Fresh Fries Fiasco

[Shengirl]

You know, I do feel kind of bad for people who come up to order 5-20 minutes before close. I know that when most people leave amusement parks the last thing they usually do is grab a snack on their way out.

Really? I'd rather wait 20 minutes to get out of the price-gouging park and into a good 'ole 7-11. I can't imagine paying amusement park food prices if you don't have to. But I suppose the parks are happy for people who aren't like me. ^^;

[Broomjockey]

You know, I've given this "ordering at close" thing a lot of thought, as we've had multiple threads, and I've finally come to a conclusion. It isn't completely the customer's fault. I know! But hear me out! The thing is this, some places, the closing time is when the employees are supposed to be out, some are when they stop serving customers, and then the employees have a 1/2 hr. or so to close after that. These second establishments often still have the equipment running right up to close, and if many of the customer's frequent haunts are of the second type, they may not realize that other places aren't willing to pay the extra couple hours of payroll to give employees customer-free time to clean up.

Now, where SCs differ from normal customers, is their acceptance of this. SCs can't conceive of anything not being the same as they want. And then feel the need to try to assert their version of reality on others. And it's at this point you say "We're closed. "

[Rapscallion]

I had a friend like this once. He wouldn't get salted fries because (and I swear I'm not making this up) salt is BAD for you.
Yeah, dude. And without salt, those fries are nothin' but Golden Sticks O' Nutrition.
That friendship didn't last.

Reminds me of a guy who phoned our customer services and asked for a list of food without any salt at all. He wanted a diet without any salt at all because it's bad for you.

Our guy on CS just told him he'd die in three months if he took no salt in and wished him well.

Rapscallion

[Estil]

In regards to the no-salt fries; why do they even bother putting the salt on the fries at all? Wouldn't most customers that want salt put the salt on themselves?

[Broomjockey]

In regards to the no-salt fries; why do they even bother putting the salt on the fries at all? Wouldn't most customers that want salt put the salt on themselves?

Well, first off, salt makes you thirsty, and want a drink, so they put salt on to try and assist drink sales. But the logistical reason is that if you do it right when the fries are fresh from the fryer, there's still a bit of hot oil on them to dissolve the salt and help it stick better. Second, it's a lot easier to get the fries evenly salted if you can toss them around, rather than hoping gravity takes care of distributing the salt.
Thirdly, there are more people who want salt, or are indifferent to salt, than don't want it, so it's faster to just salt them in bulk than for them to ask "Did you want salt with your fries?"

[Sofar]

We keep an aloe plant in the kitchen for the purpose of treating burns. It looks sort of strange, the spiky aloe plant sitting on top of the refrigerator in a fast-food kitchen, but it's real beneficial to get some of that stuff on a burn just after it happens.

In regards to the no-salt fries; why do they even bother putting the salt on the fries at all? Wouldn't most customers that want salt put the salt on themselves?

We don't put salt on our fries, because we use canola oil* and canola oil is naturally salty. And because of the small amount of orders we do, we just cook fries one serving at a time. The fries are always fresh, and while standing at the counter you can see me removing fries from the tub of oil, putting them in a bowl, and transistioning those fries directly into the basket with your burger. You can also see that at no point do I add any salt. When you get your order the fries they probably have been out of the oil for ninety seconds at still far too hot too eat. And yet still, people come in and ask if our fries are fresh, and still, people ask for no salt, and baffingly still, people eat the unsalted fries and then complain about the amount of salt on them just because they're starved for attention and the only way they know how to get attention is complaining and making up food allergies.

*Numero Uno: To all you mid-westerners, I know how disgusting you think canola oil is, I don't care, it's the standard on the west coast. You will not find a restaurant in this city that doesn't use the stuff.

Numero Dos: NO ONE is allergic to canola oil. The fact that everyone who has told me they were allergic to canola oil used the old term "rapeseed oil," as canola detractors do, indicates they are full of shit. And if you're throat closed up everytime you ate something that had touched that evil rapeseed oil, (that's part of a big fast-food conspiracy, you know,) you wouldn't be alive to annoy me.

[Becks]

I eat plenty of fries myself, and I know it's nice to luck out and chance upon a batch of fries straight out of the frier. But I also understand that that is not always going to happen.

Same here.

However, I absolutely MUST draw the line at nasty, old, cold icky fries.

In regards to the no-salt fries; why do they even bother putting the salt on the fries at all? Wouldn't most customers that want salt put the salt on themselves?

There are times when I'd like to put salt on myself, but I sometimes have a heavy hand with the salt shaker.

(But then, some employees do, too...)

[Rapscallion]

Numero Dos: NO ONE is allergic to canola oil. The fact that everyone who has told me they were allergic to canola oil used the old term "rapeseed oil," as canola detractors do, indicates they are full of shit. And if you're throat closed up everytime you ate something that had touched that evil rapeseed oil, (that's part of a big fast-food conspiracy, you know,) you wouldn't be alive to annoy me.

The old term is still in use over here. The powers that be in Canadalandia realised that it wasn't such a good way to promote a product and renamed it as a variant of 'canada oil'.

You can also point out to detractors that an allergic reaction is in response to proteins, and oil contains no proteins. Shedloads of calories, but no protein.

Rapscallion

[Andara Bledin]

We keep an aloe plant in the kitchen for the purpose of treating burns. It looks sort of strange, the spiky aloe plant sitting on top of the refrigerator in a fast-food kitchen, but it's real beneficial to get some of that stuff on a burn just after it happens.

Smart. My family has always had at least one aloe plant on hand, always. And if we could find it, usually a bottle of true aloe vera gel, as well, although that can be really expensive.

My brother once pulled a personal pot pie out of the oven and dumped it directly onto his arm. We grabbed a leaf, slit it open, and slathered it on. He barely has a scar.

And when I dumped a full quart of "was boiling when it was put in the container 10 minutes ago" soup down my front, the first thing after me jumping out of my chair and stripping off my clothes was to slather a bunch of aloe on. I ended up going to emergency for pain pills for that one. Of course, by the time I got the pills, my system had figured out how to block the pain enough that I never used them. *shrug* I used a moisturizer with aloe in it for the next couple of weeks, and you can barely see some discoloration where the blisters were the worst.

^-.-^

[Aldous]

I made ramen on the stove a few years ago. Haven't made it since if my brother is around. He was running wild, and while I was carrying the soup, he ran into me, and my whole front was covered in buring soup. Luckily it wasn't a bad burn since the soup was a little cooled off. Still hurt like hell.

[Becks]

My brother once pulled a personal pot pie out of the oven and dumped it directly onto his arm.

I should see if Bella's willing to share HER pot pie story.

[Sableonblonde]

You know, I've given this "ordering at close" thing a lot of thought, as we've had multiple threads, and I've finally come to a conclusion. It isn't completely the customer's fault. I know!

I agree with you. Sometimes if the crowds are especially big on any given day we will stay open 15-20 minutes past close. But usually we start to "close" as much as 30-45 minutes before the official closing time. And the thing is, the last hour before closing is when we start to get really slammed every single night. I don't think it's fair to the customers, especially those who have waited all day to order a certain treat and were saving it for their way out of the park. But if I said any of this to my co-workers, I'd get slapped.

Really? I'd rather wait 20 minutes to get out of the price-gouging park and into a good 'ole 7-11. I can't imagine paying amusement park food prices if you don't have to. But I suppose the parks are happy for people who aren't like me. ^^;

Sure, upper management is happy for people who aren't like you. The little front-line employees like myself who are serving people, on the other hand, LOVE people like you Actually, I don't mind serving and I actually enjoy being at work, but it is nice to get little breaks every now and then.

We have this cup that you can buy for four dollars and you can get refills on it throughout the day for a dollar. But we've been out of them for most of the week, which is really causing some people to get pissed off. The other day I had a woman come up and when I told her we were out of the cups, she said " I paid $xx.xx to get in here and I can't even buy this cup?!" I'm sorry, but I don't understand why somebody would pay that much money just so they can come in and buy a freaking plastic cup for four dollars. I can see how it's maybe a good deal if you share with your whole family. But who even needs to drink that much soda???

Guests are allowed to bring their own food and drinks into the park, actually. But I can see how that would be a pain in the ass for some people to be carrying their own food around especially if they plan to do a lot of riding.

[Pezzle]

My brother once pulled a personal pot pie out of the oven and dumped it directly onto his arm. We grabbed a leaf, slit it open, and slathered it on. He barely has a scar.



^-.-^

I um.... once put my hand in a pot of boiling water because I dumped my ramen flavoring packet in it. My hand hurt for like 2 weeks and peeled, but I refused to go to the doctor because I used to have a slight phobia.

GREAT SUCCESS.

...best ramen I ever ate.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

One time I heated up some chili in the microwave in an old soup mug with a handle on it.

When I took it out, the handle decided to break and I spilled piping hot chili down my leg (I was wearing shorts).

It hurt like a bitch and blistered quite a bit but I don't have any scars I can notice. Wish it would've occurred to me to get out the aloe vera gel, which I use only when I am sunburned.

[powerboy]

I love the Aloe Vera Plants. We used to have one, that truly comes in handy. I wish I can find one, I would keep that in my room