Think Outside the Bun

Drive Thru- Placing Your Order at the Speaker Part 2
1. When placing your order you request a combination meal number please respond promptly with what beverage you would like to enjoy. We don't wanna ask you. It's a pain. Also don't request a Combination Meal if you only want the entree item and a side. That's not a meal. A meal comes with a beverage, side item, and entree.
2. If you would like water as your choice of beverage please specify if you would like it bottled or tap.
3. If you have listed off all of the items you would like to order, please let the headset person know that you have completed your order in a polite fashion. Awkward silences are no fun for both parties.
4. Do not pull away when the person on headset is speaking. That's rude. How would you like it if we cut the speaker box off while you were talking?

Drive Thru- Arriving at the Window
1. When you arrive at the window please have your money ready for payment. We don't want to waste 2 minutes of our lives waiting on you to locate your debit card. Get your life together and then you may procede to the drive thru. We're never going to get those 2 minutes back. On a good day a drive-thru can do as many as 147 cars in one hour. If we wait for customers on every transaction think how much time you've wasted of ours. We will never get that time back.
2. Greet the person at the window. It's nice :)
3. If the cashier does not ask you for any condiments or sauces and you would like some, politely let them know what kind you would like. Also, we know what you ordered and approximately how much sauce you are going to need with your order. Don't get crazy. You do not need 7 Chick-fil-A sauces with your 8 pack of nuggets.
4. For the record: KETCHUP IS A SAUCE. DO NOT ASSUME WE PUT IT IN THE BAG AUTOMATICALLY.
5. Your straws and napkins are in the bag. I promise.
6. The very popular red sweet and sour sauce that Chick-fil-A carries is called Polynesian Sauce. Please pronounce it correctly. PAUL-A-KNEE-SIAN.

These are the ways that actual customers have called the sauce. . .
*I did not make these up*
*Pomeranian
*Mandarin
*Hawaiian
*Pineapple
*Polapanesian
*Poly-what-sauce
*Sweet and Sowa
*That red sauce

7. Please do not add things at the window. A sandwich is fine, but not a milkshake...

Just so we clarify, Milkshakes are a work of culinary art. They take a bit to make. Here is the process. Grab a cup. Pour in the alloted amount of shake base. Insert proper flavoring. Dispense Ice Dream. Put on a dome lid. Hand Spin. Top with whipped cream and a Cherry.

It takes some effort. Don't order them at the window. Go through the Drive Thru again, or forego the frosty delight. You really don't need the calories anyway.

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Give Me That Filet-O-Fish, GIMME THAT FISH!

This commercial is constantly playing in my head. . . I don't know why I think it's so funny, but I do. :)

Anywho, after many a bad interaction with inconsiderate customers at the Chick-fil-A, I believe it is high time that I write a blog about drive-thru and fast food etiquette. It's well over-due. I sometimes think that people just don't know that its rude. Let me enlighten you.

Drive-Thru: Placing Your Order at the Speaker
1. When approaching the speaker box, please refrain from listening to your ghetto blasting music. We cannot hear you placing your order.
2. If you drive and obnoxiously large truck with an obnoxiously loud engine, please cut your vehicle off while placing your order.
3. It is not necessary to shout into the box. We can hear you surprisingly well.
4. But please do not whisper into the box, or park your car several feet away from it. We can't hear you and it's annoying to have to ask you to speak up.
5. If for some reason your windows do not roll down, do us a favor and don't come through the drive-thru. We are judging you.
6. DO NOT TALK ON YOUR CELLPHONE WHILE PLACING YOUR ORDER. IT IS RUDE. Most establishments have signs saying to stay off the phone. Do it.
7. If you need a minute to look over the menu, just say so. We typically don't mind. The drive-thru menus are designed in such a way that you should be able to figure out what you want in less than 30 seconds. Should you be an indecisive person in nature, go inside. You're backing up the line.
8. Please place your order in a dialect that is understandable. No, we do not know what "Splender" or "Mayernaz" is. It is pronounced SPLIN-DA and MAYO-NAYZ. Please pronounce them correctly.
9. If you would like something special done to your order, perhaps having things bagged seperatly, well done, or with a certain garden item, please let us know at the box. We will be happy to take care of it when you place your order. It is annoying when we have already prepared your order for you and are handing it to you, but you have waited until the very last minute that you wanted something different.
10. For ridiculously large orders, or a lot of special things that need to be taken care of to your food, go inside. It will be quicker than if you go through the drive-thru, I promise.

More to come later. :)

This is Your Life, Are You Who You Want to Be?

The past few weeks have been rather stressful. But I have to say I am feeling rather accomplished in most aspects of my life.

Hero Night at Chick-fil-A went VERY well. Alex was very pleased and I feel we have re-established ourselves as a family restaurant. HOORAY!

I got to teach a workshop at Junior Thespian Conference. And from it I have been asked to apply for a summer internship in Roswell, Ga at Georgia Ensemble Theatre Conservatory. Hopefully I get it. I'm mailing off my resume today :)

And I'm going to try to activate a new phone this afternoon :) Off to work and class!

Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go. . .

I'm really concerned about all of the proposed budget cuts that are going on not just at CSU but all University Systems of Georgia. What if they start cutting degree programs? The smaller ones are going to go first. . . Theatre Ed is exceptionally small. And we're the only school in the state that offers it. What am I going to? Do I transfer out of state? Or switch majors? I'm really concerened about my future. It's really scaring me and stressing me out, on top of midterms and projects. I mean education is such an important foundation for the future of America; why should we sacrifice things? There are other programs and things that should be considered before taking away from our education. It's really tough to be a college student right now with the economy the way it is. The only thing that we can rely on is our majors... what will we do if they take that away? We have the right to an education.

I'm just really worried :(