How smart are the fast food servers today?

[Old cop]

I don't believe young people in retail can make change w/o a computer to calculate it for them but it's not their fault, they were never taught how.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Would it make some of you happier to make cashiers use an abacus?

I can not remember when I had an issue at a retail establishment where correct change was a deal breaker.

I have more important things to fret over like parcel delivery and flip phones.

 

[SMSgt]

Would it make some of you happier to make cashiers use an abacus?

I can not remember when I had an issue at a retail establishment where correct change was a deal breaker.

I have more important things to fret over like parcel delivery and flip phones.

I kind of like it when the cashier can't figure out change. Somehow it always works out to my advantage.

 

[Muss Muggins]

I don't believe young people in retail can make change w/o a computer to calculate it for them but it's not their fault, they were never taught how.

I'll take young folk doing it with a computer every day over octogenarians with a coin purse and an attitude when I'm in line. But I self check when available, to avoid just that, along with septuagenarians who don't start writing their check or even looking for their checkbook until the last object is bagged and the total shows on the display . . .

Edit: If you read this and think I'm referring specifically to you, I probably am . . .

 

[UncleEd]

I love these recurring threads.
They make all us posters feel
really bad about the future of
America. It adds to a belief
in our personal worth and for
that we should all be grateful.

 

[pawngal]

I'll take young folk doing it with a computer every day over octogenarians with a coin purse and an attitude when I'm in line. But I self check when available, to avoid just that, along with septuagenarians who don't start writing their check or even looking for their checkbook until the last object is bagged and the total shows on the display . . .

Edit: If you read this and think I'm referring specifically to you, I probably am . . .

I agree, and add looking for the right rewards card so they can save 5 or 10 cents on something. I fit the age group but has probably been 10 years since I wrote a check at a grocery store or Walmart.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I recall a passage in David Halberstam's "The Reckoning" -published in 1986-, at one factory a machinist did quality work but rarely put in a five day week. When asked about why he worked only four days he replied "Because I can't live on what I earn in three."

 

[charlie sherrill]

If I were to go to a fast food store it would be Burger King. They have soft ice cream.

Even better is Wendy's the Crispy Hot Chicken Sandwich is the bomb. I don't think they have ice cream.

Many of the BK's around here have closed because they can't keep good employees, or get them in the first place. I went to one just before it closed. Every table there had clutter from people who had already eaten that had not been cleaned up. The floors and most every thing else were filthy. There were three customers in the store. Me and an older married couple who told me they had been waiting to place an order for over 10 minutes. The employees were ignoring them. I'm guessing because I was on duty in my SO uniform they decided to wait on me immediately. I watched carefully as they prepared my food, making sure they weren't going to spit on it, while still ignoring the older couple. They cleaned one table after asking me where I wanted to sit. All the employees were moving in slow motion until the music in the store started playing a song they liked. Then they started dancing, even the manager who pretended to push a broom around. I thought I'll just use the restroom and leave but it was taped off with a sign reading "Out Of Order." I suspected someone just didn't want to clean it. I told the other couple I was leaving ( my food hadn't gotten there yet) and they might want to leave also. They asked where I was going and I told them I was going to a "Mom and Pop" hamburger joint not too far away. I saw them there a few minutes later and we got a good meal. The BK closed a few days later. I haven't been to a BK since but I still see a lot of new restaurants that have opened up in old BK locations.

 

[Benchrest1]

Fast food is heart attack food. Yes its good, but I don't eat it and haven't for a very long time. I also got food poisoning at a Burger King once.

 

[Rustyt1953]

McDonald's doesn't seem to be struggling.

 

[dockmurgw]

Waaaaaaay back in the olden days, the Boomer T Fud days, we used to celebrate excellence. If someone was incapable of performing simple math to make change, they were taught simple math to make change. But now that we are an enlightened and forward-thinking society, we celebrate ignorance and mediocrity. My heartfelt thanks to all you that have done so much to redefine the movie Idiocracy...from comedy to reality.

 

[ladder13]

Bring back the old forum.

 

[Buford57]

As long as I don't confuse them by giving them, for instance, $20.03 on an $11.78 tab I seem to do OK.