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Just Go! The 10 Essential Rules of Drive Thru Etiquette

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Just Go! The 10 Essential Rules of Drive-Thru Etiquette

Hillary Clinton once wrote about it taking a village to raise a kid. Whether or not you’re a Clinton fan, it’s tough to fault her basic premise, that being that there are things outside of your control that will impact your child’s development.

And so it goes with so many things in life. No matter how carefully we prepare and execute, we are helplessly reliant on the actions of others for the activities we plan to proceed smoothly. Nowhere is this principal better realized than at a fast-food restaurant drive-thru.

According to one version of history, the first drive-thru lane of any stripe opened in 1930 at a bank in St. Louis. Rumor has it that the first time anyone yelled “Get a move on, will ya” from a running car was at that bank later the same day.

How many times have you pulled into a McDonald’s, looking for nothing more than a quick cup of coffee or large Diet Coke, only to have your schedule utterly decimated by the guy in front of you in the drive-thru queue holding a conversation with the cashier through a speaker phone.

Indeed, the drive-thru lane is a crap shoot, one which can pay off big in terms of time saved, or ruin your morning by trapping you in a hellish swirling vortex of exact-change seekers and menu-question askers. I humbly submit the following in hopes of improving drive-thru efficiency.

Attached please find the 10 Essential Rules of Drive-Thru Etiquette. Feel free to copy the rules and distribute them at your favorite drive-thru. And remember, you may be ready to zip through the drive-thru, but if the other villagers aren’t in a hurry, you’re probably screwed.

 A 10-Point Pledge

Pay Attention. Your text message is not more important than me getting my Diet Coke. Pull up and be alert about it. You can text your BFF about the rude idiot honking behind you in line later.

Know What You Want. Seriously, it’s McDonald’s (or Burger King, whatever) everything is a freaking muffin of some sort with eggs and/or sausage. If you’re looking for a little breakfast variety, you are in the wrong place. If you have any questions to ask about menu items, PARK AND GO INSIDE.

No Special Orders. If you are only substituting bacon for sausage, I guess that’s fine—though even that can slow things up. But, if you’re going off the menu with such cashier confounding requests as “folded not fried eggs” (I’ve actually heard this) or extra-crispy hash browns (I’ve heard this, too), PARK AND GO INSIDE.

No Bulk Orders. If your messed up, crossed-out, and heavily redacted fast-food shopping list includes stuff for more than 3 people, PARK AND GO INSIDE.

Order at one time. Dude, seriously, the cashier is listening. You do not need verbal confirmation for each and every item you are ordering. Additionally, you do not need to stop ordering to yell “hello” several times while placing your order. The odds are really good that the speaker is working. Perhaps you need visual confirmation that you are being listened to, in which case you should PARK AND GO INSIDE.

Your kids get one shot. I am talking to you, minivan lady. The drive-thru is no place for a Grand Caravan with more than one kid in it. And why are you always surprised that there are choices involved when ordering a Happy Meal? If your kid can’t make up his or her mind about apple slices or french fries, PARK AND GO INSIDE.

Be ready to pay. The order screen is there for a couple of reasons, one of which is to alert you as to how much you owe for the McWhatever. The time to begin scrounging for exact change is not when you reach the window.

Additionally, if you think there’s any chance your credit or debit card is going to be rejected…1., maybe you should be eating at home? or 2. PARK AND GO INSIDE.

No chatting up the help. She’s a cashier, not a bartender. I am truly sorry about the lack of warmth in your life, but chatting up the cashier at McDonald’s is not going to fill that gaping chasm in your soul. If you’re serious about trying to woo the young lady, you could try hanging around until her break, but that’s just as likely to earn you an audience with a free-coffee-wielding law keeper.

Do not change your order. Nothing messes up the system like drive-thru patrons that modify their orders at the pay window. Seriously, what was it about the last twenty feet you traveled that compelled you to swap your McGriddle for a McMuffin? Here’s a helpful hint for the wishy-washy: Order one of each, and warm up the one you don’t want now for breakfast tomorrow.

You got your stuff, just go! Why did you just put your car in park? How long do you think this is going to take? Per Dante, there is now a level of hell for the people who actually unwrap each sandwich and inspect it while still at the pick-up window. And that level-of hell is especially brutal for the folks that then pass the bag they just received back into the store. Really, your ridiculously customized special order isn’t just right? Maybe next time you should PARK AND GO INSIDE.

Sourced from blog.consumerguide.com

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Oct
27

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Next Time Someone Says Fast Food Isn’t A Real Job, Remember This

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MCDONALDS MEAL

We’ve heard it once. We’ve heard it twice. And we’re sure to hear it again: Fast food jobs aren’t “real jobs.” They’re for teenagers who need extra cash or for young workers who need a “launching pad” to a better job down the line.

These sort of assumptions get thrown around all the time. “Why can’t you get a real job?” a Montana judge asked a 21-year-old fast food worker convicted of vandalism in June, implying that a different job would help him pay off his restitution quicker.

But in reality, fast food jobs are a very real segment of our economy. And for many real moms, dads and other working people, they’re a very real source of income too.

So the next time someone says fast food jobs aren’t “real,” please remember some of these points:

For years, the fast food industry has created jobs at a faster rate than the rest of the economy.

Since the recession ended, we’ve seen a troublingly uneven recovery, in which many of the middle-income jobs lost from 2008 to 2010 have been replaced by low-wage jobs. And fast food jobs are a large reason why, outpacing the country’s overall job growth.

“Fast food is driving the bulk of the job growth at the low end — the job gains there are absolutely phenomenal,” Michael Evangelist, a policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group, told The New York Times in April.

According to an NELP report, 44 percent of jobs added in the past four years have been low-wage jobs that pay workers around $10 an hour.

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The majority of fast food workers aren’t teenagers, but real adults with real responsibilities.

Opponents of raising wages for fast food workers often say that those jobs are mostly for teenagers living with their parents who are just looking for some extra spending money. But that’s not true anymore.

Increasingly, fast food jobs are being filled by adults who need full-time work. According to an analysis of government data by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, 70 percent of fast-food workers are 20 or older these days.

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Real adults, with real families.

CEPR’s analysis also found that more than 1 in 4 fast food workers have a child. For what it’s worth, it costs about $245,000 to raise a kid.

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So the fast food industry’s low wages end up having a very real impact on taxpayers.

Because fast food pay is low, workers often have to rely on public assistance programs like food stamps and Medicaid to get by, which ends up costing American taxpayers billions of dollars every year.

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Fast food workers are gaining momentum as a real labor group to be reckoned with.

Over the past two years, fast food workers have come together to organize a series of massive strikes calling for a $15 minimum wage and the right to unionize. The most recent protests spread to about 150 cities.

And their strikes have helped make some very real change for all low-wage workers.

Fast food workers haven’t had much success unionizing. But throughout the course of their two years of striking, 13 states and 10 local governments have raised their minimum wage. Democrats are now leaning on the minimum wage as an issue that can bring them support from both sides of the political spectrum.

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All four states considering a minimum wage increase in the November elections are Republican. (Chart courtesy of CNBC.)
The bottom line is: Fast food jobs are real jobs, filled by real workers facing realpoverty. And that’s a very real problem for all of us.

Sourced from huffingtonpost.com

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Oct
14

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Video.. The Best and Worst Places to Be a Fast-Food Worker

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Fast Food workers wage

Fast food is enduringly popular in America, but workers at places like McDonald’s and Taco Bell barely make a living. Here’s what the data reveals about fast-food wages in each state—some are worse than others.

This video originally appeared in Business Insider.

 

Sourced from Slate.com

 

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