[kall]

Smoking?

Not in my opinion.

We had the Smoked Chicken one the other night...it was okay, but nothing to write about. Oops.

When I asked the woman on the phone if we could have it [define=without...learn a little French would ya?]sans[/define] onions, she put me on hold for 30 seconds, then came back to say that while I couldn't modify the ingredients on the special pizzas, that one didn't come with onions.

Imagine our surprise when we found onion on it.

[Sparklechick]

More like my disgust!

I will be writing to Pizza Hut to complain. Stupid idiots.

Mind you, not quite as bad as the girl from Hell Pizza who asked me how to spell "France". I explained we were on France St (as in the country) and she asked how to spell it. F .. R .. A .. N .. C .. E said I. She then asked how to spell "Purgatory" - a name of one of their pizza.

[edshuck]

We have a few pizza places in Noe Valley. One is Haystack Pizza. They opened in the early '70s. Italian food and Pizza. Take out or dine there.

Pizza places all have very much the same topping. Pineapple, Canadian Bacon etc.

But the Haystack has a wonderful crust. Pizza Hut was rolled out and cut with a cookie cutter. Maybe still is. I don't know. Haystack is thrown by hand and baked in the ovens they paid $25K for when they opened.

I will send a menu in a couple of days.

Ever have artichoke hearts on a pizza? Good stuff.

[Darkling]

This reminds me of a case involving a McDonalds drive-thru that hit the news some years back.

A customer wanted their soft drink with no ice.

The McDonalds tills worked on a system where every item on the menu had it's own button.

There was not a button for "soft drink with no ice" so the cashier (I always picture him as the stereotypical spotty, greasy teen like on the Simpsons) had to add this as a typed addendum to the order to be printed out in the kitchen.

They have such a hard life do these McDonalds cashiers.

The customer received their order exactly as they wanted with no ice.


... but then they saw their receipt.

What the cashier typed was printed there also.


NO FUCKING ICE

[kall]

I'll bet they bothered to program a button after that incident.

I'm pretty sure we used to have one.

(I was a maccers wage slave for a while in my youth)

[trogg]

Originally Posted by Sparklechick

Mind you, not quite as bad as the girl from Hell Pizza who asked me how to spell "France". I explained we were on France St (as in the country) and she asked how to spell it. F .. R .. A .. N .. C .. E said I. She then asked how to spell "Purgatory" - a name of one of their pizza.

The joys of hiring someone at minimum wage that is only just qualified enough to tie their own shoelaces.... and then you find they have the shoes with velcrove strips so they can rest their brains.

Ya gotta love the politically correct education system in this country (and probably others) that produces the sort of people that can't even contribute to society in a meaningful way.

[kall]

Originally Posted by trogg

The joys of hiring someone at minimum wage that is only just qualified enough to tie their own shoelaces.... and then you find they have the shoes with velcrove strips so they can rest their brains.

Ya gotta love the politically correct education system in this country (and probably others) that produces the sort of people that can't even contribute to society in a meaningful way.

Indeed...or the greater joy of actually working there.

[kall]

Originally Posted by trogg

The joys of hiring someone at minimum wage that is only just qualified enough to tie their own shoelaces.... and then you find they have the shoes with velcrove strips so they can rest their brains.

Ya gotta love the politically correct education system in this country (and probably others) that produces the sort of people that can't even contribute to society in a meaningful way.

Or, the absolute joy of actually working there. :P

[edshuck]

Hey!

Without fast food hiring, there would be NO job growth in the Bush administration.

[Penny]

I went to Subway the other day, and there was this new girl there, she had her training hat on and everything. I was surprised to see her there at lunch time. SHe looked throughly out of her depth, and the other girls there were just saying do this and do that and she didn't know how to.

I felt sorry for her becuase a really busy lunch time is a really stupid time to put a brand new person on!

[dribblor]

While I feel for the young trainee, can you expect any better from an outfit that hires people not as "counter staff", but as "Sandwhich Artistes"?

I nearly choked on my food the first time that I saw that

[Sparklechick]

I like the look of the new Subway kids lunch pack thingees. You get a deli sandwhich, a fruit rollup and a box of juice ... AND a toy.

[Penny]

Originally Posted by Sparklechick

I like the look of the new Subway kids lunch pack thingees. You get a deli sandwhich, a fruit rollup and a box of juice ... AND a toy.

the toys looked pretty cool as well!

Sandwhich Artistes are kinda like calling petrol station atendants "fuel transfer technicians" I have seen that in an advert before.

[Sparklechick]

Can I just remind everyone that the correct spelling is "sandwich".

*takes off spelling nazi hat*

[styx]

It constantly seems to be what we call "the Monkey shift" at taupo KFC.

We have a regular order we get, and I rattle it off at the drive-through, and so far we have had 4 different prices on it, we get the order repeated to us, and it can still come to us incorrect . . .

Should I be angry with the morons who are too stupid to realise that their IQ doesn't qualify them for a service position, or with the Management, who will take anyone dumb enough to accept the pay?

On the topic of 'a regular order', maybe these fast food places could initiate a system whereby one could decide on one's order, and receive a code that would work at any branch.

"Please place your order when yous [sic] are ready."

"Regular order, 132994 please (you sorry excuse for a human being)."

"Thank yous. That will be, um . . . please pay at the window."

OK, maybe it won't make things any easier!

[Penny]

if they can't get the oder right, you reckon they are going to get the numbers in teh correct order to enter into the system?

[dribblor]

Them mixing up numbers could lead to some interesting combos, ie at Subway. a seafood sub with extra salami, triple jalapenos and southwest sauce.

Least it might be entertaining.

Sick making, but entertaining

[Darkling]

Originally Posted by Sparklechick

Can I just remind everyone that the correct spelling is "sandwich".

*takes off spelling nazi hat*

The word 'sandwich' for an item of food was possibly named after John Montagu who was the 4th Earl of Sandwich. It is said that in approx.1762, he asked for meat to be served between slices of bread, to avoid interrupting a gambling game.

Hereditary English titles can be confusing. The family of the Earls of Sandwich has no real connection to the town itself, only the title. The 1st Earl, Edward Montagu, originally intended to take the title of the Earl of Portsmouth - this may have been changed as a compliment to the town of Sandwich, because the fleet he was commanding in 1660 was lying off Sandwich, before it sailed to bring back Charles II to England.

It is generally thought here, that the word 'sandwich' as an item of food, has no connection with the town, only with John Montagu, who happened to have the title, a 'sandwich' could just as easily have been called a 'portsmouth' if the 1st Earl, Edward Montagu, had not changed his mind.

Sandwich for the name of the town is Saxon in origin and means, 'Sandy Place' or 'Place on the Sand'. The first recorded mention of the town was around 640 AD but it is older than that - there was probably some kind of settlement in Roman times, as it is very close to Richborough Roman Fort.

Close to Sandwich there is a small village called Ham (from the word hamlet - meaning small village)

[Penny]

Wow Darkling that was kinda interesting. But I wish they were called Sandwhich cos I have been spelling it like that for ages... are you sure its really not sandwhich??