It seems like 20% of the posts here are people complaining about bad or overpriced fast food orders. I mean seriously WTF do you expect? Fine dining? Prices from six years ago? It’s sh!tty overpriced fast food. No one is making you go to these places. Go somewhere else better if it sucks. Rant over
I worked fast food for years. It is entirely possible to do the job well and to give people good, well made orders.
It’s a choice to eat there. Sure. It’s also a choice to fuck up your job. I can’t think of a fast food place where the kitchen doesn’t have a direct line to the drive-thru if there is one. We literally hear the order as it’s ordered. The lazy douchebag takes their time, figuring one mad customer is a drop in the bucket.
I agree with your sentiment, but the problem is not with the fast food workers.
If the issue is on one shift, it is a worker. If it is at one location then it is management. If it is at multiple locations then it is regional management, and if it is everywhere then it is company leadership.
The accountability for the issue is always at the lowest level that oversees the entire scope of the issue. And their immediate supervisor for not holding them to account.
Also plus the fact these people aren't paid enough to GAF about their job. You really expect the $7.25/hr McDonald's worker to not make shitty food, even when they're supposedly perfectly capable of otherwise? Idiocy.
Every food places I’ve worked at pays the kitchen at least $13/hr which is admittedly bullshit considering the economy, but you’re not exactly a licensed culinary specialist when you’re assembling burgers from a diagram.
Sure, no one should be treating the kitchen at Burger King as a career, but at least don’t be an ass.
It’s ridiculous to expect people who work in a job as exploitative and dead end as fast food to care about the relative quality of somebody’s bad hamburger.
Two things can be true. I absolutely agree that if you accept a job, then you need to do your job. If you hate your job, choosing to do it poorly only makes it worse on yourself. So, like, respect yourself enough to meet your own standards. So I absolutely agree with you on this point.
However, those same employees you are complaining about are at the bottom-most rung in the operations of the business despite also being the most functionally important members of the team. If leadership wants to attract and retain quality employees in order to ensure consistent, good service to the customers, then they need to pay a wage that attracts that. When you pay minimum wage, you get minimum wage employees. When you purchase from Temu to save a buck, you are getting garbage-quality merchandise; so it is when you choose to purchase your labor from the Temu equivalent of the labor pool.
Overall inflation (not specific to food or arguriculture) has been 22.64% since 2019. Food prices have increased by 31% and outpaced regular inflation largely due to rising operating costs and supply-chain disruptions.
I don't understand. WHY would you expect 2019 pricing?
UPDATE: Downvotes, but no answer? I'm genuinely curious. Why would you expect prices to remain the same despite 6 years of inflation?
Down votes but no response because they're too unintelligent to come up with a rebuttal. These people think the world revolves around them. Sad to see. Hope bro enjoys his 2025 prices because it's DEFINITELY not 2019 pre-covid. LMAO, has this guy been living under a rock I wonder??
You think “I don’t like what people post” is a better complaint? You subscribed. What did you expect, the next great novel? Go to another sub if it sucks.
Honestly, I don’t really get “bad” experiences. Most of the workers get the work done and fix mistakes if they happen. Except Jack In the Box and Popeyes workers. They always look like they want to throw hands because I asked for some napkins
I think that if it’s a universal thing like raised prices, it should be moderated. Like everyone knowsss already, why do you have to post about it? The AI complaints are doing my head in.
There are 2 mini rants with this as well...
1) If you go through a drive thru and they give you the wrong food, why didn't you check your order before you drove away?
2) When your lazy ass orders McWherever to be delivered to your house, that's like putting a damn $100 in a slot machine and expecting it to win on every spin. If they ate your food, gurl please! It's more like a sign that you didn't need it anyways.
NOTE: I do know and understand there are many reasons why people order for delivery including disability, time restrictions, etc. Don't jump on me for that...
I literally had a drive through employee yell at me for checking the food.
She said , move forward.
I said hell no. You took 10 minutes for my order I'm going to take a minute checking it. She looked shocked I said anything back but bet if she got it on camera I'd be the one called the Karen cuz you know poor fast food worker
why didn't you check your order before you drove away?
Consideration for the people behind you. Not enough time to check whether all three sandwiches were made the same way or if they included the queso and ranch and avocado sauce and so on.
If the inside is closed, I will check it at the window. More than once, I've gotten the wrong order, called the restaurant, and been told to get back in the 45 minute drive thru line.
Because there are universally zero reasons to have fast food. None; not enjoying it, not convenience, not speed, not as an informal meeting place, not as an easy source of food on the go.
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u/LennoxIsLord 23h ago
I worked fast food for years. It is entirely possible to do the job well and to give people good, well made orders.
It’s a choice to eat there. Sure. It’s also a choice to fuck up your job. I can’t think of a fast food place where the kitchen doesn’t have a direct line to the drive-thru if there is one. We literally hear the order as it’s ordered. The lazy douchebag takes their time, figuring one mad customer is a drop in the bucket.