Making a burger= Rocket science

[Kisa]

This one I heard from a coworker who went to the golden arches with her son.

She ordered a cheeseburger, plain, just meat and cheese. Her son is picky like most young kids. They get the burger and it has pickles, onions, ketchup and mustard on it. Her son won't eat it.

She goes back up and politely asks for a new burger.

CW: I'm sorry, but my son wanted this plain and it has pickles and onions and stuff on it. *lifts bun to show them* Can I get a new one?

They make her a new burger and she takes it to her son. He opens it up, crinkles his nose and shoves it away. It has onions, ketchup and mustard on it.

She goes back up.

Me: I'm so sorry, but my son wants this plain with just meat and cheese and it has onions and ketchup and mustard on it.

They make her a new one. This time, it has ketchup on it. She goes back up, a little upset.

CW: I'm sorry to keep bothering you, but this is wrong again. I need a cheeseburger with ONLY MEAT and CHEESE.

She gets a new one and it has only meat. No cheese. she goes back up.

CW: Look. I know I keep bothering you and I'm sorry, but I need a CHEESEburger with ONLY MEAT AND CHEESE. NO pickles. NO onion. NO ketchup. NO mustard. NO lettuce, mayo or whatever else you have back there.
Cook: It would be easier if you weren't so picky...
CW: Excuse me?! How hard is it to make a plain cheeseburger?! Bun, patty, cheese, bun. Stick a piece of cheese on here so I can get out of here and NEVER come back.

They gave her cheese. She never came back.

[crazylegs]

It's not exactly hard is it? Just like she said - four items in a stack and you're done.

[Lyse]

Wasn't their slogan "Have it your way"? Or am I thinking of a different chain?

[Rebel1012]

their slogan is "im loving it" (well thats what it says on thier shirts here) and when you see them cleaning up puke it really looks like it

[notlovinit]

wtf? woowww.. i have no possible explanation for this

[pageantmama]

Ugh, my son is the same way and so is the Golden Arches here. I say plain cheeseburger and get a regular one. Go back up and it either has onions or ketchup or pickles or something on it. I tell them, I need it with just meat and cheese. Sometimes they actually get it right, sometimes I get a plain hamburger and have to do it again. Once I got back a burger with the buns, meat and a piece of bacon on it How they confused cheese with bacon I will never know. And they look at me like I am the one that is being a pain but I think the same thing, how hard is it to put a piece of meat and cheese on the bun and nothing else?

And yes, this is EVERY SINGLE TIME. I went to the one that is in the opposite direction of where I usually go but not much farther from home and they get it correct every time. The thing is the one that screws it up is also in the direction of the other places I have to usually go so I would have to go out and do errands, then drive past my house and the same distance away in the opposite direction then go home to get it right the first time.

[notlovinit]

I sincerely apologize for your guys' McDs. That is ridiculous. I can see making a mistake and fixing it, but having to come back multiple times is dumb.
The only time I've EVER had someone do that was because they kept changing their mind about what they wanted on their sandwich... but that's a totally different story.

[wagegoth]

I went through that one night. It took three times and the manager getting involved to get it right. I've never gone back to that McD's.

[Docmayhem]

I once got a cheeseburger at McD's where they forgot the burger...

[dragon_wings]

I once got a cheeseburger at McD's where they forgot the burger...

*blink blink* How...? You know what I'm good.

[blas]

I'm very picky also, so I usually stick to the same McDonalds, since most others have employees who cannot get it right.

Double cheeseburger, only ketchup.

At some other McDonalds I've went to, that means "only onions", "everything on it" "NO ketchup".........it's irritating.

[Moosenogger]

Ah, the fun of ordering and not receiving what you wanted. It's always a little sad when it takes more than two trips to get your order correct - especially when what you originally wanted was so simple.

I have to be really careful when I order fast food. When I order a Sausage McMuffin at McDonalds, I used to say, "Sausage McMuffin with just cheese, please." I'd say "just cheese" because I used to order a Sausage McMuffin and then somehow end up with a circular jelly-egg that I never wanted. However, this way of ordering backfired one morning when I ordered, got all the way to work, and saw that they had indeed given me a Sausage McMuffin with just cheese - it was a muffin and a slice of cheese.

Now, I just ask for a Sausage McMuffin. That way, I'll at least get the "sausage" part of the Sausage McMuffin.

[Maria]

I think there's a McLocation like that in every city. We have one that seems to have a policy of messing up all orders, judging by the stories I've heard from friends and neighbors. I don't quite know how they're still in business. The last time I visited that location, an employee had apparently made a mistake and changed out all the soda syrups with the nearest ones on the shelf, so that every fountain choice except regular coke was giving the same flavor. Rather than fix it, or tell you that most of the drink choices weren't available, they were just handing out the wrong drink and not saying anything. I found this out after taking a big swig of my Dr. Pepper on that hot afternoon -- and discovering it was in fact a soda that I'm allergic to.

That's when the manager explained that they were just intentionally handing out the wrong drinks instead of holding up the lunch rush and fixing the syrup hookups. Being all of 17 and more than a little high-strung, I shrieked, "You mean you poisoned me on purpose?!" I didn't realize how loud I'd been until I suddenly realized most of the customers in line were staring at me. But it wasn't till she angrily yelled back, "No, I only gave you the wrong thing on purpose, how am I supposed to know what you're allergic to?!" that pretty much the whole lot of them turned and left the store. It's been over a decade, but I still don't have the nerve to go back to that location. It really freaked me out.

[Zellie Crescent]

It's this kind of shit right here that I don't go to the one by my work any more.

[phoenixv07]

Wasn't their slogan "Have it your way"? Or am I thinking of a different chain?

You're thinking of Burger King.