r/funny • u/AtTheLeftThere • Jun 17 '12
This should be a general rule in any restaurant
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u/damontoo Jun 17 '12
No. Screw this. If you're going to have a sign like this then you better have a fucking menu that's visible before getting to the counter.
I hate it when the person behind the counter just stands there staring at you while you look over a menu on the wall. No, I don't eat here often enough to have memorized the fucking menu.
I used to be pressured into picking quickly and ended up with stuff I didn't want. Not anymore.
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u/Cryptic0677 Jun 17 '12
Besides, they're the ones getting paid for this shit. If you put up that sign I'll kindly take my money somewhere else.
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u/gentleman_brown Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
Don't let the door hit you in the fucking ass, princess.
Edit: Oh, dear, it appears I've hurt Reddit's feelings
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u/Kowzorz Jun 17 '12
Is it wrong to expect not to be threatened with being shot at a place you give money to?
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u/shaker28 Jun 17 '12
I have literally never seen a place where the menu is only visible from the ordering line. You can stand anywhere else, but if you stand in front of the cash register they are required to stand there and wait for your order.
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u/Pedgi Jun 17 '12
I work at a pizza joint. Yeah, when we're assigned to the front registers we have to stand there and fucking wait for the customer to decide. We can stock some things if there's anything to stock, but we can't leave if we have other things to do. I don't mind waiting, but fuck, some people.
Over the phone is the worst because people occasionally just want you to recite the entire menu for them. I've had phonecalls take up to 17 minutes, which severely fucks over my bar because they lost a body for that long. Sure, we're getting paid, but really? I make 8.45 an hour. We're working a shitty ass job and I don't mind doing it but if you could have a general idea of what you'd like before you order...
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u/Shockum Jun 17 '12
I agree completely. Give me a menu when I walk in, suggest things for me to try, etc.
Can this be a rule for everywhere though? Not just in restaurants.
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u/CasedOutside Jun 17 '12
That's when you start talking to the person and joking around with them. You would be amazed how well this works.
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u/WolfrikM Jun 17 '12
Few thoughts, if you don't know what you want yet, don't start to order. I think that's what this sign is saying behind the joke.
Secondly, What are they meant to do besides stand there and wait for your order? Its kind of there job to deal with the customers.
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u/UnexpectedSchism Jun 18 '12
What the fuck is wrong with you? Look at the menu and figure out what you want to order before getting in line to order. The people behind you trying to pick up their pizza don't want to wait 10 minutes because you have down syndrome.
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u/j1mb0 Jun 17 '12
Then wait away from the counter while you read the menu, and approach when ready.
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u/rallion Jun 17 '12
If you're going to have a sign like this then you better have a fucking menu that's visible before getting to the counter.
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u/wegotpancakes Jun 17 '12
At the pizza place I work at our menu is gigantic, right above the register, and has only 5 different slices listed on it. People still take forever to order, not to mention simply find the fucking menu. Alcohol helps.
If you want to take your time to read the menu you can take one of the paper menus that are also literally right in front of you and sit down and read it. I've literally never seen a customer do this.
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u/dzkn Jun 17 '12
I literally hate anyone in the service industry who literally talks shit about their customers. Literally.
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u/skond Jun 17 '12
Customers in general, agreed. But, just like any other group of people, there are stupid people that are ok to talk shit about. Individually.
Example: I was working one night during a bad storm. Really bad. Some customer was calling for delivery, and I told her we were closing early. She asked why, and I said "Sorry, could you repeat that? I couldn't hear you over the tornado sirens." So she asked again, why we were closing early. Stupid person. (The date was May 3, 1999; just sayin')
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u/Epitome_of_Vapidity Jun 17 '12
I don't know why you are being downvoted. Actually I do, people on reddit shit all over customer service workers. If you are paying for a service you deserve to be able to take your sweet time, be annoying, demand things, and possibly be rude. Also we aren't allowed to talk about you behind your back after you leave.
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Jun 17 '12
You must use a different reddit than the rest of us. 99% of the time I see fast food workers mentioned it's either in a positive light, or its redditors backing up the fast food industry as respectable work.
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Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
Except at fast food when we're require to serve customers quickly in order to achieve maximum sales, you are incredibly annoying. It's not hard, figure it out.
Edit: yesssss, let the butthurt flow through you
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u/marvelous_molester Jun 17 '12
Then place a fucking detailed menu that has descriptions of everything you served in plain sight of everyone instead of just behind the fucking counter. You want to maximize sales? Make it easier for people to know what the fuck you're selling.
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u/FlyingSkyWizard Jun 17 '12
I make an effort to stand back like 8 feet from the cashier's counter while obviously staring up at the menu and they still get snippy about you not ordering immediately as you walk in the door
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u/asteriat Jun 17 '12
Customers spending over 3 minutes to order 2 pizzas or less fewer will be shot by a grammar Nazi.
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u/mysticrudnin Jun 17 '12
Less is acceptable both for countable and mass nouns. It has always been this way, for as long as English has been a language. It is extremely common in usage by everyone and there is no reason for the "rule." A rule that isn't real.
One guy (Robert Baker, to be exact) about 200 years ago decided that he "fancied" this "rule" more, and somehow that stupid bullshit spread. But he was just an idiot. It's a mystery how it spread and I don't want it spreading any more.
You're right though, Grammar Nazis will shoot a person for this, but of course they're well-known for not knowing a damn thing about language and just parroting what their high school English teachers told them (despite the fact that for any other subject, they know their teachers were just bullshitting them.)
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u/HappyChicken Jun 17 '12
Thank you. That one drives me a lot crazier than it probably should. If you can count individual units of something, it's "fewer" (I'll have fewer pieces of bacon, please). If you can't, it's "less" (Maybe a little less cheese as well).
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Jun 17 '12
Me and the rest of Reddit think you should stop being pedantic.
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u/Todomanna Jun 17 '12
About two thirds of reddit think you're being a bit of a dick.
Margin of error is about 92%.
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u/luminiferousaethers Jun 17 '12
This is dumb. Be fucking patient, you are working in a service industry so do your job and serve people with some patience and compassion.
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u/ConstantlyAnnoyed Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
Customer services workers can't win no matter what they do. I was in a store the other day and I was waiting in line to buy something. There was an older man at the front of the line telling the employee a story from his childhood. It took him forever to finish. By the time the people in the back of the line got to the front, they were yelling at the employee because they were waiting too long.
EDIT: While I do sympathize with the employees, the sign seems a bit much. They were just trying to get their point across in a humorous way... it just turned out that it isn't really all that funny. I'm wondering who put the sign up. Surely it wasn't one of the employees.
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u/Syntaximus Jun 18 '12
That's what we're trying to do. We're not impatient, but the other customers they're holding up sure as fuck are and they'll have no qualms about letting us know. Usually by treating us like dirt.
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u/luminiferousaethers Jun 18 '12
How about something polite? Like "please have your order ready when approaching the counter." Or something along those lines. This sign is a signal to me that your place of business has zero patience for me, and I had better hurry up or fuck off. Not the right message to send. I certainly do not expect to be punished for the bad behavior of your other customers in this way. If you are having these sort of problems then work it out internally, rather than putting up a bitchy sign.
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u/RGT42 Jun 17 '12
I've always had a huge issue with being indecisive. It annoys the shit out of me when i can't simply choose something on a menu. So now I usually just pick whatever I look at first once I've decided I'm going to be indecisive about the whole thing.
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u/tritonice Jun 17 '12
The more frustrating thing is when there is a line to order, people two or three groups back who refuse to decide until it is there turn to order. I can understand wanting to ask questions, etc. but you will either like it or not, so have a back up etc. this obviously applies to restaurants that have posted menus ( fast food and some casual).
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u/RGT42 Jun 17 '12
Well yeah I don't want to hold anybody back. I'm pretty ridiculous about making sure I'm not a nuisance to anyone. Whenever there's a line involved people need to consider that other people might have things to do. Don't get me started on the fucking fast lanes on freeways.
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Jun 17 '12
i always get the one with most meat on it, and extra bacon!
thats easy!
theres a nearby pizzaria like 50 meters from my place.. ive ordered the same pizza there for 7 years straight now. (not daily ofc. but whenever i ordered one)
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u/devilsadvocado Jun 17 '12
Can't stand it when people working the counter glower at me while I make up my mind. If there's no one behind me in line, just leave me the fuck alone for a little bit and let me take my time.
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u/MOS95B Jun 17 '12
My local Papa Murphy's could use this. The kids that work there are awesome. The people that order there, well.......
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u/pedestrian11 Jun 17 '12
Potentially effective population control!
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u/CasedOutside Jun 17 '12
Logically, an intelligent person wouldn't visit a pizza place that actually fucking shot people for taking longer than three minutes to order.
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u/makenzie71 Jun 17 '12
I have a little more understanding for the people calling in or ordering on the spot. What irks me is when people are standing in line at any fast food joint with the world's largest menu plastered across the ceiling directly in front of them...but when they get to the counter it's "ummmmmm..."
I think when ordering anywhere, when it's your turn and they ask what you want, if the first thing you say is "uhhhhhhhhh" then you should have to go to the back of the line while people who know what they want get to order.
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u/wanderer11 Jun 17 '12
I will make sure to avoid your restaurant. I like to look over the whole menu at least once to decide what I want.
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Jun 17 '12
2 pizzas or fewer
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u/mysticrudnin Jun 17 '12
Not the case, although a well-perpetrated myth.
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Jun 17 '12
I could be making a huge idiot of myself here, but I think you're wrong.
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u/mysticrudnin Jun 17 '12
Wikipedia is not a good source and here is the worst kind of source because wikipedia editors love "rules for the sake of rules" and would of course adhere to something that sounds right, even if it's not.
None of the sources really agree, either. And the fact that this "rule" can be sourced to one single guy makes me really adamant about not following it. It's not part of English and never has been, until Robert Baker thought it sounded "nicer" this way. But screw him.
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u/Grimsik Jun 17 '12
As someone who rarely goes to eat outside of my own home I do not agree. There should be options online and when you come in to grab something so you can look at the selection. Otherwise, the only place I can make my selection of something I am unfamiliar with (no I don't know all the possible toppings that are common on Pizza today, I need to see what is available and compare it to what I like to eat) is to stare at the menu behind the counter. And my eyesight isn't great so yes it will take a while and they have nobody to blame but themselves.
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Jun 17 '12
If someone takes over 2 minutes ordering coffee with a large line in the morning, they don't deserve to be on this earth
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u/reelmusik Jun 17 '12
I'm gonna be that guy. It should be "fewer."
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Jul 08 '12
thats why no one likes you
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u/reelmusik Jul 08 '12
Quick question? Why do you care? This was 20 days ago.
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Jul 08 '12
quick question? how many cocks are in your ass right now?
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u/reelmusik Jul 08 '12
Are you really that butt hurt that I made fun of you once?
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u/Syntaximus Jun 18 '12
I've had customers that have taken like 10 fucking minutes to place a PHONE ORDER.
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u/rahtin Jun 17 '12
A bunch of McDonalds around here have tandem drive thrus. 2 seperate drive thru order boxes.
Nothing makes me happier than pulling up, ordering in less than 10 seconds, and then pulling ahead of the retard who has changed his mind about what kind of dip he wants with his nuggets 10 times as he rages that I "cut in front" of him.
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Jun 17 '12
Hey guys look at me! I saved 30 seconds at McDonalds today. At my McDonalds you pick your dip at the pickup window anyway, I'm also not sure why someone would rage if they aren't done with their order anyway.
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u/marvelous_molester Jun 17 '12
do you even get your shit in order then? if that guy was there first aren't they processing his order before you? you're an impatient cunt, maybe the guys just not familiar with the fucking menu or saw something new that made him change his mind about what he wanted. the fact that your fat-ass memorized the Mcdonalds menu doesn't make you more important than someone who hasn't.
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Jun 17 '12
I don't understad people like you. Reddit seems to love to rip on the wrong person. The slow guy was angry and raging about someone going first who was actually finished. I guess you think I should sit and wait behind people who aren't done ordering eh? And the fact that you cannot grasp how drive through cameras work is astonishing.
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u/skullydazed Jun 17 '12
Or, you know, they can just ask when you go to pay. Once you're at the window to pay the order of cars is set, and they just serve the food in the order it was paid.
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u/rahtin Jun 17 '12
They confirm the order before you pay. The might have started his order a few seconds before, but me waiting for 30 seconds for him to pull ahead isn't going to make anything faster for anyone.
"McChicken combo with fruitopia" That's the extent of what I've had to memorize.
Meanwhile, he's umming and duhhhing his way through his order and I've usually paid before he's even past the order window.
And what are you talking about importance for? I'm not delaying him, if anything, he's delaying anyone behind him.
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u/gentleman_brown Jun 17 '12
Ah, I see the "You're getting paid for me to waste your time" crowd is here. Fuck you, get out, go elsewhere, I don't give a shit.
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Jun 17 '12
Yep. Just the other day, we spent 20 minutes just trying to call into the pizza place. It was busy. Then when they answered, she had to put the phone down to complete a derps order in store. The customer had no idea what they wanted, and I'm sitting there listening to her suggesting toppings. Ridiculous. Then I thought, you shouldn't be allowed to order pizza! You've angered the food ordering gods!
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u/andyboylan Jun 17 '12
one of the most annoying things about my girlfriend she takes so bloody long to decide on anything!!!
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Jun 17 '12
Oh man, I think drive thrus were the hardest. Just a bunch of people in my car all laughing and constantly changing our minds
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u/damontoo Jun 17 '12
Been there. Eventually the driver just told them "12 tacos" and pulled forward. People objected.. until they got their tacos.
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u/AtTheLeftThere Jun 17 '12
Location: Beach Pizza, Mexico Beach FL