I'm a little worried at how many EW's will form because of this.

[Mr Hero]

Before work I decided to get lunch at "Massachussetts Bazaar." Well, I order my food, and the manager told me about how they've made a few changes. Customers are no longer required to get their drink. They sit down, and someone working in the lobby gets the customer's drink and food to them. Basically corp's decision to kiss the customer's ass even further.

I personally don't like having my ass kissed. My ass is for sitting, not for kissing. Yet, I am polite about being served. I wonder how many EW's there will be that'll use this change as a chance to treat the staff as their personal servant.

[Sapphire Silk]

Sooo . . . they're hiring waitresses?

[Mr Hero]

Not quite. You order the food at the counter like you normally do. Then the one person who's in the dining room bring out your order as well as the drink of your choice, and even gets you your refills, and tosses your garbage out when you're finished.

[jjllbb]

Not quite. You order the food at the counter like you normally do. Then the one person who's in the dining room bring out your order as well as the drink of your choice, and even gets you your refills, and tosses your garbage out when you're finished.

That's disgraceful. I feel so bad for the people who worked there before the change. They didn't sign up for that.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

They did that at I think it was Hardees for a while (at least, they did at this one that was near my old job). It was the stupidest thing I'd ever freaking seen. If I want restaurant food, I'll go to a restaurant. If I want fast food, I go to a place like Hardees, and I want it fast. Having to send out what amounts to a waitstaff does nothing to speed up the process.

It ain't like I'm going to such a place for the quality of the food or to have my ass waited on. I want something to adequately keep body and soul together for a few more hours. Hell, they don't even have to get my order right. I honestly don't give a damn. Just don't dick around giving it to me, I'm there because I wanna get in and get out.

[chainedbarista]

exactly; it's fast food, not a meal at 'chez snootee' and expecting waitservice is absurd and a waste of personnel.

i can get my own food/drink and bus my own table, because i'm all grown up, yes i am.

[Food Lady]

Oh, it's like a Sizzler. I never understood why you had to order from the cashier but be served by waitstaff. And tipping was expected. But you had to wait in line like at a cafeteria. *shakes head*

[wagegoth]

I like getting my own drinks. I can mix root beer and orange, or sweet tea with plain, or Dr. Pepper and Pepsi.

Resident artists: I think we need a Colbert-type smiley with it's fist raised, saying "Damn you!"

[Ironclad Alibi]

If I want restaurant food, I'll go to a restaurant. If I want fast food, I go to a place like Hardees, and I want it fast.

You have to remember the "fast" in "fast food" does not refer to the speed of service, but rather that you have to eat if fast before it goes bad
.

[Mr Hero]

You have to remember the "fast" in "fast food" does not refer to the speed of service, but rather that you have to eat if fast before it goes bad
.

It also refers to the speed at which it goes through your system.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

I like getting my own drinks. I can mix root beer and orange, or sweet tea with plain, or Dr. Pepper and Pepsi.

Resident artists: I think we need a Colbert-type smiley with it's fist raised, saying "Damn you!"

There's this one on the list...

[Rapscallion]

I'm somewhat of an independent type. When I finish at a cafe, I take my plate to a clearing area. The sort of places I ate at (on the occasions I ate out) were the type where you did that, so that might have formed part of my attitude.

I ended up sleeping over at a motel type place with a pub attached where they did the breakfast thing. A chum and I had a breakfast and when I'd finished I got up with the plate and looked around. Chum said that they paid people to clear the plates away.

"Eh?"

Sod that. I'm proud of being able to do that for myself. I then got told the same thing by the staff who caught me wandering around with an empty plate looking bafffled.

Rapscallion