"Old Farts like me give Free Advice"

[Primer]

When I have change coming, I hold out both hands, cupped, and let the CSR give me the change however they want to. Works for me!

[bainsidhe]

My method was to give the customer coins first, then bills/receipt on top of that. That way, the coins don't slide all over the place.

Ditto. In the days of old in Hardee's drive through, so many people would lose the coins if I set them on top. Now I hand the coins first, then the bills, because the customer can (hopefully) grab them firmly. Didn't stop bills from fluttering away in the wind, though. Customers didn't seem to enjoy that, for some reason.

[Geek King]

Ditto. In the days of old in Hardee's drive through, so many people would lose the coins if I set them on top. Now I hand the coins first, then the bills, because the customer can (hopefully) grab them firmly. Didn't stop bills from fluttering away in the wind, though. Customers didn't seem to enjoy that, for some reason.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

I always feel like I'm going to drop coin in the drive through because everyone in the area insists on putting the coin on the bills. I have a thumb! I can hold onto a bill that way!

PS: I don't bitch to the employees about it, but it does bug me.

[Jester]

Honestly, if the old fart was that anal about what was the "correct" way to give change, he probably should be bumped up to the top of the list for people in need of a broomstickectomy.

[South Texan]

I HATE it when someone hands me a stack of bills with a bunch of change piled on top. It may have been easier for the cashier to make a nice "package" of the change rather than counting it out, but it is a pain in the butt to get the bills and the coins into my hand without the coins falling all over the place.

The way I was taught to give change is to state the amount of the coins I am giving while handing them to the customer, then to count out the bills while I am handing them over. That way the coins land in the customer's palm.