After a long week, what felt like a regularly short weekend, we decided we didn't feel like cooking as we prepped for the start of yet another long week of work. We weren't in the mood of a sit down dinner so we collectively agreed on fast food.
Wendy's? We haven't had that in a while. So we trekked out a bit to Northern Bld in Bayside and was pleasantly surprised that in the past 5 or 6 months since we were last there, they kind of started to renovate - new tiles on the floor but still rather untidy.
There was a little asian kid in diapers running around with no shoes - and his feet were black as night and then he started rolling around on the floor - odd and pretty gross. Nevermind, what do I want to eat as my eyes scanned the boards for what I wanted to eat.
There were about 4 groups of people in front of us and the woman behind the counter taking orders was definitely taking her time. There was one guy making sandwiches despite the long line of people and about 5 - 6 people helping out the drive through window - seriously?
I had plenty of time to look around since the line was moving slower than a horny tourist kid walking past a peep show in Times Square. There were 4 workers sitting in the corner on their break just chatting and hanging out. I understand that people need breaks but what kind of manager let's 4 employees take a break at the same time, especially when there was a line of customers 8 - 10 people deep, waiting to put in their orders. 20 minutes later, as we were ready to order, the cashier walks away doing what I have no idea. She comes back and says, what are you waiting for? Uhm, to take my order. She walks away and comes back with a milkshake and hands it to me. 'Thanks but I know I'm Asian but I'm at least 50 lbs heavier than my buddy who ordered it right before me.'
Then the mother of the Asian kid in diapers decides to ask us if she can cut us in line so she could order her 2 yearold kid a sandwich when people told her that her 1/2 attended kid was obviously hungry since he was picking food off the floor from past patrons and eating it. We let her cut us as I watched the kid paint his shirt with ketchup that he found on the tables. She just laughed and gave us the - what am I going to with him look. The kid, who was potentially applying for a job because he was mopping up the floor with his body and back of his head - was a poster child for foster child services.
We were finally ready to place our order when the cashier decides she's finally ready to get back to work. We order chili - but there wasn't any left as she looked underneath both registers like there was supposed to be a secret stash located there for the 'special customers'. Okay, I'll take a Baconator, $1 nuggets, and a Caesar salad.
'What kind of sauce do you want for your nuggets?' 'BBQ please/' 'Sorry, we don't have any left.' 'Fine.' 'What kind of dressing do you want?' 'Uhm, I ordered a Caesar salad - so I guess Caesar." 'We don't have any more Caesar dressing left.' 'Okay fine, French I guess.'
Out of the corner of my eye, I see the sandwich maker drop my burger on the floor and it opens up. He picks it up, wraps it up again, and puts it in the bag before I interrupted his non-customer service, health code violating, disgust of a person. 'How are you going to try to give me a sandwich that just fell on the floor?' 'It barely opened.' 'Why don't you save the explanation and just make me another sandwich.' He shakes his head at me, mutters something under his breath and starts over again - while I watch him the entire time in case he decides to include his own special sauce.
Sorry, your change is $2.03 but we don't have any pennies. I mean - 3 pennies isn't such a big deal, seriously I never understood why we as a society use pennies anyway. Would life be better if every receipt or thing we purchased ended in a 5 or a zero? But anyone who knows me, knows that I am a person of principle. Why didn't she just walk over to the other other two registers and get two pennies. I'm mean seriously - if she took 3 pennies from the last 100 customers, then either she would be generating her own supplemental income or Wendy's has a new business model that makes no sense whatsoever.
Forget, keep the 3 pennies - anything to get out of this excuse of a restaurant - fast food or not - something which they obviously couldn't even get correct either since it took us about 25 - 30 minutes to get out of there.
Sorry Bonnie, but next time you want Wendy's - we're gonna have to plan it out a few hours in advance so we can go to another one - even if it's an hour away. Or I'm going to Sizzler to get you a baked potato, Dairy Queen to get your a frosty, and Chili's to get you a chili and we'll call it a day.
Next time we want fast food, we'll go somewhere else, or we'll go to a sit down place and finish sooner than anyone else who begs to differ with us. read more