/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.9890493]

Why is it that you get better service the ruder your are to employees?

>be welcoming, patient, and communicate clearly
>get standard service

>avoid eye contact, talk to employees with an attitude, and complain
>get free upgrades, discounts, free food, and coupons

It's not like they can spit on your food because all the cameras and whatever goes in the kitchen is viable to customers

[Anonymous No.9890498]

>>9890493
>It's not like they can spit on your food because all the cameras and whatever goes in the kitchen is viable to customers
A-anon, do you actually believe this?

[Anonymous No.9890508]

>>9890498

It's not worth the risk. It takes time to sabotage food. Employees just want to get the food done and get through the way with no complaints. If a customer gets food poisoning, that is big trouble for the restaurant.

[Anonymous No.9890532]

>>9890508
If a certain customer gives everyone in the place a fuckload of extra work and trouble cameras are not a deterrent in any way

[Anonymous No.9890565]

>>9890508
Takes me literally 1 second to spit into some food. They aren't gonna get food poisoning from that. Food prep table is out of view of camera. Hardly any risk involved

[Anonymous No.9890568]

>>9890565

surely your co-worker or manager might have something to say

[Anonymous No.9890595]

>>9890568
Pfft that's if they see me. Co workers dont give a shit if it's an asshole customer and I'm not stupid enough to do it when the manager is around to see it. You seem to have a lot of faith in underpaid, uncaring food service employees

[Anonymous No.9890600]

>>9890595

Even if "it's just fast food", no one wants to get fired from a job. It looks bad on your resume.

[Anonymous No.9890668]

>>9890600
While I agree with your point entirely, I should inform you that it is my experience after about 7 years of working in restaurants that you don't need a sparkling resume to get another job in the food service industry. Turnover is so high managers are often looking to simply fill shifts. Or bad past jobs can be omit from a resume and you just tell the employer you were going to classes during that gap of employment.

[Anonymous No.9890673]

>>9890600
Not that guy but your seriously overreaching here. Just because YOU wouldnt do something. Doesnt mean other people wont. Dont be surprised if the manager diddles kids and loves to out his meat on food in the freezer before it gets cooked. manager might spit in your food exclusively and not Anybody else. I worked fast food and we drank. Smoked weed. And a bunch of shit on the job and when the store closed inside of the restuarant. At long john silvers 8 years ago

[Anonymous No.9890763]

>>9890493
yeah they'll find a way spit on it, or maybe they dropped it or maybe they just took a piss or shit and might've forgot to wash their hands. Or they might even snot rocket your drink. Trust me i've done it all buster

[Anonymous No.9890768]

>>9890763
>snot rocket
i've done this to someones ice cream after they were being massive pricks, came back the next day for more lol

[Anonymous No.9890799]

Because the modern world values speed and efficient service, and if your ass can’t offer that, then no business for you!
So if your business or your employees suck, the only way from keeping people from never coming back is to comp everything. Believe it or not people WILL return if you do that. Sometimes regulars will lie about their food being shit too, just so they can get meal comps. Restaurants are massive cucks.

[Anonymous No.9890802]

>>9890768

If service is poor, why do they keep coming back?

[Anonymous No.9890820]

this reminds me of my last pizza hut pickup. they fucked up everything picked up wrong receipt got wrong pizzas then acted like they couldn't have possibly messed up. Remember, customer is always right.

[Anonymous No.9890849]

We comp shit because we don't want to hear you bitch any longer. When fatty gets upset give him a free ice cream and he waddles away. And btw, the frame rate on those cameras is like 1 fps to save on storage. alot goes unnoticed.

[Anonymous No.9890936]

80% of the time, fast food lets me down. Here are some notoriously memorable instances.

First Offense: Had serious drunchies at 4am, went through the drive-thru. Attendant said: "Sorry, we're closed." Uh, no you didn't! Fool, you're standing right there, telling me that you're not open for business? I understand that it's very early morning, but this store is supposed to have a 24-hour drive-thru! This is blasphemous!

Second Offense: We walked over from the bars at 1:45am. They have signs all over their entrances stating: "Sorry, we're closed. We are cleaning our equipment." WOAH, WOAH, WOAH. What is up with cleaning equipment at prime-time bar hours?

Third Offense: We came back from the bars (do you sense a pattern?) I ordered a chicken sandwich and small curly fries. Cashier short changes me by $2. Okay, I might be one of those speshul Asians who can't do math, but I know when my change doesn't add up! When I told her about the short-changing, she insisted, in the rudest tone, that "Ugh, here is your change." Uh, what? You don't apologize for an error of which you were clearly cognizant? Taking advantage of drunk college kids is a no-no!

Albeit, I don't frequent fast food often, but as the only 24-hour drive-thru open for a good ten mile-radius in a college-town, I've had to come here more than I'd like.

[Anonymous No.9891074]

>>9890936
could this potentially be /ck/'s first copypasta?

[Anonymous No.9891246]

My local KFC is a bit shit.
Constantly runs out of stock, always have to wait longer for food to be cooked.
There are two ways to deal with this

The way my mother deals with it
>Goes in on a friday night at about 8pm
>Orders a family burger box (pic related)
>Pays for order
>About a minute later employee comes back
>"There's going to be a 4 minute wait on the popcorn chicken..."
>Mother "Ohhh...hmmmpt!"
>"If you want I can give you extra nuggets and a large chips instead of the popcorn chicken..."
>"No, I payed for the popcorn, so I guess I'll just wait...hmmmpt!"
>Stands there and glares at employees
>Says under her breath, but loud enough for people around her, including employees to hear
>"This place is shit and the workers are crap"
>Box comes out a couple of minutes later
>"Sorry about the wait"
>Mother takes box and walks away with out saying thank you
>They gave her what she ordered, except the popcorn chicken, which looked slightly less full then it should have

[Anonymous No.9891247]

>>9891246
Then there's the way I deal with it
>Go in on a friday night around 8pm
>Order a large bucket of popcorn chicken, 3 wicked wings and a large chips
>Pay for order
>While waiting here voices from the back
>"Well did you tell the customer there would be a wait?"
>"...no"
>"Well go and tell him!"
>Employee comes out and sheepishly says
>"There's going to be a 5 minute wait on the popcorn chicken, is that ok?"
>Before he's even asked if it's ok, I've already waved my hand in a dismissive motion and said "That's fine mate"
>A minute or so later the manager comes out
>"Sorry about the wait, the new trainee didn't realize that he had to tell customers when there's a wait"
>"Narr it's ok mate, these things happen, it's not the end of the world"
>"I'm real sorry, how about I throw in an extra lrg chips"
>"You don't have to do that"
>"No, I'll throw it in"
>Manager goes away
>About a minute later comes back
>"What about a drink instead of the extra chips?
>I say ok and say what drink I want
>Manager goes to grab a 600ml drink, hesitates, then grabs a 1.25lt bottle
>A few minutes later he bags up my food
>"Once again I'm real sorry about all of this"
>"It's ok man, you have a good night"
>Get home and find that he's thrown in the extra chips as well as a coupon for a free regular chips and drink

[Anonymous No.9891259]

You're not wrong OP. Squeakiest wheel gets the most grease. I routinely observe people getting their food ahead of several other orders or getting extra service/stuff because they're some combination of rude, confrontational, and rushed. It makes sense from the perspective of the employee though; keep loud assholes quiet so they don't disrupt other customers, and so they don't end up causing issues for you with your manager.

[Anonymous No.9891505]

>>9890493
the workers arent losing out, its not like an independent business, they dont give a shit about peoples complaints. they just get paid to make pizzas

this spitting in your food meme is a myth, it doesnt happen

[Anonymous No.9891518]

>>9890498
Depends on the location, but the Taco Bell I worked at was exactly like this. You could see the entire front line from the lobby and there were cameras on both lines from two different angles.
It wasn't a ghetto TB either, it was on the good side of town, it was near one of the city's largest malls, and had the highest volume/most sales for TB locations in the state.

[Anonymous No.9891526]

>>9891505
i've worked for every restaurant in the history of the world at all times future, present, and past, and i 100% support this post.

[Anonymous No.9891527]

>>9891247
>Narr it's ok mate

[Anonymous No.9891529]

>>9890936
for all three of these you could have called corporate, complained, and gotten a shit ton of free food coupons
let you down? fuck, it's not my fault you don't know how to take advantage of your good fortune.

[Anonymous No.9891530]

>>9890600
>looks bad on your resume
If you get fired from a job, then don't put it on your resume, idiot.

[Anonymous No.9891532]

The only time I've remotely contemplated spitting in someone's food is when a retarded server or manager ordered.

[Anonymous No.9891548]

I'm just a nice guy in general and I don't really complain, if I get slow or rude service I'd just avoid that place in the future.
I've even received free pizza from my favourite local Italian restaurant because I wrote them had written letters praising particular members of their staff. A good word goes a long way in the fast food industry.

[Anonymous No.9891738]

>>9891505
Nigga, if someone is cunty and entitled when they order from me, you best believe I'll spit in their food.

[Anonymous No.9891780]

>>9891247
I've found that you 'catch more flies more honey' when it comes to places that are NOT used to giving out free shit. Like the customer service desk at department stores, or leasing offices at apartments.

It's the janky places like fast food restaurants and donut shops where they keep stacks of vouchers behind the counter to give to irate customers because there's so many classless assholes making a fuss every day - those places are where being a noisy shithead will quickly be rewarded.

[Anonymous No.9891798]

>last night, hungry
>go to Publix and wait in line for pubsub
>two old black chicks taking forever on one online order and a half sandwich from the customer ahead of me
>slowly start getting irate because have been in line for 10 mins now and the workers are slowly working and chatting
>one of the women finally attends to me but I don’t look or sound happy
>is extra polite to me

I don’t get it

[Anonymous No.9891833]

Shared some fast food stories from people back from when we worked those shit jobs. Ya'll niggers feeling a little too comfy being assholes with shit you know nothing about. The shit that goes on back there might not even be visible in plain sight, and the managers might even be the one to fuck with your food. Like you assholes worried about spit like that's even close to the worst shit happening to your food.

[Anonymous No.9891882]

>>9890568
Nigger I've seen a Manager do it.

[Anonymous No.9891936]

because you're obnoxious and they don't want to deal with you, so they'll do anything to get you to shut up and leave

[Anonymous No.9891992]

>>9891247
>>9891246
>My local KFC is a bit shit.

Sounds like you and your mom are what you eat.

[Anonymous No.9892344]

>>9890936
You sound like an asshole

[Anonymous No.9892963]

>>9891505
I've spat on my chefs food once cause he's a dick head to everybody at the restaurant and no body likes him. one day he made me feel like shit for the whole shift and I went to get his food when he usually goes to eat I prepared his food and left a dollop of spit mixed in the sauce I made that went with the food. I saw him eat it from a distance and loved every second of it.

so yeah, expect customers to get the same treatment. you don't fuck with workers when they prepare your food. fuck those faggots.

[Anonymous No.9892966]

>>9890568
Ahahahah do you know what kind of people work in the back?

[Anonymous No.9893079]

>>9892963
Not everyone is a shithead like you. So no, I'm not expecting anything.

[Anonymous No.9893397]

>>9890493
I work in customer service, you can be condescending to shitty customers without saying anything bad.

[Anonymous No.9893403]

I used to work at an Ecig juice factory and we would piss in the bottles

[Anonymous No.9893404]

>>9890673

Yeah some people would. But mostly people who aren't gainfully employed because they're degenerate junkies or angsty teenagers. Tampering with food really doesn't happen with any sort of regularity. If you got so upset at a customer that you'd risk your job to really mess with their food, then you would never last in customer service you'd kill yourself after a week or quit/get fired.

t. cook for 10 years at various places and former fastfoodfag

[Anonymous No.9893433]

>>9891738
t. Never worked at a restaurant

[Anonymous No.9893532]

>>9890493
as someone who worked customer service, unless you're starting shit with other customers, workers will do whatever it takes to shut you up and get you out
so, yeah, you can start shit and raise hell, but know that everyone in the store laughs at you and hates you whenever you come in

[Anonymous No.9893894]

>>9890493
This is the most delusional post I've ever read

[Anonymous No.9894392]

>>9890493
Bro its as easy as just spitting on my hand then making your food i do it all the time

[Anonymous No.9894568]

>>9890493
>Why is it that you get better service the ruder your are to employees?
Go ahead, try that shit with me, I'll fucking kick you out cunt, I'm not afraid. All it achieves is other customers being pissed off with you cause you won't leave.

Happened to me last night actually, told the bitch to get her things and leave because she wouldn't shut up about a situation that had just been resolved. She kept screaming and called everyone in the shop "FUCKIN' RACISTS"

[Anonymous No.9894570]

>>9893079
enjoy your saliva soup escargot

[Anonymous No.9894576]

>>9893397
I hate faggots like this

[Anonymous No.9894577]

>>9891246
>>9891247
No offence but your mother sounds like a bitch.

[Anonymous No.9895498]

I work in a place where I constantly get entitled assholes ordering. Plain and simple they know you can't shit talk them back or anything or else you'll be fired. When followed by >CAN I TALK TO YOUR MANAGER? the manager will usually bend over and kiss their ass with discounts or free things to keep the customer happy and avoid any problems.
"The customer is always right" is a load of horse shit, the customer is a dumb vapid cunt most of the time.

[Anonymous No.9895517]

>>9890493
They aren't losing much by giving you those things and they just want you to stop complaining. If you have a legitimate complaint then it's fine, but if you do that stuff on purpose to get free food or whatever then you're just being a bad person for a few dollars.

[Anonymous No.9895639]

I've only ever worked in restaurants, but people only fuck with your food when it's slow and you are being a cunt. If it's busy and you are acting like a jackass I would almost always tell my manager right away and they would take care of their service and not comp shit. I'm really good at avoiding comps. Don't fuck with your server when it's slow though, many times I would have some gross shit already premade before ducks came in, so it wouldn't take me long to fuck with it.

[Anonymous No.9895661]

>>9894576
>acts like a faggot
>gets treated like a faggot
>t-the employee is the faggot
Really activates my almonds, senpai.

[Anonymous No.9896752]

a girl rubbed her vag with her fingers and then handled my cutlery with it once

[Anonymous No.9896810]

they just want you to leave as quickly as possible. the free shit employees give you to make you stop yelling doesnt cost them anything.

[Anonymous No.9896815]

>>9896752
So, you tipped pretty well? Good service.

[Anonymous No.9896831]

I try to be nice to everyone, whether in food service or otherwise. Everyone is just doing their job. Living their life. I try not to make a fuss over things.

My one exception is people that work at mall kiosks. You know the ones. The ones that constantly try to grab shoppers, by engaging them in conversation or asking them questions related to whatever the product. Most people will say "no thanks" and move along. People who are too polite will get sucked in and have to listen to a spiel for a few minutes before they can politely decline. Me? I don't engage them at all. I behave as though they didn't speak to me and keep walking. Feels good, man.

[Anonymous No.9896860]

I say please and thank you when working with the employees. As an ex barista, I know how far manners go and how easy it is to give stuff away for free.

Last time I was at Wendy's they gave me an extra beef patty and slice of cheese on my Jr Bacon, and I am pretty sure it is because I was polite.

[Anonymous No.9896925]

When I go out to get food, rather it be fast food, or an actual restaurant, 10/10 the other customers irritate me more than any employee ever could. Dining out brings the absolute worst out of people, i'll never understand it.

[Anonymous No.9898510]

>>9890493
It's capitalism. Once we get our head out of our collective ass and switch to redpilled socialism, rude fucks are going to be socially ostracized so fucking quickly. You think your barista is going to put up with you screaming about half caf half soy half almond venti mochalatte when her working there is mostly voluntary?

[Anonymous No.9898952]

>>9898510
this is so naive that it's almost endearing

[Anonymous No.9899145]

>>9893079
youve never heard of a con artist it seems. keep being fucking delusional then faggot.

keep it up

[Anonymous No.9899305]

>>9890595
you sound like a cuck

[Anonymous No.9899311]

>>9890532
>>9890565
>>9890595
>it's a "minimum wage worker thinks he's entitled to being treated like a god" episode
get off your high horse you fucking faggot. I wouldn't shit on you if you could get my fucking order right the first time.

[Anonymous No.9899332]

>>9899311
>the nervous shithead comes to the realization that minwage jobs are a dime a dozen and fucking with customers when they act like he does ends poorly.
Pic related, it's (you)

[Anonymous No.9899380]

>>9899332
that's literally what I said you brainlet

[Anonymous No.9899392]

>>9890493
because they want to get rid of you as fast as possible when you're a giant dick
even if you don't pay at all, but still come back because of their acquiescence, they're making more money than you storming out without paying and never coming back again

[Anonymous No.9899517]

>>9891518
>You could see the entire front line from the lobby and there were cameras on both lines from two different angles.
Finally. Took long enough for them to steal my idea.

[Anonymous No.9899523]

>>9890565
>>9890595
>>9891882
there needs to be more restaurant worker shootings

[Anonymous No.9899969]

>>9890498
At worst, I won't fill a customer's drink to the brim like I usually do

Plus I know where all the blind spots in the kitchen are

[Anonymous No.9899976]

>>9896752
reminds me of that one webm where an employee sticks a hotdog up her cunt and sends it to the customer

[Anonymous No.9899984]

>>9899523
act like a dick get treated like a dick, bitch boy

[Anonymous No.9900014]

>>9899984
you are a paid servant. shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.9900026]

>>9900014
eat my ass, faggot

literally :^)

[Anonymous No.9900654]

>>9899984
right back at ya kiddo

[Anonymous No.9900846]

I've worked a job in retail for a few years now, occupying various positions from salesperson to tech support.

Retail has changed my entire outlook on the average human being twice now. The first was just weeks into starting. I'd notice that even the most seemingly kind customer could turn venomous should they feel they were being wronged in some way. Levels of entitlement and delusion would vary by person, but hostility and aggression seemed to be near universal in every 'less-than-ideal' customer interaction, save for customers with retail experience themselves.

I would make every effort in kindness, sympathy, and courtesy, but it would virtually make no difference from customers I would handle more abrasively. If anything, kindness would have the opposite effect. It would imply weakness on my part, and they would double-down on their nastiness like they stomping their foot down on prey.

I could not understand it personally. I myself have been slighted by large, retail companies in the past. Never once has the outlet for my frustration ever been the poor sap passing me the bad news, as if he were responsible for the incompetence or unfair policies enforced by the store. So it would amaze me when their reactions would be so targeted and personal.

At the time I rationalized it as just a realization that most people are actually shitty. I later came to realize that the reality of it was more nuanced and terrifying.

The average channer, regardless of computational or linguistic intelligence, still has a greater perception of inflicted harm outside of their immediate self than the normal person. Perhaps a side effect of the experience of a lifetime at the bottom of the social totem pole, acutely aware of how low others can make you feel.

[Anonymous No.9900848]

>>9900846

Continued.

Your average normalfag lacks this external awareness, some more than others, but most on some unwitting level. They literally cannot perceive how their actions affect others, so lashing out at some minimum wage chump inspires no guilty feelings. To a normalfag (especially women and beta men), kindness is a means of accruing social wealth, the normie lifeforce. Their kindness does not come as a natural extension of the self, but as a defense mechanism in the presence of a more dominant being. A wolf showing its teeth. The expected conduct of retail customer service essentially molds you into the weaker being, and each retail exchange a modern interpretation of a primitive struggle for dominance. The customer cares not who is at fault for their inconvenience, you are merely the most immediate outlet for their rage.

When I started to understand this fact, the paradoxes of normie behavior became so much clearer to me. If you explained your average retail meltdown hypothetically to a normalfag, they might side with the employee and declare the customer's behavior out of line in an effort to appeal to this universal human 'kindness' socially strived for. That same person could be placed in an identical situation, and behave just as irrationally as the described customer and feel entirely justified.

The biggest asshole working in my store also happens to be the most carefree. He frequently bullies and condescends his customers, occasionally butting heads with a strong-willed male, but receives the least grief of anyone in the store.

The normie is a bizarre creature, one who is much more primitive than we have been conditioned to believe. They all wish to rule and be ruled in some dominion of their own. Every action they take, every interest and trend they follow, every perception of their self and the world around them is an extension of this primal instinct to have their place in something bigger.

[Anonymous No.9900856]

>>9900848
Continued.

The anonymity of the internet peels away the social order and any facade of kindness along with it. Humanity shows its true face, and it is both ugly and unthinking beyond the self. True kindness is a rarity belonging only to the few.

[Anonymous No.9900864]

>>9900856
Hey champ. Way too long. Didn't read. You have a great day.

[Anonymous No.9900872]

>>9900856
Probability a little over thought, but like my mother has always said. "everyone should work retail once in there life"

[Anonymous No.9900892]

>>9891074
Lurk more.

[Anonymous No.9901035]

>>9900864
Yet in the time it took you to hit quote, type up a reply, fill out the captcha and hit send, you could have already been halfway through the post.

It's okay, though. Have a good day and a great new year, my friend.

[Anonymous No.9901306]

>>9899969
I hate when faggots fill my drink to the brim actually. it drips and it gets all sticky on the sides and the drink spews from the hold on top.

fuck the faggot who does this. l.

[Anonymous No.9901365]

>Delivery Charge + Tip

As if tipping wasn't already bad enough, I don't think I'm ever going to order delivery again after they ruined it like this, I can save well over 5 bucks if I just go pick it up myself, and it gets me out of the house for an errand or two while I'm at it.

[Anonymous No.9901384]

>>9901306
By "to the brim", I mean reasonably topped up.

Otherwise, I'll just leave it at 3/4th filled because that's what the automatic soda dispenser is programmed to fill it to.

[Anonymous No.9901446]

>>9893403
Based

[Anonymous No.9901897]

>>9899976
please post that webm so this >>9893079 delusional dickhead takes the redpill on employees fucking with people's food