Recently, I was reminded of two times where I couldn't stop
laughing about something that happened to me while in the drive-thru at a fast
food establishment. The first involved going to McDonald’s with my sister and
ordering several McFlurry’s. We had various ones with different toppings, but
it was when we got to the last one that we started having a problem. We wanted
one McFlurry, plain, or basically just the ice cream in a cup. We received several
reasons for why it was impossible to make a plain McFlurry, ranging from “it
couldn’t be entered into the register”, to “the spoon only gets added when it
is used to mix the topping into the ice cream”. It took almost five minutes of
arguing in the drive-thru and then finally getting a manager into the
conversation before the employees were shown how easy it could be done. I was
recently at Dairy Queen, and I started laughing hysterically when I wondered
how they might handle a person asking for a blizzard with no toppings.
The second event involved an incident at Burger King;
however, it also dealt with ordering an item plain. Unfortunately, when you
order a double cheeseburger plain, you should still expect to get cheese on it,
otherwise it would be a double hamburger and not a cheeseburger. The employee
defended what they did by saying that “plain meant nothing on it”.
I am sure that some of you might consider these incidents as
standard for the fast food industry, but I can honestly say that there are “some”
fast food establishments that I absolutely enjoy going to since I have never
had an issue with the products or service I receive. So it makes me wonder, have
you ever thought that paying employees crappy wages results in getting crappy
products/service? If you have ever eaten at an In-n-Out, you would know what
paying employees a good wage does for service and quality food.
So what do you think? Do you get what you pay for with
regard to employee wages?
