After a quick stop-in later in the evening yesterday, it is with the deepest pleasure that I offer you the same 4-star rating saying that you've improved and that you've earned it, yet 4.5 is more-closer to my opinionated rating. Yes, it helped to have my own copy of the Chick-Fil-A app on my phone, but my response is awe-inspiring.
It was so impressive that the employee who was handling my brother's order (separate order from mine and who offered to help gather my meal and bring it out) didn't know that someone else was already on the case and was in the process of bringing out my correct order. I pretty much got a double-order last night (except for the wrong sauce) while only paying for one order. Impressive!
I have never liked the brand, but seeing just how messed up these orders gets really makes me wonder why this place (after the two total orders I've been to in the last 3 months) has always gotten things a bit screwed up.
After a messed up salad I had in September, I learned from the experience to not order it again, and although when I got close to order it I saw the salad and turned away to view something else. I settled on a 4-strip chicken strip meal with their classic waffle fries - something I was enticed on getting the last time I came when my brother let me sample them - and a soda. The app was impressive, though I see spots where it could be improved to a standard that I feel is appropriate.
I couldn't tell you the employee(s) names who messed up, and I threw out the bags when I was done eating the meal in my car - not having been allowed to walk in - due to the coronavirus many months later. My one brother ate the second box of waffle fries without asking my permission to do so (I ate the other). The chicken could have been heated a little more but was rather comfortable for the conditions we had.
The pickup process could definitely be improved here - much like the last time. Still unsure why there are additional drive-thru pickup lines that aren't really marked yet looked special, then later combined with a directing associate at the end, directing traffic into a one-lane road. At night, without directing sticks and not enough ample light in the parking lot or from the inside, this director can't be seen.
Both times, the parking lot was crowded. This time we remembered the handicapped placard (as temporary out-of-state as possible). We could find the handicapped barren with other cars, yet the rest of the lot was full, but backing up was somewhat tricky with the two traffic lines from pickup clogging up the lanes in back.
And when it came to them finding my order in the system, it took some time to find it, although I made my final selections as the selections were being made from the other order. The employee couldn't find my order by my order number but found it via my name - as tricky as it was to figure out which version of my name it would come up as. If we give you an order number, regardless of car or minutes after placing it, that order should come up in your system by number. I don't like mentioning "by number," but some things are better this way in this society! read more