Having worked long ago for Wendy's, I get that fast food isn't the greatest job out there, and that there are times when staff have an off-day. But for the Locust Grove, VA franchise of Burger King, the "off-day" seems to be every single day of the week, month after month, year after year, for all employees, including shift supervisors and management.
It seems like every time I use the drive thru at this franchise, there are problems, even with the upgrades last year to the restaurant which were designed to make ordering from the drive thru much easier and more fluid. The display screen which is supposed to show your order in real time so as to verify the accuracy of the order, very rarely actually shows anything outside of ads for various meal items which the franchise hopes to up-sell you on as the customer. This in turn means you can't verify in real time, whether the cashier has entered your order correctly into the system, and you have to rely on luck and the hope that it was accurately entered (as the receipt is frequently tossed in with your bagged order).
Next, you have the issue of the kitchen staff who seem completely disinterested in checking the food orders while working, and just churn out orders based on the standard prep that corporate comes up with, even if something is a special order. For example, if I ask for a Grilled Chicken Sandwich, but specify that I only want honey mustard sauce, with no lettuce and no tomato (which the cashier verified and the receipt shows), I don't then expect a generic grilled chicken sandwich to be bagged and handed to me with all the standard toppings. This means I then have to return at a later time/date for a refund (especially as tomatoes, I find, make the bun extremely soggy).
I also don't appreciate being told that the restaurant has Twix pies in stock, and so I order one. They charge me for the Twix pie, and then tell me after having paid, that they are out of Twix pies, and ask me if I would like a cheaper pie, but WITHOUT refunding the difference in price to me. When I decline and ask for a refund of the price of the pie, they fight tooth and nail to not give that refund, even though they haven't provided me with what I ordered, nor offered an equal trade substitute (A pie that you sell for $1.59+tax versus a pie you sell for $1.79+tax...yeah, I'm going to want the price difference refunded to me). read more