Fast Food | Ontario, Canada
Me: “Hi, welcome to *****. Can I help you?”
Me: “Yes please, you sell doonoo?”
Me: “I’m sorry? Do we sell what?”
Me: *points at menu board* “You know, noots!”
Me: *looks up to where he’s pointing which is a picture of some bagels* “Bagels?”
Me: “No! Noots! Doonoots!”
(This went on for several minutes, both of us getting more and more frustrated until…)
Me: “Wait, are you saying nuts?”
Me: “Yes, yes!”
Me: “We have peanuts for our ice cream sundaes.”
Me: “No, no, no. DOOnoots!”
Me: *with a huge smile of understanding* “You mean doughnuts?!”
Me: “Yes!!”
(Keep in mind we had been working on this for a good five minutes. He now looks so excited that what I say next nearly breaks my heart.)
Me: “No, I’m sorry. We don’t sell doughnuts.”
Fast Food | Mount Vernon, IA
Customer in the drive-thru: “Hi, I’d like a BK Veggie.”
Me: “Sir, you’re at Hardee’s, not Burger King. We don’t have any vegetarian entrees.”
Customer: “Oh, okay. Thanks anyway.”
(Customer sits there for a few minutes before driving away)
Fast Food | Oregon, USA
(Our mall opens at ten, so the restaurant does not serve breakfast)
Customer: *gazes at menu board* “I’d like an Egg McMuffin, please.”
Me: “Ma’am, I’m sorry, we don’t serve breakfast at this location.”
(Customer, still gazing at menu, which lists no breakfast items)
Customer: “Well, can I get an order of Hotcakes and Sausage?”
Me: “Ma’am, we do not serve breakfast here since we can’t open before ten.”
(Customer ceases looking at menu board gazes at me for a moment)
Customer: “You don’t serve breakfast?”
Me: “Uh…no.”
Fast Food Restaurant | Ontario, Canada
Customer at the drive-thru window: “I’d like my order to-go.”
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