Is a plain hamburger that hard to make?
 

Seriously, what is so difficult about it? I'm going through the drive-thru at hardees (carl jr's or whatever for you westerners), and I order a plain hamburger. They're little screen shows "plain + no cheese". I get to the drive-thru and pay. Now, I can't really wait forever, since its lunch and the line is ungodly. I get back to work, open it up, and its got everything on it.

Seriously, is it that difficult to make a plain hamburger?

Not at all. The real difficulty comes in determining which made burger all wrapped up is the plain one and which is the loaded one. That's where they went wrong. Somewhere someone else is asking "is it so hard to put toppings on the burger?"

Oh it's hard for the majority of people that work there yes.

LOL

I knew, and I mean I was positive, that this was going to involved Hardee's.

So my wife and I go into McDonald's to order breakfast. She asks for her usual "Egg McMuffin w/ folded egg". We then proceed to wonder why there is a discussion in back about whether or not lettuce goes on an Egg McMuffin. Silly cashier rang it up wrong, and the grillperson was actually going to put lettuce on an Egg McMuffin...

At McDonalds I once had fun ordering breakfast...

Me: "Sausage McMuffin"
Drive thru box: "Sausage McMuffin with Egg?"
Me: "No, a Sausage McMuffin"
Drive thru box: "OK. A Sausage McMuffin with Egg."
Me: "No. A Sausage McMuffin"
Drive thru box: "The Sausage McMuffin comes with Egg"
Me: "I just want a Sausage McMuffin" (as I look right at the menu in front of me that says "Sausage McMuffin"
Drive thru box: "So you want a Sausage McMuffin with Egg?"
Me: "I just want a plain Sausage McMuffin"
Drive thru box: "What do you want on that?"
Me: "Nothing. Just a plain Sausage McMuffin"
Drive thru box: "No Egg?"
Me: "No. Nothing. Just a plain Sausage McMuffin!"

When I got my order and left I opened up the styrophome container and had to pull off the road due to my laughter. There inside the container sat a Sausage McMuffin, minus egg, cheese, and McMuffin! The dumbass idiot wench gave me a plain sausage patty! So apparantly you can only get a "Sausage McMuffin" with egg, or without anything else whatsoever!

Everytime my order gets screwed up at a fast food place and I get pissed I need to laugh at myself for getting angry. The people that work there are working for minimum wage for a reason, they probably are to dumb/stoned to get a better job so them screwing up my order shouldn't be all the surprising.

In the words of the immortal Joe Pesci..."they fuck you at the drive through"

I once ordered a bacon double cheeseburger with only catsup from Wendy's and I got a double hamburger with catsup, no cheese and no bacon.

I once ordered a plain hamburger from Hardee's and when I got to the drive through window they gave me Peter Angelos.

Fuckers.

ZING!

Just last week there was a guy complaining at the counter of Wendy's, that there was no bacon on his Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger. Haha!

I said diet coke dickweed.

McDonald's, Hardees, etc. don't pay minimum wage anymore. Starting pay at a McDonald's around here is between seven and eight dollars. Too dumb and too stoned to get a better job? Puh-leez. First, you can't even spell, so you shouldn't be one to talk. Secondly, I think fast-food restaurants are great places for teenagers to get their first jobs and learn about responsibility. Having A job is better than having NO job.

who the fuck eats a plain hamburger?

Yes I'd like a hamburger, hold the meat.

They should be called Beefburgers anyways, crazy Germans.

Or Soy I guess.

So they gave you a hot dog :confused: ;)

The last 2 times I tried to get a Chicken Soft Taco from Taco Bell, they either gave me beef or put some weird sauce on it.

Damn you Taco Bell! Damn you!

I had friends who worked at McDonals, they would show up in the parking lot behind the corner store like clockwork everynight at midnight with a bag full of big macs and weed. Man, i miss those guys.

I worked at McDonalds for a little over a year eleven years ago. I didn't turn out too bad.

Weed value meal?

Bite your tongue,heathen :)

Shorty, I'm sorry i messed up your order.










And masturbated in your food.

I frequently order junior cheeseburgers from Wendy's. It's on the menu, but try convincing them that it's not a junior cheeseburger deluxe and it's not a junior bacon cheeseburger.

Friend of mine back in the day always got hamburgers with ketchup only from MickeyD's.

He managed to get 2 pieces of bread with ketchup on it one day.

I agree that having a job and learning responsibility is a valuable part of growing up, however, most of the kids/people I knew growing up who worked at a fast food joint weren't very smart and 9 out of 10 of them were stoners.

oh crap, do you all even KNOWWW how much saying this screws hamburger place workers UP :confused: SERIOUSLY, this is like the WORST thing i think to ask a worker there for..and I Doo..we dont eat meat but sometimes i crave a burger, SO yeah "I'd like a number 1 but no meat o.k?" no meat? "yess no meat, please" --hear them asking whoever's next to them about it-- mamm, umm you dont want any meat on the burger? "no, no meat please" I dont think we can do that mamm.. "yes you can, I always come here and I get a burger with no meat" let me ask the manager mamm...."it's just the burger without the meat, what to ask them about" ok mam, so you just want the bun with the vegetables... "YESSS" maybe 3 times out of 10, still end up with the MEAT in the burger..so then they just want to take the meat off of it, which I then have to explain why I still cant eat it cuz itll have meat STUFF on it.. I mean come on :( and ya know it still takes them just as long if not longer to make me a burger when they dont EVEN have meat to cook for it :confused: NEVERMIND the times at Burger King asking for the veggie burger to be cooked in the microwave and NOT the grill, more manager consulting.. or PIzzas without cheese :rolleyes:

Huh?

it's hard to get burgers without meat, and pizza without cheese at restaurants ok :mad:

You can change font/color on this damn board?

Well thats all ya had to say. :D

But, dare i ask why you want those things?

Noooo, leave her be, its cute.

It may be cute but remember, she doesn't eat the meat :eek:

I could turn you into a meat-lover overnight just like that.

Rather than waiting 40 minutes for your custom-made burger, anyone ever figure out you can just order the regular hamburger and pick the the crap you don't want off?

Ever try picking off ketchup? It's fairly difficult.

Hey buddy, im paying $2.00, i want my burger the way I want it.

Sure, if you're willing to settle for that, but consider:

a) it's damned near impossible to fully remove unwanted "liquid" condiments (ketchup, mustard, mayo, etc)
b) Depending on the chain, it can be downright impossible to remove lettuce without losing any of the aforementioned condiments
c) Special orders are typically made on-demand, and rarely suffer from burger-warmer syndrome.

You also have to consider:

I. Special orders probably piss off the people working the food areas, increasing the odds of receiving a foreign substance, like spit, in your food. So you have no mayo, but instead a nice loogy. I prefer the anonymity of an average cheeseburger from the warmer.

II. If you're really that concerned about what's in your lunch, you probably shouldn't be eating at McDonald's in the first place.

pics pls thx

It's one of the reasons I tend to keep an eye on the food prep areas at fast food places.


Disagree. If I don't like lettuce, just for example, then fast food seems likely to be more popular with me than less (if you think about it from a healthier food standpoint).

I think lettuce is a neutral vegetable. It doesn't really inspire emotion in me one way or the other.

I hate pickles. If a pickle was on the burger the taste is still there even after the removal and scraping of the area around the pickle slice.

Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us...

Check the burger BEFORE you leave the drive through. :)

I ordered a hamburger no cheese at MacDee's and they gave me a bun with a piece of cheese on it. I said, "I didn't know you had grilled cheeses here." Fokers!


Todd

I'd like a cheeseburger, a large fry, and a large...orange...drink.

Speaking of fast food messing up orders. On my way home from work today, I ordered a Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad from the drive-thru. They gave it to me with no croutons. I ask for Croutons, and they say that they are all out. I really like Croutons, and I'm strongly suspecting the cashier was just too lazy to go look since it was forgotten. So, I ask for a refund. She says to me in an incredulous voice, "You want a refund just because we don't have croutons?"

I reply, "Yes, I do. I don't want the salad without Croutons."

She replies, "Hold on. I think we might have some Croutons after all."

I reply, "Why did you tell me you were out of them then?"

She replies, "I just remembered we got more in."

She gave me my croutons and I left.

Dang, girl! Want to be snowed in with me this weekend? I'll even pretend to be the commissioner of the ImperialFL.

About this topic, here is a transcript of an exchange between McDonalds worker and even less smart customer:

McD W: May I help you?
Cust: I would like a cheeseburger, plain. No Ketchup, mustard, cheese. Nothing.
McD W: So you want a plain hamburger.
Cust: That is not what I said. A plain Cheeseburger.
McD W: So you want cheese?
Cust: No, you are not listening. I want a plain cheeseburger.
McD W: Normally cheeseburgers have cheese
Cust: (Abruptly) See the billbord. I want the cheeseburger. The price is 89 cents. (I too discover he is indeed asking for the cheeseburger.) On this sandwich I want a bun and beef. That is all.

At that point rhe worker should then inform the customer that in order to get the 89c cheeseburger, cheese will come along with it. If he wants a bun and beef, he'll have to settle for a plain hamburger (I guess it's slightly more expensive?), as that is what a bun and beef is. I mean, you can't just say "I would like a cheeseburger, but make it like a big mac for me."

Hamburger is 10 or 20 cents less.

Or you can just cook your own at home...

I have witnessed people resolving the semantic difference between a hamburger or cheeseburger with nothing on them versus a plain hamburger or plain cheeseburger over a microphone before. I have come to the conclusion that it must not be all that simple with people not always being on the same page.

When I try something advanced like this at the drive through, I have learned to be very careful even thoughtful, use their words, and be very specific. Otherwise you might just as well que Joe Pesci.

Our McD's used to have a cheeseburger special on one night a week when cheeseburgers were in fact cheaper than hamburgers. Tightwads, and discerning diners (like myself) who don't like the cheese they put on their burgers, would order "without cheese".


They eventually had enough and said you had to have it with cheese.

hmm..I do love snow..but you better wear the special Commisioner of the ImperialFL beanie :cool:


as for price, I get lucky in that if there's a guy manager where i order my meatless burger they'll usually give it to me as a freebie or discounted but on other ocassions why I still haver to pay full price is beyond me :confused: but oh well...

I like to get Bacon Cheeseburgers plain. Every once in a while someone will give me a sandwich without the bacon or cheese. Seriously, if all I wanted was the beef patty on the bread, then why would I order a Bacon Cheeseburger instead of a regular Hamburger.

This is a huge pet peeve of mine. People thinking it's so easy to just pick stuff off a burger/pizza etc. The reason I don't want mustard, ketchup, mayo, pickkles on my burger is because I absolutely detest the taste of those items. No matter how hard you try to pick that crap off, the taste is still gonna be there.

Also, I usually don't have to wait for these to be specially made. Wendy's, Checkers, and Burger King are pretty good at getting me my plain burger just as fast as anyone ordering a regular burger.

I'm actually allergic to mustard seed and onions, so I find it easier to just get it plain and get what I need later for it.

Wendy's has some strange fixation with their honey mustard sauce. Any time I order the chicken strips, they say "Do you want honey mustard sauce?" and I say "No, BBQ." And of course 9 times out of 10 I get honey mustard. Why not just ask the person what kind of sauce they would like.

Oh well...seems we have a disconnect here. I hate the pickles they put on all hamburgers (and Chick-Fil-A), but I've learned to take them off. Condiments on the other hand, I can see being a problem.

Allergies I can see - especially to the pseudo teenie-tiny "onions" that are on McDs burgers.

I think some of you like taco's and some of you like burritos...

it's because the honey mustard is delicious

Why don't you just say, "No"?

Perhaps they are always way overstocked on honey-mustard.

You may wish to investigate the possibility of a direct relationship between the price of your burger and the size of your shirt when you order.

Edit: Used the wrong word before.

The hot mustard sauce at McDee's is quite delicious.


Todd

Oh guh-ross.

I have been telling her this for years. It is an advantage that should be used....

As for me, the occasional gay guy will give me discounts....
:D

As far as sauces go, (please do not connect this with the gay guy comment above, thanks) the Arbys Southwest sauce is excellent....

Who is this Arby fella?




Yeah, like I could resist.

:D I should have seen that one, but I didn't... :rolleyes:

I thought I made it clear that I do say no.

Gotta agree with BigJohn and larry. I absolutely hate the taste of pickles/mayo/mustard/etc. on my burgers. If i wanted them on my burger I'd put them there myself, or order a burger with them. If I'm going out and paying anyone for my food (even if it's 89 cents for a McD's "burger") they damn well ought to make it the way I want it. That's their goddamn job.

Take me, I sling coffee. If someone wants sugar-free hazelnut, I'm going to put the sugar-free in and not the regular, even if the sugar-free is empty and I have to get another bottle, because that's what they ordered. Same way, if I walk into McDonalds and ask for a hamburger with nothing on it (i'll literally say "just the bun and the patty") that better be all I get. It's not a difficult concept really. I'm the customer, I'm paying for what I order, I better get it how I ordered it or I'll take my business elsewhere.

Croutons rock! :)

Bravo.

You're spot on, of course, and I actually typed something very similar myself in this thread yesterday. I decided to cut that part since I've seen the whole "those poor workers, they only make $x an hour, blah, blah, blah" whiny shit that speaking the plain truth like you did can generate around here.

But you're still dead damn on-target.

Jon

See, I feel like I can get away with that, because I am one of those poor workers only making x dollars an hour. So I'm speaking from both sides of the counter. Which I think basically makes me...attack-proof. Then again, it also makes me an interesting consumer, because I'm at the same time both very demanding and very understanding.

Fair enough, although I don't believe the truth the you spoke is one iota "income-dependent".

And, FWIW, I've spent a helluva lot more of my life on the "x dollars an hour" side of the equation than on the other side, including plenty of cash register time at convienience stores, so it ain't exactly like I haven't been there. (FTR, that's not one bit aimed at you Torgo, just a general comment)

no, i don't believe it's income-dependant either. Just makes it...harder to attack me for saying it.

And frankly I think because it's a truth everyone should be able to say it, whether they have spent a lot of time on that side of the counter or not. It's capitalism at its best, isn't it? And isn't that the foundation of this country?

I think everyone ought to work in service/retail at some point. EVERYONE. Gives you a whole new perspective.

Don't worry JIMG, I won't take offense (don't even see what I'd have to take offesne to )

No, you're telling them no to BBQ, they still think you want the mustard sauce.

I worked fast food from age 14 to age 22 and I don't think that I'm a stoner or a slacker...

No.

"No BBQ"= No BBQ sauce
"No, BBQ"= No, I would like BBQ sauce.

Then say, No, I want BBQ "instead".

But you refuse to put out for the rest of the gay guys?

Like, totally.

My favorite is when I order a hamburger and get a cheeseburger. Did I ever mention the flippin' word "cheese"?!?!?! Now, I can almost see it when I order something that normally comes with cheese, and I request "no cheese" on it. But when a place has a hamburger and a cheeseburger, and I never ever say the word "cheese", it really pisses me off when I get a cheeseburger.

This brings up a couple of stories. We were eating at a TGI Fridays a couple of years ago. I ordered a burger of some kind, with no cheese. It came with cheese. I sent it back. A couple of minutes later, here comes my burger. I've learned to flip it over and inspect it. Sure enough, I can see a little bit of cheese still on the burger. They simply tried to scrape it off. I'm not about to wait around, so I cut that corner off, and eat the rest. I pay the bill with my CC, and on the tip line write, "next time, don't just scrape off the cheese." I speak with a host on my way out, call up a manager later that night, and speak my piece. I've started to say I'm allergic to cheese at some restaurants. Fridays is just lucky I'm not actually allergic. This is how lawsuits happen.

Story #2. My wife and I are heading to her parents for Thanksgiving weekend. We stop at a Culvers along the way (great food, and usually great service). I go in and order to go, as we've got our pooch in the car. I order the usual hamburger (note, never said the word cheese, and I know it was punched in right because they have one of those screens on the customer side to make sure your order is correct), get our food, and go out to the car. My wife had taken the dog out to go potty, and I'm fooling around with some luggage and other stuff in the car. We finally get in and get ready to go. I check my burger, and sure enough, it has cheese. I'm cold, hungry, and starting to get irritated. I go back in, give the bag back to them, and wait for them to make another (if you're familiar with Culvers, you know they make things fresh after you order them). I hear the cashier tell the cook that it is a hamburger, no cheese. Five minutes later, the cook gets her attention and asks her a question. I hear her say, again, that it's a hamburger, no cheese. Five minutes later, I finally get my order. Now, it's been at least 20-25 minutes since we got there. My wife and the dog are waiting outside. After all of that conversation, coming from a place that normally has good staff, you'd think they got it right. So did I. I run out to the car, and start driving. We get back on the freeway, I get my burger out, and take a bite. What the hell is that?!?!?! Give it to my wife, she turns on the light, and you can guess what's on it. Good ol' Wisconsin cheddar. When we got to her 'rents' house, I call the Culvers, complain to the manager (who was very nice), and make it clear that the cashiers got it right ... it was the cooks. I got a free value basket coupon out of it, but it's only for that Culvers, and I'm a little hesitant to go back. Oh well, I'm sure I will. Their food is too good, and that Culvers is just about halfway between our house and the in-laws (good bathroom / stretch / food break).

To paraphrase the words of the immortal Opus:

I'd like a Chocolate Shake please, sans cup

Anyone remember the old fast food joint Roy Rogers. They had a fixens' bar and you got a plain burger, went to the fixens' bar and added your own toppings. What a concept.

Sound like a place they have in Abilene, Buns Over Texas. Great food there, I wish they had one around here... :(

Dola-

There's a Buns in Dallas now!!! :eek:

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Here's a story:

It was a Whities night, for certain reasons, so we hit up White Castle, about 10 mins from where we were hanging out and playing ping pong, but without paddles and with cups..

Anyways, we ordered 8 White Castles, 6 Cheeseburgers, 6 Bacon Cheeseburgers, 2 chicken rings, and a mozzarella stick.

We drove thru, just 2 of us, got our 2 bags full and drove all the way back to the place, only to find that we were minus 6 bacon cheeseburgers, they didn't give us 1.

So we drive all the way back, and our friends are like here, say we didn't get 2 chicken rings too, but we were like fuck that, we'll be honest, simple mistake.

So we explain we didn't get 6 burgers, show 'em the receipt, and they comply.

The lady hands me a new bag, and off we go.

Now since this time it isn't a complicated order, just 1 type, 6 bacon cheese burgers, plus the fact that we had just emphasized and gone over how they messed up our order and what we didn't get the first time, I again didn't check in the bag before we left.

So we get back.. and what do you know.. they gave us 4 white castles, no cheese, no bacon. Minus 2.

How the fuck do you mess up the shit twice? We called White Castle and they didn't believe us, and by all means we weren't about to go driving for a 3rd time riskily enough at like 3 AM... so we got shorted..

I'm thinking theres more to this story, I'm gonna have to ask Kumar about it.

We've still got one about 15 minutes from where I live - in fact, my friend worked there for a few months. Except, they are mostly a chicken joint, not burgers.

But that does sound like Fudruckers, where you basically make your own sandwich.

BTW, speaking of fast food, I miss eating a Checkers sandwich. I don't even remember what I got from there, I just remember every drive to Indiana to visit relatives back in the day, the fam would always stop at Checkers for a quick lunch. Delicious.

edit- just did a search, are they now Rallys? I have Rallys all the time but none of those items are ringing a bell as to what I used to eat there.. hmm..

Fuddruckers!!!! Yummy. Just don't "accidentally" switch the F and the R.

There's one about 5 minutes off campus. Gotta love the fixins bar, free cheese sauce (both regular and spicy), etc.

I like a guy with SOME standards ok :rolleyes:

My best friend hates cheese, mayo, and mustard, so there is invariably a problem every once in a while when burgers are ordered. Wendy's got it wrong a bunch of times (unless you went inside and made sure), but Burger King wasn't bad.

Though, I have to give props to SONIC. They never got the order wrong! Perfect every time!