Doesn’t Listen Before Breakfast, Or After
(I am second in line at a chain fast food restaurant. I hear the following conversation.)
Cashier: “Welcome to [Restaurant]. How may I help you?”
Customer: “I want a [burger meal].”
Cashier: “Right now we are serving breakfast. If you wait six minutes, I can serve you.”
Customer: “Why won’t you serve me?”
Cashier: “The computer wont let me enter lunch items until after 11:00.”
Customer: “Then I will have [chicken sandwich meal].”
Cashier: “That is a lunch item; I can’t sell that for five minutes now.”
Customer: “How about a [fish sandwich meal]?”
Cashier: “Look at the menu screens.”
Customer: “Yeah.”
Cashier: “When they change over to lunch items, you can order one.”
Customer: “I understand now. I will have a [burger meal].”
Cashier: “Not for five minutes.”
Customer: “You are lying; they just took French fries out.” *points to fryer*
Cashier: “We are starting to cook the food, but we can’t sell it for four minutes now.”
Customer: “Why not?”
Cashier: “The computer wont let me.”
Customer: “Okay, I will have a [burger meal].”
(This goes on until 11:00 rolls over.)
Cashier: “Now you can order a lunch item.”
Customer: “I will have a [burger meal].”
Cashier: “Anything else?”
Customer: “And a [breakfast item].”
Cashier: “We can’t sell those after 11:00.”
Customer: “Why not?”
Cashier: “I’ll make you a deal: if they have any [breakfast item]s left, I will have them throw whatever we have left in your order for free, because I can’t sell them to you.”
Customer: “Why is it free?”
Question of the Week
Have you ever served a bad customer who got what they deserved?
