I've been to Cook Out by my daughter's request twice in times past, and the experience otherwise was good. However, last night Feb 24, 2014 at approx 10:43pm, again at my daughter's request, I stop by there to place her cheeseburger basket, with hush-puppies order. From the time I drove up to the intercom and began to place my order, to exiting the store after speaking with the "manager," was one extraordinary and frustrating experience.
Again the time was 10:43pm (by my receipt), the young lady speaking through the intercom and taking my order was extremely hasty with seemingly zero patience. As she pressed the button to amplify her voice and responded, loudly outbursts of laughter and giggles could be heard, with a combination of long pauses in between each response. In spite of my trying to carry on with my order and because of the continuous distractions heard in our back-and-fourth responding, with little to no effort, I asked "Where did they find you?" I meant it rhetorically, as I drove off to the window not willing to hear or bear anymore of the disrespect.
Now at the window and face to face with Arnesha, the cashier. I asked her who was that girl on the drivethru phones? She responded, the girl who just stepped away from me. Which I did see her eye to eye as she parted to get back to her station.
I then, asked Arnesha was there a manager on shift? She stated yes and immediately parted to, I believe, go get him. However, I pulled my car to the front and parked and made my way inside. Immediately I asked to speak the the manager, and so, there he was there already in the midst of his crew. As he faced off with me and immediately extended his right hand, and I begin to explain, he begin to apologize for his staff's ill performance and begin chanting he would talk to her about the rudeness.
Fine right? Not! Because the whole entire time we, manager and I, was face to face right at the front counter, his entire crew were comfortably, arm against arm, standing by on each of his sides. They were just as focus to the words that I was saying as the manager was. If not even more. additionally, still, as the stood there, they still clearly had smiles and smirks on their faces - Absolutely unbelievable experience! Clearly this manager, Doug, if not mistaken, was not managing his staff at all! There was absolutely zero sense of respect shone toward him in his role.
It was now very clear to me why my experience had been so awful with no sense of recourse; "Cook Out" was without a manager last night but rather they were in company with an appearent friend, however, entrusted to manage accordingly, but rather failed miserably. As a result, Cook Out in Chesapeake, as long as Doug is there, has lost me as a customer. For it is the "customer" which makes the business and not the other way around. read more