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Another summer working at the dairy store and little has changed; I haven’t decided whether that is good or bad. Most of the workers are new and still in high school. Now I can understand why older people can hate high school students so much.
Trayol’s Drive-Thru etiquette: Dos & Don’ts
- Don’t get snippy when you’re asked to repeat yourself. If you could speak clearly in the first place there wouldn’t be a problem.
- Don’t let your children order. Period. It may seem cute to you but it isn’t; it never has been and it never will be.
- Don’t order unless you’re in the driver’s seat. We don’t want to hear 3 different people giving their orders with varying degrees of understandability.
- Don’t back up in the drive-thru. Especially don’t try to turn around. Just. Don’t.
- Do know what you want. You can hem and haw in the morning when the store is baron but during our busy hours you’re ruining our flow. If you truly don’t know what you want then come inside. We don’t bite.
- Do read the menu. Most everything you need to know is on the board. Look at it. LOOK AT IT!! Then you may ask a question.
- Do be prepared to order when you’re at the speaker box. That magical device that says to talk into it to order. It doesn’t work through windows and becomes angry when ignored. Don’t make the speaker angry.
- Do be nice to the people who are making your food.
Revelation:
I have discovered the chosen words that can stop all cognitive function: One scoop or two. With these four words, the mind stumbles into a spinning panic with no escape but to cower in its own goo; spouting out whatever words it can form. Example, when asked this powerful question for a sundae, a gentleman in drive responded the third time (the first two he answered with sundae) with, “What’s the difference?” But Trayol, you might ask, He could be asking about the price. Yes, but if he had followed my etiquette he would already know the price. So either way he failed.
Read the Menu (Inside Edition):
There was a reason I gave you a vacant look when you tried to order. Do you see” brown cow” on the menu board, because I don’t. And when I realized you meant a root beer float after you asked if we had root beer, I did say “You mean a root beer float?” with a slight condescending tone. You know why? Because you came in, looked at our board for well over a minute, had to have seen root beer float as an item, but still chose to order a “brown cow”.
Trayol’s Drive-Thru etiquette: Dos & Don’ts
- Don’t get snippy when you’re asked to repeat yourself. If you could speak clearly in the first place there wouldn’t be a problem.
- Don’t let your children order. Period. It may seem cute to you but it isn’t; it never has been and it never will be.
- Don’t order unless you’re in the driver’s seat. We don’t want to hear 3 different people giving their orders with varying degrees of understandability.
- Don’t back up in the drive-thru. Especially don’t try to turn around. Just. Don’t.
- Do know what you want. You can hem and haw in the morning when the store is baron but during our busy hours you’re ruining our flow. If you truly don’t know what you want then come inside. We don’t bite.
- Do read the menu. Most everything you need to know is on the board. Look at it. LOOK AT IT!! Then you may ask a question.
- Do be prepared to order when you’re at the speaker box. That magical device that says to talk into it to order. It doesn’t work through windows and becomes angry when ignored. Don’t make the speaker angry.
- Do be nice to the people who are making your food.
Revelation:
I have discovered the chosen words that can stop all cognitive function: One scoop or two. With these four words, the mind stumbles into a spinning panic with no escape but to cower in its own goo; spouting out whatever words it can form. Example, when asked this powerful question for a sundae, a gentleman in drive responded the third time (the first two he answered with sundae) with, “What’s the difference?” But Trayol, you might ask, He could be asking about the price. Yes, but if he had followed my etiquette he would already know the price. So either way he failed.
Read the Menu (Inside Edition):
There was a reason I gave you a vacant look when you tried to order. Do you see” brown cow” on the menu board, because I don’t. And when I realized you meant a root beer float after you asked if we had root beer, I did say “You mean a root beer float?” with a slight condescending tone. You know why? Because you came in, looked at our board for well over a minute, had to have seen root beer float as an item, but still chose to order a “brown cow”.
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