun

[Wingates_Hellsing]

If anyone else has played GTA San Andreas... the early mission where a harmless fast food stop goes drive-by.....

That, was hilarious. Can't seem to find a youtube video that doesn't also have 4+ mins of the play monkeying about before getting to the cutscene though

[ADoyle90815]

i try to never use drive thrus. i always find it amazing that they'll be a long line in the drive thru but no one inside. most the time i get my food before the drive thru has moved any

That's the same for me, if I see that the drive thru line is huge, I'll go inside and get out before the last car I saw in line has made it to the window.