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  • #1

    Technically doesn't say "Employees Only", but still...

    Went to Boomer's Drive-In today for some yummy food! If you're ever in town, they have the best burgers EVER!

    It's always a hotbed of SC sightings here. At least one person can be overheard complaining about the wait (it isn't McDonald's, people...everything's freshly made-to-order!). And don't get me started about the people who park in the drive-in spots and then get out and walk in. (There's are separate parking spaces for the dining room....many times I've wanted to drive-in, only to find the drive-in spots full, the dining room spots empty, and the dining room packed full, so I couldn't happily dine-in either).

    Today, though, had a couple different kinds of SCs. Now, there's the dining room entrance, and the employee entrance where they run in and out from the kitchen to the cars. Technically, there's no "Employees Only" sign (instead it says "Use Other Door" in smallish print), but it's very obvious that it leads to the employee-only kitchen area, which any moron can see because that whole side of the building is just windows letting you gaze in on your food preparation.

    Not this special person. He wasn't even a customer. As far as I could tell, he'd stopped for driving directions. He just waltzed right into the kitchen and started walking around the equipment. About three employees rushed to try and usher him out, doing all they could short of physically shoving him out. He kept dodging them and wandering around some more!

    Eventually, they got him out the door and were pointing and giving him directions. He finally nodded and left, and then turned around and went back in! They stopped him from getting too far that time. Finally, he left.

    There was one other while we dined, but he just poked his head in, so he can be let off the hook. He'd ordered in the dining room, and for whatever reason decided he wanted to eat in the car, and wanted to see if that was okay. He never really physically entered the kitchen.
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    I caught an SC guest wandering around the kitchen at 1AM at my hotel. His excuse was also, "The doors only say do not enter, they don't say Employees only!" But then he changed it to he 'just want to see what the kitchen looked like!' Riiight; I think someone was trying to steal themselves a snack! I escorted him right back to his room.
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    • #3
      {chasing the customers around the kitchen with a broom} "No vermin in the kitchen! Get out, get out, get out!"

      Quoth LillFilly View Post
      Riiight; I think someone was trying to steal themselves a snack! I escorted him right back to his room.
      Kitchen equipment is expensive. If that was a hotel kitchen late at night, he may have thought he could slip out with something before anyone knew he was there. There's industrial kitchen stuff on Craigslist all the time.

      Personally, I would love one of those big freestanding mixers. . . the kind that can mix 20 lbs of dough at once. I would make up reasons to use one of those if I had one!
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      • #4
        It's an injury begging to happen. Kitchens are dangerous places when people know what they're doing, I don't even want to think what could happen to others.
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        • #5
          Quoth bhskittykatt View Post
          Went to Boomer's Drive-In today for some yummy food! If you're ever in town, they have the best burgers EVER!
          So, where is "in town"?

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          • #6
            Quoth TheSHAD0W View Post
            So, where is "in town"?
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            • #7
              Quoth EvilEmpryss View Post
              the kind that can mix 20 lbs of dough at once. I would make up reasons to use one of those if I had one!
              My brother used to run a small Italian joint that had one of these. ALL dough (for pizzas, calzones, sammiches, etc) was made fresh every morning. man was that stuff good. I was always asking him to bring flats of bread home for me to use (their "sandwich bread" was just pizza dough in long flat rectangles, so it didn't rise much)
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              • #8
                Quoth bhskittykatt View Post
                And don't get me started about the people who park in the drive-in spots and then get out and walk in. (There's are separate parking spaces for the dining room....many times I've wanted to drive-in, only to find the drive-in spots full, the dining room spots empty, and the dining room packed full, so I couldn't happily dine-in either).
                Is this marked at all? A "DINE-IN PARKING" sign could point most people in the right direction. And there's the question of if there's enough parking spaces. Personally, I'd set up the parking lot so that you have to drive past the dine-in spaces to get to the drive-in booths, operating on the theory that people will park in the first space they see. This could be something as simple as reversing the signs and repainting the arrows on the pavement. But if they have a drive-through as well, like the local "new model" A&Ws, it might be more complicated and involve some real construction work.
                Last edited by roothorick; 10-11-2010, 12:13 AM.

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                • #9
                  RT - I think you nailed the problem on the head -- Inside-diners are just taking the first spot they see, ignoring any signage...Because, they're there to get WAITED upon, they are IMPORTANT...Important enough to deny the business drive-in orders that get taken care of in a fraction of the time, tho? I think not.
                  "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                  "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                  "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                  "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                  "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
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                  • #10
                    Yes, it is like you expect them to read. The nerve.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth EricKei View Post
                      RT - I think you nailed the problem on the head -- Inside-diners are just taking the first spot they see, ignoring any signage...Because, they're there to get WAITED upon, they are IMPORTANT...Important enough to deny the business drive-in orders that get taken care of in a fraction of the time, tho? I think not.
                      As a stopgap solution, they could put up signs saying "UNATTENDED CARS IN DRIVE-IN BOOTHS WILL BE TOWED" (purely for liability reasons, we don't expect them to actually be read) and when all the booths are full, follow through on the threat.

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